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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 also seemed exceedingly basic following the somewhat revolutionary logo designs featured by the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. It has been argued that social media is what handed President Obama the White House in both 2008 and 2012. That’s pretty consistent with her carefully curated image, as well.

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Twitter Link Roundup #122 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Why Startups Should Curate Content – [link]. 14 Best Web Design Trends of 2012 – [link]. – [link]. The safe career path in the future – skip college and start a company – [link]. Why entrepreneurs don’t sleep well – [link]. The Importance of Brand in an Era of Digital Darwinism – [link].

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Top 5 Online Marketing Tactics to Focus On in 2014

Up and Running

This can be a mixture between great content that you have created and curated content (content from other writers and sources out there on the web). Since 2012-2013 we have definitely seen the shift from “should I be on social media?” If you are wondering if online PR submission is still worthwhile, I would say yes.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

If we’re being honest, there have been a slew of PR and marketing missteps made by Team Trump in the election cycle thus far, and none of them have had the impact one might expect. By 2012, the numbers were astounding. Frankly, I can’t believe it took them that long. Probably not. Approximately 4.5

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