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Marketing 101: Branding your offering in a competitive environment

crowdSPRING Blog

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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How Businesses Can Successfully Brand Themselves On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. Businesses will have to perform at maximum, avoiding mistakes at all costs before they happen.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In 2004 I began blogging. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Attract more sponsors.