Raj Kotecha of Creative Content Agency interviews Gary Vaynerchuk on how to leverage social media and build a brand. This 30 minute interview is one of the best I’ve watched in quite some time with many gems of wisdom from Gary. He also talks a little about his new new book on social media, Crush [...]
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I often write about or quote 37 Signals here, largely due to the respect I have for them as designers/developers and for the way they manage their business. This week Matt Linderman has written the article “Advice for entrepreneurs: Throw out that five-year plan, build something now, and don’t take any money” where he’s brought [...]
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Last month’s Inc. magazine featured clothing company Threadless on the front cover, a company founded by 2 college drop-outs (an interesting trend in itself – so many successful start-ups have college drop-outs at the helm) Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff. Founded in 2000, Threadless is set to hit $5million is sales this year selling, wait [...]
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With the credit crunch truly making itself felt, retailers should be pulling out all the stops to get eyeballs on their products and making sales. Gartner research found that UK retailers are missing a trick by not using Social Networking as a marketing tool. With social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo getting so much [...]
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As an entrepreneur, it’s very likely you have many good business ideas but don’t have the focus or even the time to make them all work. Sometimes it becomes clear, midway through setting up a business based on an idea, that the current idea may not work as well as a business compared to another [...]
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Are you a serious facebooker? Spend hours at a time catching up with friends? Wouldn’t it be great it you got paid for doing it? Well, now you can! urTurn.com offers a reward scheme where you earn points for posting pictures to Facebook (and MySpace soon too) and writing on friends’ walls. The points can [...]
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I was recently directed to the BBC article ‘From Oxford to Silicon Valley’ by a friend who had by chance met with the CEO of Auctomatic, and as a budding Internet entrepreneur it’s a very inspiring story. The story of Auctomatic, by founder Kulveer Taggar, has been serialized on the BBC web site since February [...]
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In the Tim Ferriss interview with Michael Gerber (author of The E-Myth Revisited) on Escaping The Entrepreneurial Seizure, Michael introduces the three step process for building an automated business system. As an entrepreneur, the focus here is not on working in the company (being the technician), nor is it about managing the company. The entrepreneur [...]
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When you know that something hot is happening right now and you want to support it, here’s how you can get a good looking, self funding, great work promoting website up and running within a day. In the example, we’ll use www.oneandonlymadonna.com, which is the site we have set up for our friend Evelyne Brink, [...]
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The recently announced top quote “Don’t ‘tase me bro” by protester Andrew Meyers has now been turned into a ringback tone. On 17th September 2007, University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was arrested and thrown out of a speech by a U.S. Senator. According to a Wired blog, “Meyer barged in line to harangue Massachusetts [...]
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If you’re a person who takes a lot of video and posts them up on your web-site, blog or social network then Blinkx may be of interest. Blinkx Ad Hoc is an easy way to display ads on your posted videos and, following the pay-per-click model, any time an ad is clicked you get paid. [...]
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Leon Jackson was crowned the winner of the 2007 X-Factor competition last night. Winning a 1 million pound recording contract, his music single, a cover version of the song “When You Believe”, originally recorded by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for the animated movie “Alladin”, is released on CD on Monday to give it a [...]
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Last night’s Gadget Show challenge results clearly demonstrated the strength of running a guerilla marketing campaign on the Internet using blogging and social networking to drive massive traffic. Every week Suzi Perry and Jason Bradbury reveal the results of a challenge and last night was the culmination of a 3 week long challenge to see [...]
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Last night’s episode of the BBC programme Dragons’ Den was of particular interest to me as it featured a company called hungryhouse.co.uk, a web site to make ordering takeaway-food easier, which needed investment to expand their operation across the UK. Having successfully run the Dragons’ Den gauntlet, hungryhouse.co.uk partnered with two of the Dragons, Duncan [...]
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Social networks like Facebook are a marketer’s dream. Social networks, by nature, are viral i.e. they’re built to ‘spread’ ideas, photos, video or anything you can think of to your list of contacts within the site, and they to their list of contacts and so on… Facebook is second only to MySpace in the number [...]
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