A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. The reason Smart Bear doesn’t show up at all in the ads (we’re there in the organic results) is that AdWords is now so expensive that there’s literally twenty other online marketing campaigns that perform better, so it’s not profitable to do it. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. Looong Appendix (only for those interested in reading another story about losing a sale & key lessons): A personal story of losing a sale that haunted me for years.

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. Looong Appendix (only for those interested in reading another story about losing a sale & key lessons): A personal story of losing a sale that haunted me for years.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Mascoll’s experience then took him to New York City, where he immersed himself in the advertising world, working on several campaigns with major national clients like Pepsi, Target and Burger King. Taking what he learned at HBO, Mascoll formed EME Inc., Games On Wheels is the largest mobile video game truck business in the country.

Media 113

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. In a sales campaign you always need to call as high as you can. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. In this post I want to tell you how I embrace my losses and what I think you can learn from them.

Software Review 151

Software Review Technical Review Silicon Valley France 151

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. But there are some other steps you can take toward a viral marketing campaign: Prepare to grow: Make sure your web hosting account is ready for increased traffic and your merchant account is ready for an increase in sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 25, 2019

, you may be unaware of some of the rules and regulations that come along with managing a mailing list and launching campaigns. In 2003, President Bush signed the CAN-SPAM Act into law. If you hire a marketer to do your email campaigns for you, be sure that they’re up to date on these laws.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

The client for a print ad campaign may have very specific expectations about the color palette an ad’s imagery should incorporate. As you add additional specificity and complexity to prompts, you can start to overwhelm it. In professional situations, of course, a high degree of precision is not just desirable but necessary.

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Warrant Artificial Inteligence Social Media Early Stage 44

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2019

PEMCO developed a bus ad campaign that featured humorous Pacific Northwest images that sparked Seattleites’ sense of community, pride, and kinship. Not surprisingly, PEMCO’s revenue has flourished in recent years, growing 30 percent between 2003 and 2015. This last point is where Chase went wrong. We can be PEMCOs.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. So we at AMH have embarked on a campaign to build oxygen capacity at Christian hospitals throughout Africa. Mark Gerson is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist (see his short bio below). Please join us!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored. Keep the content fresh and current.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

If your 2010 website has content dated from 2003, your visitors may quickly leave your site. But SEO and/or SEM campaigns can provide great leverage to small businesses and as a result, should not be ignored. Keep the content fresh and current.

Small Business 122

Small Business Web Design Marketing 122

Board Effect

MAY 19, 2021

In fact, Google has awarded over $10 billion in free ads since 2003. You don’t need to use all of them to have an effective Google Ads campaign, and you don’t have to be a master digital marketer either. Over 115,000 nonprofits in 51 countries have already seized this grant opportunity.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In 2003, President George W. When you set up your next email campaign, it worth to check it against this list of rules to make sure everything is legit. Email marketing is also one of the quickest ways to irritate your customers and make them stop buying your products without getting permission to send emails.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But, at least twenty graphic design firms from around the world have proven to be the best in their field, with gorgeous portfolios filled with impressive clients and prominent design campaigns. The National’s Sleep Well Beast campaign and album design, by Pentagram. The company was joined by logo designer Sagi Haviv in 2003.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

While initial social media initiatives were focused primarily on building and engaging in organic ways, smart marketers are now adding paid campaign support to the social mix very much like search engine marketing relies on PPC ad support.

Small Business 62

Small Business PPC Social Media Public Relations 62

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

The web has seen other videos go viral, but never with the speed accomplished by three young filmmakers who traveled to Africa in 2003 to help stop the rebel Joseph Kony’s ferocious campaign and his strategy of using children as soldiers and sex slaves. Invisible Children was formed in 2003 and has produced 11 films to date.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 12, 2017

Social media is here to stay and the best social media campaigns are those that captivate and engage their target audience. Our mission is to create systematic public relations and social media campaigns with quantifiable and measurable results. What does your business do? .

Social Media 48

Social Media PR Media Public Relations 48

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

When I decided to start my business in 2003 it was not a decision that I took lightly. I like to say the Copy is QUEEN and Strategy is KING – both are needed to create a successful marketing campaign. Tell us about your background and what led you to start your business?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

This act, passed in 2003, establishes guidelines for sending behavior, content, and subscription compliance, while defining commercial email messages (which are different from transactional or relationship-based emails). Belgium – Etat des lieux en juillet 2003, July 4, 2003. CAN-SPAM Act. percent increase in email opens.

