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StartupPro: How to set up and grow a tech business

You're reading from   StartupPro: How to set up and grow a tech business Practical guidance on how to turn your passion, idea, and technical skills into a successful business

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783001422
Length 238 pages
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Martin C Zwilling Martin C Zwilling
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StartupPro: How to set up and grow a tech business
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Do You Have What It Takes to be an Entrepreneur? 2. Does Your Dream Idea Have the Potential to be a Business? FREE CHAPTER 3. When, Where, and How Do You Formalize a Technical Business? 4. Does a Technical Entrepreneur Really Need a Business Plan? 5. When and How Do You Find Funding for a Technical Business? 6. After the Funding, How Do You Survive the Execution Risks? 7. Are You Ready for All the Leadership and Team Challenges? 8. Do You Understand How Social Media is Changing the Business Landscape? 9. If You Build It, Will They Find You, and Will They Use It? 10. Can You Build the Relationships Needed to Succeed in Business?

Steps to measure technical entrepreneur social media results


Jim Sterne, who has written many books on Internet advertising, marketing, and customer service, tackled the complex world of social media metrics a while back in his book titled Social Media Metrics (http://www.amazon.com/Social-Media-Metrics-Marketing-Investment/dp/0470583789). He has one of the first books on this subject, and he breaks the process down into nine steps which I like, as follows:

  1. Get focused and identify goals: Social media is the realm of public opinion and customer conversations. If you don't have a clear idea of why you are there, anything you measure will be useless. He suggests you begin with the big three business objectives of higher revenue, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction.

  2. Get attention and reach your audience: Measuring message delivery in social media is a lot like measuring it in classic advertising, so classic metrics apply. With social media, it is also important to identify how...

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