05: Breakfast with the Founder of Apple with Hillel Fuld
How does an average tech blogger meetup for breakfast with the Co-Founder of Apple, get Gary Vaynerchuk to speak at his event for free (he usually charges $50,000!), make friends with a famous actress (find out who) and get raving reviews from the top tech publications?
Today I had the privilege of picking the brains of Startup Advisor, Serial Entrepreneur and Tech Blogger, Hillel Fuld.
Hillel is the CMO of Zula, a communication app which helps teams communicate more effectively. He is also a writer for several online publications including Tech Crunch and Business Insider. Hillel is also a Mentor at Google, IBM and Microsoft! And now in his latest venture he has launched Zcast a mobile app for podcasters.
What you will learn:
- How to build a hugely active following
- How to build a personal Brand
- Why creating content is one of the most valuable things you can do
- How often should you write on your blog
- The importance of telling stories
- What should you share on social media platforms
- Why you need to be the face of your company
- Why Zcast is the future of podcasting
- The importance of launching early
- How to get the most influential people to write about your product
- Why competitors are a good thing
- What social platform should you spend most time on
- How to stand out from the noise on social media
Interesting highlights:
- Hillel was featured on i24 News
- Hillel has 55,000 followers on a social platform you wouldn’t expect
- Hillel tweets 70 times a day
- Hillel Mentors for Google, IBM and Microsoft
- Hillel had breakfast with the Founder of Apple Steve Wozniak
- Hillel and Steve Wozniak had to get into a bomb shelter!
- Hillel got Gary Vaynerchuk to come speak for FREE
- Hillel became good friends with Alyssa Milano on Twitter
Hillel’s #1 practical advice:
Resources & Links:
- Hillel Fuld
- Steve Wozniak – Co-Founder of Apple
- Zcast – Hillel’s
- IBM
- Microsoft
- i24 news
- Rackspace – Web Hosting
- Robert Scoble
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Lifehacker
- The Verge
- Mashable
- Pebble – Smart Watch
- Alyssa Milano
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