Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, contacts, connections, and followers, who can amplify your message through social media and spread it to your target customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Today’s platform is built of people, including yourself, followers, and contacts, who can amplify your message through social media and spread it to your target customers. Make your customers your platform.

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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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

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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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

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. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements.

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web. It is a good thing that there is an app for everything today — work, social media, games, shopping, travel, photography, and schedule of movie screenings. Today, that oh-my-god moment refers to a mobile app.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2011

You get all the basic functionality of the mobile web version but the native application adds push notifications, photo uploading and the ability to create Huddles. Mainly the inability to reshare posts, you cannot “like&# comments and you cannot refer to usernames from within the app (similar to @replies on Twitter).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. .&# The theory is simple: our attention is moving from search to stream. Early evidence is good.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Best Communication Tools for Startups Communication tools refer to any type of technology that helps businesses stay connected. RingCentral Startup tool: Web conferencing app Price from: $11.99 If you manage remote or hybrid teams, RingCentral provides the best web conferencing software we've reviewed.

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 119

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Referring Traffic / Press. make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Search Engines. Refreshing Content.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. With the rise of digital coupons, so came a rise in consumers using their mobile devices to reference coupons visually on their smartphones.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Customer conversations are easy today, through responding to customers on social media, web live chats, and interactive applications on mobile devices. They don’t realize that customers today are looking for relationships, meaning two-way conversations with your business. They ignore all else as just plain noise.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

WebEx was the early leader in web meetings. Although such service businesses can be highly profitably from the start, they are difficult to scale, hence they are often referred to by the derisive term “body shop.” In the short-term, such opportunities are enticing. 9 Women And A Baby.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Steven’s a great front-end developer and product person; and while I had experience doing product management, it was mainly enterprise, not web, so I took charge of the business side of things. ” She refers to a great visualization done by Google on the history and breakdown of popular music genres.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

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Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

Web based shipping service Ordoro. This foundation, eCommerce, which is not eTail if you will (the likes on which Dell was established – truly transacting online rather than the infrastructure, technology, and webs services to drive such commerce), but eCommerce, will drive the entirety of the consumer web to follow.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

It's a great reference that keeps me up to date on all the candidates' stances and who I align with. Taylor Peck: As our traffic and revenues increase, we'd like to expand our marketing and social media across the web, and bring in more users, so that we can go into congressional races across the country. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

It's a great reference that keeps me up to date on all the candidates' stances and who I align with. Taylor Peck: As our traffic and revenues increase, we'd like to expand our marketing and social media across the web, and bring in more users, so that we can go into congressional races across the country. READ MORE>>.

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Education Sites Startup News 171

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly The asymmetric follower model where we also follow news, celebrities and senior executives at companies is one of the reasons people often refer to this as an “interest graph&# because it is an expression of what I care about.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

And if you think that these guys can’t monetize then I’ll refer you to everybody’s arguments about games – that free-to-play would never work in the US. Much of web video search is bad at finding “the good stuff&# including YouTube itself. Social media buzz can boost or bury content.

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