Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

I now offer the following additional guidelines for how to attract customers and position your product: Find the latest social trend, or even create it. They depend on their favorite social channels and peers on social media to make emotional decisions for them, rather than rely on any kind of “cost-benefit” analysis.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Chances are good you have at least a personal channel – billions of users jump on each month. Her articles have been published by the Hot in Social Media, Yahoo! Thinking Aloud Alicia Lawrence Google page rank search engine social media social network WebpageFX' Who doesn’t have a Gmail account at this point?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events. – to promote their campaigns.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

What channels will you use (e.g., Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Who are the other stakeholders involved?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Find customers, partners and channels early. There is nothing like a real customer pipeline to convince you that you need partners and channels, and to convince partners, channels, and investors that you are real. Use social networking to start the wave. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

Consumers are beginning to trust social media more and more for their buying decisions. If a blogger or friend recommends a product on one of their social channels, you can click a link, view the product and make a purchase within minutes. That’s up from 10 percent in 2013.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2017

With such a strong connection to social media, tech marketers will start to focus their campaigns on social networks more than they do now. Moreover, social networks will evolve in accordance with Gen Z’s preference since they now outnumber Millennials, making them the largest consumer-based focus group.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

. • Over 35,000 applications available on App World (Note: as you know, App World is just one distribution channel where customers can download applications). • Top five categories over the last two years: 1) Games; 2) Utilities; 3) Themes; 4) Entertainment; 5) IM & Social Networking.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites. We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Which can be disastrous if you’re delivering different messages or even a misaligned tone through every channel. Choosing to message through the channels they use most and proactively reaching out. Engage across multiple channels. This is why you need to develop a customer engagement strategy.

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Customer Social Network Channel Technical Review 150

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Due to uSamp ’s network of high-quality and targeted survey respondents, we simply don’t need to charge users for authoring surveys, publishing those surveys to their own websites, social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, or wherever they engage their own audience.” Export and share data in usable formats. .”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Integrate Your Content with Social Media. Using the most-trafficked social networks, you can place snippets of your content on Facebook, tags on Instagram or even turn an article into a video for YouTube. This way, you get more mileage out of a well-written post, and bring in new visitors from other channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many through SEM?

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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.

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Technical Review Software Review Customer Social Media 187

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. Ignore these pioneering risk-takers, and say goodbye to social channels of conversion.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

For example, Customer Acquisition Costs often increase once the more efficient marketing channels are maxed out and the company needs to find new users through less efficient means. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Interestingly, close to half of all festive shoppers (43%) actively search social networks for shopping deals and promotions, while 43% were also likely to redeem offers while browsing social media channels like Facebook and Twitter.

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Singapore Mobile Software Review Asia 182

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

They monetize via high-priced advertisements during the prime-time airing on TV, via syndication to international audiences or less-watched channels after the original series has run and via DVD sales in retail channels. Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Few free growth channels remain, and incumbents often own or clog the major avenues. The flattening of the mobile adoption curve and Apple’s deprecation of its Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) have elevated customer acquisition costs significantly. Gaming founders know this challenge well.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

There’s increasingly an omni-channel approach to purchasing. Social Commerce. More than 2 billion people use social networks(8), such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Omni-Channel Retailing. Customers expect a consistent and high-quality experience across all shopping channels – in-store, in-app or online.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. Similar to Saga , a family-focused audio social network.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Following are some of the latest digital marketing strategies to boost your business: Social media: An audience attraction: This strategy includes interacting and influencing the audience through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok.

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Social Media Technical Review Marketing Social Network 137

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

As the number of users increases, you can provide incentives for these users to share your app on social networks. Social media is now an indispensable factor. Listen carefully and humbly to your users, using social media channels to provide real-time technical support. Go where your users take you.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2016

Keep Up With Social Media. Today, a range of social networks are available both on computers and smartphones. Many consumers use social media channels such as Twitter to interact with companies. This has led many businesses to hire specialized social media experts.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Brandsforce is a plug & play social media marketing platform that generates conversations, engagements and measurable actions on social networks. Our platform extracts the real value from social networks, empowering online businesses to attract, engage and understand users like never before. How do we do this?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. and to see how the cycle of social media and SEO can be incorporated as part of a hub and spoke model of content publishing and promotion.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. Step 2: Choose your sales channels. Direct sales: Selling one-to-one.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The only reason I know loads of new people and brands is because of my subscription to their channels on YouTube. Some brands have channels with content that is rarely updated or it is just a digital repository of their TV commercials. It is a social network (like Facebook). Owned Brand Channel. Not even close.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2012

These websites are great for highlighting new positions, locating candidates, and perhaps most interesting of all, screening candidates based on their social activities. Restaurants, and the food and beverage industry overall, have found great value in social media.

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Social Media Media Small Business Reputation 202

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

Last October, Buffer users across the world saw spam being posted to their social profiles. Their Happiness Heroes got into action in minutes, and posted real time updates on all of their official channels. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. A banner ad.

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Security Engineer PR Framework 174

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Embrace integrity and socially ethical practices.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

The required minimum for any company now is a website and accounts in social networks. Brands looking to take one step closer to their customers can also develop a mobile app/chatbot and use other promotion channels. Such resources allow you to save money, increase profits, and attract new customers.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Crypto projects like BAYC have successfully created a new social network, transportable to any other social platform, yet exclusive with real-life benefits. BAYC is a social network, crypto culture, that can become a game, a commercial brand or something we have not thought of yet. Picture: nftculture.com.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay , is a sales veteran with more than 20 years of experience in direct sales, channel and partner development and business strategy. By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay.

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