A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The term VA has grown to describe any remote contract worker, including people who help with audio editing, video editing, bookkeeping, webmaster tasks, link building, and so on. Customers make it necessary to put processes in place for marketing, sales, support, and back-end admin tasks. Why Should My Startup Use a Virtual Assistant?

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Episode 2: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Introduced a month ago as an event in Austin, this time we moved this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it makes sense to give away a product to consumers as a sales path to a paid professional/enterprise product. Why listen?

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Smart Bear Live 4: Nick from PinfoB.com at AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Audio attached here, downloadable on iTunes or below, and transcript below. They want the data in their mailer or sales force or something. We’re back in gear with the podcast! We’ll be more regular now. Here’s the deets if you’re unfamiliar with how this works. Why is it that you want that feature?

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you are passionate about business, good at writing, decent at scheduling, can learn to edit audio, and want to help Jason share more interviews, then contact me to see if you could be the next producer of Smart Bear Live. And I really believe I can do, on the sales part, so much more if I have additional people. Edwin: Yes.

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Uncommon Interview: Finding Fulfillment with Good Company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can listen to this audio interview by subscribing on iTunes , subscribing to my usual RSS feed in your podcast-listening-system-of-choice, or just download the mp3. But on the other hand, I sort of feel like, yeah, it might turn out a year later that that sale ended up eating up too much time. So let’s address it right now.

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