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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

I scoured the academic research on crowdfunding, philanthropy, and helping behavior to understand when and why people donate money (and how you can use those principles in a crowdfunding campaign). Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation. donating to your campaign). Strategy: Trigger Their Self-Awareness.

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[Review] Loveworks

YoungUpstarts

“ Loveworks ” builds on that premise, and looks at how various marketing concepts – some of which, like virality, have become the epitome of hype – are exemplified through these marketing examples as executed by Saatchi & Saatchi across the world in various categories for different clients.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

That summer, this bumpkin/badass former governor from Vermont running for president (Howard Dean) had found this guy Joe Trippi to run his presidential campaign. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation.

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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

These vendors invest in the model by paying for a sponsorship, and the cumulative sponsorship fees are pooled to purchase paid advertising, build organic SEO campaigns, and purchase strategic advertising in industry publications, relevant magazines, radio, and much more to drive traffic to the rankings page. The result?

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

It seems that everyone is running some type of online campaign nowadays. Here is our guide to running an effective and legal sweepstakes campaign online. First off, let’s define what a sweepstakes campaign is. Case #2 – Unique Hotels Facebook Campaign. Some of them good, some not so much. Case studies.

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5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!)

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are 5 campaigns we greatly admire that used relatively scant funds and some of the lessons that small businesses can achieve from an analysis of their success! The Obama campaign and viral video. Many contributed to this viral effect, both from inside the official campaign and from without. That crazy chicken. Yes we can!

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. I used to use $.05,

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