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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. I know Coull intimately, as it recently purchased RevUpNet , an online media agency which I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007. However, they were expensive to create because they required advertisers to employ full-service media agencies.

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Recruit Cal Ripken, Not Reggie Jackson, To Your Startup

InfoChachkie

Not only do they consume a significant amount of management resources, their output is lackluster even when they are performing at maximum capacity. Rather than pursue an ever-higher salary from a variety of teams, Cal repeatedly turned down contracts that offered him more money and greater media exposure. Share and Enjoy.

Startup 182
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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media.

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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. Geographic customization.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

In addition, a number of advertisers have invested significant resources into creating libraries of video content which effectively communicate brand and product attributes but are incapable of eliciting a particular action, such as: clicking to a landing page, completing a lead form, or initiating a purchase. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Sales Lessons From TLC’s “Say Yes To The Dress”

InfoChachkie

Such pro active communications allows startups to be more responsive than their larger, resource-rich competitors. Image Sources: Randy - Copyright © 2012 Discovery Communications, LLC, Monte - ©2012Tribune Media Services, Inc. Share and Enjoy.

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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. Geographic customization.

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