reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This past May was the 10th anniversary of LinkedIn, and while reflecting on my entrepreneurial journey, I realized that no one gets to see the presentation decks for successful companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Users easily swipe through locations to find what they are looking for and the app presents tailored results based on learning what you like. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

How you conduct the transaction is marketing, how you deliver or present the product or service is marketing, how you continue to educate and make additional offers is marketing, and how you stay in touch to measure results is marketing. Not that innovative, but strangely rare. And what's this?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 23, 2011

2Screens iPad Presentation app – this one has two iTunes links and is a bit geeky, but I love presenting on my iPad and now I’ve found a great presentation tool 2Screens Presentation Expert and 2Screens iPhone Remote that lets you use your iPhone as a remote for your iPad – total coolness achieved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 24, 2011

I’ll share my notes on the talk tomorrow.) Joshua Kaufman via Flickr But here’s the thing – there’s really no such thing as mobile marketing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2011

When you click a Send button you are presented with a pop-up screen that gives you the option to select the friends you wish to send (much like a share) the content of this page to. I think this is a tool that will be adopted and added to Web pages as thoroughly as the Like button as it presents some functionality that has long been missing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

We’ve swung so far over to the “information wants to be free” thinking that I believe it’s presenting a challenge for businesses and content consumers and the Web in general. This lumps thoroughly researched, well-presented, useful content in with shoddily veiled pitch fests. How good can something that’s free really be?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2011

Curate.US – This tool makes it very easy to create clips from sites you visit and then share these visual links with automatic attribution back to the original content. You can even embed the clips as you curate. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

I’ve also used to this approach to gather instant feedback on a presentation by asking participants to text their thoughts on the event to a short code.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2011

One element that I don’t see much movement in though is the typical About Us kind of page that we’ve all grown familiar with on most Web sites.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

The business application, teams to interact, groups to collaborate or people to quickly present new information, is immediate. My guess is this will be very popular with friends and family types and could poke a hole in Microsoft’s new baby Skype. This might be one the best features.

Small Business 69

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2011

Many times we can present a solution and price that seems like the obvious and logical choice, but can’t seem to make the sale. I’m no science wiz, but I’ve always loved the idea of resistance in physics as a metaphor for the kind of resistance many business owners encounter when trying to spark a sale.

Social Media 68

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

The topic is one that I’ve also delivered as a presentation for Chambers of Commerce and the like. In this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing I visit with Stephen Denny, author of Killing Giants - 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

David has presented at hundreds of industry conferences and events and the marketing programs he has developed are responsible for selling over one billion in products and services worldwide. That’s why when asked about this religious discussion in my live presentations, I also offer a third option, which is a hybrid.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

So how can you present your offerings as food vs. foe? If you can do that, getting them to buy what you want will simply make perfect sense. This is a powerful mindset change that is highly effective in any targeted lead generating situation you can imagine. Related Posts: Are There Holes In Your Network? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Look for numbers like sales, units, leads, presentations, page views, downloads, and conversion rates. Put your message where your market will find it. Develop measurement to set your marketing goals so you can track and measure your progress. The management happens with the following up on the metrics.

Marketing 41

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I re-ignited Anvil as consultancy, but I wasn’t quite ready to hire employees yet. After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Image Credit : David Schneider.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Advertise Locally on WSJ.com.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Plenty of advertising systems work well on 0.8%. #4 So if you can’t immediately profit from freeloaders (think gmail and advertising) don’t invite them in at all. #8 While plenty of advertising systems work on 0.8%, this simply requires more traffic than most non-funded products are able to achieve by offering a free plan.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Were hiring. ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Advertise Advertise. In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). In my first company, people liked our product but were embarrassed to share it because the design and presentation was so poor. Hiring Poorly. Entertainment.

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