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771 Articles match "2009","Web"
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Monday, March 8, 2010
The Orange County meeting is new for 2009, and while the following is true for the LA meeting the OC one is probably similar: You pay as you walk in, meet the organizers, get a name tag, fill a plate from the buffet, and then find a seat, family style, with the other approximately 100 networkers. Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Fast forward through a series of dark New York minutes and four years in Hollywood to a fortuitous rainy San Francisco night in May 2009, and I’m crashing Los Angeles transplant Drew Olanoff’s departure party, where I met former Gawker gossip king Owen Thomas, now of NBCBayArea.com. I vividly remember our conversation about the web video scene in LA.
“Oh, There is a saying about three different magnificent cities I have lived in twice. “If If you are smart, you move to San Francisco.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
After weeks of serious deliberation by the academy on who to vote for, the final nominees for top web series of 2009 have been picked. Best Comedy Web Series
Between Best Drama Web Series
Angel Best Hosted Web Series
A The second annual Streamy Awards are quickly approaching but before you get too excited about what you’re going to wear you might want to know who you will be cheering for. They will be announced today, at 9:30am (PT) live on Streamys.org .
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product. What applications and web sites have you been using? I talk to a lot of founders of startups. My initial conversations normally focus on the core of the business, important Startup Metrics , probably marketing strategy (ex.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are:
Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that interlink. “If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Driving traffic to your website is a formula
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Quite often the goal is to get them into an excel spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure . What Dave McClure's presentation does is point to some additional metrics that are useful to think about and consider: A : Acquisition - where / what channels do users come from? A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience? R : Retention - do they come back & re-visit over time? R : Referral - do they like it enough to
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Tags: Web analytic No matter how much you use marketing analytics, you could probably be doing more.
Mila Mila D'Antonio at Think Customers: The 1to1 Blog reports that Garther, the consulting and analyst firm, says that many of the largest companies will miss opportunities because of under funding their analytical processes:
Gartner reports that through 2012 more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will fail to make insightful decisions about
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
If you want to vote for this interview on my favorite new site, click here . --AW AW I know that I'm not blowing your mind by telling you that Thrillist is making $5 million through its email-based newsletter for affluent men. You've probably read about it on other sites. I didn't invite Ben Lerer, the company's co-founder, to Mixergy just so
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
While the economy in 2009 looks challenging for most companies, the outlook of marketing executives is rather bright and upbeat.
Deborah Kania and her team at Brightworks Interactive have just released results of their survey of marketing executives' plans for 2009. Here are nine marketing trends you can expect during 2009:
The survey covered both B-to-B and B-to-C companies, as well as a mix of large, medium, and small businesses, so the survey results represent a good cross-section of marketers.
Marketing Trend #1: Increased use of digital media and a decrease
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
What's the User Interface Beyond the Web Site ? I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Tony Karrer Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
But it was not until the last couple years that I updated my skills and capabilities in web development. They have a custom implementation of CPanel, so it is really easy to add a domain, install and upgrade dozens of popular free and open source web apps like Wordpress or Drupal with just a couple of clicks with Fantastico. It includes the LAMP stack ( Linux OS , Apache web server , MySQL database , and PHP ) which any worthwhile web hosting is going to provide, I first started messing around with HTML in DreamWeaver and Claris Home Page around 1999 to put up my own music website.
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