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. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

million site visits in October alone. Writesonic Writesonic is an AI writing tool designed to help writers overcome writers block and level up their skills. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. Gumroad homepage. Writesonic Library screenshot.

Startup 210

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Make It Work is an extreme customer service company. We really do want to “delight every customer we serve&# ( 30,000+ customer testimonials to prove it ) and this is just one more tactic in our ultimate strategy of providing “Extreme Customer Service.&#. Customer Service Representative. Eric Greenspan.

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Most business advisors I know will say that writing a business plan is the first step to starting your own business, but I believe that a better first step is to do a self-analysis of your real drivers, strengths, and assumptions before committing to this lifestyle. Test a prototype solution before you build a business plan.

Social Media 105

Social Media Writing Ideas Resource 105

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. But, it turns out, there are not any automotive sites specifically geared towards women.

Truecar 204

Truecar Writing Edmunds Sites 204

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Simply, it’s offering a specific product or service to a specific group of people. Think about your product or service. Create social media posts with links to your site that drive search engine scores and increase search traffic. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight.

Marketing 266

Marketing Resource Advertising Social Media 266

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 22, 2013

Some write about relationships and others about sex. Each of these “moms” spend their days researching products and services that may benefit their respective audience. They write how they feel and they influence millions. I declined but I was intrigued just the same. It’s an arduous process but its worth it.

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Help Social Media Sample Writing 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Cost per action (CPA). Popular keywords have higher costs.

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PPC SEO Paid Search Search Engine Optimization 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? We caught up with co-founder Michael Womack to learn more about the service. What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? How did you start the company?

Sites 213

Sites Startup Customer Custom 213

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

I stumbled upon the Question, “ What-is-the-motivation-behind-writing-public-reviews-and-tips-as-on-Amazon-Yelp-Foursquare-StickyBits-etc &# and took the bait. Or let’s face it – writing lots of answers on Quora. Most UGC sites try to spend time converting lurkers to contributors. Don’t.

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Technical Review Writing Content Sites 294

TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

The process for retailers and brands to liquidate excess inventory hasn’t changed very much, if at all, and while some retailers were able to build operational infrastructure to service the off-price channels, it continues to be a constant pain point. She went on to write, “Dee and Josh are the exact right team to tackle it.

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Product Funding Technical Review Equity 191

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

John Singleton: WordHustler is a service that empowers writers to get connected with people who publish or produce their work. Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting?

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Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

If you look at the articles on a site like CNN, and the 650 opinions you see after every article, your eyes just start to go crossed. The owners of a news site or blog can then install our plugins on their site, via all six lines of Javacript. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

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Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2009

Santa Barbara-based startup SendMeHome.com , which provides a free service to help people retrieve their lost items, has launched a new social feature the firm says will help connect people through objects. The new features take advantage of the site's identification labels to tie in text and photos to physical items.

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Santa Barbara Tips Writing Sites 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

We caught up with Will to learn more about the company and how it hopes its service and music can help people improve their concentration. Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. Where is the service now - can people use it?

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Help Startup Sites Research 219

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. They are location aware, which is important in personalizing the service offering. BUT … I’ve talked to a number of eCommerce sites that also report much higher conversion rates than standard web.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

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.

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Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What's the business model behind the site--everything is free? What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Personalize a simple web site. Download free website tools.

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Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. If you want to also accept all the popular credit cards, that will require a merchant services account for a low monthly fee. Start simple.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Those are all categories we know well.

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

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Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Professional user-friendly site design. People buy from people.

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Search Engine Optimization Entrepreneur Sites Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur News Sites RSS 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Put yourself on the site. Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Professional user-friendly site design. People buy from people.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. To learn more, we caught up with Steve.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. If you want to also accept all the popular credit cards, that will require a merchant services account for a low monthly fee. Start simple.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. They are free to write about neighborhood events, charities, schools, and local causes.

Startup 94

Startup News Sites RSS 94

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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Really!). LendingClub.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2012

Twitter , the 140 character social site is popular with a whopping worldwide estimated user base of around 140 million active monthly users with 400 million tweets daily according to CEO Dick Costolo, but two new startups launched late last month to seek and battle out Twitter at its own game.

Sites 73

Sites Social Network Writing Google 73

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica. We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? We were writing lots of books, and we'd also started the video publishing business. At the time, I got Lynda.com.

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Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday.Search engines have the potential to drive millions of visitors to a given site.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.To

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Web Social Media Content Sites 61