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Posts in the ‘Startup Advice’ Category
Are you (or your startup) Memeburned yet?
You’ve probably heard of Internet words such as Facebooked, Googled, Youtubed, Twittered, Afrigator’d, Crunchbased and many others. Now you…
In Search of Nigeria’s Silicon City
At a time when some states in Nigeria like Lagos and Ogun have set the ambitious goal to achieve…
My Interview at DayoEdunjobi.com
Today, I thought I should share some excerpts from a recent interview I granted over at DayoEdunjobi.com, a blog about…
Why You Should Start a Business, not a Startup
Jason Fried at 37signals.com has an interesting piece which I thought is worth sharing here…
Startups can
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Top 3 Ways to Create Your Brand – #3: Design
Developing a brand image – personal brand or business brand – is one of the most important strategies for success.…
Top 3 Ways to Create Your Brand – #2: Logo
Developing a brand image – personal brand or business brand – is one of the most important strategies for success.…
7 Strategic Steps to Developing a Winning Business Plan
You’ve probably heard this several times, but I’m going to say it again:
If you are considering
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About this blog
Loy Okezie is an online marketing strategist and start-up analyst. He has consulted for several small and mid-size companies and has advised start-ups such as Careers Nigeria, one of the leading job portals in Nigeria.
He currently works as Content Manager for a branding and advertising company based in the U.S and Nigeria, and is helping to start-up a search and information portal similar to Yahoo!
In this blog, Loy writes about companies and their use of new and emerging technologies as well as their brand marketing and advertising campaigns seen on traditional media and digital media.
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Memeburn
- Apple presents musical social networkOn Wednesday the 1st of September, Apple introduced a music-centric social network called Ping, and unveiled updates to its lineup of iPods and Apple TV. Ping is built into the new iTunes 10, and is available for download to its 160-million users with immediate effect. The service will allow users to discover new music by allowing […]Martin Carstens
ReadWriteWeb
- One Week Later, Digg VP Talks v4 Launch, Backlash & FutureThe Internet was in flames last week as popular social news curation site Digg.com launched the latest iteration of its platform, unleashing a groundswell of outrage and protest from a majority of the site's loyal users. A week later, Digg has begun to respond to its passionate community, making rapid changes and bug fixes as its exhausted back-end infr […]
DigitalCrossings
- PauseThis is my 100th blog post on Digital Crossings.I started this blog in order to start writing again. As a university student, I had fully planned writing to be a key part of what I do for the rest of my life. Of course, like many can imagine, things didn’t work out that way. After putting writing on my New Year’s resolutions lists for several years, in 2009 […]Oladejo Fabolude
TechCrunch
- Mark Zuckerberg Is On iTunes Ping — But Only One Is RealPerhaps you've heard that Apple and Facebook are having a little bit of an issue at the moment. Despite launching with Facebook Connect integration yesterday, it's now nowhere to be seen on Apple's new music social network, Ping. And that's too bad because even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg signed up to try out Ping yesterday, we hear. Whi […]MG Siegler
GigaOM
- Seriously, FCC, Get a Move OnThe FCC today released a new report, Internet Access Services, which gives the state of Internet in the US -- at the end of June 2009. The problem is that the report has data that is 14 months old, which makes it pretty much worthless. […]Om Malik
TechnologyTimes
- Multi-Links Telkom reduces Internet service tariffsBy Olubunmi Adeniyi Lagos. August 25, 2010. Multi-Links Telkom, has announced new cuts in entry and subscription costs Rocket Mobile Broadband, the pioneer private phone company’s Internet service. Acting Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Multi-Links Telkom, Chris Bannister, announced in a stament today that the reduction in the cost of acquiring the Intern […]admin
Mashable
- How Social Data Built a Better Health Care AppAlexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 7-8.Every year,… […]Alex Howard
