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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

I scoured the academic research on crowdfunding, philanthropy, and helping behavior to understand when and why people donate money (and how you can use those principles in a crowdfunding campaign). Bekkers and Wiepking (2010) examined why people donate to charities. Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation.

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Catch Them On Thanksgiving, Convert Them Into Customers By Christmas

YoungUpstarts

The most advanced companies are able to provide integrated marketing suites to agencies with all of the necessary tools to grow their SMBs’ online presence, including cross platform website builders, ecommerce, web and social customer engagement add-ons, multi-network posting and built-in CRM for maximum efficiency at a reasonable cost.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

Done right, it’s not a one-off campaign by a handful of staff; it’s a long-term commitment. Find the right people to staff your campaign and curate its content and evolution. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. small businesses.

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Startups Should Avoid These Social Media Mistakes

Startup Professionals Musings

Done right, it’s not a one-off campaign by a handful of staff; it’s a long-term commitment. Find the right people to staff your campaign and curate its content and evolution. According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2010 ” from Ad-ology, lead generation is the biggest benefit of social networking for U.S.

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5 Tips To Boost Your SEO In A Competitive Online Environment

YoungUpstarts

While rankings are an important part of an SEO campaign there are other areas you should pay attention to. Treat it like a typical networking scenario. Much like the offline world networking is one of the biggest keys to success in SEO today. by Eric Covino, President of Creative Signals. Here are some tips: Tip 1.

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Binpress – A Marketplace to Find Affordable and Trustworthy Code for Web Development

VC Cafe

Binpress is a discovery engine, and as such, they are using PPC and SEO campaigns, promoting through other coding marketplaces, and creating partnerships in order to drive traffic to the site. BinPress was founded by Adam Benayoun (CEO) in August 2010 and is currently looking for funding. A marketable landing page.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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