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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Consistency is equally critical for startups. A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. Consistency is the cornerstone of good marketing.

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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine recently featured two of the FUND Conference Top 3 Exhibitor winners, Happenstance , and Digs. The top startup at this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois was Balodana , a fashion purchasing platform disrupting the women’s e-commerce fashion industry. We’ve saved the best for last.

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How can startups engage with Google?

VC Cafe

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. In this post, I’ll try to organise the various startup engagement and outreach programs at Google. How can startups engage Google (credit: VC Cafe).

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How to launch a crowdfunding campaign when time’s not on your side

The Next Web

After deciding to launch a crowdfunding campaign for our product, we landed on the date of December 16th, 2013. The hardware renaissance in startups over the past few years, coupled with the accelerating interest in the Internet of Things, led us to seriously consider crowdfunding. Our freelance marketer told us we were crazy.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. Done right, it’s not a one-off campaign by a handful of staff; it’s a long-term commitment. Find the right people to staff your campaign and curate its content and evolution.

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7 Steps To A Winning Social Media Marketing Campaign

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. Create an action plan with metrics.

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Startups Should Avoid These Social Media Mistakes

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. Done right, it’s not a one-off campaign by a handful of staff; it’s a long-term commitment. Find the right people to staff your campaign and curate its content and evolution.