mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! This never existed a decade ago.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue. Publish a daily blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology.

Startup 230

Startup Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 230

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Add a modest advertising presence. People buy from people. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

Affiliate 221

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 221

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. So if TweetPhoto (bad name, again.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Put a QR code on your office name plate to link to your online calendar for availability and contact information. Connect on social media. Add a QR code to your contact information, and you can make it easy for people to automatically connect with you on social networks. Advertise new classes. Office availability.

Software Review 262

Software Review Technical Review Mobile Video 262

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2013

Poorly chosen text colors that make them difficult to read, third party advertisements, and unnecessary graphics that slow down the site and get in the way of the customer should be avoided. Social media can also be an important and useful part of your marketing campaign, particularly if your business exists only online.

Marketing 153

Marketing Startup Technical Review Viral 153

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Software Review Customer Social Media 187

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2011

With the advent of social networking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, Internet usage has totally morphed, from a serious business medium, to a social and fun medium that still means business. Here are the current big three in social networking for business: Facebook is biggest, moving from social to business.

Social Network 239

Social Network Networking Naming California 239

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

Yongfook, as he is better known in Singapore’s tech entrepreneurship circle (we first wrote about him in 2009 ), is an avid cook and the former director for Japan-based online recipe network Cookpad in charge of its international business. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

Singapore 200

Singapore Aggregator Technical Review Database 200

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

consider (getting out more, or) using current corporate connections and social networks to advertise your discretion and trustworthiness, and get your home-based business off the ground. Create a website and portfolio to spread your name to the masses, but don’t underestimate starting with people that you know.

Small Business 205

Small Business Coder Portfolio Demand 205

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Zappos has found great success by keeping social media responsibilities horizontal and flexible. Zappos assumes everyone in the company is on social media and trusts them to participate in growing the brand. Prioritize social networks. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names.

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Add a modest advertising presence. People buy from people. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

Affiliate 136

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 136

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Often companies think their Rock Star customers are the biggest spenders, or the most loyal customers, or perhaps the marquee names or brands. He describes a hypothetical Rock Star named “Catie” who is a composite of the sorts of customer advocates used by Salesforce.com, SAS Canada, and others. Not necessarily.

Customer 154

Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. I can’t say his name yet because he hasn’t announced funding. These companies advertise. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2012

For those who’d rather not have pictures of animals flooding our timelines, here’s a tip: introduce pet-owning friends to Aiiooo ( www.aiiooo.com ), a fully-fledged social network for pets. Aiiooo , whose name originates from the Mandarin term for loving animals or “??” ” The Aiiooo team.

Social Network 230

Social Network Networking Singapore Advertising 230

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Color-Coordinated Compound Words Web startup names and logos are inextricably linked. It was notably used for Vignelli Associates’ 1967 rebranding of American Airlines, whose two-word name became a one-word logo in red and blue. If it’s well-executed, it’s a powerful statement to make.

Web 111

Web Design Social Media PHP 111

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Create an interactive, regularly updated site or blog , or by build informative yet informal profiles on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. Purchase a membership that allows you to advertise your business and USE IT. Get a Twitter account in your business name. Are you a thought leader? Be visible!

Small Business 167

Small Business Marketing PR Social Media 167

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Color-Coordinated Compound Words Web startup names and logos are inextricably linked. It was notably used for Vignelli Associates’ 1967 rebranding of American Airlines, whose two-word name became a one-word logo in red and blue. If it’s well-executed, it’s a powerful statement to make.

Web 111

Web Design Social Media Software Review 111

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

What Startups Can Learn From Watching “The Social Network” – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? Social media critics keep getting it wrong – [link]. 40 Creative Advertisement for Inspiration – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link].

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The directory of other entrepreneurs, browsable by industry and name, is also helpful for locating someone who might be helpful regarding a specific issue.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Anyone can easily run a search for his or her brand name and see how actively it’s being discussed in social media. Try using a few search Google operators, for example: ["brand name" -intitle:"brand name"] to find in-text brand mentions you are most likely to have missed. Social Media Lists. Social Media.

Social Media 108

Social Media Analytics Media API 108

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 17, 2011

Finding and agreeing upon a worthy name is always a struggle, especially if you have co-founders. There’s a lot of advice on the Internet about naming companies; see this article from OnStartups.com for a particularly good, detailed checklist. Then of course there’s the domain name. If it’s not available, it’s out.

Naming 247

Naming Cofounder Startup Search 247

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency.

Software 106

Software Media Social Media Advertising 106

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

My company’s CEO, Patrick Salyer, explains why multiple online personas make it imperative that companies offer social logins beyond Facebook Connect.). Sure, Facebook will almost always be the dominant player in share-of-logins, but we’ve seen the other players account for up to a combined 60% share of social logins.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2012

We have grown more than a bit weary of most advertising, no matter in what form. How do you reach an audience that pays less attention to advertising then at any time in the past one hundred years? The only named solution will have been yours. Dave’s book: Positioning.

Social Network 84

Social Network Advertising Technical Review Networking 84

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

These codes are query-string parameters assigned to particular inbound advertising campaigns in way specific to each analytics tool. You may want to use tagging to capture information (metadata) about those pages and functions that go well beyond the page name. How Well Is Your Advertising Performing? What to do?

Analytics 113

Analytics Software Review Metadata Campaign 113

ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. Black Friday data. Conclusions.

Social Media 134

Social Media Sales Media Social Network 134

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Some use the display advertising options on YouTube, but are not sure what value those ads deliver (and how to think of them in context of web display ads or even TV). It is a social network (like Facebook). It is a pure advertising platform (like every site on the world). Put the company name on the stadium?

Analytics 151

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 151

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Close Mashable | The Social Media Guide Top Stories My Stories Topics People Activity Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Mashable Follow Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric (..)

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

Sweat Equity 400

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 400

Brandanew

AUGUST 13, 2015

But it is significantly cheaper than getting leads from traditional media marketing, where advertisements are far more expensive. Your Blog takes care of your social content and Email content needs. What new ideas must you bring to each of the always-on twenty social networks and Email campaigns that you run each week?

Small Business 100

Small Business Marketing Software Review B2C 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Roberts talks of social networks as mediums that may very well help your product or name attract VC attention.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Even if this kind of coverage seems tangential, it gets the name of your company in the media and helps to build buzz. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Advertising. Social Good. Social Media. social media marketing. Erica Swallow.

PR 103

PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

Most superstars with Ronaldo’s level of fame wouldn’t dare such a stunt, but Ronaldo’s manager, a brilliant guy named Ricardo, understands what it takes to make his friend and client stand out from the crowd of celebrities. She then returned to her normal, everyday life, and now people would be hard-pressed to remember her name.

Viral 127

Viral Video Spain Internet 127