Happy Persian New Year to the Awesome Persians of Washington, DC
March 20, 2011 1 Comment
As the Persians just started their new year 1390 on Sunday March 20th 7:21 p.m., here is President Obama’s New Year message:
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GWU Entrepreneurship Seminar: Marketing – How to Find Your Customers [EVENT]
March 17, 2011 1 Comment
GW School of Engineering and Applied Science is hosting an excellent event next week for those who are interested in finding customers with minimum or even ZERO budget. If you are around DC next week, I urge you attend. The program is free and open to the public and is a great networking opportunity for students, professionals, faculty and even others from outside the GW network.
The panel consists of me and two other Washingtonian serial entrepreneurs who will share and discuss our experiences. The program provides for ample audience participation and is a unique opportunity to learn from the experts on effective ways to get your message to the right people. For those on a shoestring budget, we will have tips and ways to market at low or no cost!
Social Media Train Poised to Awesomize your Business in 2011
March 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Most of by now have accepted the need to have a presence on at least one social media platform. Most of us (people, company, product) have more than one profile floating out there. A recent study by eMarketer’s in fact predicted that 80% of the business will adopt social media as a marketing channel in 2011. The report also reports on the increase in the marketing dollars being invested by many companies to build an internal infrastructure capable of supporting this new channel. Right on!. Read more of this post
Once a Geek, you will always be a Geek! Hire a MARCOM or Hook up with other Great Geeks
March 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
As a serial entrepreneur, I’ve learned that we can have the most incredible ideas, but if we fail to come up with the right messaging or building the right brand, our startup could end up nowhere. Typically, a startup hires a marketing communications person or even a PR agency to help them with that task . But, what would you do if you don’t have the funding to afford one? Well, do what I recently did 
Hook up with other successful entrepreneurs to learn from their experiences and wisdom.
Since, the beta launch of awesomize.me, we have changed the main message on our homepage many times. None of them was able to convey the message clearly until our most recent posting which has already increased our user registration by 20% since we took it live 24 hours ago. Thanks to the advice of Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist. Read more of this post
Hermione Way – The New Smoking Hot Media Entrepreneur in America
March 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
I was recently interviewed via Skype by Hermione Way, and she is determined to help startups to get their dream buzz that other media usually fail to do right. Although the quality of our skype video call wasn’t that great, I came away impressed with how she asked intelligent, though provoking questions and could grasp awesomize.me. So, I decided to do a little bit of checking on Hermione Way. Those of you startup Washingtonians, you definitely need to be on her radar.
Hermione Way is a British journalist and media entrepreneur babe who moved to the US about six months ago. She is currently based in San Francisco working for The Next Web. What I like about her style compared to others like TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, Venturebeat, as well as the major media giants like NY Times and LA Times who have covered my previous ventures, is her preparation and personal approach. In our conversation, it was very apparent that she takes her time to study every startup, and subsequently goes about asking entrepreneurs the right questions. She brings a personal touch by interviewing them either face to face or via Skype. I find her and her approach very refreshing in the world of media and journalism – particularly when it comes to the coverage of tech startups which are typically more challenging to be understood by the journalists.
It will be about PeopleRank and Crowdsourcing
March 4, 2011 7 Comments
Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites, the number of people existing on the web dwarfs the population of individual countries. Facebook alone has a user population of 550 million, which is about 250 million larger than the population of the US.
That being said, as we rely more and more on social medial platforms for our information, we need to know who we are connected to, why we are connected to them, and most importantly how influential they are, so that we can be sure that we are getting the best and most accurate information. Read more of this post
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