Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Frank Dale, CEO of Compendium (Part 9)

Sramana Mitra: But Google doesn’t have access to Facebook’s algorithms. So, what Facebook is doing is not what Google or Bing has access to. They can’t use that data to do their optimization. Frank Dale: That’s right with Google. What Google is typically looking at is what’s going on on things like Google+. They’re also

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An SEO-Driven Bootstrapping Success: Benchmark Email CEO Curt Keller (Part 6)

Sramana: There are going to be a lot of entrepreneurs who are trying to reach a million dollars of revenue. What are the key lessons learned that you would like to pass on to them? Curt Keller: When I look at all the ups and downs, I realize that I have actually dealt with a

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Thursday, July 5: Opportunity For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 134th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 134th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, July 5, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Frank Dale, CEO of Compendium (Part 8)

SM: Their starting prices are $1,000 or $2,000 a month. FD: That’s pretty common in that space, and certainly with a company like Marketo or Eloqua, you’re looking at a mid-market enterprise level tool. If I were going to look for something like that, to unify that a little bit, I’m probably going to look

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An SEO-Driven Bootstrapping Success: Benchmark Email CEO Curt Keller (Part 5)

Sramana: You are in a very competitive landscape. How are you navigating the competitive pressures? Curt Keller: We are expanding our product mix. We are coming up with creative solutions around our software as a service offering. In some ways we are following the lead of competitors such as Constant Contact.

Catching Up On Readings: Extreme Close-Up

The Big Picture, which is The Boston Globe’s photo blog, has published wonderful photographs from the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. The forms and color are simply amazing. Click on the full paragraph link for all of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Frank Dale, CEO of Compendium (Part 7)

Frank Dale: Let me make sure I’m with on this. When you’re running these contests, are you initially acquiring the leads through the partners? Sramana Mitra: No. We have a registration page on Eventbrite. Because we already have a large footprint plus other partners publicizing the events, people register for the events. Each session we

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An SEO-Driven Bootstrapping Success: Benchmark Email CEO Curt Keller (Part 4)

Sramana: All together, how many people did you have working on the project? You had an outsource engineering and support team, an SEO expert, you, and your wife. What was the headcount? Curt Keller: When we first started it was just me, a support guy in India and three programmers. A few years later we

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