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Startups: A Verbal Wave at Social Media Means Diddly

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If you don’t understand the broader implications of social media, content marketing, curation, engagement, and relationships, then you desperately need a great reason why not. Don’t think for a second that a verbal wave at “social media” means anything anymore. Startups: Investors expect new marketing. You have to really know it. .

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Customer Engagement Is Key To Branding Yourself

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They are overloaded by the media with amazing advertising messages, and people now realize that you can’t believe anything you see in pictures, and even videos can be edited to deliver any message. In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools.

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What are the advantages of stationing your startup in New York City opposed to Silicon Valley / SF?

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Access to many, many more world market centers (advertising, finance, fashion, media, food, etc.). The world’s fastest growing tech startup ecosystem. A much more tightly knit startup community, compared to the larger but more diffuse West Coast community.

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Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

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Here are seven ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. These days, new technologies and social trends are fanned from an ember into a flame by the media and word-of-mouth. This takes time, and is more valuable than any advertising you can buy.

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