thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. I believe that many social networks confused this idea.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

Coupled with the rise of SOLOMO – Social, Local and Mobile - companies should tap on these socio-psychological attributes to generate revenue through social commerce. Like and Be Loved : The power of selling through affinity networks where your friends can help their friends by offering valuable products and services; 11.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. And that led to us kind of putting together that, you know, curating that community and, and led to a podcast movement as it is today. It could be, yes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

You’ll find articles on improving local SEO, email marketing, mobile marketing, content creation, networking via social media, and so much more. Duct Tape Marketing has you covered with articles on lead generation, local marketing, SEO and Mobile SEO, overall marketing strategy, small business finances, marketing tools and more.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneur Connect Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine , hosts this online network of entrepreneurs. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor. LinkedIn’s LinkedIn giant network of professionals is another advantage.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. You can target multiple mobile platforms at once with tools like BuildAnApp , or you can look into the geolocation angle with a tool such as Socialight or Shout’Em. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Podcasts are and will continue to be an amazing marketing tool that gives you a way to build a community and gives you a platform to advertise your products and services. It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. You know, people aren't reading magazines anymore.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks. Kanye Wests Epic Hip Hop Opera "Runa. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks. Kanye Wests Epic Hip Hop Opera "Runa. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. Go BIG Network This site helps investors, startups, service providers, and advisors find each other.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.) JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. to make informed travel decisions by providing them with real-time traffic conditions.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Names based on rhymes (TopShop, T-Mobile HotSpot), repetition ( Bebo , Lala ), and alliteration ( Firefox , BlackBerry ) tend to be memorable. 3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. You can also use poetic devices to ensure the names stick. And Good luck!

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

18:34] Could you talk about the need for balance in production value in the case of using really high-quality cameras versus shooting natively with a mobile phone? [20:01] It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Mobiles tell us where we are, and why we are there. Not being listed or ‘located’ via mobile is like not being listed in the white pages. Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 11, 2022

After all, curating content and having a successful marketing strategy is not a walk in the park. Sometimes businesses don’t see the results with paid advertising because they lack the expertise to manage online advertising campaigns. Podcast advertising. Invest in Paid Ads. Try Guest Posting.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Cingo | Customer Service for the Mobile Generation appVuze appVuze is the Customer Support Tool for Mobile Enterprise Apps. To Apply: Please email kobus@cingo.me

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. Experiment to see what works for you, but remember that Facebook is a social network and not everyone is sold on this social commerce concept, yet. Roughly three out of four consumers rely on social networks to guide their purchase decisions according to Gartner, July 2010.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The internet and mobile marginalised Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop and improvements in search took away the need for Yahoo’s portal of curated links. The lesson from those businesses is that developments in technology can quickly undermine a company’s core strength.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising. And Twitter CRO Adam Bain is focused primarily on growing this advertising base. Twitter’s data is valuable primarily for advertising. Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Network fragmentation. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Social curation of products on Pinterest. Not natively mobile. I think the mobile internet will further accelerate the trend of network fragmentation. Advertising effectiveness. I don’t.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 24, 2016

In recent years, it feels like BBC’s media philosophy has influenced US content – examples include Apple Beats 1 Radio being curated by a former BBC DJ talent and 10-13 episode seasons for TV shows (versus the 24+ previously found on US networks). That’s an incredibly powerful indicator of the power of music videos. .

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Versus something like LinkedIn, which is focused on getting people to invite their colleagues and people that they’re meeting through professional networking. Then what ends up happening is you get this density, you get all these network effects, you get increased engagement, etc. I’ll give a quick example: Lunchclub.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 24, 2016

In recent years, it feels like BBC’s media philosophy has influenced US content – examples include Apple Beats 1 Radio being curated by a former BBC DJ talent and 10-13 episode seasons for TV shows (versus the 24+ previously found on US networks). That’s an incredibly powerful indicator of the power of music videos. .

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2011

This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces. Apps inside social networks are providing answers. Apps in content curation tools like Storify are providing relevant context for content.

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www.avc.com

JULY 15, 2012

This post is in reaction to the idea that services should be paid to ensure that they are appropriately focused on the consumer/user as opposed to the marketer/advertiser/sponsor. Let's start with advertising. The users create the service, curate it, and make it what it is. I do not believe it is evil. How well did they do?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

In that time most tools, services and networks have essentially turned RSS into the plumbing that makes everyday things like Facebook and Eventbrite work. With a little work you can turn NetVibes into a a full blown listening station for most of your social networking. Think Facebook). To think otherwise is naïve.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

He is the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, host of unemployable and curator of further. We had started that, and again you’re right, you and I had a conversation because of course you have this network of talented consultants and our friend Michael Port same thing. Brian thanks for joining me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2017

It’s half mobile, half land line. And it helped to legitimize the space, which has made advertisers perk up and want to know more about it, and so more is being spent on content and measurements and now, where we are today. So, we spend a lot on it, to get it right. And public media has led the way, certainly.

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Brandanew

MAY 6, 2016

Customers can quickly compile information about products and services via their mobile devices. Curate and provide content of value to the customer. Tools for content curation and sharing must become a key part of every salesperson’s arsenal. then actively share relevant content on those sites and networks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The category of local search engine optimization has picked up steam over the last few years as search behavior combined with the rapid growth of smart phone use created a truly mobile search consumer. Think about ways to curate local content to share in social media. GeoTarget your social media advertising with local personalization.

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aweissman.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

f**k advertising, commercial psychology. psychological methods to sell should be destroyed." - The Minutemen, S**t From An Old Notebook We have enough data now to realize that display advertising on the Internet doesnt work. Even the word “advertising” in this new golden age is not accurate. Nov 27, 2011.

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