mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. SOPA Will Take Us Back to the Dark Ages. How to Pick the Right Name for Your Business. There are endless paths to take when brainstorming your new business name. Your business name sets the tone for all that follows. Where its going.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! She has written about culture for Momentum Magazine, business for Resource World Magazine, and a mess of assorted topics for The Huffington Post. How Do I Start?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a brand strategist speaker, founder of Sticky Branding and the author of Brand New Name: A Proven, Step-by-Step Process to Create an Unforgettable Brand Name. You know my brand name is Duct Tape Marketing.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

A lot has been said and written about the Metaverse recently. There will be people, especially from the crypto community, that disagree with us on this one. When we are talking about virtual goods & services, lots of these transactions are driven by gaming platforms that have evolved into virtual, social, and entertainment worlds.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2012

OK, maybe not all of us. For those who’d rather not have pictures of animals flooding our timelines, here’s a tip: introduce pet-owning friends to Aiiooo ( www.aiiooo.com ), a fully-fledged social network for pets. Aiiooo , whose name originates from the Mandarin term for loving animals or “??”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We also wanted users to provide information about twitter and LinkedIn to help personalize the application. Mahalo offers you the choice of sign-up / registration via a host of social networks (powered by JanRain). At the heart of this is two main advantages of having social network sign-up / registration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

Too many of us have piles of business cards scattered around the office and home, as well as additional contacts on your smartphone, iPad, Outlook, LinkedIn, and Facebook. The result is we can’t find key names and phone numbers quickly when we really need them, and the data is outdated for the ones we do find. Shareware.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Luckily, the basic principles for reputation management are the same for both business and personal environments: Actively monitor what people are saying about you.

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ultralightstartups.com

MAY 20, 2013

Name A Startup. Name A Startup. I’m often in the process of naming a startup. Here’s what I found: 1) Qualities of a good name. The following is a list of qualities of a good name for your startup. 2) Name types. Note some names can fit in multiple categories. Ultra Light Startups®.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

I’ve written about these before, but since I see them so often, I thought it might be worth reiterating: “Business plans are for dummies.” The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 upon us, and the recent financial woes, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people and companies watching to hurt them. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Why is everyone so paranoid these days?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m sure that every one of us who has been out in the business world for a few years can look back with perfect hindsight and name a few college courses that we should have taken. People need realistic expectations about how much effort and time it takes to get just about any job. Job Hunting Basics. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

If you are one of the many professionals still trapped between jobs by circumstances outside your control, or are about to dump the loser job you have now, you should be actively defining and starting your own business, in parallel with looking for that ideal job. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

The top 5 retailers in the US made nearly $230 billion dollars in 2018. ( $228.4 Walmart has long been a top name in US retail. Get real about the ways in which your business is failing to meet expectations. Embrace integrity and socially ethical practices. by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. billion to be exact.).

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

The digital era has provided inordinate consumer value through data mobility, entertainment on demand, social connection, digital connectivity, smart devices and ecommerce to name a few. Their aim is to make us fearful we can’t advance society or innovate without them. But, they have become an invasive species.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

At first, we had no idea how users used iOS accessibility features The Dabel app has finally been noticed after being discovered and adopted by members of the blind community. However, when the app was starting to be adopted by these users, as the creators of this platform we didn’t even have a basic idea about how they were using it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It’s great to have a passion about a favorite new toy you invented, but just because you love it doesn’t mean the whole world will love it. The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business. I came on board on Captricity at the beginning of September and I got to learn about a lot of these first hand. by Ian Smith of Captricity. Captricity isn’t endorsing these products in any way, nor am I.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2015

One could use tools like SEMRush, Google Adwords Keyword Planner, and the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) to monitor what competitors are doing and what customers are searching for. Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2015

You’ll read about all the different personality clashes and divergent cofounder views on the directions for the company, even as the Twitter grew at an explosive pace that’s forced the company into a multitude of different challenges – technical or otherwise.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 29, 2023

The tech industry is manipulating us to spend much more time connected than we intended, while they are making money by harvesting our data and our time. Gaia compares the tobacco industry and tech companies, and how they use similar strategies and addictive measures to keep their customers engaged. Like this show?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

I’ve written about these before, but since I see them so often, I thought it might be worth reiterating: “Business plans are for dummies.” The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It happens when a customer can name your brand when reminded of what you sell (aided recall) or without that reminder (unaided recall). Brand awareness marketing aims to make your brand the name people think of first and trust above all others. Why should marketers care about brand awareness marketing? and consumption behavior.

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Berkonomics

MAY 30, 2019

Using new tools in a social age. There are several ways to do this effectively, including the use of social networks to create buzz, seeding product acceptance through early adopters or celebrities, or by creating a small niche market that shows unusual acceptance and more.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

But there are also evil people out there who steal identities, hack credit card accounts, track personal information, violate privacy, insert malicious programs that can exploit your company or home network, destroy your hard drives and raid your social network. Here are some of the most important ways to protect yourself: 1.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. This raised the company's name, despite all controversies.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

With each new video, we had pushed the limits further and further, which gained us international attention and eventually led to meeting Ronaldo’s team and getting into business with him to launch a new brand. The focus on promoting brands on the internet was all about going viral, getting as many eyeballs on your content as possible.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The name of the game now is quality content which keeps viewers watching past the golden 1-minute mark. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. The next phase of the web will be about personalization. Niche-Based Social Networks.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

If you are considering including social login in your marketing strategy, take a look at my top nine things every marketer should know about it. There is much more to say about registration processes than I have space for in this article, but you can read more here: Why user registration sucks and how it hurts your business.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. At the same time we have several culturally-driven attitudes holding us back. It was the first foreign loan in US history. Not in my view.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their biggest business failures and here are the inspiring responses. #1- About three years into the business and over six figures in profit later, my company was hit with a trademark lawsuit. Although the products were entirely different they had us pinned. Thanks to Hera Zee. #4-

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

The name of the last part? First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. Facts about your customers don’t come from your friends and families.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk about zoo animals recently. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Google changes its algorithm about 500 times a year. Like Tweet.

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