Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

The idea behind this graphic I call the Marketing Hourglass is that marketing is no longer a hunt and close business, it’s a be found, build trust, nurture, wow and refer business. Now, what tools and tactics you bring to this game will certainly differ, but the end game is still the same.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Lots of people understand the value in building relationships with other businesses that might be in a position to refer their clients. For example, a financial planner might seek out an accountant that could refer her clients to him. Related Posts: Are There Holes In Your Network? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

The product revealed and note the subtle band of branding on the actual product - how will I ever forget Katie Blair Designs now. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2011

SocialBios , a service that allows you to create About Us pages that make it easy for people to cross reference all of your social connections, just added a Facebook About Us page feature that offers some interesting functionality.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Tips, articles, videos and experts interviews provide customers with the information they need to buy and refer to others. Social Media & Networking – 90% of marketers say that social media is important for their business according to the 2011 Social Media Marketing Report. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 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 gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 3, 2011

I happen to think these characteristics of commitment, as I’ve started to refer to them, and our ability to embrace them and adopt them in our own lives might be the ultimate secret to success. So, why do I care about this particular idea enough to stretch to find a singular word to house it?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

People don’t buy all the time, but they can refer every week. Where and how will you connect with these buyers? Social sites? It’s up to you. HOW DO YOU GET REFERRALS? Referrals are gold in most businesses. Make this part of every plan. From here, you’ve got the bare bones to write a simple strategy. Test variations and grow from it.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Our advantages were almost all network-driven. One on hand, this helped ConvertKit leverage its network to fuel its sales pipeline. Take SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin. Search Google for SparkToro and the results focus primarily on Rand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Think he’s likely to refer your autoresponder to a friend? You’ve just emailed him 9 times in a row and you haven’t sent him any junk. Just valuable, good information that gets him a result he wants. Think he’s likely to open that 10th email? Think he’s likely to talk you up on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Explore a pay-per-conversion affiliate program for referring site traffic that results in listeners, especially if you’re trying to generate revenue from your podcast. Let’s get started. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2012

I have a pretty rough idea of what an upcoming week is going to entail, but I leave room to stumble on an emerging idea, change in some social network or the occasional rant as I consume content. Snap shot of 2004 version 1 of the Duct Tape Marketing Weblog. I don’t plan what I am going to write too far in advance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. They come in the form of personal references. Their is huge value of personal networks in determining your long-term career trajectory.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. As with a lot of other campaigns one would get extra “votes” for referring friends via email, social media, and for the friend actually registering. Their numbers are impressive.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. FSAs/HSAs — Flexible Spending Accounts, also referred to as Health Savings Accounts, are pools of money set aside by an employee and their employer to be used for healthcare spending. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. I’ve referred more than 20 startups to AngelList, vouched for a dozen other investors and am ranked as one of the top connectors on the site. Social Network Lists. Social Networking. social networking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I first wrote about this model in my first book called The Radical Leap, which came out in its first edition way back in 2004. So we limit our own view of our capability to change at least our piece of the world for the better and those small-w worlds, as I like to refer to them, they add up and we are having an impact.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. We talk to Amazon’s home robot Alexa to ask for the day’s weather, and many of us are more likely to ask Google Home for information than do a Google search on our phone.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

if your model requires a “network effect&# to get to where you’re product is useful — foursquare, multiplayer games, sharing apps in general — then freemium if for sure the way to go. Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. The Rails 1.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 10, 2019

Sam Ashdown: But you know what you wrote Duct Tape Marketing at the right time for me, because I started my business in 2004. What happened when we decided, my co-director and I, to open up the estate agency, I said “I need some kind of networking system.” I had read your referral network, another plug for you. So this builds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

I produced my first eBook in 2004 or so and now feature ten, including some I’ve licensed from other writers. In the anticipation of more opportunities to get access to iTunes (ala Apple CarPlay), we are in the process of launching a podcast network as part of our core content offerings. Actually, the opposite has happened.

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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. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

And so, when we said that jokingly, Nadja diligently started going through the literature research, and in five minutes pulled up a paper saying, "Well, here's a paper that shows that during the SARS outbreak in 2004, niclosamide was actually a very potent inhibitor of viral replication."

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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