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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. A most valuable tool is WordPress or TypePad for blogging. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. But don’t stop there.

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Getting to Know Maker Studios

Both Sides of the Table

And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms. In the era of the Internet video is not a one-way medium. And this is at the same time that content has become more predictable.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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How To Begin Using Social Media In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. A most valuable tool is WordPress or TypePad for blogging. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. But don’t stop there.

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How To Publicize Your Credentials When Starting A Business

YoungUpstarts

Have an Up-to-Date Website and Blog. It’s essential to have a blog or news page on your website and to update it often with high-quality and relevant information. Direct marketing is one way to do this, which means promoting your product face-to-face to consumers at fairs, events, shopping malls, and the like.

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Too Busy for Social Media Marketing Could Be Fatal

Startup Professionals Musings

They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. A most valuable tool is WordPress or TypePad for blogging. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource. But don’t stop there.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Tech: Blogs. The advent of GPS, the always-on Internet and social networks enable finding things in real time from people you somewhat trust. Entrepreneurs have also tapped sharing platforms to directly market their goods and services, somewhat blurring the line between unadulterated peer-to-peer co-ops and direct sales channels.