Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. I have written about this before in my post on Conference Hos. But I digress. Back stage.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. We tasked him to be an internal trainer, as well as our director of support, and every new hire we have madeand last year, we hired around 120 to 130 peoplehe trained every one of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

My recommendation is that you plan to pivot your business on a regular basis, at least once a year, even before you see specific negative symptoms indicative of change in the market you thought you knew so well. It’s hard to find time to really study the market for new trends, and listen to customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. The post Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies appeared first on TechZulu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

For example, BlackBerry was really the first in the smart mobile phone market, but they never thought beyond their tiny physical keyboard as they added new features. Promote change in team culture, and provide support through smart hiring, attending industry conferences, and periodic training to all team members.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. The other thing that tech execs often want to do is to delegate the PR to their marketing person. I wrote about how to build relationships with journalists in this post.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. The conference ends with the Champion Awards Dinner.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Xirrus said it has launched a channel partner program specifically aimed value added resellers and systems integrators in Europe, as it looks to tackle that new market. with a variety of support, training, and certification options for VARs and others. Concurrently, the firm said it launched a new enterprise partner program in the U.S.,

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. A 50 car line stacked up the street from the conference entrance filled with women idling, applying mascara, brushing their hair, and finishing early morning conference calls. So when I heard about Women 2.0 So when I heard about Women 2.0

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. Maybe ten years.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The serial entrepreneur behind the Dubai-based online fashion retailer, Elabelz and marketing studio Elephant Nation had always wanted to redesign the shopping experience for how customers actually shopped in stores and online. Then he met Jonathan Ellman at the Summit conference in Los Angeles. “ We met at a party.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” Mark’s initial venture had a large marketing budget, which allowed him to attend conferences all over the world. Start Lean.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

On the other hand, if you expect your employer to push you into future training required, always have a growth opportunity waiting, and set all your work parameters, then you may find a difficult road ahead. These costs include travel, training, supplies, office space, bookkeeping, and many others. Market your business expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Get out of the office to visit real customers, attend industry conferences, and network with peers and influencers. This starts with strong leadership and communication on your part, but it has to extend into the training, decision making, and reward systems that you foster. Learning can be fun and profitable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Yet I find that few of today’s workers realize that succeeding as a freelancer requires a whole new focus on “marketing” yourself. In addition, like an entrepreneur with a new business, you have to factor in all the indirect costs previously covered by employers, including training, health care, and time off for vacations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. I would probably enjoy teaching, running a conference, making documentaries, curating a series of lectures, writing a book or a regular blog.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them. Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

Highlighted Panels (for full list, go to the conference agenda ) : The Future of Smart Footwear to discuss connected shoes and the use in sports. Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables used by a trained wolf. Paul Crandell – VP of Marketing, GoPro. 15 Startups to pitch their products – 2 winners to be announced.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co. I’ve also shared a few Tech Cocktail and Tech.Co

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2019

The more your work speaks for itself, the less self-promotion and marketing will be required. Take control of your own future through directed communication, targeted actions, training and practice. Think beyond just attending industry conferences, to being on a “futures” panel, or even presenting your own ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

You need a plan on how to train yourself, or be mentored, for each step along the way. Only you know your strengths and learning preferences, from jobs, conferences, books, websites, and videos. Constantly market your skills and expertise to employers. Proactively prepare for your desired future roles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Not only do I need to understand a customer pain point that my solution solves but I also need to convince them that my product does it better or most cost effectively than others on the market. They like to feel like they compared your solution to something else on the market. To the contrary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role. Market yourself and work at all organizational levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

While in years past that technology had much to do with production, today’s technology has more to do with marketing, Intel and communication. Other members often include: financiers, strategists, personnel experts, product marketing specialists and new product designers and engineers. Images via Shutterstock.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 26, 2012

” That was the understatement of the week, as I learned by attending YouTube’s Premium Partner conference, YouTube Access 2012. YouTube has seeded its’ Premium Partners with a reported $ 300 million in support, largely in the form of prepaid ad revenue sharing and marketing support. The event was last week in New York.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

What's the best way to build a strong portfolio of technology companies, which tap into the broadest markets and avoids the "bubble" group-think of many venture firms? It was a great training ground to learn the business of venture capital. I led a number of investments for that company. We did it for the first time this one.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

gaming and mobile tracks others took advantage of during the course of the three-day conference held consecutively at ROC , Cross Campus and Santa Monica Place. One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. 4 P’s of Success. Meet The Accelerators.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. To stay the crowed was “wowed&# was an understatement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The line of reasoning goes, “Services businesses are not scalable and the market won’t reward this revenue so make sure that third-parties do your implementation or clients do it themselves. Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. If you believe you have a market-leading position in your product space I would worry a bit less about it. ” An angle can be, Starbucks is piloting this product in 500 stores; or.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

These days, building a new business is all about visibility and marketing, no matter how great or innovative a solution you bring to the table. In fact, having one marketing guru on the team alone won’t get you very far. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market. Give credit.

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