Another big week at Trada. Fairly soon, I’ll have to let you know we’ve had a sleepy week at Trada. But this is not that week.
VentureBeat named us as step 5 in the post “The lazy CEO’s 10-step guide to crowdsourcing every business task.” When laziness collides with results, amazing stuff happens. ReadWriteWeb wrote that Crowdsourced PPC Ad Marketplace Trada Adds Support for Bing. MediaPost provided an insight into what is ahead for Trada. A lot of entrepreneurs will tell you not to believe your good press, but I’m going to tell you to go right ahead. The joy of being a PR person.
We’ve also had six entries into our contest for the best online marketing blog post. Winner receives an iPad. This contest is easier than hitting the Staples button, so you should enter.
- Boulder, Colo., A Magnet for High-Tech Start-Ups – Claire Cain Miller discusses what makes our hometown such an excellent place for startups. Note that 3/4 of our investors at the Foundry Group are pictured. Since Seth didn’t make the picture, we told him we’d put him on the front page of our blog. Speaking of the Foundry Group, The New York Times appears to really like them “To Nurture Boulder, Back-to-Basics Venture Capital.”
- From Hopes and Dreams to The Thing – An excellent post from Fred Wilson on jumping the chasm from shiny, new startup to a profitable company.
- 10 Blogs With Explosive Growth to Learn From – Corbett Barr interviews 9 bloggers (not a typo!) to find out what spurred their explosive growth.
- Modified Broad Match = Old School Broad Match – Lots of excitement about changes to broad match by bloggers but Andrew Goodman cuts through the hype.
- Why Threadless Owns Permission Based Marketing – Brian Carl sums up the same thought I had from my Threadless newsletters. Look for a post soon on this blog about Threadless marketing!
- E-mail Marketing Benchmarks for Small Business - Great stats from MailChimp. Fascinating to look at the differences between industries.
- Keyword Research: The core of your SEO Strategy – Dimitris Zoto provides good insight into doing keyword research.
- Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight – Great title, even better blog post from MG Siegler. Also, impressed TechCrunch isn’t afraid to bite the hand that feeds them considering they purchased all of the ads on TC yesterday.
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