The Two Words You Need to Know in Order to Effectively Market your Brand on the Web in 2014

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By: Hillel Fuld (@hilzfuld)

So I was asked to come speak at a Microsoft BizSpark event last week. The topic I chose was how to market your brand in 2014. I know, shocker. The thing is, I genuinely believe that my whole “philosophy” in marketing can be summed up in two words. Of course, you are going to have to watch the entire speech to learn what the two words are. Wait, what do you mean you can fast forward to the end to get the two words and not watch the whole thing? You’re a tricky one…

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Anyway, to use a sentence from one of the classics, I would say to market yourself today, reember the sentence “If you build it, they will come!” But here is the thing. Building it does not mean opening a Twitter account and spamming users, asking people to like your page, or trying to come up with other shortcuts. It means building value through thought leadership and content on an ongoing and consistent basis without expecting an immediate return.

Sounds crazy? I am pretty sure I gave enough examples and stories in the speech to illustrate that the ROI of such a strategy ends up arriving, and arriving in spades. For THAT, you are going to have to watch the whole video. Hope you enjoy and apologies about the poor quality. Ahem, Nexus 5, ahem!

In other news, I don’t like hearing myself speak. I repeat certain words way too often. #Fundamentally


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Hillel Fuld is a global speaker, entrepreneur, journalist, vlogger, and leading startup advisor. He brings over a decade of marketing experience with leading Israeli and Silicon Valley startups, and currently collaborates with many global brands in an official marketing capacity including Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Huawei, and others.      Hillel covers the dynamic local tech scene for many leading publications including Entrepreneur magazine, Inc, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Next Web, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Venturebeat, and others. Additionally, Hillel mentors startups across Israel in different accelerators including The Google Launchpad, the Microsoft Ventures accelerator, Techstars, The Junction, and more.    Hillel has been named Israel’s top marketer, 7th top tech blogger worldwide, has been featured on CNBC, Inc, and was dubbed by Forbes as “The Man Transforming Startup Nation into Scale-up Nation”.       Hillel has hundreds of thousands of followers across the social web and can be found on Twitter at @Hilzfuld. You can learn more about him on his website: www.hilzfuld.com