A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 22, 2010

Or Dave McClure releases a silent-but-deadly outside a Menlo Park Starbucks and a social media company gets funded in Boston. I like the idea of subtle yet powerful influences as much as anyone else, and I'm not saying design and attention to detail isn't important or valuable. Take care of the big stuff first.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 11, 2011

You already know that nowadays you’re invisible without some sort of social media presence. Look through the site design templates they have and pick something you like. You already know the (alleged) benefits of having a personal or business blog. But you still don’t blog, and for good reason, right?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But remember you’re deciding between spending hours iterating to a 15% lift, versus spending all your energy, time, emails, social media, creativity, new features, marketing efforts, ads, measurement, trying to get a 2x or 3x change in the Most Important Number, that’s an order of magnitude better. importance of design.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 17, 2017

It’s fine to say social media could be the key to your marketing success, but if you think Twitter is insipid and Facebook is fake and Instagram is not serious, will you really be successful if you force yourself to post things? If you ask yourself, even though these are feelings, the answer will often be clear.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Some examples of a feature being a company's primary advantage are: Apple compromises everything in the name of design. For more, here are detailed examples of how this mindset also sets up your sales pitch. Personal authority.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Chris Brogan, prolific social media how-to author, blogger, and $22,000/day consultant , recently wrote a post describing his "Simple Blogging Formula" in under 1000 words. Pictures or cartoons come last of all, designed to reinforce and enhance the writing rather than define the subject of the content. then I write it]".

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

This probably means capitalizing on the unique experience or abilities of the founding team, choose trade-offs in things like language/framework, algorithms, UX design , and delivery platform that the team is particularly adept in and thus can create quickly and with low risk. Social Media makes group-games viral.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 5, 2010

And focus design on simplicity of sharing. He also is feverish in social media and in the comments section being helpful, answering questions, etc. Has social media and Internet completely changed the game when it comes to connected with people and building a community? Social Media. You betcha.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

’ So a lot of them, there’s one woman that comes to mind, she’s actually a textile designer. If you win you win more than eight hours of free consultation with nine business experts, so everybody from finance to social media to productivity to marketing to pricing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 25, 2010

Design your banner and handouts. You can also bring floor pads designed for people who stand all day, or for a fee most venues can put padding under your booth's carpeting. Yes, even if they took your oh-so-memorable swag or your fabulously-designed brochure. Booths nearer to the center of the room are better than the ends.

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