socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Nick Desai: Jack Steinfeld--which everyone knows as Body by Jake--is the founder of Global Fitness Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. It shows that our eyes are trained to focus on the text, not the ads. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

People with the wrong tools or no training. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more. Miso Media. It takes years of training and practice to make music: or does it? Do you wish you could learn how to play the guitar?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Specialized services, such as accounting, require skilled people, training, and tools, and do not scale well.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. Today we find out when commuter trains are late or roads are closed because our friends or local news agencies Tweet them to us.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Sometimes just including training and installation makes a product more attractive. The Internet is a business for transporting web services. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers. One bad customer experience will kill not only one customer, but many future ones, who hear the message via social media and friends. The world has changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. The now-public. Despite the number of employees, recruiters also cited.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

A translator will be able to alert you about any potential cultural issues with your web content. Good website localization also involves hosting and web infrastructure. Social media is beneficial to many sales and marketing functions, including market research, competitor analysis, CRM and customer service.

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Marketing Social Media Search Engine Optimization Web 89

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. It is company 500px who has a beautiful product and a burgeoning community on the iPad and web. 23:00 Discussion of California’s social media privacy laws. 500px is in Toronto.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2019

Sometimes just including training and installation makes a product more attractive. The Internet is a business for transporting web services. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Use social media for more visibility. It’s time to adopt your customer’s favorite mode of communication, whether that be texting, phone calls, or social media, and not limit your responses to office hours. Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Here are seven ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. These days, new technologies and social trends are fanned from an ember into a flame by the media and word-of-mouth. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Services Startup Social Media 56

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Here are six ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. These days, new technologies and social trends are fanned from an ember into a flame by the media and word-of-mouth. With most others, like web services, incubation time must be short, and secrecy can be the kiss of death.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

The driving force for me was the gap in the market which I saw, a disruption in media consumption patterns. Basically, that disruption is 18-34 year olds have changed how they consume media. Investment banking was a great training ground. Everyone knows this. Jennifer Sargent: It's funny. It was an eye opener.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Social Media brings that to the forefront again because we’re [again] interested in the one to one interaction which was so terribly important back in the 80′s when companies were trying to optimize service.” In terms of UX, Reiss says that right now everyone is focused on social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 23, 2014

If there was one constant among streaming internet awards shows it was the audience feedback filled with comments like: “Train wreck!” Read More Reactions Around The Web: VGX all the awkward moments. The alleged democratization of the voting process, by making it a social media contest, only strengthens the 1%.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2012

Then came the advent of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter that declared a critical mass with no revenue, counting on their user base of millions of people to get them market values in the billions of dollars. In fact, in the last decade, the whole concept of a business critical mass has been sent into a tailspin.

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Social Media Custom Customer Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Here are some of the ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. These days, new technologies and social trends are fanned from an ember into a flame by the media and word-of-mouth. People talk to people, and even competitors freely exchange news on trends and discoveries.

Startup 91

Startup Search Engine Optimization Course Media 91

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing. We scaled that to almost $1.4 Fourth, is all the friends we've made.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2017

Sometimes just including training and installation makes a product more attractive. The Internet is a business for transporting web services. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts.

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Ideas Startup Examples Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

We all know it’s less expensive to automate the support role, through web site forms and touch-tone phone systems. Today’s generation is accustomed to relationships via social media and texting, as long as social protocols are honored. Provide training and empowerment.

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Custom Customer Startup Satisfaction 56

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable. Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering.

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Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Then came the advent of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter that declared a critical mass with no revenue, counting on their user base of millions of people to get them market values in the billions of dollars. In fact, in the last decade, the whole concept of a business critical mass has been sent into a tailspin.

Startup 91

Startup Social Media Custom Customer 91

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2012

We're also able to get a very high success rate with normal, cost-per-action media marketing, because consumers look at what we do, they get it, that the postal service is going out of business, and they have a very high propensity to try new things. Email lis oppose of what our system is. Email doesn't solve that problem.

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Zumbox Email Startup Services 170

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy. . The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0

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