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16 PR Strategies Every Small Business Should Stop Using Right Now

Up and Running

PR can do wonders for your startup or small business, but not all strategies have proven to be effective. Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. Over-the-Top Self-Promotion. Limited, Egotistical Content.

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“A natural, & healthy, tension between myself & the people I write about.” How The Verge’s Casey Newton Handles ‘Tech Friends.’

Hunter Walker

Casey Newton: When I think about my job performance, I’m generally thinking about two things: impact and audience. Are your competitors aggregating your work? The second dimension is audience, and it’s a tricky one. So I try to look at it in the aggregate—is my audience growing over time? CN: Not well!

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

Audience: 40 percent voted “Yes” (while people believed overall in the emergence of the platform, the projector example did not resonate well - may be because the audience was not composed mostly of baby boomers) 3) The rise of the implicit internet (Josh) This one deserves a bit of explanation.

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Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

Occam's Razor

We are routinely live testing our ads on YouTube with different creatives to check for effectiveness, or the same ad against different audiences/day parts/targeting strategies to find the performance maxima. You immediately total that up and proudly start a PR campaign stating that the experimentation program added $15 mil in revenue.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Too much PR, too early. Company: Home Portfolio. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains.

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Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns

Occam's Razor

You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic. Very often when you run branding campaigns your goal is simply to introduce your business (like we are trying to do with Market Motive , our start up that provides certification courses in Web Analytics, SEO, PPC, PR etc etc).

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