{"id":285,"date":"2008-09-09T21:34:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-09-09T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:34:40","slug":"social-media-advice-to-seedcamp-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/social-media-advice-to-seedcamp-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media advice to Seedcamp finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Seedcamp\" rel=\"blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.seedcamp.com\">Seedcamp<\/a> top 20 is a great thing and even better press event, where all the Tech media will give you some spotlight and fractions of their traffic. It&#8217;s probably the biggest spike of visitors for next 3 months.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034347350@N01\/2325442233\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3057\/2325442233_32b30f7c26_m.jpg\" alt=\"Twitterfight\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034347350@N01\/2325442233\">Ross Mayfield<\/a> via Flickr<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Try to preperare for this event. Looking over list of 22 winners this year and tracking basic <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Social media\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_media\">social media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only about half of companies had blogs (of that just a few actually had RSS tag on their homepage)<\/li>\n<li>There were a few input forms for newsletters<\/li>\n<li>I found a few <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> accounts but I had to look hard<\/li>\n<li>Most of the time it was not clear from a quick look what the company was about, or what piece of text to copy if I want to quickly blog about it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reversing this list makes a simple TODO:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get Blog<\/li>\n<li>Get Twitter account (and use Twitter Search to track mentions of your brand)<\/li>\n<li>Get a Newsletter input form (just gather mails for now, deal with confirmations and writing newsletter later)<\/li>\n<li>Make it easy for people to quote and talk about your product<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One extra item to consider is also getting a Get Satisfaction account, so you don&#8217;t have to deal with setting up your forum while early adopters can easily communicate with you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Side note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I also went through all the startups on DemoFall and I&#8217;m looking at Techrunch50 as they&#8217;re reveiled and statistic there are even worse. Only about 20% of companies have blogs and I won&#8217;t even comment on their micro-blogging presence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-click\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8249891@N07\/2732559943\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3272\/2732559943_abbd19346a_m.jpg\" alt=\"zemanta_off_weekend_pula072\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8249891@N07\/2732559943\">Peter \u00c4\u0152uhalev<\/a> via Flickr<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Early adopters want news about you in micro-chuncks so providing easy ways to get it at their leisure. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"RSS\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS\">RSS feeds<\/a> are great for that, together with Twitter account so people can address you without having to go through time expensive operation of figuring out your email and sending one.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s just a beginning of a wild ride \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/falkow.blogsite.com\/public\/item\/210983\">Twitter- A Business Communication Channel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogtillyoudrop.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/09\/best-practices-in-social-media\/\">Best practices in Social Media: forging relationships<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediabullseye.com\/mb\/2008\/08\/get-noticed-and-other-pr-blog.html\">Get Noticed (and Other PR Blog Jots)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/16b50c21-3e72-4d87-aee5-f052dfdfa235\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=16b50c21-3e72-4d87-aee5-f052dfdfa235\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning Seedcamp top 20 is a great thing and even better press event, where all the Tech media will give you some spotlight and fractions of their traffic. 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