Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2020

The world of marketing is changing faster than technology these days. Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and a while back added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Modernize the user website experience.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 7, 2020

The latest of these is Luxury Presence , which pitches digital marketing services to real estate agents and has raked in $5.4 million in financing to support the buildout of its services and sales teams to manage clients. According to estimates from Built in LA , there are roughly 127 companies, which have raised over $2.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups. Email marketing. Direct mail marketing. Social-media advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

While you all recognize that reacting to weak market signals is critical to staying in business and staying competitive, I find that many don’t have the skills and focus to trigger change decisions on a timely basis. When sales fall off, you need to dig deep for the “why,” rather than just assuming the price needs to go down.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUhow , the developer of video product guides for e-commerce sites, said today that it has named Anthony 'Tony' Wyatt as its EVP Sales and Marketing. Wyatt joins the firm from Indyme Solutions.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2014

The startup, lets consumers order flowers from local florists and designers, instead of generic mass marketers, and is one of the companies out of MuckerLab. BloomNation other backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Chicago Ventures, and CrunchFund.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As the Internet continues to become populated with e-commerce sites, it’s becoming more and more difficult to generate web traffic, leads, and ultimate the sales for your website. Thankfully, we’ve compiled detailed guide in order to help you generate more awareness for your website in the global market.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In a sign of how large of an effect Santa Monica-based TrueCar has had on the automotive industry, the company said Tuesday afternoon that its dealer partners have just surpassed 700,000 new and used vehicles sold using its sites. TrueCar had announced it 500,000th vehicle in March of 2012.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based ResumeBucket , the online resume site headed by Josh Stomel, reported today that management and sales are the highest typed keywords of recruiters searching the site. Marketing positions, which only had 1,442 queries on the site during the quarter, below even administrative assistants.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based online retailer Buy.com looks to be in the midst of an effort to drive more holiday sales, by boosting payouts to the firm's affiliate marketing partners. Affiliates get a cut of sales driven by their links to products and web sites. Tags: buy.com ecommerce sales affiliate holiday. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements: 1. They like to feel like they compared your solution to something else on the market. The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.”

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2016

A recent Experian marketing survey revealed that 52% of all email opens are from mobile devices, and that 38% of all clicks are from mobile devices. Experian looked at three hundred brands and 21 billion emails – a few more than you or I have as a resource for our marketing intelligence. And treat the result seriously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2019

More and more customers these days are doing their own marketing research, scanning internet reviews and feedback from friends, rather than trusting messages that you push out through advertising. I recommend that you experiment to find the best sites for your business, with the majors including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Local businesses won’t use a site until it has a critical mass of users.

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Berkonomics

MAY 19, 2022

A recent Experian marketing survey revealed that 52% of all email opens are from mobile devices, and that 38% of all clicks are from mobile devices. Experian looked at three hundred brands and 21 billion emails – a few more than you or I have as a resource for our marketing intelligence. Responsive” emails and a test. Same thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

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. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. million new users and 22 million unique page views to its clients’ sites as a result of its effective campaign execution.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the parent company of Buzznet, Celebuzz, Stereogum, and a network of other sites, is in the midst of expansion, saying this week that it has hired on four new additions to the firm's advertising team. Tags: buzznet buzzmedia executive sales. Heimowitz was most recently at Time, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2014

Moviepilot , the online film review and publishing site led by Tobias Bauckhage, has sold off its German website, moviepilot.de , to French publisher Webedia. The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S. The move puts the company''s focused squarely on its Los Angeles operations.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net , which operates a network of businesses focused on domain name monetization and advertising, said today that it has linked with NameMedia , a developer and marketer of premium domain names. AfternicDLS runs a domain name resale business, through Afternic.com, BuyDomains.com, and a number of other sites.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based SocialBuy is launching a new, online group buying site in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is hoping to provide discounted local products and services, the firm said this week. The firm was co-founded by Eli Natan , who is the former Vice President of Sales and Marketing for online grocery service Pink Dot.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and salespeople rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Capture every compliment and ask if you can use it for marketing purposes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Most struggle with the idea and practice of marketing and sales, and see these as a necessary evil, if even required. Of course, for a price, there are many marketing organizations and gurus willing to come to your aid. Use social media in concert with a web site and offline media. Are your customers coming fast enough?

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

We also work closely with manufacturers like Kia and Suburu, and work with research sites like Kelly Blue Book and Edmunds, who both utilize our imagery as well. Five years ago, somebody in the market for a car might go to three or four dealerships before deciding which vehicle to purchase. That's not the case anymore. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

Belkin said that students at Portal Schools will be embedded in the Belkin campus, and will gain access to internships and on-site mentoring with Belkin teams in various divisions including engineering, industrial design, creative design, product management, marketing, communications, sales, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Long-term sales. marketing is not zero marketing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. com), which offers up local, peer-to-peer sales. This is the brainchild of eBay, and specifically eBay''s Classifieds group, which runs classified sites around the world.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And in the market of sports memorabilia, authenticity (even if it includes sweat, blood and tears) is everything. “We Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. With each sale, 70% of money raised goes toward a cause of the athlete’s choice. We send it as is,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

It also handles the back end as well by automating the posting, sale and shipment of unsold inventory while offering immediate payment to creditworthy sellers. Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. The equity will go toward hiring more talent to join Ghost’s 25-person team.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2014

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparisons site led by Kevin O''Connor, has branched out into yet another vertical today--real estate. According to the company, it has launched FindTheBest Homes , a new site which helps consumers find and compare homes in a market. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Santa Monica-based Super League Gaming , which operates its own e-sports competition site and community, is headed for the public markets, hoping to raise as much as $31.36M for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Super League Gaming is led by President and CEO Ann Hand. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2014

The startup says it has created an online marketplace which lets ticket buyers and sellers negotiate ticket sales in a "free, fair and flexible" P2P market. savefans market venue shows events peer marketplace ticket secondary contender' The company says it leverages PayPal to make sure that deals will be done in a secure way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2023

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. Selz would also be able to market far more aggressively, given the significant amount of collateral it now has, thanks to Amazon's seemingly unending wealth.

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