Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Thanks to Danielle Sabrina, Society22 PR ! #3- Ensure that your website is easy to navigate, loads quickly, and is mobile-responsive to cater to a diverse audience. Second, focus on digital marketing channels that align with your target audience—SEO, social media, and email marketing have been invaluable for us.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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APRIL 26, 2009

But part was a recognition that we could gain substantial competitive advantage by leveraging a community of like-minded visionary customers to serve a wider (and more mainstream) audience than we could alone. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. face an overwhelming incentive to say whatever it is that will sound good to their audience, regardless of whether it is true. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Thats because a marketing launch is a one-time event, and rarely translates into renewable audiences. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This time, I was lucky enough to have my friend Nivi from Venture Hacks in the audience, and he was recording. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. That means today, in addition to the slides themselves, you can listen to the whole talk in its hour-long glory , Q&A included.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 17, 2022

Thanks to Abby Wilson, LGBTQ Flags Australia ! #6- Thanks to Megan Benedict, Friend of a Friend PR ! #9- One great benefit of being a business owner is that I can efficiently influence a more extensive audience making a positive difference and profit from it. There’s more flexibility and freedom in the decisions I make.

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