Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. They need a stronger campaign about consumption rather than sending Tweets. It’s how I met Brian Sierakowski from the Greater Baltimore Tech Council who organized an entrepreneur lunch for me when I was passing through town last week. Look at Quora.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Don’t try too hard to “go viral” and above all, obey the law. Guerrilla marketing is a little risky, but the risk should be in the success or failure of the campaign and not in running afoul of the law. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Get efficient.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Don’t try too hard to “go viral” and above all, obey the law. Guerrilla marketing is a little risky, but the risk should be in the success or failure of the campaign and not in running afoul of the law. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Get efficient.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

PR can be executed on a modest budget, and the awareness and word-of-mouth that can be attained is priceless for a small company. A couple of weeks ago, Ross wrote about setting goals for your company , and this is critical in your approach to PR. Create a budget. Have a plan. Be a resource.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

But experienced business owners and marketing/PR experts all agree that such doubts and fears are irrational. To help ease small business owners and entrepreneurs into the world of networking, here are three basic tips to becoming a networking ninja. If this describes you – you are not alone. image credit: Jurgen Appelo.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. Your crowdfunding campaign. Your crowdfunding campaign hit it out of the park.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

I love Duct Tape Marketing , Seth Godin , Chris Brogan and the rest, but give my company coverage in an article in Forbes or BusinessWeek or the New York Times for the greatest impact, the largest audience, and the most meaningful value for our PR dollar spent. In PR placements, ‘place’ matters. Leverage your friends.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 19, 2011

Here are 10 great tips shared with us by various PR and Media folks that I hope you find useful! 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Prepare well. Before the interview make a short list of three or four points you want to make during the interview. Photo: United Nations Photo.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A great example of the is last year’s (PRODUCT)RED campaign, a major marketing effort, the goal of which was to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Remember, what comes around, goes around.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The most common question entrepreneurs ask me, is “how can I improve my marketing with no or little money?’ While it’s important to keep up traditional communication and PR, business owners should also be extending their relationships through online forums – website, blogs, and social networks. They got great results.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

There can be a temptation to get your brand widely recognized by running a blanket campaign that targets all major platforms. Start your brand awareness campaigns where you know your audience is active (turning up regularly, liking content, commenting, and sharing) and create content and creative that’s suited to those channels.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The PR and buzz is unparalleled. Postgame is where digital and viral take over, exponentially increasing the value of a Super Bowl ad with each additional view, comment, blog posting and Twitter comment. Pregame buzz – You’re not buying 30 seconds; you’re buying two weeks of pregame hype as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. 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. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. before you launch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

How One Entrepreneur Raised A Half Billion Dollars crowdspring.co/1HRNSqX. Inspiring Entrepreneurs Who Earn Income on Social Media bit.ly/1zpxEUZ. Inspiring Entrepreneurs Who Earn Income on Social Media crowdspring.co/1zpxFYU. Brilliant Video Marketing Campaigns You’ll Actually Enjoy Watching crowdspring.co/1HRwXF7.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). We love small businesses, we love creativity, we love the people who are leveraging the internet to promote and benefit from these things and, now, we love Amanda! Related posts: Personal branding in a world of meat.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Do your own PR. How to Do Market Research.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. How has the viral coefficient been for you? Gregg gave us specifics on how viral adoption has worked. Here’s the link.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

Simplicity | Entrepreneur by Debra Kaye – [link]. Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral | Harvard Business Review – [link]. . “A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.” ” | by Seth Godin – [link]. The Secret to Successful Product Design?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. How to Be Happy: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective | Forbes – [link]. An Entrepreneur’s “Stop Doing” List | Inc – [link]. Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends | Forbes – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. He’s the host of EOFire , an award-winning podcast that interviews successful entrepreneurs seven days a week. I say over and over again, if I launched Entrepreneur On Fire today, it would fail. I’m on a Heil PR-40.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

Thanks to Richard Laermer , RLM Pr. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Avoid Making Your Own Mobile Apps. But don’t get sucked into it.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2020

Now to pitch something like this, you do not need to create a fancy PR release. If you want your data to be understood quickly by the PR reporter, graphs are a great way to do this. A great campaign could be done by reporting the most Instagrammed places in the country. Tips For Successful PR Outreach and Link Building.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. million in venture financing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

One example is we have a feature on our … We make marketing software, and we launched a feature that helps our customers plan marketing campaigns. So, for them, it was really difficult to see, to have single visibility on how this campaign is doing. I think it powers advertising, it powers email, it powers social, it powers PR.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

Thanks to Richard Laermer , RLM Pr. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. You can’t architect a viral success. Avoid Making Your Own Mobile Apps. But don’t get sucked into it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Fearless Women Entrepreneur Network – [link]. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Crowdfunding Campaigns Come With a Growing Price Tag | Yahoo Small Business – Advisor buff.ly/1ug2ciE. Entrepreneur Russ Fradin Makes More Money, Less Noise | Hunter Walk – buff.ly/1A6Bopo. Not All Viral Videos Are Good Content Marketing – crowdspring.co/12NPqSc. The Ultimate List of Blog Post Ideas crowdspring.co/1sNBpe5.

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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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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do you “entrepreneurs” really think a guy or gal that can compile Linux on a bicycle wants to write a secure payment processor on an iPhone, or a Flash app that runs on every browser? I am an entrepreneur and own a start-up, and have hired many coders over the years. And it was slow going to master that. … James.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Unfortunately, John Doeer was not in the panel this year, but Tony said he could not believe anymore in Johns forecasts after his support of Hillarys presidential campaign. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Software 2.0:

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Which means that for me to get the policy changed here, I actually had to become an advocate and a campaigner. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people.

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