ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Your brand values should permeate through your entire business and marketing strategy , from external interactions (including social media content) to internal culture (more on that in a bit). In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. The solution: build a brand.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2010

A fantastic article in Fortune Magazine this month - " The Temptation of Facebook ," talks about the early days of the social media giant. Of most interest is the story of Mr. Peter Thiel investing $500,000 into the company in 2004, at an effective valuation of $4.9 Run With the Right Crowd. Scalability is Next to Godliness.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2010

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend.” Maybe that’s why so many people are hurt or defrauded every day by someone they assumed was their “friend” on the Internet. Top Facebook users proudly proclaim their “whale” status, with 5,000 friends or more.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2011

The Internet and social media have totally destroyed the meaning of the word “friend” and even changed it from a noun to a verb. Maybe that’s why so many people are hurt or defrauded every day by someone they assumed was their “friend” on the Internet. So how many friends are enough for people?

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) I have been a Dell customer since 2004. So, I learned—quite by accident—that you can attract big companies to you by using social media.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 29, 2012

My father was a large influence initially on the drive that I have for doing design work, and today I keep my eye open via the internet and print media for new ideas to work off of and make each project my own with my personal sense of artistic interpretation. Who/what are some of the biggest influences on your design work?

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) I have been a Dell customer since 2004. So, I learned—quite by accident—that you can attract big companies to you by using social media.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

Simply leave a comment below or get in touch on any of our social media accounts – Twitter , Google+ and Facebook. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. He told Alexis that they needed to build the front page of the internet. Also, how safe is it to pitch my business idea to an investor?

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

The internet has created an unprecedented opportunity for solo technologists known as micropreneurs to conceptualize, create, and launch products that make a difference. Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 7, 2011

In my Online Marketing coaching program I strive to give the very best business knowledge to Internet Marketers, so that they can grow their businesses. My advice is sometimes seen as somewhat radical within Internet Marketing circles and thus I know it is currently not for everyone.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 8, 2018

Our name comes from our Lead Artist, who has had internet fame since 2004 online as @Gapingvoid. While other consulting firms are preaching about case studies and best practices (most of which are before the millennial workforce, or even the internet was born), we’re designing for what works in work now, and in the future.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2013

What was plenty fast this time last year feels like molasses now to the very same customers because of changing expectations brought by mobile technology, social media–induced restlessness, the incredible efficiency of vendors like Amazon.com, and other factors. Which is a dangerous, dangerous situation for the companies in question.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. And it carries no inventory. Competitors: Skype.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY. the 1990s.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Jason Falls Jason Falls is a social media strategist, thinker, speaker and educator. Social Media Explorer is also the name of Falls’s consulting company which focuses on strategic counsel for medium and large companies in the realm of social media marketing, digital marketing, online communications and public relations.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Yes, Twitter and Facebook are the darlings of the media for the time being, and it seems no one gives a rip about blogs anymore. It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. 4 John Evans on 10.28.09

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Clients include Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile, Fox Internactive Media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. Brian Clark Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2011

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Chuck Martin, CEO of The Mobile Future Institute and Director of the Center of Media Research at MediaPost Communications Inc and author of The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile. Figure that out and you’ll never be led astray.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2011

This notion seems to be the current view for start ups these days in this put it out there and iterate quickly Internet driven world. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Shifting to the Third Screen Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Minimum viable products are okay until you learn how to create the real winner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

I turned to Doug Hubbard, author of Pulse: The New Science of Harnessing Internet Buzz to Track Threats and Opportunities to talk about this very idea. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Hubbard is the inventor of the powerful Applied Information Economics (AIE) method.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. Be sure to share links to your content in social media. But I don’t have any followers,” you say?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

I had to explain that the Internet is not a company and that email comes from having an email account. Now, I teach lots of people how to do somewhat technical things all day long, but I quickly realized I had to dump all level of what I knew and start with simple metaphors just to get my ideas across. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Useful content optimized with keywords also attracts more search engine traffic and links.

Web 37

Web Social Media Small Business Social Network 37

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

This is the tool I use most often to get lots of info. [link] Alexa Toolbar – Alexa is a service that collects data on people surfing the Internet using the Alexa Toolbar. The key number they produce is called an Alexa Ranking. This is in theory an estimate at the amount of traffic a site receives.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

You can pick a new media format or use your unique style or method and focus on beginners and create something unique that people will buy. Interview With Katie Freiling On The Power Of Social Media Inside this interview, Katie reveals how to easily build your tribe who loves spending money with you, using the latest social media strategies.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Email is arguably one of the greatest things the Internet made possible. Google’s email service is now 10 years old – yes, released in 2004 when everybody thought that it was silly to compete with Yahoo! Entrepreneur Insider LifeHacks Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' and Hotmail. We all know the state of affairs now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2011

The concept is not new and while it is a very powerful one, it’s been a bit tainted by the Internet marketers and coaches that have jumped into the business of putting these together for profit. I’m not suggesting this isn’t something you would pay to be a part of.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Joe Speaks to large and small groups on marketing, publishing, social media, new journalism, personal branding and why he always wears orange. Your content is competing with everyone and everything, even traditional media companies. Look at the great media brands like the Wall Street Journal. Find your chief editor.

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