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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Technical Cofounder 150

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Los Angeles 150

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Incubator 150

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Open Source 150

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

Los Angeles 150

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MARCH 22, 2007

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. Oh and what do you think is happening to the trackability of all your shortened urls in Social Media that you are not tagging with campaign parameters? Untagged campaigns (search, email, display, social media etc). Don't be that person.

Analytics 122

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Third-party cookies are the new Flash. This is enough to differentiate between ads for different products, or between campaigns using different media. Safari and Firefox have already started to wean advertisers from them. Now, reluctantly, Google is, too.

Caching 140

Caching Algorithm Advertising Metadata 140

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Typically, the customer journey includes the following stages : Awareness: the customer becomes aware of your brand or product through social media, advertising, or word-of-mouth. Using SEO best practices is like putting a bright, flashing neon sign on your storefront. Purchase: the customer buys your product. That’s great!

SEO 80

SEO eCommerce Analytics Software Review 80

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

IBM has just announced the acquisition of social recruitment business Kenexa for $1.3bn, the latest of a string of ‘social’ enterprise software businesses to be acquired this year. The first major acquisition of a social business was Salesforce’s acquisition of Radian6 for $326m nearly 18 months ago.

Vertical 94

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

It was 2011 when we started building a platform for social media. By then, Buddy Media had already raised over $90 million, Wildfire announced that they had over 10,000 customers, and companies like Vitrue and Involver were the industry titans. Some potential investors told us we were late to the party. Abby Ross , Blueye Creative.

Social Media 152

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Q lipso, an Israeli startup funded by JVP (see previous VC Cafe post ), has announced the acquisition of the assets of Veoh , a user generated video site, on the virge of its declaration of bankruptcy. Qlipso’s product enables users to simultaneously watch flash-nased contents including video and casual games.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

It was 2011 when we started building a platform for social media. By then, Buddy Media had already raised over $90 million, Wildfire announced that they had over 10,000 customers, and companies like Vitrue and Involver were the industry titans. Some potential investors told us we were late to the party. Abby Ross , Blueye Creative.

Social Media 103

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

And of course our Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. And if you want to feel better about this, just think of how you make decisions about offline media – that is entirely based on faith! See Page Value there? It introduces a fudge factor, a risky variable. I just want you to be aware of it. Possible Future Solutions.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Likewise, over the last 5 years, consumer applications and social media has been all the rage. Adtech: Less speculative, good teams are easier to identify, monetizeable, many acquisitions. Flash Sales, subscriptions, and celebrity endorsements seemed to promise some different rules of engagement for this sector.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use c r m now chats spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals and scale your business faster. You know, where are you today?

Marketing 57

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

IPO 236

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use c r m now chats spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals and scale your business faster. You know, where are you today?

Marketing 44

Marketing Artificial Inteligence Retention Audio 44

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), In an ideal world as you do the above exercise, you'll take into account: 1.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

– Laura Roeder, LKR Social Media. Develop, test, and continually optimize effective direct landing pages that will build your audience, increase sales, and foster awareness in the marketplace and across social media. Nordstrom bought the flash sales site Hautelook for $270 million in 2011. Buyers use lists like the Inc.

PR 103

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. This is the same reason no one uses Adobe’s Flash on leading web sites. Customer acquisition techniques are shifting. No one can afford to risk losing their SEO mojo.

Mobile 96

Mobile SEM SEO Technical Review 96

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. CEO Marco Magnocavallo. They had the goal of launching a web app and an iphone app in 6 months with less than $10k.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Recognizing that this explosion of storage growth cannot be managed by legacy infrastructure, both investors and storage vendors are betting on flash memory as the technology to keep pace with the growing data challenges faced by enterprises.

Flash 99

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Search Contribution: Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! The problem is they over-indexed in acquisition (the first five metrics), only had one outcome metric, and no behavior metric. On the left are all your owned, earned and paid media channels. Do you see that I cover acquisition, behavior and outcomes again? Total Likes!

Metrics 147

Metrics Analytics Channel eCommerce 147

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Landin Gee: Besides compete.com, where else can I access free competitive intelligence (excluding social media tools)? I have personally had a lot of success using Controlled Experimentation techniques, such as, say, Media Mix Modeling, to understand both current available demand and also segment conversion effectiveness.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Transaction terms: $70.0mm (rumored by Peter Kafka, Media Memo, AllThingsD ).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2019

It’s a prime reason that email marketing is the preferred marketing channel for customer acquisition and customer retention ( 80% and 81% , respectively). Rich media is one of email’s greatest advantages, transforming email—once plain-text messages suitable only for interdepartmental communication—into a robust marketing channel.

Email 118

Email Media Audio Software Review 118

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. If your product costs you $15 to make then, in the above scenario, you are shipping a crisp $5 bill along with every Social Media order! Cost Per Acquisition.

Metrics 151

Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151