SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Tell me about the business. SEO for Startups )? What’s their specific need / pain?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Tell us more about Highland Capital (14:30 – 16:30). An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

And if you’re not meeting as a team to discuss these metrics and have a regular debate about how you’re doing and what needs to change then I can assure you that you’ll never reach your destination. For example, I highly recommend a set of board metrics that the CEO communicates to board members at every meeting. SEO is seldom “free.”.

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Metrics Startup SEO Custom 346

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts. If they credit you in their blog or industry articles, those backlinks will boost your SEO ranking, as well as your perceived reputation online. Consistently review and respond to relevant online feedback.

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Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? That's not how we think about it.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

Tell our readers who haven't heard of Wpromote, what your business is all about? It's been a long time since we last talked, and it looks like you've grown significantly � tell us a bit about the growth? Mike Mothner: The key is, we have been selective about who we work with. What are your thoughts on that?

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Acquisition Paid Search El Segundo SEO 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ).

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Acquisition Custom Customer Ideas 170

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Rather than how much you charge, it’s about how the purchase will impact your buyer’s life. Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com. What have they written about?

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Custom Customer Marketing SEO 85

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. What's different about our business model is to bring them customers.

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Template Beverly Hills Startup SEM 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. MakeSpace provides physical storage. Let me be very direct.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. It sounds interesting.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Blogging is an important way to build an audience and also drive SEO traffic. What should you blog about? analysts, journalists, potential employees) and blog about what you want to communication with them. analysts, journalists, potential employees) and blog about what you want to communication with them. Be authentic.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. All are great firms with great reputations and phenomenal returns.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. People are so used to the Google mold. What is Scour?

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

All you hear about these days is Mobile. I bet there is a lot that would surprise you about the mobile world. Things you don’t read about in the Wall St Journal. I thought it might be valuable (and fun) to share some of those “mobile surprises” with you: SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Download Apps From the Web.

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Mobile Search Engine Optimization SEO Startup 82

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

We sat down and spoke with Milo Sindell, one of the founders of the firm, to learn more about how the firm came about and what it's trying to accomplish. The second example, is you can publish it in public. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

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. The Twitter pest that costs you hard earned money WTF I’m ranting about?

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Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion.

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Blogging Email Writing Sites 83

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. Makes talking to people about the project a lot easier with hard facts and figures behind it. Why the name?

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Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Blogs help because sites that update data frequently get higher SEO rankings. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank.

Blogging 48

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Startup Writing 48

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.To

Web 61

Web Social Media Content Sites 61

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

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SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Such Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is modern-day snake oil. Although such agencies are relatively rare, they do exist.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. It does a good job of laying out different aspects of performance that should be thought about prior to creating a system. Is SEO important? Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO.

Startup 150

Startup SEO CTO Coach Web 150

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 62

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable.

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