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8 Strategies To Drive Your Startup To Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure. Tell no one!

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How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a study of 1700 CEOs last year, only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

When my friend’s small business was struggling a while back, I suggested he add some social media marketing initiatives, and his answer was that he was “too busy.” According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively.

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8 Keys To Scaling The Business After Initial Traction

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Too Busy for Social Media Marketing Could Be Fatal

Startup Professionals Musings

He is not alone, according to a recent study , which concludes that only 47% of companies use social media today for marketing, despite the fact that 78% of executives polled feel it’s critical for success. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only.

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RANT: Social media/marketing or is it just Sales 101-the online version?

Eric Greenspan

I’ve been learning a ton about social media lately, but I have to say, I never feel like I’m actually getting anywhere with it all. Anyhow, sorry to rant, but I’m frustrated with social media and the concept in general. Email seemed to be working just fine before all this other crap came along.