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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. It also has a considerable online presence on key social media platforms. He also knew that he needed a new approach to marketing the company that had been primarily an internet company. Growing Hawkers.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. It also has a considerable online presence on key social media platforms. He also knew that he needed a new approach to marketing the company that had been primarily an internet company. Growing Hawkers.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. Teten.com is built on WordPress as my content management system.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). They have an obvious trade-off between a big “pop” (great media coverage and morale boost) versus more cash proceeds.

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