Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Everyone is talking about how social media can help you jumpstart your business at no cost, and experts are springing up on all sides to help you do it at a high cost. Before you start, analyze existing media, demographics, and new social media alternatives for a fit to your rollout campaign requirements.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. That’s where the money is.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. Together these social signals indicate content that is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

Unfortunately, in my role as business advisor , I don’t see the same response to more common weak signals , like the move to phone texting instead of voice, or politics invading social media. Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. In addition to total sales, you need to look at categories and trends at lower levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For example, I’m not sure the world needs one more social media niche site, or another dating site, or yet another flavored drink alternative. Then you need to set goals and metrics to use as the benchmark for your own results and expectations. Use your passion to get there, not to set the goals.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. You could just outspend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Some chaos is normal in every new business, but many wait far too long before they install metrics based on “best practices,” and fail to attack obvious bottlenecks with a vengeance. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It’s the only site aside from Google I go to every single day so that I don’t miss out on an incredible offer. Noah has what I believe he called “Thank You metrics”. NOT because the founder of the company has an established credibility working for both Facebook and MINT when those companies were in infancy.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

He is a marketing professional with over 8 years of extensive online and social media marketing experience. Patrick is the man behind all the marketing aspects of what could be called one of the funniest sites on the web. How do you market the Funniest site on the internet? What’s been your biggest success?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Media Marketing Startup Framework 101

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? However, the way I would put it is that many, if not most, experiences--both online and offline--are more engaging when they can be shared socially.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

Generalized email blasts and social media ads may be great for finding interest in your services, but these are not enough to close and maintain new clients. Just like consumers give top priority to peer feedback and experiences on social media or Yelp, you need to incent your clients to tell others about you and become your advocate.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. Where are things in terms of social media and advertisers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Most ecommerce sites highlight this feature. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals. Select a single dimension to measure momentum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

The power and influence of paid media advertising, including print ads, TV commercials, radio, and even online digital campaigns is waning, in favor of unpaid earned and owned messaging from your website, social media, key market influencers, and existing customer word-of-mouth. Earned media. Owned media.

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Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

With the advent of instant communication and social media, customer service starts at the first hint of interest by you, and never ends for repeat customers. One bad customer experience will kill not only one customer, but many future ones, who hear the message via social media and friends. The world has changed.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2012

Social Media brings that to the forefront again because we’re [again] interested in the one to one interaction which was so terribly important back in the 80′s when companies were trying to optimize service.” In terms of UX, Reiss says that right now everyone is focused on social media.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Recipe Suggestions for Culinary Sites For culinary platforms or recipe websites, user searches can be incredibly varied, given the diverse range of ingredients and dietary preferences. This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. Where are things in terms of social media and advertisers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We started out as a social media app developer in 2010, which gave us an opportunity to figure out how a powerful and rich data set would allow us to mine the interests and consumer behavior out of mobile signals. We also work with companies doing measurement of marketing campaigns and store visits.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2010

According to its web site, Concern helps those with the most extreme cases of poverty. You can checkout all the excitement through our photo stream here: The local event, dubbed #LATwestival, was hosted by Shira Lazar and featured alternative band, Metric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

Use social media in concert with a web site and offline media. entrepreneur startup metrics marketing sales business' The planning is done, and now it’s time to execute. Make your startup valuable and visible, with great content that can not be missed by online search, influencers, and offline events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

For example, I used to regularly hear pitches for the next great social media site, usually focused on a special interest or niche , such as photography, cooking, healthy living, or a thousand others. Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

These metrics-application rely on our need to know our “value” and will only continue to perpetuate the dilution of online engagement. The inverted logic loop of Klout works like this, “If you use a social network and connect to the right people, and they reshare what you share, and so on, we’ll give you a biscuit.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools.

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