article thumbnail

Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. They also identify clearly the five key social media mistakes that I often see, along the following lines: Diving in without a strategic plan. Not having a social media policy.

article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #122 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups Should Curate Content – [link]. Did Facebook Just Kill Earned Media? 14 Best Web Design Trends of 2012 – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Eight Tips to Help Small Businesses Get Serious About Reaching Connected Consumers

YoungUpstarts

To drive home the point, Nielsen’s 2012 social media report reveals that: • Forty-seven percent of social media users engage in social care (i.e., At least once a month, 65 percent of social media users use social media to learn more about brands, products, and/or services.

article thumbnail

10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This is my recap of what stood out to me this year and what I’m looking forward to in 2012 — we are only in the beginning of many revolutions. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

article thumbnail

Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Why Twitter is A Media Company. March 18, 2012. CEO Dick Costolo famously said that Twitter is not a media company about six weeks ago at the AllThingsD conference. To be fair, Costolo said that Twitter isn’t a media company but is “in the media business” To some that may be a distinction without a difference.

Media 113
article thumbnail

San Diego Startup Spotlight: Breadcrumbs

Business Plan Blog

Breadcrumbs was conceived in June 2012 at Startup Weekend in San Diego as a self-tracking mobile application. Owners were unable to curate these daily alerts on a regular basis. The problem with how search engines handle local search is that they get you to a business’ doorstep – their Yelp reviews, social media pages, and website.

article thumbnail

How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012.