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How to Successfully Expand Your Business Outside of Your Core Industry

Up and Running

Many business owners make the mistake of going head-first into new projects without considering their existing audience. Your audience is not one-dimensional. Spend time engaging with your audience, and you can learn a lot about their needs. Partner with other brands. Talk to your existing customers. There you have it!

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. A few themes which have emerged from our 13 most recent investments: CONSUMER (B2C). Physical-World Ecommerce.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. And so they never got consumer adoption.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

I’ve found that interviewing your existing clients is one of the best ways to create valuable content for your ideal audience. Data sources include the publications, competitors, influencers, podcasts, and communities that your audience engages with the most. Synthesize your insights in an audience analysis report.

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Elevating Your Business Profile: The Strategic Value of a PR Company

The Startup Magazine

These experts specialize in crafting and conveying your business’s narrative to the right audience in the most effective manner. Through their extensive networks and relationships with media outlets, they can ensure your story reaches a wider, yet targeted, audience. At its core, public relations is about storytelling.

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Building A Strong Social Media Strategy For Business Growth

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: It’s important for small businesses to invest in building a dedicated social media team that focuses on a select few platforms where their target audience is most active. So there's the, the cat icon that kind of symbolizes that we're your partner on your desk, just like your cat. The other one is, is YouTube too.

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How to Survive “The Amazon Effect” as a Small Ecommerce Business Owner

Up and Running

However, they adapted part of their business model and the partners they use in order to seize the new channel. Either Dollar Shave Club or some of its partners saw value in Amazon, much the same way consumers do. Ecommerce businesses of all sizes must find a way to demonstrate and provide value to the shopping audience.