The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Throw away old ideas of marketing and printed advertising, radio announcements, and direct mail campaigns. Millennials now pay attention to social media. A generation that loves technology and fun-seeking, incorporate social media such as creating blogs, tutorials, videos and engaging fan page.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Creating a controversial marketing campaign may initially seem like a cool idea if implemented well. But there is always a chance that your well-intended, feather-fluffing campaign may backfire. Consider some of the possible highs and risky downfalls of implementing a controversial marketing campaign.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If Giving Tuesday is a new concept for your organization, how can you get your board excited about starting a Giving Tuesday campaign this year? Here are five easy steps to get your fellow directors on board with starting a Giving Tuesday campaign: Put it on your agenda. Outline a Giving Tuesday campaign for your board.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. So we first turned to solve the question of how to better meet the needs of our growing customer base of large brands and media companies. We realized we needed help.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

In 2014, I created and started writing on my blog. Now that I look back, I'm quite grateful that I began blogging at the time I did! Partnerships, pay-per-click ads, resellers, direct-sales people and social media are all ways in which our organization generates revenue. Photo Credit: Anjelica Rivera. 13- Focus on growth.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2015

Lately, especially in 2014, startups have seen great success with turning to the masses — to individuals willing to donate small amounts of money on a massive scale. According to Forbes , the average Kickstarter campaign receives $5,000 in funding. The lesson to learn from the Reading Rainbow campaign is that memories can do a lot.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Team Election Watch – Open Source Tool to Track Political Influence Campaigns. While I authored this blog post, this class is a team project. If you can’t see the SeaWatch 2-minute video click here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

A new 2014 State of Marketing Report from ExactTarget presents the results of a survey taken by approximately 2,000 marketing managers. In fact, 57 percent of marketers plan to increase the number of emails they send in 2014. The top performing email campaigns include loyalty, birthday, welcome, abandoned cart, and browse retargeting.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. You will be creating and scheduling social media posts for our Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter accounts. To Apply: Please email Greg Farrenkopf at Greg.F@skimking.com

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2014

30 Tips for Great Digital Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. By using a mix of these four strategies for great digital marketing: search advertising, webSite, search engine optimization, and social media. A business blog is a winning addition to your website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 11, 2017

You have to drill down deep into the millennial generation to come up with the right marketing campaign for you. TV spots and direct mail campaigns are examples of this one-way communication style which pushes information out to the consumer, but doesn’t allow for response or conversation. Bye, Traditional Marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 13, 2020

trillion in 2014 to 4.3 By the end of this blog, you’ll have an ace up your sleeve when going up against the competition. Reach customers in various places: online, in-person, on social media, etc. Social media management. Content marketing (such as blogs). With online sales projected to grow from 1.3

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

As part of her latest campaign, she took advantage of New York’s Citibike Bike Sharing Program and placed Cheek’d cards in the baskets of as many bikes as she could. When asked how to get media coverage, Lori says that she prefers to take a subtle yet persistent approach. “My Blog and be an active contributor within the blogosphere.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

Books, newspapers, magazine, blogs, comment threads. Mitch Joel, a leading expert in new media, describe our current moment of “business purgatory.” d) Social Media. By 2014, the mobile internet is predicted to overtake desktop internet usage. I love to read. Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. NVV: How did you adjust?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

But among those options, appearing on almost every site, is one link that simply doesn’t belong with the rest: “Blog.” ” Don’t misunderstand, it’s not the fact that a startup’s blog exists that’s so troubling. So, should startups blog? That’s it! Jargon and complexity need not apply.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Blogs/ press – to get consumers to learn about your new app, PR remains a viable source, especially when it comes to buzzy/social apps. Social media – while a lot of the social media exposure to apps is done via targeted advertising, with over 2.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tip: Do your best to keep conversions tied to the same outcome for the various SEO campaigns you’ll undertake. First, it created useless data because we could not compare conversion rates later in our campaigns to the earlier data. There are many excellent online tools that will help you with SEO campaigns.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2015

