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7 Keys to Positive Results Utilizing Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Apocalypse , near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode on Apple Podcasts. The second level?—?they’re

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Social Commerce: What It Is, What It Isn’t and Why You Should Care

ConversionXL

Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” Yep, it’s relatively easy to promote your site (where followers and friends can make a purchase) on social media. Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog.

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What I Learned from Starting a Travel Company

Up and Running

Tara Cappel is the founder of For the Love of Travel, a startup boutique travel company that offers unique, curated group trips for young adults and young professionals. A photo posted by Bplans (@teambplans) on Jan 19, 2016 at 12:15pm PST. A photo posted by Bplans (@teambplans) on Jan 19, 2016 at 12:15pm PST. Do your research.

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Entrepreneur Behind One of the Most Successful Podcast

Hearpreneur

Not only do podcasts create the best impressions (user experience) but podcast listeners are proven to take action more than any other media audience. I spent nearly 20 years working in senior management at a large media company (Fox), and for about half of that time, I was a “wantrepreneur” – without even knowing there was a name for it.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Recode Media with Peter Kafka by Recode on Apple Podcasts. The second level?—?they’re

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