Can You Generate Business Through the New Facebook Search?

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Let’s start with the basics: What is Facebook Graph Search? In Zuckerberg’s words, Facebook Graph Search is the Third Pillar of Facebook (with the first two being the newsfeed and your timeline). The feature is designed to make much of the data we’ve already put into their database more accessible. If you think the “Graph” part […]

An Intern’s Guide to the Galaxy: Start your week off with 5 fascinating “small business” stories

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Salutations reader, It gives me great pleasure to inform you that you have discovered a gem! First, to address a few pressing concerns: 1) yes, I am an intern writer at the most splendorous company North of the celestial equator; 2) yes, this is a guide to what I take to be the most pertinent […]

Kara Swisher – Top 10 Takeaways “Uncensored”

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All Things D Co-Executive Editor Kara Swisher visited Santa Monica last week to take a quick dip in Silicon Beach for Docstoc‘s 32nd Startups Uncensored. Docstoc’s CEO and master of ceremonies Jason Nazar took the opportunity to wrangle interviewer into interviewee. Great success. Here are our top 10 takeaways: 10 “I’m starting at the top. Why not? I like the top. I […]

Chris Sacca – Top 10 Takeaways

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Recently, we attended a PandoMonthly Fireside Chat where PandoDaily Founder and Editor-in-chief, Sarah Lacy caught up with Lowercase Capital’s Chris Sacca. We, among many other LA entrepreneurs and startup gazers, were literally on the edge of our seats. Lacy was able to run Sacca all the way through the gamut, not entirely unexpected from one of […]

Top 3 Takeaways from Munjal Shah – Amplified

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Munjal Shah is no stranger to the bumpy startup ride, but he’s also had his seat belt buckled and passed ‘GO’ several times in the last 10 years. Shah originally birthed Riya, a company focused on facial recognition and consumer tagging. Google pulled a fake-out in 2005 when they almost acquired Riya, but then backed out last […]

Lessons Learned from our Small Business Saturday Q&A series

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The feedback from small businesses from our extensive Small Business Saturday campaign was overwhelmingly positive with small business owners all over the country thankful for companies like American Express, FedEx and ourselves turning the spotlight on their businesses! During this time, we invited some of our favorite social media experts to give us their input on […]

Be Visible – a Small Business Saturday Q&A with Mari Smith

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We hope you are enjoying our SmallBizSat Q&A series, and have picked up some helpful tips from our social media friends on how to better prepare your business for the Small Business Saturday event for the holiday season and beyond! For our next guest, we are fortunate to feature the fabulous Mari Smith (@MariSmith), a social […]

Is Your Business Ready for Google Plus?

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The social media team has gotten their hands on Google Plus and after playing with it for a while, our heads are spinning with ways that businesses can take advantage of Google’s new social networking site. In reality, the current iteration of Google Plus is not designed for businesses.  However, Google is testing out special […]

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