Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

Infographics offer the unique ability to go viral and get your brand in front of millions of online visitors in a single day. Here are five tips for creating an infographic that will go viral and global: 1. The key is to create a viral infographic campaign that has mass appeal, is timely and innovative.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Identify the audience. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Once you have identified your audience, locating them is the next step. Startup Example: Zappos.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. Attribute it all to the Facebook campaigns.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. In Suspense the audience and characters know the same information.”.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

One of the many things I’ve learned about users’ online behaviour here at LoginRadius is that the younger demographic not only expect a seamless web experience, they know full well it’s available and are irritated if websites don’t offer that. Social sharing means you can access a wider audience because users love sharing content online.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2016

Even if your business functions offline, this is still going to be a massive part of your campaign. You can use Website Rocket for your local SEO campaign and make sure you have everything you need. Great Web Design. That’s why you should also invest in a professional web design. The Right SEO. Engagement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. Here are 5 campaigns we greatly admire that used relatively scant funds and some of the lessons that small businesses can achieve from an analysis of their success! The Obama campaign and viral video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Today’s audience is looking for something more creative, more visual, engaging, and interactive. Here is where you have to think outside the box.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2023

TikTok is used to create engaging and entertaining content that aligns with the brand's values and target audience. Entrepreneurs can employ popular trends, challenges, and collaborations with influencers to reach a wider audience and gain viral attention. Thanks to Martin Seeley, Mattress Next Day ! #2-

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

One of the many things I’ve learned about users’ online behavior here at LoginRadius is that the younger demographic not only expect a seamless web experience, they know full well it’s available and are irritated if websites don’t offer that. You still need to provide the products and services your target audience wants.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Launch a viral competition. A viral competition is a competition where you enter with an email address, and then get extra entries for every person who signs up from your referral. For this viral competition we generated 2,987 emails for a total cost of $6,661.11 Here are some of the best approaches being used today… 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display advertising.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

— Northwoods Web Solutions (@northwoods) March 28, 2018. — Northwoods Web Solutions (@northwoods) March 28, 2018. it will never be as easy or affordable to build Messenger audience for your brand as it is right now. Create win-back campaigns for churned customers. There are low-hanging fruits everywhere.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

have the highest conversion rate and identify the content that earns the most interest from your target audience. In the words of hundreds of reviewers, Google Analytics was essential to “identify channels,” “track campaigns,” and monitor “traffic flow.”. You’ll be able to see which channels (paid, organic, social, etc.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It was a viral hit. For your next push for brand awareness, consider focusing your company’s talents on creating something truly unique and relevant to your target audience. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers. Image credit: Nicer. Is yours up to snuff?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It was a viral hit. For your next push for brand awareness, consider focusing your company’s talents on creating something truly unique and relevant to your target audience. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers. Image credit: Nicer. Is yours up to snuff?

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Viral Technical Review Startup Social Network 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

It was a viral hit. For your next push for brand awareness, consider focusing your company’s talents on creating something truly unique and relevant to your target audience. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers. Image credit: Nicer. Is yours up to snuff?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Some use the display advertising options on YouTube, but are not sure what value those ads deliver (and how to think of them in context of web display ads or even TV). Because of YouTube.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Dropbox is a perfect example of a company that relied heavily on product virality, which was built into the product.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

When e-commerce first took off in the 1990s, web traffic was regarded as the most critical metric for measuring a website’s popularity. So, you’re missing out if you’re not using them in your paid search or SEO campaigns. Sharability adds to the potential of your content going viral. Final Thoughts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Beauty brands need to be audience focused and feedback driven in order to thrive. You can also use the power of micro-influencers to market your beauty brand to a targeted and niche audience. While they are often less popular and not as well known, their more niche focus makes them highly relevant to their respective audiences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Probably not – you need to be finding an audience, making sure that audience will trade you their attention for your content, and – most importantly – establishing a baseline for how much that attention is worth to advertisers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell. Founded in 2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Business owners with a brick and mortar store need to reach out to a bigger audience online. Every time you post with your business ID, your business name (and web page link) you’re putting yourself out there in front of potential customers. Create a web page with a sign up form and use email and social media to announce the call.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

Instead, think of Pinterest as a way to build an audience or an additional distribution channel for your content. Instead, they tailor their Pinterest content for the platform’s audience: “5 Tips To Make Money From Home”; “Can You Really Make Money On The Side With ABC Service?”; “7 Saving Tips Stay-At-Home Moms Should Know!”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media. Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

It seems that everyone is running some type of online campaign nowadays. Here is our guide to running an effective and legal sweepstakes campaign online. First off, let’s define what a sweepstakes campaign is. Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Wondering what your audience is glued to while you are busy using traditional advertising, core campaigning, and doing paid marketing for your products? Exactly where they need to be, on their smart screens scrolling some viral internet discussion. by Uzair Khan, VP of Sales & Marketing at Enterprise Monkey. Conclusion.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming on the web is difficult because it’s a multiple-step process that’s a mix of art, science and pure perseverance. Grindr CEO: 100 Percent of My Audience Does Not Have Equality. For my Adult web store I used my dogs name + Pleasure box and I came up with corbinspleasurebox.org. Web Video Roundup. Like Tweet.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

“If you have fewer posts but of a higher quality, it’s much more likely one of those posts will go viral and reach an exponentially larger group than you would reach if you had focused on quantity,” he says. In other words, if there’s any one way to control whether a post goes viral, quality is it.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Be careful with misspelled words, though, as they may feel too “web 2.0” While.com is still the gold standard on the web, a clever use of other domain extensions can still lead to a great name. your product appeals to a tech audience), as it cheapens your image. Grindr CEO: 100 Percent of My Audience Does Not Have Equality.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. The challenge is that there are millions of micro influencers and still no standard way of booking these campaigns in a programatic approach in the same way that can be achieved with ads.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You have to choose just the right words to convey your unique message to your specific audience. Read on to learn how to write marketing copy that combines both art and science – copy that will engage your audience and motivate them to convert. How to identfy your brand's audience, and more! Writing is a tricky business.

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