Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Viral ideas attach themselves to top-of-the-mind stories, occurrences or environments. In April 2010, for instance, their users sent 2.8 A good way to know if there is a possibility your referral program will succeed is to see if they share your products on social media without asking. This means that when we care, we share.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. B2B: Business Media. Consumer Media. E-Media Summit -->. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

Hunter Walk: DSPTCH started in 2010 as a side hustle out of your apartment. I’ve spent most of my corporate career in online acquisition marketing and while the numbers always start out nice, there will always be a ceiling of how much profitable marketing one can do through the web. and reached out.

Marketing 48

Marketing Design Acquisition Bootstrapping 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. If you’re starting a new media company, does it make sense to charge from day one?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Acquisitions: Pulling Back the Covers – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? Social media critics keep getting it wrong – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

2010 – Sean Ellis, who currently runs Qualaroo , coins the term “growth hacking” in his article, Find a Growth Hacker for Your Startup. ” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K Social media drives communication…to drive sales. Absolutely not.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

This post is an adapted version of my talk at the Media and esports online conference we hosted earlier this week. In 2010 Jon Jacobs built & operated a virtual nightclub inside the game Entropia and sold it for $635,000! . As the Last Dance went viral on Netflix, who doesn’t want a pair of Air Jordans?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer. Steve Smith • Nov 8, 2010 I've always thought that a funny thing to do would be to post an ad on Craigslist saying "I'm a rockstar developer who is looking for the next great idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if Lee Weinberg • Nov 12, 2010 lol.

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Keep at it.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Typically you would search for a term like “inventory software,&# but for our new whizz-bang social media application it all depends on people searching for the longest word in the English language, antidisestablishmentarianism. Well, our application is for social media so anyone in the world can use it. 14,800, here we come!&#

Marketing 64

Marketing Software Review Matching Bootstrapping 64

Brandanew

MAY 27, 2016

Today, we have guest blogger and online media maven, Nina Pineda sharing her tips on how to give your content releases that much needed boost. The term “growth hacker” was coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, an entrepreneur who enabled many companies to achieve massive growth. Time to take notes, and over to Nina! Keep it simple.

Marketing 154

Marketing Viral Social Media Hiring 154

Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. ► 02/20 - 02/27. (1). ► 11/07 - 11/14. (1).

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Sales Software Review Marketing Technical Review 79

Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. August 5th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post? Good stuff man! #2

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Founder Startup Software Review Software 78

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7= means a $0.7

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Among others, I would quote the Bladelogic IPO, the acquisition of Postini by Google for $625m, the two largest SaaS deals in history signed by Cornerstone OnDemand (160k and 350k seats), Eloqua almost doubling its revenues and LinkedIn adding more than 10m users. . ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.

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