Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? The post Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral. A story of an app from nowhere to near dominance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Stakeholder power.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

Press releases may have been the main thing back in the day where printing was the way to pass information and before the internet became mainstream. If it is something that would excite your followers, then the information can go viral within a very short time span. The internet has not made press releases obsolete.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. Carpe Diem.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? of going viral that makes all the difference between failure and success.) If you can’t measure the results of your attempts to gain a viral response, how can you know when to focus upon reinforcing or changing the effort?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

So you tell me what the future of the Internet will be? Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. The Internet is “smart pipes.” hours of TV per day. Think about.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

In fact, by 2021, internet traffic will be comprised of 82% video content. Beyond getting backlinks to your site, other off-page strategies include guest posting and increasing your business listings across the internet in relevant places. Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

Those ad-specific stats pair with the ongoing shift toward video as the primary medium on the Internet. Cisco’s VNI forecast estimates that 82% of all Internet traffic will be video in 2022. The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. Image source ). Stay on brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

Marketing 260

Marketing Viral Demand Channel 260

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. He’s open and insightful with his knowledge. Series A round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

Marketing 120

Marketing Viral Demand Channel 120

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

As Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs, we constantly are building web properties or creating content. Guest Bloggers can distribute content for free. Aziz signing off Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here. From social media to custom graphics.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Wow” moments lead to word-of-mouth viral growth and high net promoter scores. Economic Advantages vs. the Status Quo.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2019

With millions of articles on the internet, there is a majority of them which are poorly written or not up to par. An excellent blog has a high probability of going viral, which is why you should always aim for good writing. In addition to good writing, the next thing to keep in mind is the distribution of ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

We see evidence in the news every day of these irresistible forces of change, like the pervasive global penetration of the Internet, the impact of terrorist activities even to peaceful countries, the power of social media in building business relationships, and the depletion and pollution of natural resources. Stakeholder power.

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Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

The most popular growth hacking techniques include social media and viral marketing. Viral marketing. Viral marketing is a marketing technique that refers to creating a buzz around the brand’s products and services using existing social networks. Internet memes and memetics play a major role in its execution. Owned media.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Like many small companies with limited marketing budgets, we are forced to work with the resources at hand, so creativity, partnering approaches, social media, and viral efforts tend to be our stock in trade. Or right here on the good ol’ Internets? Downtown business district? Your client’s plant or office?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. Social proof is one of the most powerful elemental forces of the internet, at your disposal.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. The list goes on; given the challenges of current education institutions in the US and abroad (high cost, limited distribution), technology coupled with strong content can help make quality education available to all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

Marketing 137

Marketing Startup Viral Demand 137

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

It’s not uncommon for companies to hire agencies to help claim shares of the lucrative global market available over the Internet. Small business owners can spend a little time on promotion and get the same results as the big companies who outsource their internet marketing without spending fortunes on advertising.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. It''s a good measurement because it captures both satisfaction and virality. Data-driven business is here today; it''s just not evenly distributed. Alistair: There are plenty.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

The internet became one big opinion section where Google and Facebook made all the money in the distribution, but never helped in the creation or printing. A new post is born into the internet with a click, then algorithms do their work to show the baby content to people that are likely to be interested.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2010

Consider Multi-Formats For Mass Distribution and Engagement. Distribution: Ensuring your content reaches as many of the right people as it can. Note the very key difference between consumption and distribution. There’s no point having great distribution if no one engages with your content. Yaro Starak.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

Websites like Amazon’s CreateSpace , Blurb , and Lulu allow authors to design, produce, and distribute their own books, either digitally or via print-to-order hard copies quickly and inexpensively. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If its part of a viral loop, its probably trying to get them to invite more friends (on average). How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. But in my experience this is not useful most of the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. It’s significantly easier to get a press mention from smaller bloggers or internet evangelists (Youtube, Scoop.it). See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it. Choose wisely and you will find that your own media choices matter.

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Small Business Public Relations Social Media New York 88

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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