Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2023

I’ve written about this before, and it’s covered extensively in my book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. The conversation was exciting and powerful, and I realized it extended my network with people I wouldn’t have otherwise met. We’ve made this an operating principle at Foundry.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Here’s how the guide is promoted on Twitter: The informative, conversational tone and fun imagery are the same as the post on the Visme website: And the same vibe as the video embedded in the guide: Visme maintains consistency throughout the customer journey. Here are eight tips for creating and curating your playbook. Take HubSpot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Sherrie Madia and Paul Borgese have addressed the positives of this challenge in their new book, “ The Social Media Survival Guide ,” on “everything you need to know to grow your business exponentially with social media.” Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. Marty Zwilling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Questions I ask Jenn Herman: [1:21] Why did you feel like you needed a new edition to your book? [2:26] 5:04] If you’re talking to somebody who understands the basics of Instagram, how do you advise them to use this edition of the book? [5:53] And so it's a very legitimate question to say, okay, what's new in the book?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Sherrie Madia and Paul Borgese have addressed the positives of this challenge in their book, “The Social Media Survival Guide,” on “everything you need to know to grow your business exponentially with social media.” Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. small businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Microsoft Surface curates content by sharing its users’ art and testimonials and responding to their posts. Do certain types of posts generate more likes, comments, shares, leads, and conversions than others? Create and curate content that engages your audience. Yoann Pavy, Head of Digital Marketing, Depop [via MarketingWeek ].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. Everyone seems to be on it, but no one seems to know quite how to use it to generate sales conversations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

A good start is a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. All highlight you.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 2, 2017

As the founder of a publishing company focused specifically on serving entrepreneurs, I see the same problem over and over: When a business owner decides they want to write a book (or do anything else, for that matter), their goal is to be the best. How does a book get you attention? How writing a book leads to business growth.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. That chapter, “Markets Are Conversations”, moved me more than almost anything I had ever read (you can read it for free at that link). I picked up this little tidbit out of Guy Kawasaki’s brilliant book, The Art of the Start. The “voice of the marketplace”?—?it

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Recently I was reviewing a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. All highlight you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

Recently I was reviewing a new book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. All highlight you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

A good start is a classic book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ” Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. All highlight you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

We’ve curated a list of the most recommended CRMs for small businesses and startups to help you evaluate the best CRM that fits your needs and the needs of your business. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. Many are free while others cost thousands of dollars per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2014

Best Books on Sales and Selling written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. I believe books are still one of the greatest values available when it comes to learning new business thinking. Feel free to vote books up and down and add your favorites to the list. Recommended.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 29, 2019

If you don’t have a strong moderator/curator/leader, the whole initiative will likely fail. The platform needs to make sure that the participants and conversations are truly local and are not getting taken over by people from outside of the local geography. And for more thoughts on social platforms in general, here is our book: [link].

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This calls people out of seeking authority-based meaning and into a new stage of curating their own meaning. Just changing the conversation to how everyone in the organization can fulfill their potentials makes people more open and curious about the meaning in their work. Examine individual contribution.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Geolocating is being used as tool for us as a collective to “assemble” so we can collaborate and take back control of our destiny and conversations. The art of conversation is not being lost…. Sure language has iterated, been redefined, shortened, coded… but the conversations are real and the more meaning and ideas are being exchanged.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Then, we used that expert seed list to gather opinions on which people, sites, and books all marketers should listen to, read, or watch. You can invest in courses , books, and seminars, sure, but the amount of high-quality content available in blog posts, industry groups, and on social media gives you instant access to level up your skills.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. His books have been published in over fifty countries and have spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his new book “ Social Marketology ,” outlined the best set of steps I have seen so far for the new world: Focus on desired outcomes first. Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2013

Like other “social” marketing books of its ilk, the book begins with a sordid scenario depicting the demise of mass-marketing. In the book, trust is represented by three “Cs”: 1) Credibility : The ability to say what you mean, and mean what you say. 3) Join the conversation.

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Brandanew

MAY 26, 2015

The reason behind their frequent updating is to keep up with what’s trending in their target audience and become a part of the conversation before they are over it. But if you’re a regular writer, pretty sure you have a black book stowed away in your drawer that just gets the privilege of a word written in it – your name.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

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. Podcasts are much easier to consume than books. But a bit like books, there’s genres. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. I recommend Grapevine6 , which curates relevant online content, for which I’m a reseller.” I occasionally tweet out interesting content, about once daily on average. Hootsuite.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 27, 2019

However, Boris’s recent post on what exactly is a managed marketplace , as well as some recent conversations with entrepreneurs, have made me reflect on what might be possible. In particular, I’ve been thinking about three key elements: Aggregate and curate supply. A managed marketplace can aggregate and curate a pool of providers.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

In addition to our own mental filters, we often rely on search engines and sites that curate content to help apply filters. Eventually you end up exploring recommendations they make for new books, websites or other sources of information. Sift through comments on popular books on Amazon.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

This post details four steps that any organization can follow to estimate the value of on-site conversions more accurately: Identify every potential touchpoint. Attribution’s relevance depends on the known value of the conversion. ” A data gap does not invalidate conversion values for long sales cycles.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As a father and founder, I’m motivated to end our kid’s dependence on sugar and start a conversation about its dangers. 4- Curate the best of the rest from cinema history. 7- Sell as many books as my mentor Helene Hadsell. . #2- A drop in the amount of sugar consumed per day by kids. Photo credit: Darren Litt.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. it could be your next investor or a big customer or the next president of the U.S. or maybe just #GrumpyCat. Will ICOs make a comeback?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Brett Hurt, CEO of data.io, shared why Amy of Amy’s ice cream chose Austin (because Austin was the only place that she visited where small business owners literally would open their books for her). To help explain why Austin and Texas are even better places to start a company Brett also said, “Capital is all about the ripple effect.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2012

Enter “movement marketing” Written in a highly persuasive prose, Scott Goodson’s book “ Uprising: How to Build a Brand – and Change the World – By Sparking Cultural Movements ” argues that the future of business is seeded in revolutions both big and small. Recruit your most outspoken advocates. -

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She’s also the author of a book — Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas. Questions I ask Becky Blades: [1:41] Y have one person out there that thinks this is a terrible title for a book because it is sort of counterintuitive, right – are you getting similar pushback from people? [3:02]

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

If you start at the end of the funnel, what you’re seeing is: number one, there’s going to be fewer people actually booking and converting. So what I’ve seen in the conversations I’ve been in, then, is your growth models are actually as much about how do you grow efficiently from a cash standpoint.

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