View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. This is a recap of the more insightful tweets and comments from the event. We had a plan.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” They mix it up with advertising.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Regardless of whether you’re seeking sponsorship for a product, event, book, or podcast, the overarching aim of attracting corporate sponsors remains the same: you need sponsors that engage your audience. Or you might create an event or course related to your product that sponsors can attach their names to. What do they dislike?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

There’s a formula in advertising where cool companies have animals and colors, or some particularly majestic phrase that represents opportunity and creativity. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #3- 3- My name and the work we do.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Below is an adapted excerpt from “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed” by Jennefer Witter. Set goals for networking events. Only one person per industry is allowed in each group, so if you’re in advertising, then you’ll be the only person in advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 21, 2016

There’s no shortage of PR agencies out there and as a young business, we understand how important it is to differentiate ourselves. Thanks to Mark Lee, Hokku PR. #2 Powerful word of mouth advertising at a very minimal cost. We are projected to hit $1m in gross revenue this year. 3 – Upside Down Advertising.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketing initiatives include campaigns, content, PR, and interactions with your target audience or customer. You might update your marketing strategy in response to campaign performance, customer needs, external trends and events, budgets, and even competitors’ tactics. The marketing strategy is continuously in flux.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

Coupled with the rise of SOLOMO – Social, Local and Mobile - companies should tap on these socio-psychological attributes to generate revenue through social commerce. The Experiential Imperative : Leverage social media to create vivid online (and offline) experience rich retail events that generate talk and buzz; 4.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. Image source ).

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Look to your close circle and incentivize them to help you look busy by either physically milling about or—if the event is virtual—commenting. Implement your paid advertising strategy early on. If you have plans for a paid advertising strategy, Anshey Bhatia of Verbal+Visual recommends you start strong—and soon. “If

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 3- Triple our revenue and grow our base. We have two key goals for 2018: To grow our user base to more than 1 million and triple our revenue. 1- Efficiency.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 9, 2021

Outsource PR Matters . Keeping track of all PR matters can be quite a time consuming affair, when you have many other jobs that you need to take off as well. Learn more from Treble’s founder Jeff Beckham about utilising PR metrics to fully understand how the business can adapt and grow. Attend Networking Events.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. It’s painful to watch web-based media initiatives use traditional marketing techniques such as interruption advertisements or ‘all about us’ marketing communications.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. For instance, you can advertise on specific subreddits, which are sometimes incredibly cohesive tribes: If you can make the math work on paid advertising, it’s in infinitely scalable channel.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

It’s a dating website that is free for users and makes money from advertising. But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. Advertising. PR/Marketing. Start a blog. … [.]

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Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2018

At the time, Digiday was mostly an events-focused company. The idea was to build a publishing-focused brand with events as a revenue base while we figured out our own differentiation in a crowded market — and then added business lines around advertising, custom content and now subscriptions. That’s a red flag.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2016

6 Ways to Revamp Your PR Budget written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In marketing-speak, PR stands for public relations , which is defined as “a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics” by the PRSA (Public Relations Society of America).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Specifically, here is what we’re planning to work on: Quadruple our gross revenue and total cases/consultations. Add an income stream (new area of practice) that will be diversifying our business’ revenue. Then COVID hit which allowed me to speed up the process of offering event consulting. Photo Credit: Mark Lizada.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advertising. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2020

Branding, Marketing, and PR. Thankfully, you’ll be driving a mobile billboard, so you can leverage that to your advantage and use that for marketing and advertising. You’ll also need to consider insurance, licensing from the city and county, as well as fuel and commissions to event hosts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Specifically, here is what we’re planning to work on: Quadruple our gross revenue and total cases/consultations. Add an income stream (new area of practice) that will be diversifying our business’ revenue. Then COVID hit which allowed me to speed up the process of offering event consulting. Photo Credit: Mark Lizada.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, it still heavily relies on print advertising (bridal magazines) and brides were limited to only shopping in brick and mortar stores to find their wedding attire. I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The act of selling generates revenue when a product is sold. Direct Mail Email and Print Newsletter Marketing Event Marketing Networking Partnerships Press Releases/PR Print Ads Radio Ads Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Social Media Marketing Telemarketing TV Ads 3. There is a big difference between marketing and sales.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

For example, you can reach customers through each of the following marketing channels among others: Direct Mail Email Event Marketing Networking Partnerships Press Releases/PR Print Ads Radio Ads TV Ads Search Engine Optimization Pay Per Click Advertising Social Media Marketing (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. In our world, the size (and growth rate) of the market on both sides (advertisers and optimizers) is in the end the competitive advantage.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

He also told us about a new advertising model they were using called “ Adwords ”, where advertisers bid on keywords and only pay per click. My frat bro and uber-entrepreneur Adam Zweibel started asking Larry about advertising his IT computing services, and then I told Page about my publishing business. Good stuff.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Your goal here is to sustain revenue and your position in the market. Decline: New user sign-ups and revenue begins to decrease. X demos booked in introduction, X revenue in growth).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Why Revenue Isn’t the Most Important Financial Metric for Startups – buff.ly/1DhyQo4. Tips for Running Wildly Successful In-Person Events – Copyblogger bit.ly/1EphsSo. Small Business and Startup Tips: Analyzing Your Search Data | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1EFd59a. How Philosophy Makes You a Better Leader - buff.ly/1HVDrmI.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. Avoid events that are never timely, i.e. anniversaries, holidays and “Go blue for/Go red for [insert cause here]” months. Reporters aren’t here to advertise for you. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

Increase recurring revenue. When a United Airlines passenger was “dragged” off a flight , CEO Oscar Munoz initially issued a PR-driven, tick-the-checkbox apology: As public resentment grew, Munoz followed up with another, more candid mea culpa: 6. Instead, he placed the blame elsewhere : These events are deeply troubling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2016

Gaming apps usually concentrate on finding their “whales” or devoted gamers who bring the largest part of revenue. Maybe you can launch an app for an upcoming sporting or cultural event or start an ad campaign for a kids game right before summer break. It has reached the target audience with the help of PR activities.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

8- Getting into the Mediavine advertising program. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007. Talentfoot started a sister company that has now generated half a million in revenue in the last few months, delivering on its promise. We are so proud of them all. Photo Credit: Ivana Kurili?. The work paid off.

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