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Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups

crowdSPRING Blog

The ads we see on television or in magazines, for example, were developed by agencies and consultants who evaluated past campaigns, developed concepts and assumptions about advertising themes, conducted some market research/focus group testing, created story boards, developed scripts (for commercials), and much more.

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. With an innovative product in the consumer payment space, the company had viral-ready content. Take good care of them, and organic, viral sharing may welcome your product to the marketplace. Prioritize social networks. Startup Example: Cloudera.

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Lessons From Campaign Emails: How Did Hillary’s Media Narrative Fail?

Brandanew

Disclaimer: This post is only analyzing a small set of sample emails sent by Hillary’s campaign to readers. Use of social media in political campaigns is no longer new. But the reason Obama’s campaign is discussed here is because he was the first major leader to use it effectively.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. Just put in your credit card. I used to use $.05,

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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Want Your Startup To Appear in TechCrunch? Lean Marketing Hacks for Startups

VC Cafe

Israeli startups interested in more effective “lean marketing”, should learn from Ben Lang , the 20 year old Wunderkind and contributor at TechCrunch, Business Insider and Forbes. Viral Projects. Some brands understand the value of building a viral project, unrelated to their core offering, with broad appeal. Use stats.grok.se

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

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. A famous 1913 campaign by R.J. That rarely happens.

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