socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week El Segundo-based Wpromote acquired fellow marketing agency Standing Dog, in a deal which brings the company to 260 employees, and continues to grow the company. If it's a digital channel, and there are customers to connect with, we are looking to help those companies grow. That's where we're the most impactful.

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Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. He would offer his time to Launchpad LA companies.

Venture Capital 407

Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) Let me explain why this company had such an impact on my life. Ask yourself, ‘what does my company solve’? Once you’ve answered these questions go ahead and contact them in a short email. Broadcasting what excites us….

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. It turns out, the size of the spa market is double the size of the global taxi market, and the market dynamics and unit economies of this are incredible.

Template 124

Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Search Engine Optimization 88

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. Market Size.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2016

This application program helps small businesses to optimize their websites for marketing purposes. The software does keyword research, and it has an SEO checklist. The user of the software does not have to have previous marketing experience. This program organizes your email and helps you schedule reminders and follow-ups.

Tool 40

Tool Software Review SEO Email 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. What I tell investors, friends, and family, is even though they might hear about all of these new companies calling themselves the Uber for tutoring and saying they can provide on-demand tutoring, I know that it will never work hyper-locally.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

TechZulu gets some questions answered for all you marketing folks out there. Patrick Starzan is the Vice President of Marketing and Business development at Funny or Die. He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. What’s been your biggest success?

Sites 61

Sites Marketing Social Media Tips 61

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. Thank you. (if

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics. Bessemer approached us.

Venture Capital 113

Venture Capital SEM Commerce Email 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

We spoke with co-founder David Kierzkowski and Agnes Kozera about the company, and how its technology and marketplace is enabling growth for both YouTubers and brands. That''s the huge difference between us and other services who focus on YouTube marketing at this stage. Tell us about FameBit? We believe that''s very exciting.

Content 100

Content Platform Startup Marketing 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

Give them all the tools they will need to succeed at your company. But many companies hold meetings too often. If you must address an important issue in your company, then a meeting will be necessary. But perhaps you should consider short, weekly emails to take the place of meetings. Tap into SEO. Less Meetings.

SEO 40

SEO Search Engine Optimization Tips Software Review 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. I got to see how different marketing and middlemen in the industry, such as Teleflora, 1-800-Flowers, and FTD, operate.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Marketing requires content, and nothing is “free.” If you web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Digital content includes text, graphics, sound, and video, with presentation style, currency, and appeal.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. Be consistent is their application, and provide contact information for both phone and email access. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing. Marketing requires content, and nothing is “free.” If your web site is not optimized for search engines (SEO), all your online content and marketing efforts are wasted. Digital content includes text, graphics, sound, and video, with presentation style, currency, and appeal.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Pick a company name and check any potential trademark infringements on Trademarkia or KnowEm. Open your company bank account. For those issuing stock to finance the company (corporations), use a Shareholder’s Agreement. Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The Viral Loop / User Email. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts). Turn your users into your marketers, it’s the more legit cousin of multi level marketing. Search Engines. Social Media.

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

About eight years ago, I founded a recreation company, which, oddly enough, is now one of my own suppliers. I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. Billy Fried: We first tested it in California, which was our launch market a year and a half ago. Bill Fried: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system. Dan Yomtobian: We haven't done much marketing yet, and most of our user base is really viral.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Armed with a degree in Marketing and Business from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and an Operations experience from Ireland, UAE and Egypt , Ciaran Connolly, 36 teamed up with Ernist Turdubaev 33, with a Master of Arts – Retail and Government Sector to launch ProfileTree. We help them with this. Why the name?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. The Viral Loop / User Email. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Driving traffic to your website is a formula that can be reverse engineered.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To hear about how the company decided to expand into the market, we caught up with CEO Loren Bendele to learn more about its new grocery store coupon app, Favado (www.favado.com). We, as a company, have been more focused on online deals and coupons, and haven''t been focused on groceries at all. Explain what Favado is all about?

Mobile 140

Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. You can also email us at ha@hackerangels.com. Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175