article thumbnail

5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users). LinkedIn (300 million), Twitter (288 million) and Pinterest (70 million).

article thumbnail

Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

Both Sides of the Table

In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Interview with John Tomich, Onestop Internet

socalTECH

One, is we build and design websites. Third, is we provide customer care and phone support for orders; the fourth is the software technology, the platform that powers everything. The sixth is marketing analytics, including SEM/SEO, collecting customer names, emails -- we use ExactTarget for emails, and Omniture for Analytics.

article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. .” So there you have it.

CTO Coach 359
article thumbnail

Full Speed Ahead! Social Media Week Is Here!

Tech Zulu Event

Social Media Week is a global platform that connects people, content, and conversation around emerging trends in social and mobile media. Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts. What is Social Media Week? What's it all for?

article thumbnail

How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them.

Startup 150
article thumbnail

How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

Both Sides of the Table

But if you want to be able to repeat your success on your next campaign you need to know more about how you drove those clicks: Which social platform were they published on? visualization tool for 2+ years so when they told me they were building a new sweet of tools designed for marketers I was all over it. And so forth.

Marketing 307