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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". Although social media news sites can be effective market validation tools, they are not without their downsides. Never ask a tech community for feedback when your true intent is to close a sale.

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. When you extend this to include social media marketing, you can imagine that startups and small businesses are in fact at an advantage over their less flexible big brothers.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

Along the way, they created a supportive community of emotionally attached stakeholders that would be the envy of any Social Media Manager. We weren''t marketing the newsletter, it was just out there, sort of growing organically.". As John noted at the conclusion of his talk, "The book did help us increase sales.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. When you extend this to include social media marketing, you can imagine that startups and small businesses are in fact at an advantage over their less flexible big brothers.

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Hyperlocal is the Latest Buzzword for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. When you extend this to include social media marketing, you can imagine that startups and small businesses are in fact at an advantage over their less flexible big brothers.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Some search. I was an entrepreneur.

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