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Monday, March 8, 2010
As Brian Solis is fond of saying, “PR stands for public relations, not press release.” I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Then you can install Google Analytics to your website.  This I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice . I
 
Friday, March 5, 2010
Davos is most well known for organizing the Annual Meetings in Davos, Switzerland in January and in the People’s Republic of China in September every year where top decision-makers from all sectors of global society are brought together to discuss current and pressing issues in the most representative way. The Technology Pioneers Community is one of the most widely recognized initiatives of the World Economic Forum. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, show the signs of being a long-standing market leader, and its technology must be proven. Past recipients
 
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Ink some deals with Salesforce.com, Intuit, Google, eBay, Verizon, etc. Without them you have great press.  Nothing This is part of my ongoing series on startup advice but also filed under my sales & marketing posts . No advice I give will ever apply to 100% of companies, 100% of startups or even 100% of tech startups.  I I just want
 

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When Google opened up its mapping API it made Maponics’s Flash-based idea less appealing. - After Google came out with its product, Maponics shut down its Flash-based product. The candid way Darrin talked about his feelings at the low points of his career is not something you’ll see in the popular press. The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
They are Starbucks, Dell, eBay, Google and Microsoft. Tags: insights opinions social media marketing pres For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have a piece from Tracy Olmstead Williams, of Olmstead Williams Communications, talking about the bold new world of social media: Social Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. According
2.) Referring Traffic / Press 3.) 7.) Solve a Personal Compelling Need Search Engines – Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK redirect billions of searches everyday. It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”. Referring Traffic / Press - The web is interconnected, and traffic flows among sites that “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 that can be reverse
Irvine-based Local.com , which runs a local business search site and network, reported this morning that it was the victim of a bogus press release last night, claiming that the firm had been acquired by Microsoft. The false release came from site WiredPRNews.com and showed up on Google News. According to Local.com, "The company has not been acquired, nor is it in discussions with Microsoft about a potential acquisition." Local.com is publicly traded. ...Tags:
Twitter’s deals with Google and Microsoft (letting the two companies search Twitter in real-time) total $25 million and make the company profitable for 2009 , according to BusinessWeek. Google did it too: Three years to profit isn’t new. Google took just as long – even if you count back to its 1998 incorporation and not to the site’s beginning as a research project Oh. Thank.
Entrepreneurs get so used to friends and family congratulating them on their press coverage that they forget sometimes that this isn’t real.  Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising.  Press coverage really matters – The good news – your press coverage really does matter.  Handling PR with VCs This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally.
TechZulu gets a hands on with the  Google Nexus One Phone during CES .  I firmware version of the Android operating system adds a few aesthetic changes such as "Live Wallpapers" which are animated in the background and react to different user inputs.   It also replaces the "Application Drawer" with a single button which can be pressed to access the list of applications installed on the phone.  Still I have to admit, it is quite a sexy looking device.  All All those Droid users out there might not make the switch if you like the keyboard because the Nexus One is all touch.  Also,
I know that you keep reading about how our competitors seem to been going from strength-to-strength in the press.  I You’re only reading our competitor’s press releases.  Your I promise you that inside their offices they’re reading our great press releases, wishing life was as easy for them as it was at our company.  They’re This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons Building companies is hard work.  I
The minute a company notice its stock price has started to wobble, IROs should go online and search sites like Google blog, socialmention.com or stocktwits.com – be sure to adjust your search time frame to last five days or less Since companies are repurposing previously disclosed information and are communicating before the stock begins to slide, there is no need to distribute a press release.  During the last year, I’ve spoken to numerous investor relations officers (IROs) on the topic of social media and investor relations.  IROs tend to be the last holdouts
Use your disadvantages to get press Instead of hiding from it, Albert used it to get press. If you listen to the interview, you'll hear him explain how BubbleShare thrived when it started focusing on dead-simple photo-sharing via a simple interface that was inspired by Google and Craig's List. He started cranking out companies in his teens, and before he turned 20, Albert Lai sold one of his early businesses for over a million dollars in cash. I