Free Advice: Worth what you pay for it?

May 1, 2010
Exciting news folks. I'll be doing an upcoming installment of "Ask the Expert" at the PariSoma Innovation Loft coworking space in June. Here are the details:

Get FREE advice on lead gen and online marketing. David Hecht will be offering free 30 minute sessions on demand generation, inbound marketing, Google Adwords and sales lead management on Tuesday, June 15, from 12 – 5 pm. There will be six 30 minute time slots available.

David Hecht is a startup advisor and consultant with over 15 years of Internet marketing experience. He has built several large Internet services companies through online and direct marketing, search engine marketing, and Email marketing programs, and has experience managing inside sales organizations and lead cultivation programs as well. Most recently David was the Co-founder and CMO of GoGrid, the Bay Area’s largest managed hosting and cloud computing infrastructure company, where he oversaw the sales, marketing, and product management groups. Previously, he ran marketing at eWork and early dial-up ISP InReach Internet. In addition to consulting, David blogs at www.hectic.com and is also working on a new startup in the local advertising space.


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How to Find a Good Domain Name for Your Startup

April 8, 2010

Disclaimer: I have been involved in naming a lot of companies (pretty much everything here except InReach and eWork), really enjoy it, and am addicted to collecting domain names as well. This is a very tactical guide to one method that works well for naming startups. I am not a fancy naming consultant, nor am I branding expert. You shouldn’t be considering fancy people or firms anyway, unless you are starting a company that is a spin off from some existing large enterprise or is drowning in...


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Manage Your Customer and Lead Data Right from the Start

March 13, 2010
With all of the tasks that go into starting a business, it is easy to forget about properly collecting and managing data on customers and prospects in the beginning. Life in a startup business is hectic, after all, with thousands of tasks vying for your attention - everything from critical things like building the product to hiring to mundane things like getting business cards made and buying supplies.

And since you don’t have a lot of customers and prospects in the beginning, keeping them o...
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Welcome to Hectic.com!

March 9, 2010
After 14 years of various versions of this web site, I've decided to relaunch with new content and resources for startups. In the blog, I'll be trying to deal with some pretty tactical marketing and sales considerations for Internet startup companies.

There are lots of great resources out there for how to get VC funding, or how to find cofounders, or even how to develop products. I will be focusing on what I know and love, online marketing, with some related posts about web hosting, CRM, and o...
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Hectic.com

Making Startups Less Hectic Since 1996

Hectic.com is blog and site of David Hecht, an Internet entrepreneur, startup advisor and online marketing guy based in San Francisco. Most recently I was the co-founder and CMO of GoGrid. Check out some of the businesses I have built and my advisory roles, or get in touch, I'd love to hear from you.


We used to have these things called resumes, but now we have linkedin profiles.


I don't have much to say in 140 characters, but you can follow me @hectic if you have nothing better to do.


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