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A Place To Call Your Own: Building Your Brand’s Vertical Social Network

YoungUpstarts

Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. By Vanessa Richardson. Who’s Doing It Right.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? There are elements of vertical integration and franchising , classic business strategies for achieving operational efficiency and scale. What’s the hottest trend in business right now?

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Digital Revenue Expert – Vince Thompson

SoCal CTO

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. Nirupama is looking to find a niche where she can penetrate the niche social network platform market.

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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS (gross merchandise sales), which typically represents net revenues for the marketplace. eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ).

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Q1 Round-up: Portfolio companies in the news

Version One Ventures

CEO Danielle Morrill wrote a fantastic synopsis of Mattermark’s journey, from shutting down Referly and restarting as Mattermark to launching with a 12-week old prototype, raising their Series A, and evolving into a full sales intelligence platform. In many cases, these needs are critical to escaping homelessness.

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Top 10 Most Expensive Mistakes New Restaurant Owners Make

Up and Running

Anything too experimental runs the risk of diminishing sales once the curiosity factor wears off, especially if it takes some time to get the food and your kitchen processes right. ” Organic marketing and sales options. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups.