Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2020

On Wednesday, June 3rd, a team led by the COVID Tech Task Force is putting on the first of several free public conferences on the topic of Contact Tracing and Technology. I’ve gone extremely deep down the contact tracing and exposure notification rabbit hole. In February, I had never heard the phrase contact tracing.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2019

Many business owners are implementing cloud contact centers to improve their operations. Indeed, a cloud contact center can transform the way you do business by helping you manage all your customer contacts in one place as well as providing a seamless communications experience for live agents and customers alike.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Gone are the days where you could have a static front page and point everyone to the contact page where a phone call or shop visit is on the cards. Do you have a shop facility, a business blog full of information, and an easily accessible contact page? What about contact or help pages? How many business sites do you have?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 16, 2021

Attending events is the type of gathering that affords us the opportunity to make contacts easier. If you have ever been guilty of either of these (as I have), establishing an action plan for new contacts will help you avoid repeating this common mistake. The new contact connected back with Sameer and with the owner of his firm.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

True, business cards may often end up stashed in the bottom of a bag or behind a couple of credit cards, but they’re nonetheless permanent touch-points between you and a contact. The post How Your Business Cards Can Be Designed To Impress New Contacts appeared first on Young Upstarts. Very American Psycho , indeed).

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Gmail Contacts has been lame for a long time. I’ve been obsessed about the contact management problem for many years. Everything integrates with my contacts in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, AngelList, and Foursquare. FullContact deduplicates everything so I only have one integrated contact record for each person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Your priority must always be to offer the right content with the right contacts along the way. With the internet at our fingertips, even B2B customers research and compare solutions, completing 50-90% of the work before a sales rep is contacted. Buyer behavior is difficult to predict and quantify. That’s $300 a lead.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Malfunctioning features like contact forms or surveys can cause a customer to leave your site in frustration. Contact Information. In the case of your website, this may be to purchase a product, enlist a service or contact you. Nothing irritates potential customers more than not being able to easily contact a company.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Your chosen courier should provide a helpful service when you contact them. For the best courier reliability, you’ll want to choose a courier that you can easily contact if you have an issue with your delivery. Ideally, they should have multiple contact channels, including phone, email, social media, and an online chatbot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2011

Gemassmer We all intuitively believe in maintaining personal and business contacts, but most of us don’t do well in this area. It takes real time and hard work to maintain contacts. This provided me with a good education and numerous important contacts around the world. By Ernst H.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Email marketing is all about informing, influencing, and gaining the loyalty of a contact base that’s interested in your product or services. This can be done by making sure that the subject of the email is spam-free and by keeping your contact database up to date at all times. Segmentation. Personalisation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Here someone who is not a registered financial broker contacts you on the Internet, tells you about all the people they know with money, then turns around to ask for a “retainer” or fee to cover their time and efforts. Unsolicited foreign investors that contact you on the Internet need extra scrutiny.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a business development role you’re out shaping the perception of your company in the market (networking), determining leads, and contacting leads. I didn’t want to have to sell back into the intelligence community, because I didn’t want to leverage my contacts so tactically, but plenty of people do it (and we need good people to do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

You need to know where to find and how to contact Instagram influencers that are going to make the biggest impact for your brand. Here’s our go-to guide on how to contact Instagram Influencers in 4 simple steps! Here’s our go-to guide on how to contact Instagram Influencers in 4 simple steps! Step 1: How to Define Your Niche.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

If you’re not aware, Pasedena, California-based online business search platform Bizshark ( www.bizshark.com ) has a business contact search platform that helps business-to-business (B2B) sales professionals, small businesses, freelancers, journalists and others who are looking for a way to create and manage business relationships.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2012

Confused and frustrated by the need to manage all your social contact lists? The service currently allows integration with Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare, pulling real time news feed updates as well as cross compiles contact lists from those services. We empathize. service to help manage such information overload.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder. I've removed the two words that described the market - otherwise this is verbatim. I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2012

I get asked all the time for a list of “tech reporters / bloggers” to contact around an announcement. A few weeks ago, I was pointed to a list on the web by Brownstein & Egusa titled the Tech Reporter Contact List. It’s actually seven lists. Top 100 Tech Blogs. Top Tech Blog Reporters. Top 100 Newspapers.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

