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10 Startups to Watch in 2014

10 Startups to Watch in 2014
If you only focus on the multi-billion dollar valuations of young companies like Pinterest, Uber and Snapchat, you might assume 2013 has been a very good year for tech startups. In reality, it has been more of a bittersweet year. Many early-stage companies struggled to raise a Series A rounds of funding, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the "Series A Crunch," which for some meant to fight for their survival. Meanwhile, several later-stage companies like Fab and Rdio laid off large portions of their staff to rein in costs. Even so, plenty of promising startups raised funds and launched (or teased) exciting features this year in markets ranging from mobile payments to media. We've rounded up a few notable startups that have the capital, talent or ideas — often all three — to succeed. 1. Circa launched its iPhone app in late 2012 with the goal of rethinking the breaking news experience for the mobile era. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Image: Mashable composite. iStock, designaart

6 Random Social Media Tips to Help You Improve Your Marketing Today 2.5K Flares Filament.io 2.5K Flares × When it comes to helping you out with Social Media, we often like to categorize things. For example, we’d write about the optimal timing of your posts, or how to come up with the best headlines, and the like. What happened over the last few weeks though is that we collected a number of awesome tips to post on Social Media, that didn’t quite all fit together. So we thought, why not creating a list of unique tips, that might not have that much in common, but are hopefully still very useful for you! So, here we go, a list of 6 rather random Social Media tips to help you improve your marketing today: 1. Here’s a quick tip about a mistake that is made all the time on Twitter. Here’s Jay’s Tweet, which he used as an example: @HubSpot‘s reimagined blog is live! The mistake is an easy one to miss, but it all comes down to the very start of the Tweet. So, how do we solve this? . Gary Vaynerchuck even created a 44-page slideshow for this one Twitter mistake. 2.

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How the Patriots' Julian Edelman Scores Social Media Touchdowns New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman is adding tech enthusiast to his resume, on top of being one of quarterback Tom Brady's favorite targets. The 27-year-old football player is not only active on social media, engaging with fans and pumping out content, but he recently participated in a Reddit AMA ("ask me anything" Q&A) and recorded a video of himself using Google Glass to show what it's like to return a punt wearing the high-tech connected specs. He's also among the growing list of sports stars turning to digital agencies to build his brand during the off season. "Ad agencies don't generally work with athletes in this capacity," Assaf Swissa of Superdigital told Mashable. Superdigital has applied the rules of branding and marketing to Edelman by developing his brand, designing logo treatments, growing his social presence and building out partnerships. "Social media is a great way for Julian to show his personality and interests to his fans.

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Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Social Marketing Startup Little Bird Raises $1.7M More Little Bird, the startup led by former tech writer Marshall Kirkpatrick, is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in new funding. Kirkpatrick, formerly an editor at ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite) and before that a writer at TechCrunch, launched the company in October 2012. He told me then that his goal was to help companies find people who are influential on any topic, based on an analysis of who follows them on Twitter. Since then, Little Bird has changed in couple of key ways, he said. Kirkpatrick contrasted Little Bird with Klout — the main way Klout connects brands and social media influencers is through the discounts and deals of its Perks program, which Kirkpatrick suggested is “a crass, shallow way to engage people.” The broader trend, he added, is that “the line between sales and marketing is increasingly being blurred.” The new funding was led by the Oregon Angel Fund and brings Little Bird’s total funding to $2.7 million.

How to Stop a Social Media Crisis It can be hard to remember the digital world before real-time; the speed at which conversations and stories race through the Internet and their momentum add a new dimension to reputation management. Anyone active on Facebook, Twitter, or the likes will have seen at least one social media crisis unfold. And let’s be honest, there’s a certain schadenfreude to be had in witnessing a big brand endeavor to hold back negative tweets. But if it’s you, your product or your business that’s on the receiving end, it can feel like you’re on a runaway train careering toward the edge of a cliff. Create a plan before you need it Don’t wait until you’re in the middle of a crisis to work out how you’re going to deal with one. While you can’t plan for every possible scenario, you can take some proactive steps. When you’ve identified possible issues, think about the internal protocols. It’s worth taking the time to write out this plan. Act fast but don’t panic! Act, don’t talk Show your human side

Klout Morphs Into Content Platform: This Week in Social Media Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Klout Adds Content Aggregation: The “new content platform helps Klout users be better content creators. (It) also allows you to schedule your posts so they can be delivered when people are actually listening.” “The Create tab helps you find great articles and posts worth sharing with your audience.” Facebook Adds Gender Diversity: Facebook now offers “a new custom gender option to help you better express your own identity on Facebook.” Facebook has also “added the ability for people to control the audience with whom they want to share their custom gender.” Yelp Introduces New Interface: The “new design emphasizes the unique local content (Yelp’s) community has contributed and makes finding key business information even easier for consumers.” The new design puts photos front and center. Other Mentions

5 Social Media Trends for 2014, New Research Social Media Examiner Want to know where social marketers are focusing in 2014? Looking for the latest social media trends to inform your marketing? Based on new research, here are five areas you should start paying attention to right away. Note: This article is based on Exact Target’s 2014 State of Marketing Report, which shows top marketing objectives, priorities and concerns for 2014. #1: Social Listening Becoming Important More brands are beginning to really listen to their customers. According to the report, 60% of marketers were using social listening strategies in 2013 and 24% plan to do so in 2014. Consider the context of social conversations and respond strategically. Key Takeaways Social listening offers opportunities to interact directly with consumers. If you really want to see results, you need to listen and respond strategically, according to another study by JD Power: Don’t just listen; understand first—are you hearing one loud voice or a growing trend? #2: 57% of Marketers Use Social Advertising

How to Increase Your Social Media Following by Over 700% Are you looking for creative ways to grow your social media following? Are you dealing with limited resources? Then you’ll want to study what Microsoft Dynamics did. How is a giant like Microsoft the same as everybody else when it comes to social media marketing? They have the same challenges as any company. Whom they’re talking toWhat their needs areWhere and how to talk to them And even though they’re Microsoft, they still have limited resources to do it all. Over the past two years, Microsoft Dynamics, a business group of Microsoft, pruned their social channels by half, but now reaches more customers. I spoke with Kelly Rigotti, senior marketing communication manager of social media for Microsoft Dynamics, to learn how they did it. Microsoft Dynamics uses Vine videos as visual elements in their Twitter stream. Highlights In 2011, had over 40 social accounts and blogs. #1: Who’s in Charge of Social? “Nobody would dream of going off and doing his or her own website,” she said. inShare763

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