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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

David Teten

A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. Lifestyle community where users express & share their interests for brands they love. We change that.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

Both Sides of the Table

Be a mensch – the world is small than you think and bad karma will catch up to you “We’re in a very small community. It’s surprising how small the tech community is and the older you get the more you realize how much people from earlier in your life have a way of coming back into it.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

Existing companies can segment their email database to reveal their most loyal customers. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

She began the CIA’s Lessons Learned program and led the Agency’s first effort to address the challenges posed by social networks, digital ubiquity, and the emerging culture of collaboration. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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5 Incredibly Effective Methods to Build Your Brand Awareness

The Startup Magazine

Bright commercials, catchy banners in social networks, recommendations of influencers or a colorful business card? You can try Business Card Maker that comes with 550+ templates, convenient database and rich printing options for creating a catchy card. This way you will find your first customer and build a loyal community.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

mashable.com

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. PartnerUp If you have a question that can be expressed in fewer than 140 characters, the PartnerUp community will likely have an answer. Thankfully responses aren’t restricted with a character limit. STOKED!!!!