Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Search engines and people love blogs these days. All highlight you. You are the company you keep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

You must also think in terms of your content as a tool that moves prospects from awareness to conversion and in this effort there are at least five types of content that you must address. Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Your choice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Search engines and people love blogs these days. All highlight you. You are the company you keep.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Twitter as Curated RSS – So what then is novel about Twitter? Twitter curates even wider.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 27, 2019

However, Boris’s recent post on what exactly is a managed marketplace , as well as some recent conversations with entrepreneurs, have made me reflect on what might be possible. In particular, I’ve been thinking about three key elements: Aggregate and curate supply. Could a managed marketplace model work for healthcare?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Search engines and people love blogs these days. All highlight you. You are the company you keep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2012

You’ve heard enough about the need to produce content that I’m guessing you’re probably blogging away and curating, aggregating and filtering all manner of content. 5 Ways to Get Your Customers to Create Content For You This content from: Duct Tape Marketing.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Find supply aggregators  Lets say you need a whole bunch of freelance developers. But youll get damn good conversion rates if you say, Hey supplier, good news.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As marketers, we create and curate engaging content, broadcast it to all the right channels and measure how it performs. The Uberflip platform starts with aggregating all the content you create and curate. But marketers today still struggle with tapping into the potential that exists in content marketing.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

For investment advice, you’ll find no better place to have a conversation with someone in real time. News Aggregation CryptoYum is unique in that the news and media sources are entirely community-curated. CryptoMiso ?—?Blockchain a necessity ! CryptoYum ?—?News

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

Which means that most of the people who actually do have the most interesting and useful experience to add to the public conversation aren’t doing so. Your whole “personal brand” could be just you curating the best thinking you can find on a particular topic as you seek to become the expert on that topic.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

They’re a carefully-curated clothing aggregator, with an emphasis on creating customized shopping experiences. Saturday Startup Spotlight: Swayy was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 15, 2016

As you’d imagine, these conversations continuously inform our thesis on healthcare… yet, since investing in Figure 1 in August 2013, we haven’t pulled the trigger on a second investment in this space. I’m not sure, but we’ve met with founders working to break down the silos of data through the aggregation of EMRs and medical devices (i.e.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Long story short: Server Density is a UK company and there are conversion issues from GBP to USD and back again. I keep a list of my best work curated. This is pretty much the way that normal distributions show up in nature — through aggregation. I suggest this curated collection of the best work from this blog.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

However, given the overwhelming number of conversations coming in from all directions all at once, it’s often impossible to focus a lens on the ones that are most relevant for a given time, place, audience and outcome. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Indeed, historically, Twitter traffic has had one of the lowest conversion rates compared to other social media giants. Yet Twitter can be a reliable source of both clicks and conversions. I still use hashtags for tweeting my articles but keep conversion-oriented tweets (i.e., How to earn clicks and conversions on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links. They know that a call will lead to a higher conversion rate and a better chance to cross-sell products leading to higher average order values. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Entire books have been dedicated to the specific topic, many tools and services have cropped up to support the need to create content and, generally speaking, most marketers have come to accept and expect content production as a necessary tool to drive awareness, interest and conversion. The Active Nature of Content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

A Total Content System TM approach allows you to plan, delegate, curate, create, collaborate, repurpose and generally get far more out of every piece of content you produce. Curate a Scoop.it Below is a refresher of my approach to developing and implementing a content plan with your overall business objectives and strategy in mind.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2013

A Total Content System TM approach allows you to plan, delegate, curate, create, collaborate, repurpose and generally get far more out of every piece of content you produce. March – Sales and Lead Conversion. Nov – Analytics and Conversion. Curate a Scoop.it My editorial themes for 2013: January – Referral Marketing.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. Here’s a “conversion” I’d like to get out of everyone in our space: I want you to start A/B testing, because it will make you a substantial amount of money. Conversion Rates: Up.

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entrepreMusings

JANUARY 30, 2011

The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place. The value is in how to aggregate, curate, display relevant content, create participation around the conversation, and analyze how it drives real business metrics. Is there real value in that data?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2011

Today’s salesperson must provide context and meaning, must aggregate and filter and must become a resource of insight for today’s information overloaded buyer. With that piece in place, today’s salesperson can offer proof as part of the trust-building, lead-conversion process.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

A lot of that functionality can be tied back to moving people through the marketing hourglass, so you can see the stages that I have here; awareness, trust, education, engagement, ultimately conversion – and these are different forms of content. And then you can start saying, “Okay, what tools would allow me to do that?”

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 10, 2011

You don't necessarily need an MBA, but if you can't have a intelligent business analysis conversation you won't be effective. Here is the only way to succeed at web analytics: Identify the business macro and micro conversions. Torture everyone to identify economic value of non-revenue micro conversions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

How do you get — you know and a lot of times that part-time person doesn’t you know they don’t have sales conversations or engineering conversations and so it’s very difficult for them to even produce the content. And you can start to put that in Excel or whatever and aggregate the most popular responses.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They create, curate, and share content on a regular basis, and, most important of all, are usually very receptive to guest contributions or sponsorship—providing an opportunity to get your business in front of thousands of extremely relevant eyeballs. Conversion rates will drop through the floor. Conclusion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s very much a partnership where we give you the opportunity to not only curate what words we’re looking for, but then enhance the content with that magical human touch, that only you and I, and the rest of the humans have, John. Chernis: We have a 50% conversion from trial to sale. Chernis: Yes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

Over the years my email newsletter has become more of a place to filter, aggregate and share other people’s content in snack sized versions. There’s more anticipation and surprise and, as a result, more attention and conversation is produced. This way, my readers look forward to what’s coming next. Michael Port.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

Because you can connect to multiple sources in a single report, you don’t need to prepare or curate your data sources before connecting. Following the inverted pyramid guidelines, you can show high-level, aggregate performance with one chart, and break out performance with another. Here’s a chart showing revenue and spend year to date.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

These are effective tools to use, for example, if you notice that people are liking the post but for some reason not clicking through to the link – then you can determine what you need to do to achieve that conversion! It trolls the web and targets each conversation that is talking about the monitor you set up.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

I’ve curated sixteen extremely diverse visualization examples to do that. For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue? I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I find Axios to be a much better aggregator for what I want to know (politics, news, tech) than Facebook is. It’s curated, which post Russia turns out to actually be quite a good thing. My routine has changed a great deal. I don’t get sucked into meaningless videos or news stories. I then check Washington Post and NY Times.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. The Man on the Boon store is a curated store where the founder only stocks stuff he would buy or own.

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