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Referral Programs: A Guide for Small Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Every client referral programs are probably the ones you are most familiar with, a gift certificate, refer-a-friend model, donation matching offers, etc. Exclusive Content or Advisory Board You can create exclusive content or an advisory board of your champion customers. They have an organization called Cadre.

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Bolster’s Founding Manifesto

OnlyOnce

We are building a platform to make instant, tailored, vetted matches between talent and companies without the randomness of a job board and without the theater, long lead times, and cost, of a full service agency. Bolster your board. We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team. Bolster your work.

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Bolster’s Founding Manifesto

OnlyOnce

We are building a platform to make instant, tailored, vetted matches between talent and companies without the randomness of a job board and without the theater, long lead times, and cost, of a full service agency. Bolster your board. We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team. Bolster your work.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

The number of those VCs who didn’t know our stage or who had some other part of their thesis that we didn’t match was also staggering. If an introduction was properly curated (meaning double opt in) then you need to treat it with great care. Value add carries with it a suggestion that you have something special you’re going to do.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. The match-up of meaty pieces and the ticker seems to be working, at least for me. 2:1 to old folks.