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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. No matter if it’s a link to your site, blog etc. Businesses will have to perform at maximum, avoiding mistakes at all costs before they happen. or an image uploaded on Facebook along with a comment.

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

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. I’m not sure if Blockbuster reads this blog or not, but they did something right! Apple has been a huge catalyst for digital music downloads due to the viral success of the iPod. And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees.

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Social Media Best Practices for Your Nonprofit

Board Effect

New apps are continually being introduced to help interconnect social media platforms which can help automate content and spread it virally using a few clicks. Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. Blogging is a major marketing tool for many companies.

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Paris, November 1998. Just happened to run across your blog after our call, and had a good laugh over this story! Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). Blog Archive. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. First week on the job.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Startups that win in the bubble will be those that get wide adoption (using freemium, viral growth, low costs, etc) and massive distribution (i.e. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand.

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

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Here’s the text transcript as a blog post (warning – this is 40+ pages long!). Who here knows of my blog, www.Entrepreneurs-Journey.com? I’ve been blogging for four years, and this talk has very little to do with blogging, but that’s how I’ve established my business and built up a profile online. Hi everyone.