David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. The real goal is growth; no one else hires. • Audience questions: Q: When is a startup no longer a startup? We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. He basically outsources everything. Branding/Copy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. I just wanted to be there for your audience. And then secondly was the text.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

I was just going to get hired somewhere. Your resume looks a little odd when you’ve been in church work for like 12 years, so nobody hired me, and I thought, “Oh, I guess I need to start my own business again.” So it really depends on your audience, right? This is going to be a great adventure.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

TxtWire is another simple service that is very small business friendly Instant polling If you’ve ever attended a workshop or seminar that features polling hardware you know how cool it can be for a presenter to ask a question and then have the audience click their handheld controller to vote or make a choice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2011

When I realized that in order to build the business I wanted to build I would to have to get up in front of audiences and speak, I just started to do it. Your ego has way of helping sometimes because I probably didn’t think some of my first works were as bad as they really were.) I had never done it before and I was very bad at it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

Of course, the flip side is true as well–audiences have become pleasantly surprised when they actually get value from time spent reading or viewing. I think this creates an atmosphere where content producers can simply slap something together with little value because, “What are they going to do, ask for a refund?”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

I’ll often ask audiences I speak with to raise their hands if they provide good service. Some businesses actually have a core differentiator or they think they do, but it’s either undetectable or based on the same thing claimed by everyone in the industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2011

But, by using a systematic approach to listening and focusing that approach on the highest payoff audiences, you can now engage those you are following and know that your time is well spent. The payoff Of course listening is simply the starting point.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. ” A cautious person wouldn’t stand on stage and tell a large audience she is going to change the world while secretly wondering when the f**k her team is going to work out the bugs in the product so you can actually launch. Call me when you’re ready to leave.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

You have to make sure your audience knows your website is there and that it can help them. Find your audience, serve them well. I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 3 The web is not a venue where, “if you build it, they will come.&# That’s it! There’s no big mystery here.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Facebook ads, Gmail, Discovery, search) and monitor your audience targeting in third-party serving environments (e.g., Any business can hire a botnet or, in some cases, even genuine people to maliciously click ads. Google Display Network).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Your next step might be to offer to guest post for them, which provides them with vital content and provides you with exposure to their audience. Share their content and provide meaningful comments on their blog posts. Don’t view those who create content on the same topic as competitors.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 18, 2013

It’s a way to have an audience or mailing list even before you decide to work on your new startup. In Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement speech in June 2005, he coined this about intuition that should drive you forward: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

I started my first couple episodes were with authors who were way more established than me, but I, I knew I could give them something a little bit of an audience and, but I really wanted to talk to them. I would've hired that person on the spot. Do you find that the audience also learns from those? Talking to people.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. She started HuffPo in 2005 when it was relatively unknown. Many criticized her for hiring unpaid bloggers and developing editorial content.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

I hired Kara as my legal intern in 2005 while I was working at a small firm doing workers comp and personal injury law. We started as a small consulting practice, focused on the hiring process and recruiting for our corporate clients. 22-Hired a trademark coach. 1- Our names. Photo Credit: Heather James and Kara Cook.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Every presentation I do is customized for the audience in the room. " I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Hire smart people. Hire smart consultants. and meet many many many executives and hear about their digital marketing strategies, challenges and outcomes. The 10/90 rule.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I would contact retailers of this card game and say, “I’ve got an audience of Magic players. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers. What you can do with a blog that’s got a little bit of traction and a little bit of traffic is hire a team of volunteers.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

People become frustrated (you hire smart people, they run off to build you the Taj Mahal, meanwhile you don't have a functioning toilet). Owning audiences, instead of just renting them. Or Ford (it is amazing that in 2013, for such an expensive product, it looks so… 2005). Business results suffer. Beat Beneful.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

By 2005, it became clear that more people were reading GigaOm than they were reading my then employer, Business 2.0. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. I smiled to myself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. The first hire The first hire was critical. Hiring him was a no brainer, and he didn't disappoint. Our target audience just exploded in size. Better yet, he plays drums.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

You’ll also likely be hiring local staff for your new office. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Why should my audience care?” Understand a Journalist’s Coverage Area & Audience. When you want a particular person to cover your story, customize your pitch to be relevant to his coverage area and audience. Look for people writing about hiring, about real estate about small business in general.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

Whether you’ll be name-brainstorming yourself or have hired a branding firm, here are a few tips to help you pick the right name for your new business. The best way to avoid creating an embarrassing or damaging brand situation is to test your name on your target audiences; they may see something you missed. Jobs by Simply Hired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

First, understand your audience. In 2005, we launched all three products — in the order of listings, subscriptions, then ads — eventually discovering two surprising insights: The principal market for our listings and subscriptions products became the recruiting space, instead of business development and networking.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

On your first point about checkins… We heard a lot about checkin fatigue this year, and its true, once the novelty passed a lot of folks just stopped, and the mainstream audience never really started. Jobs by Simply Hired. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down. Although I had worked for many years before, had a degree and now a post-graduate certificate no one was hiring me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Use websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to build a community around your audience. Every single customer or client has the potential of becoming a champion or a critic. And, you have the power to sway them. Your website is a crucial piece of the web marketing puzzle. But, it is just the start! 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She believes that before building relationships with our audiences to achieve their goals, we have to connect with them first. She was one of the founding members of the Athena Network in 2005 where she also served as its Operations Director and supported over 30 Regional Directors. Lilach Bullock. Website: lilachbullock.com.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Ask yourself: what’s the one thing that would be insanely useful to your audience, and that you could even charge money for (but won’t)? Being ultra-specific is the best way to capture a specific audience (e.g. Specific to the target audience. How to build an attractive lead magnet. Turning leads into customers.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Today, Goldstar works directly with 4,000 venue partners to connect them with their huge and growing audience. Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. “We purposefully didn’t want anyone else’s money because we didn’t want their advice” said Graff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2019

That’s the idea is to repurpose it, so that you turn it into something that has a slightly different format, and it’s going to appeal to a different audience that way. I work with a lot of content producers, and a lot of times people will hire a marketing person say at a technical company and tell them, “Go produce content.”

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ConversionXL

JULY 13, 2016

Depends on your audience of course – I’m sure the strategy is more effective in the alcohol industry than in SaaS. In 2005, basically all of their numbers jumped impressively. As Craig Sullivan said , “hire the humble one.” Al Ries talks about this version of the Halo Effect in relation to the iPod.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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