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Carter Hostelley

@carterhostelley.bsky.social
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Musings, opinions, ideas about #B2B Social Media Strategy plus #Startups. CEO and Founder, @Leadtail. Fan of Martial Arts.

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Heavybit @heavybit.com · 27/05/2026
How should founders think about marketing their early-stage startup on social media in 2026? @leadtail.bsky.social social media experts @carterhostelley.bsky.social and @heykarri.bsky.social cover 5 strategies to use now: www.heavybit.com/library/arti...
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5 Social Media Strategies for Early-Stage Startup Founders | Heavybit
How should early-stage founders approach social media (especially “tech Twitter”)? The experts at Leadtail explain.
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Interesting #LinedIn data: www.searchenginejournal.com/linkedin-stu... #SocialMedia
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LinkedIn Study Finds Adding Links Boosts Engagement By 13%
New LinkedIn study finds posts with links boost engagement by 13%, contradicting common advice. Learn which content formats perform best.
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🤔 Simple, but super interesting take on #AI + #marketing: tomtunguz.com/webinar-in-t...
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The Digital Hot Dog : Marketing in the Age of AI by @ttunguz
What is a webinar in the age of AI? It’s a blog post. And a podcast. And a video. And a meme. Let me explain. For many webinars, I’ll send a notetaker in my place, a robot to record the conversation &...
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Good POV: tomtunguz.com/your-icp/ via @ttunguz.bsky.social #startups #marketing
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Four Marketing Principles That Redefine Markets from Klaviyo's Former CMO by @ttunguz
During a recent Theory Office Hours with Kady Srinivasan CMO at Lightspeed Commerce, Dropbox, and Klaviyo, we discussed several powerful insights emerged on how early-stage companies should approach m...
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I agree, I think 🤔 sparktoro.com/blog/unpopul... via @sparktoro.bsky.social #PR #Marketing
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Unpopular Opinion: Public Relations is the Future of Marketing - SparkToro
Public relations is a dying trade. Mainstream media has less influence than ever. Pitching for coverage is a thankless, fruitless task. Yeah, well, I
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#B2B #socialmedia is the same but different than B2C social media buffer.com/resources/b2... via @buffer.com #marketing
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B2B Social Media Marketing: How to Create Your Strategy
This article shares tips on making your B2B social content less boring and creating a marketing strategy that drives positive results.
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
news.crunchbase.com/seed/funding... #Startups #VentureCapital via @crunchbase.bsky.social
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Far Fewer Seed-Stage Startups Are Graduating To Series A — Raising The Risk Of Failure
Companies stalled at the seed stage might be sacrificing growth to get to breakeven, which could further hinder their ability to show the traction needed to get to a Series A.
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The bots are coming 🤔 www.socialmediatoday.com/news/5-ways-... #AI #Marketing #SocialMedia
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5 Ways AI Will Change Social Media Marketing
A look at five key AI shifts that will impact your social media and marketing experience.
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Good to keep in mind re: your 2025 event strategy: www.saastr.com/what-works-b... #B2B #Marketing #SaaS
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What Works Better for Field Marketing: Small, Intimate Events? Or the Big Mega Industry Events? | SaaStr
So what gets you more high-quality leads and ultimately business -- smaller, more "intimate" industry events? Or massive ones like Dreamforce, Inbound,
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Interesting data... wonder how @bsky.app will stack up on 2025 🤔 www.saastr.com/whats-better... #B2B #Marketing
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What’s Better, X/Twitter or LinkedIn? Our Data and Some Learnings | SaaStr
So what’s better: X/Twitter or LinkedIn? I’m not a social media expert, but we ended last year with about the same views (40,000,000) and followers
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
2025 Should be an interesting year! news.crunchbase.com/startups/wat... #startups #VentureCapital
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5 Trends In Tech And Startups We’re Watching In 2025, From An M&A Rebound To A Defense Tech Boom
Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline? And what about the tech job market? Every year, we offer up some predictions for the startup world in the coming year. Sometimes w...
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I guess I'll still use them here 😉https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/do-you-still-need-to-use-hashtags/735983/ #SocialMedia #Marketing
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Is It Still Worth Adding Hashtags to Your Posts?
Hashtags are not as important as they once were, but are they useless?
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Hoping 2025 is a better year for #startups 🤞🏻 news.crunchbase.com/startups/wat...
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5 Trends In Tech And Startups We’re Watching In 2025, From An M&A Rebound To A Defense Tech Boom
Will the M&A market pick up next year and, with it, the IPO pipeline? And what about the tech job market? Every year, we offer up some predictions for the startup world in the coming year. Sometimes w...
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Good insights from a super smart #B2B marketer
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Making any of these mistakes? 😉 sparktoro.com/blog/3-commo... via @sparktoro.bsky.social #SocialMedia #Marketing
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3 Common Social Media Mistakes That We Don't Talk About Enough - SparkToro
You know it’s not scalable, but you do it anyway. You email your friends, “Hey, I just posted this thing on LinkedIn. Would you mind resharing it with
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Staying up-to-date on #B2B #SocialMedia 👍
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Yes, more venture investing please 🙏https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/venture-dollars-ai-cybersecurity-intersection-cyera-abnormal/ via @crunchbase.bsky.social #startups #VC
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Venture Dollars Pour Into The Intersection Of AI And Cybersecurity
Thus far this year, VC-backed AI cybersecurity startups have raised more than $2.6 billion, per Crunchbase data. That nearly triples the slightly more than $900 million such startups raised all of las...
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Interesting read/data for us #marketing agency types: sparktoro.com/blog/the-sta... via @sparktoro.bsky.social
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The State of Digital Agencies in 2024: Big Challenges, Bigger Optimism, and Is Remote Work Here to Stay? - SparkToro
Introductory note from Rand: This extraordinary research was put together by the brilliant Paddy Moogan, who’s had a long career in marketing agencies,
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
TikTok is looking for a miracle — but none may be forthcoming www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-t...
Meanwhile, several of Trump’s nominees for key appointments actively pushed for PAFACA. It’s possible to make too much of that — the president-elect has not historically cherished unsolicited advice, particularly when it goes against his own perceived self-interest. And Trump has made clear that, to the extent he feels warmly for TikTok, it is only because it may have helped him win the election.

And so on one hand, anything still remains possible for TikTok in America. On the other hand, though, every day brings us closer to a ban. And aside from getting the Supreme Court to intervene, at this point it’s not clear what TikTok could do about it.
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Carter Hostelley @carterhostelley.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Fingers crossed 🤞for 2025 www.saastr.com/is-saas-back/ #SaaS #Startups
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Is SaaS Back? (TL;DR: It Sure Feels Like It) | SaaStr
https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1864354237989441692 So it was just 8 months ago we wrote "Is SaaS Dead?" and the post not only took off, it summarized
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