Bootstrapping Email Sales Viral 
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Email list sign ups have been 5-10x normal rate. Viral short form can help! I can see how social management can be one person’s job, but that’s not always possible while bootstrapping. Viral short form can exponentially increase awareness of your startup brand. So you still get a greater number of good leads.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 11, 2010
"We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". We'll have an email address so people can communicate with us without picking up the phone.". This is the viral step: Having trialed the tool, the stranger might use it herself, then more people find out about it, and so forth. Frightening honesty.
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Up and Running
JULY 10, 2017
You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. I suspect we’ll get rid of the freemium model at some point soon as there’s no real benefit. Youtube ads. $1 1 freemium.
Software By Rob
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). Given the above we can gather some interesting realizations: Realization #1: If you’re bootstrapping, don’t plan to advertise. They’re “new,&# “revolutionary&# and “viral.&#
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. Sales cycles matter though.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. Sales cycles matter though.
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