Berkonomics

MAY 24, 2018

Years ago, when I was CEO of my record manufacturing company in Hollywood, I happened to walk around the plant into the press room just as Bobby, one of the employees’ favorite coworkers, was offering stolen merchandise to his fellow pressmen from a bag he was carrying. A story of a CEO’s snap judgment call.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

eBay told its users this morning that it will be offering up designer brands from independent fashion sellers on its site, which will also feature limited time and "secret" sales. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

eBay told its users this morning that it will be offering up designer brands from independent fashion sellers on its site, which will also feature limited time and "secret" sales. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In what appears to be a major deal with online e-commerce site eBay , Los Angeles-based BeachMint , which is led by Diego Berdakin, is the central focus of eBay's FashionVault flash sales site this week. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the deal to the press, outside of the email to users.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. Email readers, continue here…] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster.

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Southern California Examples Social Network Press 177

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

You need star power of entrepreneurs surrounded by star power angels & VCs who in turn get tons of press from adoring journalists who are insiders amongst this crowd of tech cognoscenti. You can monetize via Google Ad Sales before you have enough revenue to build your own sales team. Sure, you need to start with talent.

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Carson Content Los Angeles Press 291

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster.

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Southern California Social Network Press Guide 228

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

Talented brand sales people? You send them update emails. Whatever amount you’re getting out and talking with prospects, customers, employees, recruits, competitors, press, investors, potential investors … it’s never enough. Are you looking for great engineers? A smart young marketing exec?

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StartUp Beat

MARCH 29, 2018

The press released added that Bessemer Venture Partners partner Bob Goodman will be joining Electric as a partner. The company boasts that it can keep the “email, computers, Wi-Fi and software running smoothly” at any given business. Electric is pioneering IT support for the modern office,” Goodman said.

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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. Nowadays, it is not uncommon for e-commerce sites to accumulate a large number of sales thanks to social media interaction and promotion.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For instance, if the BDC were to bundle your solution with one sold via its VARs, such a partnership might result in incremental VAR sales. Press Releases – You can often find the names of BDC contacts from quotes in the company’s press releases. When they answer, ask for the person mentioned in the press release.

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Company Companies Email Press 124

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most newspapers are written at a third-grade reading level, White House press releases average a fourth-grade reading level and the New York Times is easily digestible by the average fifth grader. Distribution and Sales. As best-selling author Stephen King once said, "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

Because I am cheap and I know that car dealers are incentivized by the manufacturer to hit quarterly and annual sales goals. Thus, the value of a sale at the end of a quarter can be significant, if the sale contributes to obtaining a manufacturer''s incentive. Avoid The End-Of-The-Quarter Trou Drop.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. Sales remained sluggish during this period, but we were not giving up. I immediately called every press outlet to be proactive in telling our story, changed our website to inform our customers and our few remaining staff fielded calls and emails from our customers. It was over.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

You can watch/listen to how John and Kyle turned their email newsletter into an international bestseller in the following 9-minute excerpt from John''s recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. an email) to about 35 people. If you want to be kept informed just send me an email and let me know that you''re in, and that was it.

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. Sales remained sluggish during this period, but we were not giving up. I immediately called every press outlet to be proactive in telling our story, changed our website to inform our customers and our few remaining staff fielded calls and emails from our customers. It was over.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I had requests from friends to put them on an email, or give them a calendar reminder when a band was playing, and one thing led to another, and I started the site. We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The ones who are doing it feverishly are a small niche of people, which really is all of the grocery bloggers today, who figure out what is on sale, what coupons are also available, and stack those coupons on top of those sales. They can mark which ones they want, and press print, if those coupons are available online.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. However Gmail is only private email conversations. We heard form Alex to learn how SocialEngine was bootstrapped to $1.4M

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

What factors led you to consider augmenting your retail channel with direct, online sales? Boutiques are the backbone of our company’s sales and we did not want to negatively impact their business. Muther: I am happy to say that our sales reps and retail boutiques have not been negatively concerned with our site.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. I’ve written about these sales mavericks before. How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? How can I play to my strengths? I close my Twitter tab.

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Venture Capital Conference Ideas Entrepreneur 400

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process). The Outside In organization had a one-way flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

They don’t show up in a calculation that says I spent $7,000 and I got X-thousands inches of press. Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press. Press matters. Just like negative press hurts. They are silent.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. A regular dialog with peers can be more valuable than reading any amount of tech press and in many cases more valuable than even board input. Conviction.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll refine your sales and investor pitch. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc. Entrepreneur: Following is an email describing my idea. You’ll learn a lot more about the sector/industry.

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Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

As you accomplish your milestones, send your target VCs a brief email update (think eye-candy graphics and charts, not dense text). The dynamic of a competitive atmosphere allowed him to sell his cars at their list price while increasing the velocity of the sales process. Ask for money in your initial meeting with a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. o On 1/11/05 his daughter was born at 8AM, at 6 PM email showing first million dollar rev day for the company and 8 PM term sheet from Experian to buy the company – all on the same day! He told them it was now or never.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

Offers now will come in via FAX machine, and if people are interested, you might have 50 people emailing you, which you might stuff into a CRM system somewhere. That's a big contrast to how it is done now, which is by pen and paper, phone, email, and fax. Why hasn't been done before? Mike DeGiorgio: There are a lot of theories.

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Technical Review Startup Mobile Marketing 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties. Gary Bishop: We've been able to make big use of available technology, plus about 30 to 45 percent of our sales are international. How did the company come about, what was the issue you were trying to solve?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. As Brian Solis is fond of saying, “PR stands for public relations, not press release.&# That’s right. The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog. So you have a few posts live and want some readers.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Her fans knew that she was not “for sale.” As usual, the popular press has been quick to decry OWN a failure. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Having It All - Eventually. As Oprah once said, “You CAN have it all.

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Tips Startup Networking Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Get your press coverage. Just a month ago they were all email you! I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting.

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