You can also choose which number you send a message from and can easily shorten links with a URL shortener before sending them to your contacts. All you need to do is select a software solution, create accounts, set up the different numbers you want to use and your contacts, and start using SMS from your computer pretty much immediately.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For a long time, customers could only contact the company via a contact form, which could take days to respond to. Fortunately, advancements in customer support tools have made it easier to cater to your customers’ needs and provide them with a wider range of ways to contact you.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2013

And while there’re a number of technological innovations in this space – such as QR code-equipped cards or devices that directly scans business cards – it’s still difficult to get the information accurately into your contact lists. Maybe a human touch is required.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Utilising the latest technology in ‘smart reality contact lenses’ , you’ll be able to get the players’ view of the game live while the game is in progress. The post Smart Contact Lenses & the Future of Sport appeared first on Steve Sammartino. My only question is – what are you waiting for?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

Contact Information. Who forgets to include contact information, right? Contact information does not only include your name and phone number. You should make sure your resume includes every bit of your contact information like name, phone number, email address, LinkedIn Profile, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

The portfolio should have a gallery of past projects, a description of the projects, and contact information. But instead of sitting idle and waiting for a Shopify email, you could contact Shopify and request to access the Shopify Experts marketplace.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Getting the Meeting with Contact Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. On the marketing side, Heinecke has written several books centered around the idea of contact marketing. led the American Marketing Association to name him “the father of contact marketing.” Podcast Transcript.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Constant Contact recently released data from its Fall 2011 Attitudes and Outlook Survey , and the biggest and most interesting finding was that small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) are more comfortable using social media marketing as opposed to six months ago.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Laura is the Chief Marketing Officer at Constant Contact. Before Constant Contact, she served as a Chief Revenue Officer for Cabbage, a leading cash flow management and data platform for small businesses acquired by American Express. 9:10] How is AI going to impact what you’re doing at Constant Contact? [10:48]

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Contacting new leads. There is an urgency where your business wants hot leads contacted as soon as possible. However, closing the deals and contacting the promising leads is only a small part of the duties of specialized virtual assistants. So it falls right down the VA’s alley. Generating quality leads.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A toll-free number is ideal for a small business, as customers know they will never have to pay a penny to contact you. People are more likely to contact a business that they can call for free, and if they are able to reach you no matter when they call, you are building their trust. Toll-Free Phone Number.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Start Building your Contacts. That’s why it’s essential to start building your contacts as soon as possible. If not, offer to pay them for the privilege of having them speak with potential vendors that contact you. The businesses can then contact the service providers through the SeeBiz website to request services.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

Once you have someone’s email, you have a direct line of contact with them. It’s an extremely powerful tool that needs more attention. However, the biggest reason that newsletters exist is to simply acquire email addresses. Think about it. People are far less likely to give you their phone numbers or IM platform usernames. However, emails?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2010

Gemassmer We all intuitively believe in maintaining personal and business contacts, but most of us don’t do well in this area, despite the advent of social networking. This clearly represents a good education with numerous contacts around the world. You can contact him directly at ernst@startupprofessionals.com. By Ernst H.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy. No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers. Field Marshall Helmuth Graf von Moltke. I was catching up with an ex-graduate student at Café Borrone , my favorite coffee place in Menlo Park. This was the second of three “office hours” I was holding that morning for ex students.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 20, 2011

I’ve recently discovered two awesome tools for helping me manage my contacts in Google Apps. I’ve got a large address book in Gmail (> 11,000 contacts). Once you tie it to you Google account, it automatically scans emails, parses out any contact info it finds, and automagically adds it to the contact record.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 19, 2020

Giving the personal touch with face to face contact can really help you to craft a value proposition which appeals and show your appreciation for their business. The post How Face-to-Face Contact Can Transform Your Marketing appeared first on WECAN.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

A few days ago, I realized that Google was no longer allowing me to enter new contacts. When I checked Contacts in Google Apps, I saw I had exactly 10,000. That triggered some neuron in my brain to fire at which point I did a – ahem – Google search and quickly found that the Apps limit is 10,000 contacts.

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