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3 Important Facebook Marketing Trends in 2016

Tech Zulu Event

How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. In addition, make use of as much automation as you can in 2016 to reduce manpower costs and put the money towards other more important matters.

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6 Trends Generate Huge Data And Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Data enable: use metrics and measurements. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Marty Zwilling.

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Can Startups Surf The Huge Information Tidal Wave?

Startup Professionals Musings

zettabytes by the year 2016. There is still infinite room for new startup sales modes and models. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths.

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How To Get New Customers By Targeting New Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

It may be small feature extensions, packaging and distribution that can make your solutions attractive and more competitive for new market segments. I’m talking about highly targeted efforts on specific demographics with pre-defined metrics, not the “spray and pray” -- spray your message broadly and hope it sticks somewhere -- approach.

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7 Startup Pitfalls Can Kill Your Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, early social media startup Friendster was so enamored with their early acceptance that they turned down a $30 million offer from Google, then quickly ran into money woes and tough competition. As the business grows, it pays to learn how to use automated financial tools, and review the key financial metrics daily.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Competition. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market. You need a wedge.

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