SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17, 2011 -- Organic Marketing for Startups. Organic marketing, however, is a massively underleveraged and underinvested channel with powerful potential. See [link] (more)

Organization 100

Organization Marketing Startup SEO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The next thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

Social Media 135

Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. These give good customer connection and SEO.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Marketing Resource 108

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise. It’s about looking out for and catching the next major marketing wave before others have grokked it. I laughed as I did at much of his rant.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Yet, with so many tools vying for the attention of business owners, navigating the over-saturated market can be overwhelming.

Tool 128

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What special data, content, APIs, etc.

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What special data, content, APIs, etc.

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should select only social media for marketing, or stick with digital media, or just count on traditional media. Social media as a marketing tool is here to stay, and is now widely accepted. These give good customer connection and SEO.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. Marketing is a critical element these days, and it can take many forms. It’s never too early to start marketing to define your brand.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. A new generation of content producer and video style has emerged that is distinctly different from what you see in TV.

SEM 150

SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. Add content regularly. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Leverage blog content. Conversational style.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Your Clients, customers, and especially your competitors will attend.

SEO 64

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

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. Mike Mothner: The business today, is we are a digital agency focused on customer acquisition and growth for businesses of all types. What are your thoughts on that?

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

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. Cost per action (CPA).

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The TechZulu team is coming back to Pubcon this year from November 9-10 to bring you some amazing content from the masters of affiliate marketing, Search and SEO, Social Media, Link building, Advertising, Branding, PR, Analytics and tons more. Your Clients, customers, and especially your competitors will attend.

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

4 times / 100 means if a customer uses your app frequently (say 10-20 times / day) then they are crashing nearly every day. Customer Acquisition. At the highest level you’ll obviously want to track how many customers your adding every month (and for some businesses that have hit scale this is measured on a daily basis).

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

Southern California 150

Southern California TechEmpower Technology Council Metrics 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. Add content regularly. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Leverage blog content. Conversational style.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What special data, content, APIs, etc. So what are the questions I’m likely going to ask?

Software Development 292

Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

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). Cost per action (CPA).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Content is king of the road. The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. The best content gets attention and keeps momentum growing. Do them all.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. Add content regularly. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Leverage blog content. Conversational style.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2011

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Publish Your Website Or Customers Won’t Find You ). The solution is keeping your site alive and vital, and following basic search engine optimization (SEO) suggestions. SEO does not have to be a major expense.

Google 93

Google SEO Search Engine Optimization SEM 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Content is king of the road. The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. The best content gets attention and keeps momentum growing. Do them all.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. Add content regularly. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Leverage blog content. Conversational style.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

Social Media 62

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 62

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. We partner with them, and give them tools to help their business.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ]. That certainly works well for some.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

Even with product businesses, it’s the ultimate way to build your brand credibility, bring in customer leads, and get feedback from your target market. Add content regularly. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Leverage blog content. Conversational style.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. The first phase was just getting all the content online via YouTube. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Google Ad Sense was just getting going.

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Shipping is the biggest barrier to entry in this market. RecycledBride was really the testing ground and gave us an education of the ins- and outs- of this market an dhow it works, and gave us extensive user testing. I spent probably the first six months of RecycledBride in creating lots of content. It really couldn't be easier.

Startup 236

Startup Education Acquisition Funding 236