Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The founder explains that the product or service is so “buzz-worthy” that the merits will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 139

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 139

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone has to wake up and answer website email requests. Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. Self-service needs to have escape hatches.

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Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2011

San Diego-based StockTwits , the financial micro messaging service headed by Howard Lindzon, is announcing this morning that it has rolled out a new product aimed at Fortune 500 companies. The firm said the new StockTwits Direct service will help public companies communicate their company news and information to their company's Yahoo!

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Yahoo San Diego News Services 168

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Make It Work is an extreme customer service company. We really do want to “delight every customer we serve&# ( 30,000+ customer testimonials to prove it ) and this is just one more tactic in our ultimate strategy of providing “Extreme Customer Service.&#. I hunted for their Twitter handle and their Facebook page.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Woodland Hills-based FatTail , a developer of software tools for publishers to manage their advertising sales efforts, said over the weekend that the firm has launched a new product, PageGage RAFT, which will allow publishers automatically buy search traffic. Pricing on the new tool was not released. READ MORE>>.

Woodland Hills 100

Woodland Hills Outsource Development Services Advertising 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information. The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Startup Statistics Social Media 109

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUhow , which develops video-based sales and product information for online retailers and manufacturers, said today that it has added a suite of social media integration features for the firm's offering. ShowUhow is venture backed by Syncom Ventures, and raised a round of capital back in August.

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Social Media Media Sites San Diego 162

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , a provider of automotive information services, said today that it has rolled out a new site to its visitors, and is planning a release of an iPhone app--all part of an overhaul to update the service. Tags: edmunds automotive auto information buying research. READ MORE>>.

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Edmunds Santa Monica Research Blogging 184

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Limited information sharing (second floor). But it’s very basic information, the type you dispense out of social obligation or because it’s a job requirement, not because you’re offering some insight into who we are.

Startup 150

Startup Guide Help Course 150

Berkonomics

JULY 11, 2013

Visit to purchase, click to close, or other terms are used in various industries to describe the measure of conversion rate from initial landing on a page displaying purchase information about a product or service.

.Net 207

.Net Sales Tool Social Network 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2012

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone to wake up and answer website email requests. Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. Self-service needs to have escape hatches.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Services Startup 97

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

Mobile 249

Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Location/Geography - are you using geographic information?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Location/Geography - are you using geographic information?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information. The first page of the business plan better be an executive summary which gives the investor a taste of the financials, as well as opportunity, competition, and key executives. “I Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Statistics Startup Social Media 124

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. TechZulu caught up with Conolly and this is what we learn. What is ProfileTree? What inspired you?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

Network speeds are closely tied to an organization’s ability to stay productive and remain competitive and profitable at all times. As businesses expand and take on new services, technologies, and a larger workforce, they require more network capacity to support growth without sacrificing efficiency. . Use Wired Connections.

Networking 75

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page.

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Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

Web 76

Web Startup Sites Design 76

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users?

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Limited information sharing (second floor). But it’s very basic information, the type you dispense out of social obligation or because it’s a job requirement, not because you’re offering some insight into who we are.

Startup 93

Startup Guide Help Course 93

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals. That dataset is of interest to anyone with a location aware service.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

While growing organizations face several network challenges due to limited budgets and smaller team sizes, they can work with a managed network services provider to overcome them. . Internet speed can have a direct impact on worker productivity and business success. Overcome Network Challenges With Managed Network Services.

Networking 54

Networking Company Companies Organization 54

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2011

DueToDos is a web based business productivity platform that seeks to save you time and increase efficiency whether you’re solo or on a team. The support button link is currently disabled, however there is a feedback button located at the top of the page. It is definitely built for users who need information quickly and at a glance.

Email 102

Email Platform Web Summary 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Limited information sharing (second floor). But it’s very basic information, the type you dispense out of social obligation or because it’s a job requirement, not because you’re offering some insight into who we are.

Startup 97

Startup Guide Help Course 97

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Attendees will learn a method for evaluating and improving products and services in a truly lean and agile way – a way that. Reiss is a world-renowned usability expert.

Culver City 105

Culver City Design Content Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? Final example.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites do take time to get done right.

Web 62

Web Startup Sites Design 62

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Apple had impeccable customer service. Well, thank you for the super helpful customer service and have a Merry Christmas, Apple. At which point WaPo informed me that they would be keeping my $99 and my subscription would be cancelled in 364 days. I clicked on the customer service, contact us page, to talk with a rep.

News 150

News Mobile Customer Custom 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. I see too many investor pitches, and even executive summaries that ramble on for many pages without a clear message. Customers these days expect to find your information where they are, not where you are.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

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? We give it to our own kids.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Why tell someone about your product if you can give them a demonstration, and what better way to make that demonstration irresistible than to make it free? One way to improve the effectiveness of even a free demonstration is to obtain a quote from an authoritative source on the quality or features of your product. Free Demonstration

Sites 40

Sites Search Engine Optimization Technical Review Web Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Another fine line companies are skating is with how much user information they make publicly available. Facebook is back in the fray on the privacy issue but this time it is more about how user information is displayed by third parties. Does it risk disclosing sensitive information that could affect their relationships?”

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Blogging Content Press Startup 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Customers go there to check on the details of your offerings and verify that you are not a scam, investors look there to check out your management and sales approach, and suppliers expect to find contact information. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. Websites are a big job and take time.

Web 99

Web Startup Sites Design 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Content is king of the road.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93