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5 Social Media Trends To Watch In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Rachel Strella, founder of Strella Social Media. Hopefully somewhere near the top of their priorities list is finding ways to leverage their social media channels more effectively. Gone are the days when companies can treat social media as an afterthought or a supplemental marketing channel.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice.

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How to Use Social Media to Find the Perfect Employee for Your Business

Up and Running

For small businesses, it’s leveraging a tool that you use to market your products, promote Small Business Saturday sales, or to show off your new location—social media. The following steps will outline how you can best use social media—in particular, Facebook and Instagram—to hire for your small business. Step 1: Know yourself.

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8 Reasons Why Startups Should Focus on Digital Strategies in 2017

Brandanew

Surprisingly, even though the internet is in its full swing (as are companies giving birth online each day), it seems that not many organizations have a plan. This is especially true if your brand has got a standing for a while but no internet existence, in other words, if you’re a brick-and-mortar business transitioning online.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) That’s what he knows best.

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Why Foxtel is Doomed

Start Up Blog

The world is moving quickly from a pay to play – subscription model, to a ‘free and on demand’ model. I think it is currently the worst media strategy in Australia by any company. Yes it still exists, but it’s days are numbered. The fact that Foxtel has access 35% of homes is irrelevant.

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How to Build & Execute a Facebook Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

When it comes to reach, no other social media platform comes close to Facebook. More than half of all active internet users worldwide use it, and two-thirds of users say they visit business pages at least once a week. We’ll look at how to thrive with organic content and how to extend your reach with pay-to-play.

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