Email 28

Email Czech Republic Marketing United Kingdom 28

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

It also extends to how it links with wider marketing campaigns… It even encompasses the materials used to create it: Is it recyclable or reusable? In 2003 owner Paul Canella began selling biodegradable dog waste bags and he’s never looked back. Vintage or contemporary? Enter PoopBags.com… PoopBags.com. The Packaging.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

The idea behind this graphic I call the Marketing Hourglass is that marketing is no longer a hunt and close business, it’s a be found, build trust, nurture, wow and refer business.

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Marketing RSS Social Media Lead Generation 69

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 28, 2011

GaggleAMP – tool that let’s you get your customers and partners involved in amplifying your social media campaigns. Image Pascal Mages via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Gridly – Agency like templating system that makes it very easy to create consistently branded print materials. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Small Business Marketing Social Media RSS 55

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

A marketing campaign uses slogans, images and page designs similar to those used by someone else. Read creative commons licenses carefully before using the material in your marketing campaign. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail. Be careful.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review United States Email 48

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

A marketing campaign uses slogans, images and page designs similar to those used by someone else. Read creative commons licenses carefully before using the material in your marketing campaign. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail. Be careful.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review United States Email 48

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

A marketing campaign uses slogans, images and page designs similar to those used by someone else. Read creative commons licenses carefully before using the material in your marketing campaign. The CAN-SPAM Act, signed into law in 2003, established national standards in the United States for sending commercial e-mail. Be careful.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review United States Email 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 26, 2014

It’s not our fault that most of us associate marketing automation with complex campaigns run by advanced marketers in bigger companies. We also know that more information is being created every 48 hours than the entire amount we made before 2003. That’s how it took off in the last decade. How It All Began. Why They’re “Too Complex”.

Marketing 59

Marketing B2B SEO Campaign 59

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Zucker, a veteran news executive, will succeed Jim Walton, who has had the job since 2003. But it’ll take more than a branding campaign for Microsoft to attain even a sliver of the fandom enjoyed by Apple. The campaign goes on to plug Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, as “an honest search.”

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2015

Whenever you plan to send out a newsletter or start a direct marketing campaign, make sure that you check these “do not mail” lists for any customers that may have opted-out of your material. and the Mailing Preference Service in the U.K. also provide services and resources for allowing consumers to opt-out of direct marketing mail.

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Direct Marketing Advertising Email Sales 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2018

It also extends to how it links with wider marketing campaigns… It even encompasses the materials used to create it: Is it recyclable or reusable? In 2003 owner Paul Canella began selling biodegradable dog waste bags and he’s never looked back. Vintage or contemporary? Enter PoopBags.com… PoopBags.com. The Packaging.

Charlotte 48

Charlotte Design Ghana Web 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

Apps and contests and campaigns to get more Likes are all fine, but the real payoff is at the wall. Particularly true of mobile users.) What this means is that you must commit to making your Wall and your status updates frequent, human and compelling.

Small Business 78

Small Business Social Media Networking Engineer 78

Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Nonprofit boards or their committees should be careful to monitor and control promotional campaigns just as they monitor all social media postings. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 prohibits unsolicited email notices. Don’t leave discretion up. To unaffiliated entities or users even if they give your nonprofit a marketing advantage.

Social Media 49

Social Media Media Viral Advertising 49

Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

You can easily imagine how you want someone to explore that data by traffic sources or campaigns or geo or myriad valuable dimensions. The plots are from the American Time Use Survey , a multi-year study from 2003 to 2015 conducted by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Necessary, but not sufficient.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2011

This single minded purpose is the filter for every business decision, hiring decision, product decision, and marketing campaign – and it often starts by simply realizing and capturing who the company is being at some point in time – the here’s what we really stand for moment.

Small Business 57

Small Business Marketing RSS Social Media 57

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 25, 2011

You should also add a series of routine systems and tools to all of your campaigns, calls to action and Web pages as striking the right balance of elements, colors, words, and images can send your conversion rates soaring with very time and money invested.

Small Business 65

Small Business Marketing Social Media Web 65

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2011

Being easy to do business with is a marketing strategy that can become a culture and mantra that spreads word of mouth and drives customer adoption faster than any promotion or campaign ever could. Evernote is easy to do business with.

Marketing 74

Marketing Social Media Small Business Engineer 74

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Stop thinking from a campaign mentality. Your content is competing with everyone and everything, even traditional media companies. Make your content unique, interesting, fun (if possible), multichannel and execute the crap out of it. 5. Lack of a Content Calendar. Content for your customers is a promise.

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