Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter. Some search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

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. Soon you will find that they are re-tweeting your messages, referring their friends to your products, and becoming your biggest evangelists.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Referring Traffic / Press. make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

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. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate.

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Be accessible on social media, write a blog or articles for industry publications, and participate in conference panels and speaking engagements. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. To make sure you maximize the potential for referring traffic: 1.) Make a list of the journalists writing the articles, they’re easy to find on Linkedin and Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. A local fishing guide might make friends with folks at the bed and breakfast, each referring clients to each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

This is why many people are so excited by how much traffic they’re now generating from social media. See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Why the name? We don’t compete with banks.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

With the rise of digital coupons, so came a rise in consumers using their mobile devices to reference coupons visually on their smartphones. In short, businesses looking to stay on top of the digital couponing trends need to focus on the being strong on three fronts: social, local and mobile. Submited by GroceryCouponNetwork.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. The best way to do this is to reference actual data from a recent similar startup success. Budget time and dollars for each.

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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. If, for example, you’re writing a blog post aimed at professional investors, you don’t need to stop and explain what an entrepreneur is to them.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2009

The same article refers to several other people who are coming back to blogging: Liza at Maui Blog and the futurist Chris Saad. I’m enjoying the creative process of getting my own personal thoughts down in writing. Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. started blogging again outlined here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

An informal writing style is generally recommended. Your readers will appreciate the option to view the sites you reference, and having links pointing to other sites will further improve your search engine rankings. Don’t be shy, I don’t know many CEOs today that write their own speeches and marketing materials.

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Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. 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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) If they’re not willing to do this then you probably don’t have a real soft circle.

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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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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. Social media meets digital content – I think the social media story is more obvious in many ways. You can get through first 1.20

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