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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. Next: A one-woman PR team. My first foray into PR was a bit naive. People started asking me who our PR company is, which was kind of cool.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

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Battle Royale: Evaluating the Marketing and Branding Efforts of Clinton and Trump

crowdSPRING Blog

It wasn’t until 1800, when young upstart Aaron Burr chose to break with tradition and openly campaign against favored Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, that the idea of directly attacking an opponent and speaking on your own qualifications became a thing. The most expensive branding and marketing campaigns in the world.

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Does “Going Viral” Actually Result in More Conversions?

ConversionXL

Your boss probably thinks so, but the truth is that a lot of sites that aren’t ready to go viral launch their campaigns too soon. Here are some non-video viral campaigns that have been successful in the last few years. A Toronto PR agency, 88 Creative, launched Agency or Porn in August 2015. Do you even want to go viral?

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What Businesses Can Learn From Donald Trump’s Email Marketing Failures

crowdSPRING Blog

The Trump campaign made waves last week with the release of a poorly designed new logo. Will the ill-fated design have any significant impact on the campaign? But there is one arena in which poor marketing strategy is have a deleterious effect on the campaign: email marketing. By 2012, the numbers were astounding.

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