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. Work On Your SEO. One of the most effective arcing strategies to get noticed in a global market is to simply incorporate an SEO strategy.

Commerce 58

Commerce Search Engine Optimization Sites Marketing 58

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site.

Web 117

Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

SEO for Startups )? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

SEO for Startups )? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. There’s also the opportunity to do some consulting with interested customers to provide needed revenue while the product is still under development. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

Blogging 104

Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. One of these is blogging, to let people know about your brand, provide links to supportive articles, and generate back-links to your content from other sites.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. sites still dominate. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck.

Venture Capital 232

Venture Capital Capital SEO Yahoo 232

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

One of the many things you become expert at when you launch your own company and have no money is SEO. Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic.

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics. You spend the months influencing the influencers.

Social Media 135

Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 88

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2009

San Diego-based Covario , a developer of search engine marketing automation tools, said earlier this week that it has rolled out a new product which the firm will further automate keyword marketing for customers. According to the firm, it has launched a product called D3- Data Driven Decisions for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Search Engine Optimization 100

Search Engine Optimization SEO San Diego Web 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per action (CPA).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. SEO for Startups )? What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Of course, we’ll also discuss the details of the product itself.

Software Development 292

Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people.

Activity 164

Activity Conference Press Case Study 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. How many adds came through organic SEO? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? SEO is seldom “free.”.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Similar with product features. Let me give you an example.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

When Quora went into Beta and became the “hip product to have access to&# in Silicon Valley I felt compelled to play around with it. And they are trying to bake in user adoption into the design of the product. My answer to that question and another question about why people contribute to UGC sites could be blog posts.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Advertising presence.

Search Engine Optimization 96

Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Advertising presence.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? We give it to our own kids.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site.

Search Engine Optimization 54

Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Skip the hyperbole. Provide irresistible offers to keep their attention. No company exists in a vacuum.

SEO 53

SEO Tips Newsletter Statistics 53

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. 37:00-40:30).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

The biggest excuse most startup founders mention is too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, investors, etc. There’s also the opportunity to do some consulting with interested customers to provide needed revenue while the product is still under development. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

Startup 101

Startup Blogging Writing Google 101

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Are sponsors interested in such highly targeted sites, rather than the broad reach? Do you find it's been more difficult to build up traffic for a more targeted site, or easier?

Networking 230

Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road. like Google.

Startup 96

Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Advertising presence.

Tips 92

Tips Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising 92

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site. We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do.

Hollywood 252

Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Zoho supports a wide variety of social platforms too, from Instagram and TikTok to more niche sites like Pinterest. Workday helps startups to overcome this struggle by giving employees a user-friendly and useful way to ramp up their productivity. Workday Startup tool: Performance management system Price from: From $8.33

Tool 131

Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 131

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150