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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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The company addresses a widely-experienced pain: employers are now using social networks for background check on issues such as comments about prior employers, substance-usage, and general image issues that may come across as red-flags to a prospective employer. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. We did a cobranded social chat event on Tuesday that gave us an opportunity to actually test ride the Stanzr product. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discussed guerilla p.r., Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

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Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies.

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Social Commerce: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why You Should Care

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Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” Yep, it’s relatively easy to promote your site (where followers and friends can make a purchase) on social media. What Is Social Commerce? ” [Tweet It!].

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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E-Media Summit -->. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. 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.