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Where to focus in 2012

Up and Running

The common tone going into 2012 is cautious optimism. Instead, focus in 2012 on your high payoff activities and leverage the abundance of low cost, no cost marketing tools available to you. Economies remain very fragile and so lavish spending on your marketing would be a high risk activity.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. Their Happiness Heroes got into action in minutes, and posted real time updates on all of their official channels. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. But how do you make millions of users read it?

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase. 4/ “Readjust Your Comps” With GitHub price at $7.5B

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? Designing and producing marketing and PR materials (copyright, trademark). Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When we started Overthrow in 2012, our plan was to produce and sell t-shirts that not only fit better than what was available at big box stores, but were also made from higher quality fabrics, all while still being affordable. I started my personal blog and my youtube channel to share my love of fashion, photography, and personal style.

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How to Use Social Media To Drive Sales

ConversionXL

On average, during Black Friday 2012, social traffic converted 77% higher than normal. A new Forrester report titled “The Purchase Path of Online Buyers In 2012? You can’t just go and blast your PR all over the place, no one will listen to you, and if no one listens then no one buys. Real money behind numbers.

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I Just Raised Money On Kickstarter, Now What?

YoungUpstarts

billion was pledged to over a million crowdfunding campaign s in 2012. Tactically, you’ll want to establish a few ‘communication channels’ to facilitate marketing and support. Establishing Sustainable Sales Channels. The real challenge is in building a long-term, sustainable sales channel.

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