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Jan McBarron Shares Her Guide for Effectively Building Your Social Media Brand in the Digital Age

The Startup Magazine

Any solid business plan requires a social media strategy. Social media has pushed into every area of our lives, governing how we read the news, communicate with our families and friends and how we express ourselves to the world. Effectively building your social media brand can be broken down into concrete steps. Post Regularly.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. At the simplest level you can think about markets in terms of the number of times media is consumed and/or purchased by people plotted against the total number of content of that media type that is available. Why is that? That was the only way.

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

Again there’s three fundamental ways to make money in consumer-facing internet businesses: you can sell people stuff in a physical realm (e-commerce), you can indirectly monetize consumer attention (media or ad-based), or you can provide online software & services that consumers pay for (premium services).

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Technology as a Religion

Start Up Blog

Yet ‘investors’ are currently paying more than the aggregate value of the next 12 biggest car companies to own a piece of Tesla. Of course there are another dozen reasons the price of Tesla stock seems irrational, but you get the picture. Will Tesla stock crash? However, Tesla Inc.

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The 4 Critical Challenges of Tech Startup PR

ReadWriteStart

Clarifying the jargon helps to make sure that the intended audience not only receives the right message but understands it as well. Letting Social Media Do The Legwork. In today’s media environment, getting and keeping the attention of even a small part of the population is difficult.

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“A natural, & healthy, tension between myself & the people I write about.” How The Verge’s Casey Newton Handles ‘Tech Friends.’

Hunter Walker

Casey was kind enough to join me for Five Questions where he said not to “pull any punches… ” Hunter Walk: The way media companies make money (or measure success) can sometimes be inconsistent with what I think leads to good reporting. Are your competitors aggregating your work? Are they crediting you for your scoop?

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. While in the media, the words recommendations and personalization are pretty much used interchangeably, they’re not at all the same thing.