Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

Yet, these days, I am seeing overwhelming evidence that customer buying decisions, especially with consumers, are often based on emotional and psychological factors , including passions from others, your experience, and social relationships. Other startups use technology to provide personalized products to all customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Spreeify.com , a brand new, Los Angeles startup, said last week that it has launched a brand new, social shopping site, centered around free giveaways and shopping deals. The startup, led by Ruben Dua, said it combines product giveaways with social shopping, to help merchants gain customers. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Also, a site map helps people understand the topology of your website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I’m sure you have all noticed how today’s customers have changed the way they shop, but I still find, as an advisor and consultant, that many of you aren’t sure how to deal with the new mode, or are still waiting for things to get back to the old normal. Convenience is in the eye of the customer, not your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Proving the new model today are sites like Patagonia and Zappos. But how do you know if your brand is projecting warmth and competence to your customers? Customers watch and judge whether people or profits come first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2022

They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers. It’s a dynamic customer environment out there. Motivate people, including your customers, to do something to improve your marketing today. Ask your customers and partners for ideas, try them all, measure results, and scale up the ones that work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Bad ones will suck the energy out of your company, and leave you wanting more.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Laguna Beach-based Edgemesh says it has upgraded its product Edgemesh Server product line to specifically help e-commerce customers before the holiday rush. The company said its product now offers up a new image optimization feature, which helps decrease image download sizes by 39%.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. A pivot or product enhancement in reaction to user or customer comments will advance your chances of success. The post Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral. It doesn’t happen by accident. Here is my list. First: Planning.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2012

The new site was created by Baron Miller, Ian Kilpatrick, and Jason Eastwood. According to the site, its customer so far include frozen yogurt chain Golden Spoon, which posted a coupon from Couponler to its 37,000 fans on Facebook. The site is offering up its service for $29.95 per month to small businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address. Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Social-media advertising. Email marketing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Kickstarted , a new online community focused on successfully crowdfunded projects, launched today, in an effort to connect the organizers of crowdfunded projects from such sites as IndieGogo, Kickstarter, and other projects with customers. The site was founded by Candice Georgiadis, a jewelry designer based in Malibu.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2014

said Wednesday that it has launched a new site, INVST , a new network for institutional-quality alternative investment funds. said that it has partnered with Carillon Capital, LLC--run by former E*TRADE Financial executives--on the site. Los Angeles-based crowdfunding technology developer Invested.in also said it is in a deal with.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2009

Santa Monica-based Boingo Wireless , which operates a network of wireless access points through relationships with local Wi-Fi providers, told its users Wednesday that the firm has upgraded its customer service site. According to the firm, users can now reset their own password, and email invoices and receipts to themself.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” Who are the customers? Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? will you leverage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Too many business owners still think of “ customer support ” as an after-sale process to rectify customer problems with completed transactions. With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Rialto, California-based Plant Prefab , a manufacturer of custom, prefabricated homes, has raised $6.7M Plant Prefab manufactures custom, pre-fabricated single- and multi-family homes, which are much faster to build and reduces construction costs, as well as waste from on-site home construction. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2017

GoDaddy, the original hosting service for The Daily Stormer, suspended the site's registration and account yesterday for violations of its terms of service, after The Daily Stormer posted an article celebrating the death of the victim of the attack in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online product comparison site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said Thursday that it has partnered with an online consumer electronics products review and technology news site, eCoustics. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

Among the many companies launching iPad-focused applications and content over the weekend, Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said that it is now presenting a custom, home page for people visiting the site through the Apple iPad browser. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said today that it has launched a new, beta of a local business site called Bizzy. The new site is launching first in New York, San Francisco, and Dallas. Bizzy allows local businesses to create their own social networking "feed", and also connect with their customers via email, Twitter, and Facebook.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail.

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Berkonomics

MAY 30, 2019

And the best way to do this is with the placement of a case study, a story told about and by a satisfied customer with something to say about how your product solved their problem or pain. But it must be told about and by the customer, with your product as the tool of solution, not the focus of the story.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Both of these time–honored methods of reaching our customers have worked for as long as there was print and radio–TV to get the message out. But the leaders of this new school practice customer–driven communication, personalized to the point of basing communication upon individual customer behavior. She bought again. Old school?

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2018

A major, security leak by a Southern California company, which revealed the location of every single mobile phone customer in the United States to within a couple of hundred feet, was exposed on Thursday --raising questions to how cell phone users data is being used and sold by mobile carriers. The service was taken offline yesterday.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. MindTouch's software provides customer support search tools, product information, and more to end users. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new social media site, or a new productivity tool. Many of the current opportunities in alternative energy are the result of these forces, as well as the lack of effective government coalitions to conserve other resources. Truly “disruptive” technologies.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the online fundraising site run by Alon Goren, is powering a new effort to help educators raise money for educational programs from the BizWorld Foundation.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The site--which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal --said it is launching into beta, and will help match people with similar preferences, based on the answers they give to a series of questions about a users' favorite places. ReachLocal had originally launched Bizzy in June. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Vonjour (www.vonjour.com), a Los Angeles startup, has developed a cloud-based customer support and phone system which, in addition to handling all of a company''s usual enterprise phone needs--also lets employers harness employee smartphones to deal with customer support issues, make calls, and interact with customers directly from a mobile app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2019

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Solis outlines the heuristics of social psychology that are key to building positive customer experiences today.

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Custom Customer Social Media Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2017

Customer service has traditionally been a support function to respond to customer initiated requests, meaning someone waits for the phone to ring or for a website support request form. The old days of routing a customer to a single phone queue for any request will quickly kill any brand loyalty or advocate referral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Also, a site map helps people understand the topology of your website.

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Customer Custom FAQ Technical Review 79

InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. The team''s ability to drive significant customer interest without spending a dime on marketing was one of the reasons Jim Andelman and I invested in the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away.

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