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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy.

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

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And we wanted a head of global marketing. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Early evidence is good.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Clicks are also a simple measure that you can get from basic link tracking packages.

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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?

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. They also avoid Reg D.