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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. I’ve got to imagine this makes tracking marketing spend challenging.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

But what if you’re a credit card company and you want to know where to find your next customers? ” How can businesses not incorporate information into their marketing and sales funnels? Already 2/3rds of our customers are ingesting 2 or more data sources including Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Bit.ly ” Steve.

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The Perfect Pithy And Productive Investor Pitch

InfoChachkie

For instance, in a crowded market, a highly differentiated one-liner might make the difference between a startup generating meaningful investor discussions and languishing in obscurity. Better than Amazon''s customer experience for any brand" and "LinkedIn on Steroids.". Customer Segmentation. AngelList Differentiation.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. David Schwartz, Vice President, Corporate Development of Yammer David Schwartz is the Vice President, Corporate Development, at Yammer Inc., a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

And we wanted a head of global marketing. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

How difficult has it been to get your customers to understand the exposure with SMS? Some of the first customers we had were in obstetrics. Having that support is a huge, important thing to unlock lots of growth in our customer base. That''s important in how we market. That''s what V4 unlocks for us.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

socalTECH

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. He had 5,000, B-to-B marketers across various divisions of GE, and they really never were able to help each other.