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. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in “ Social Marketology ,” outlined the best set of steps I have seen so far for the new world: Focus on desired outcomes first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” If you are in the half of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” With over 78% of the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his new book “ Social Marketology ,” outlined the best set of steps I have seen so far for the new world: Focus on desired outcomes first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the new book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” You need to be there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Here is an outline of some key force multipliers that I have seen used effectively in the ongoing battle for business survival and success: Establish a presence on multiple social media channels. Amazingly, I still find that many small businesses still don’t use any social media, much less appear on a range of platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Use social media for early marketing. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Its “content arm” Entity Mag has quite interestingly gone viral on social media and has more than 1.1 Entity aims to provide its tools to address all of these women with all of their different challenges around breaking into tech jobs, in what it describes as a “wraparound” strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

No matter what you do, you can’t seem to break through and get to the next level. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Then there are the expenses you never could have anticipated, driving down margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Use social media for early marketing. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Be proactive in defining your personal and business identity early with positive content, well before your product debuts, highlighting your current vision, accomplishments, and personal image: Establish a personal brand online as an influencer and leader. Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2009

In this rocky start of a year, we're gearing this MOTM to break open the conversation on where venture capital is being directed, what industries are going to thrive, and how we can optimize our efforts to profit in a down market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. The majority of our time is now spent online. I find San Diego is very good for that.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

and co-founder Sean Percival is a MySpace vet and a familiar face in Southern California's social media circles. We caught up with Sean to learn more about the acquisition, and how the buy of Cottonseed is one of the things helping the firm break into the closed and protective clothing industry. Sean Pervical: It's interesting.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Providing users with DNS leak protection and a dark web monitor, NordLayer is actually much more than a VPN, and at just $7 per month , it doesn't break the bank either. Zoho supports a wide variety of social platforms too, from Instagram and TikTok to more niche sites like Pinterest. Most of these features are available for free.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later. Networking through social media. Social media is a great networking tool, add people wherever you can. We will talk about this next. Ask for feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Use social media for early marketing. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

The event attracted over 500 distinguished attendees from around the world in the digital media and technology industry including advertising, media, data, eCommerce, software, social and gaming. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

How we do that, is we're building a content community, and saying, here's all this content we want to give to you, and consulting we can provide, to help you and your family get back on your feet at last. Essentially, we've taken a portion of our outplacement content, and put it on the front end, and saidthis is complimentary for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Part of the way you get high functioning boards is to spend social time together. It isn’t always possible but when it is I recommend that you try to building in casual time for breaking bread or a drink before or after a board meeting as a way of building human bonds that lead to higher functioning boards. I practice what I preach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Use social media for early marketing. Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. Social media is not rocket science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Don’t repeat the “ United Breaks Guitars ” experience on what not to do, which reportedly United cost over a billion dollars in lost business. You can easily remove any inappropriate comments from your own sites, and you can cancel or delete your account on most social media sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Your goal is that magical break even point and hockey-stick profit-growth curve. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. If you adequately manage your burn rate, your startup is much less vulnerable to flaming out before you get to that elusive break-even point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

The internet can provide a whole host of innovative strategies for businesses of any size to break into foreign markets. A big part of it is translating your content as accurately as possible. A translator will be able to alert you about any potential cultural issues with your web content. In fact, this isn't the case.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

There are new filmmakers who are trying to get into the entertainment business, but the market has been over saturated with content. To do this, they have created Filmzu , an online matchmaker to find and connect with others to create new content. Is it kind of like social media platform?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This weekend TechZulu will bring you the first west coast unconference on social media and government live. 10:00-10:15AM Break. CS) F: Transforming Transportation with Social Media (PC). 2:30-2:45PM Break. 3:45-4:00PM Break. CS) F: Transforming Transportation with Social Media (PC).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. Solaborate is a professional social media network.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. On JFDI (play on Just Do It) - Chamillionaire talked a lot about social media.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I’ve just finished a week away from the office for Spring Break, which was much needed. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The first phase was just getting all the content online via YouTube. I’m now back & ready for action.

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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. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

No matter what you do, you can’t seem to break through and get to the next level. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Then there are the expenses you never could have anticipated, driving down margins.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2015

So it’s a disappointment to me that these esteemed journalists haven’t adapted to the modern media – to social media. Marc, maybe you can break through? But he hasn’t figured out that media is now two way. NYT Learn How to Use Social Media. And Marc Andreessen. NYT First Draft.

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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. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Then we started advertising and getting media attention. We now find that our website does well for the reason it should: We have amassed a body of great information and multimedia content about adventure travel to our favorite places on Earth.". Also, advertising in print media just doesn''t have the ROI that it once did.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. Step 2 — connect your social networks to CHNL.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

No matter what you do, you can’t seem to break through and get to the next level. You have tried all the popular initiatives and quick-fix remedies, including social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Then there are the expenses you never could have anticipated, driving down margins.

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