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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. Next: : If you’re gonna go global, plan it from the start. Think global, start early. Next: A one-woman PR team. Own your story.

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[Infographic] Global Trade Set To Grow More in 2013: Alibaba

YoungUpstarts

The world is already very well connected, but we’re set to become even more global than before come 2013.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

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Is Your Website “Soooooo 2008?”

Up and Running

Today North American internet users have climbed to 79% ( US Census Bureau ) with a whopping 90% of these users claiming they use the web to help them make purchasing decisions ( Fleishman Hillard 2012 Digital Influence Index ). Here are some criteria to help see if you’re website is hip and happening or pathetic and passé.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2- In 2011, I began learning about hair restoration and started North Atlanta Hair Restoration in 2012. Thanks to Niesha Kennedy, Kennedy Robinson PR ! #12- I had seen enough of large global companies and envied the way they had established their presence and their brand.

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Twitter Link Roundup #187 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

“Less than half of US display ad impressions delivered between May 2012 and February 2013 were in-view” – [link]. Global mobile advertising growing nicely, but North American market share is declining – [link]. Penney failed with its no-sales selling | ThoughtGadgets by Ben Kunz – [link].