mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. But the cost of PR and marketing is going to outstrip that within a couple of months of being up and running! Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable!

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As soon as Apple confirmed the removal of the headphone jack, Nicer’s team used their personal accounts to share the link to ApplePlugs.com on social networks and any site that could contribute to traffic for free. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As soon as Apple confirmed the removal of the headphone jack, Nicer’s team used their personal accounts to share the link to ApplePlugs.com on social networks and any site that could contribute to traffic for free. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers.

Viral 48

Viral Technical Review Startup Social Network 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As soon as Apple confirmed the removal of the headphone jack, Nicer’s team used their personal accounts to share the link to ApplePlugs.com on social networks and any site that could contribute to traffic for free. It was a viral hit. Every viral marketing campaign needs a good landing page. Turning Hits into Customers.

Viral 48

Viral Technical Review Startup Social Network 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

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.

Viral 140

Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Do you have a customer referral program? If so, make sure you can track which leads come from this.

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Whatever the case, there are tools and strategies you can use as an SMB owner to build your social and PR game plan. Chicago-based PR firm, Walker Sands Communications has helped us compile a number of tips to help SMB owners publicize their company, sans agency. And, it doesn’t involve a monthly retainer. Best of all?

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PR Hiring Social Media Media 139

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. He says that intentional Web 2.0

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

SVPG

JANUARY 12, 2011

Although their engineered virality was brilliant, it misses that people refer clients, parents and friends to Dropbox regardless of whether or not they benefit from it. 3) Too often, the product solution to marketing is adding a ‘share’ button, social media integration, or enabling referrals.

Product 69

Product Technical Review Social Media Viral 69

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. Help you raise money.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

You've deployed five, six or 15 web analytics tools on your website/mobile app. The number of PR people you can now fire because your Facebook page is such an awesome PR platform – not. Even if they don't understand the short or long term potential of the social web revolution. Time to dive deeper.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210

Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm. Conclusion.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Eight social networks worth a closer look | ZDNet – crowdspring.co/1G48rfO. Not All Viral Videos Are Good Content Marketing – crowdspring.co/12NPqSc.

Social Media 101

Social Media Small Business Design Media 101

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. Back when Facebook was still just for schools, some schools already had their own social networks.

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Thailand Social Network PPC Singapore 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Maggie Kravchuk , Rubenstein, PR. For one these tools are entirely free and they provide a very in-depth look into how your account is performing on social media. Maggie Kravchuk has had work experience on social media brand management and now works for Rubenstein PR. Tina Chan, Social Media Manager, GEECL.

Analytics 100

Analytics Social Media Marketing Media 100

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Anyone with a web browser pointed at Twitter and a knowledge of how to leverage hashtags and search can avail themselves of a stream of raw information on any topic they can imagine. In PR placements, ‘place’ matters. Well small business needs to learn that the best way to leverage those friends in the the social media.

Small Business 88

Small Business Public Relations Social Media New York 88

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

Referral Marketing – This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. Online Advertising – This includes the use of pay-per-click platforms, social networks, display ads and retargeting. Let’s say you sell a pretty standard $4,000 web design package.

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Lead Generation Channel Partner Campaign 28

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. I was just looking at your web site. has nothing to do with.NET, it’s just web stuff. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm.

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