How to Use Marketing Automation Throughout the Customer Journey written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. According to TFM&A’s 2014 marketing automation report , the top three reasons marketers use automation is: It takes repetitive tasks out of their hands (36%).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

For example, if your branding is inconsistent or consistently poor in email and content marketing campaigns, people will notice. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator : Need a blog post idea?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2014: 1. Other 2014 design trends include blurred backgrounds, simple animations, more scrolling, and bigger fonts. For even more about 2014 design trends, I recommend you read 18 pivotal web design trends for 2014. Your website reflects your brand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

He is also the managing member of the Oasis Strategy Group and CEO of RSL Media. Previously, Rob was the founder and publisher of The New York Enterprise Report, a media company that served small and midsize businesses. He's also the managing member of the Oasis Strategy Group and CEO of RSL Media.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One aspect is demand-side: when the number of seed financings peaked in 2014–2015 timeframe , a new seed round stopped becoming “news,” and so it became less interesting for the press to actually report on these events. and hopefully media coverage?—?by What’s going on? Instead, following PR 101 to get the most bang?—?and

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Given the direct correlation between policies that are put in place to support women and the opportunities that are available to women, it’s little wonder we’re globally campaigning for change, and acknowledgement. Stage a social media campaign. Some are definitely worth applying if you own your own business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

On the other hand, many sites are still dealing with problems of inaction, or lingering issues from past SEO campaigns. A good place to start for a DIY backlink audit would be this 2014 Moz link audit guide. In June, there was a wonderful guide for franchise SEO on Business 2 Community’s blog. I’m willing to bet you can.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

2014 is almost here. Here are my 10 rules for #winning in 2014. This is nothing compared to 2014 and beyond. So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. Please stop being stupid in 2014. How to make much more money in the coming year?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

On the other hand several crowd-funding campaigns have underwhelmed in terms of meeting deadlines which damages ones brand so be careful about this, too. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. Just don’t spam people.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2016

When Automation Goes Wrong: A Better Approach to Social Media written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Given the sheer scale of social media and the number of social channels (there are over 90 social networks ) – and the volume of people using them (Facebook has over 1.59 We Love Social Media Fails.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2014

Surveying Competitor’s Customers In The “Wild” You’ve probably already heard a lot about “spying” on your competitors using social media, but do you actually do it? Jan Dobson (@mytruself) July 10, 2014. Blog eCommerce Resources Landing Pages Lead Generation' image source.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

However, the process of actually setting up a Facebook marketing campaign can be confusing, as there really is almost too much information out there. How to track whether or not your marketing campaign is successful. Ideally, the new Facebook marketing campaign you’re initiating will bring in new customers and fans.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 18, 2015

However, there are four types of promotional emails you see quite often: sales / special offer emails, upgrade emails, event / invitation emails, and blog emails. Blog Emails. Blog emails are fairly common. You likely subscribe to at least one or two blogs. The deliverability of future campaigns will suffer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2014

8 Ways to Amplify Your Content on Mobile written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Keep your business and marketing goals in mind as you consider your mobile campaigns. Mobile users are almost twice as likely to share content on social media sites. photo credit: shutterstock.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

3 Super Simple Ways to Make Buffer Even More Useful written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Millions use Buffer for it’s core namesake functionality – buffering social media updates over the course of a day. One very useful way to use Buffer is in support of a campaign.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! 13 Powerful Ways You Can Manage Customer Expectations Better To Grow Your Business Faster Than Ever – crowdspring Blog [link].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

from 2013 to 2014. From Q2 2014 to Q2 2015, that number increased 14.1%. In 2014, Optimizely shared a case study from Dewalt , one of Black and Decker’s brands, which serves as a good example. Social proof in the form of testimonials, customer reviews, social media praise, activity data (e.g. “43 Note that visitors are 4.1%

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