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Avoid startup failure – Don’t make these 7 mistakes

The Next Web

You wouldn’t want to market this item to people in Alaska, would you? Instead, you should focus on one area and potentially a common theme within your chosen target audience. Finding your niche will make marketing cheaper, more effective, and easier. Say you create a golfing product. This will streamline your marketing strategy.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from. Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

I took my Macbook Pro (an older model from about 18 months ago) up to Alaska, left my Lenovo x300 in Boulder, and went native Mac. 7 angel investing tips in 7 minutes - Venture Hacks , August 3, 2010 Last week, Naval and a slew of angel investors shared their investing advice with an audience of angels-in-training at AngelConf 2010.

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The Power Of Mattering

Duct Tape Marketing

03:48): And what I found was that the anxieties and, and fears I was feeling were also being felt in Alaska, in Maine, in Washington state, in Jackson, Wyoming, in Cleveland, Ohio, in Florida, in Texas. We were hoping to get a sample size of a thousand, but within a few days, uh, 6,500 parents had filled it out. (03:48): It was everywhere.

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Does Your Business Have a TV Show?

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s called a video podcast, and for the business owner who has the time and resources to devote to creating one, it’s a very effective way of delivering educational content to your target audience and establishing yourself as an authority in your niche. What’s a Podcast? Why should I have a podcast also?”

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Audience Development. Digital audience developers and executives discuss their favorites. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Circulation/Audience Development.

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Webinar Recap: Create a Business with Your Art (Q&A with Ann Rea)

Up and Running

” Our audience members submitted so many great questions that had to do with how to turn a creative passion into a profitable business. Last week, I had the privilege of hosting a one-hour Q&A session with Ann Rea, a successful artist and entrepreneur who is devoted to destroying the myth of the “starving artist.”