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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

SP had a lot of tutorials that were downloaded a lot. You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques. That’s the story of Matt Mickiewicz the founder of Sitepoint, a site which, back in 1999, was the first online forum for web designers and developers. WebmasterResources then got rebranded to be SitePoint.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I’ll also include the MP3 download if you just want the audio without the video. Download the MP3 Audio only file [ 81 minutes | 56MB ]. Download the PDF Text Transcript [ 41 Pages | PDF ]. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that.

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Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem

This is going to be BIG.

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. 4) Easy Payments that Ensure Virality. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music? Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. You guessed it — straight up free money. A doughnut is one thing, cold-hard cash is even better.

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6 Ways to Create Buzzworthy Content

Duct Tape Marketing

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. A tough task to accomplish, but one with a ton of viral potential.

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