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Cannabis Marketing Without Paid Ads: How to Do it Right

Up and Running

Text or Short Message Service (SMS) Marketing. Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle. Incorporating referral links into your communications and incentivizing folks to share them facilitates “viral lopping” and organic growth. SMS or Text Message Marketing. Word-of-Mouth Marketing.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices. Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages, stay connected to Facebook, and surf the web looking for the latest news or directions. .  Yes, he got an iPhone, and then days later I got a message to get connected to him on Facebook. 

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do?

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The most important mobile design decision a startup faces

The Next Web

Mobile device data and functionality, such as the user’s address book and SMS, are being leveraged to drive growth and engagement today, but there are many ways these can be used to improve the core product experience. the network connection type and abstractions like patterns of physical movement. Attracting and growing a user base.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Xpenser – Record your expenses with email, SMS, Twitter, IM, and more. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Twitter is inherently viral.

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