Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

It’s the principle underlying “viral marketing.” User to brand (engaged audience). Get in the habit of having genuine conversations with your engaged users to create an engaged audience. User to user (engaged community). Now you have an engaged audience of people who feel an emotional connect with your brand and product.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target audience. Choose influencers based on influence, not audience size 5. Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

My Twitter following increased and I began to get more attention in tech and blogging communities. We seeded the community largely with relationships formed through my writing, inviting several dozen well-respected startup founders, investors, and product people to participate. Do “shitty” work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

. ” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. Why do I Like the term Growth Hacking?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. Cham studied early in his career how to hold the microphone, how to project his voice, how to watch the audience and pay attention to what interested them.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. This content relates strictly to the products and services you provide, and have a very limited audience. Staying in front of our audience. Self-promotion. Use it sparingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Based on my experience of many years in the startup community, here are some key principles that seem to generate real innovative thinking within the most successful entrepreneurs I know: Push yourself to go “outside the box” for real change. Marketing should begin even at the idea stage.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Dropbox is a perfect example of a company that relied heavily on product virality, which was built into the product.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. was drawn to when naming her company, which manages the input and output of a startup’s audience. The domain name choice just made sense for the community-focused company, says Badal. “We io” as well.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Airbnb learned its audience used Craigslist to list and search for accommodation. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. For each potential channel, look at: Customer acquisition cost How many customers you can reach Whether the channel reaches the right audience.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

TikTok has evolved from a platform known for viral dance moves to a place of rapid product discovery. The New York Times named this urge to buy something the “TikTok Feta Effect,” after a viral recipe for baked feta pasta resulted in the cheese selling out nationwide in the U.S. The remaining 11% of the user base is over 50.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2017

Members of your target audience may end up choosing to share something about your business with their networks before having even tried your product or service themselves. If you’re clever and lucky enough, you may even break into viral territory. Engage with your audience. And the best thing about it? 3 E’s of WOMM.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

You have to make sure that your brand story connects with your audience on an emotional level. Show Behind the Scenes You can share behind the scenes of what is happening in your business too and get your audience to learn more about you. Your audience will move to know what goes on in the office.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2023

TikTok is used to create engaging and entertaining content that aligns with the brand's values and target audience. Entrepreneurs can employ popular trends, challenges, and collaborations with influencers to reach a wider audience and gain viral attention. Thanks to Martin Seeley, Mattress Next Day ! #2-

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

These platforms will give you insight into what your audience is searching for and which words you should be targeting in your content. Not only can you run organic campaigns for free on social media, but you can also reach a wide range of audience sectors. Do some volunteer work or community service. Referral links.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Read the publication, understand its audience, and write your pitch around that. Even if your own company isn’t newsworthy, you are on the ground in the startup community, and that is valuable. The more you consider the audience when you make your pitch, the less likely that reporter is to hit “delete.”. Pitch late.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities. Banks was an old hand at online communities, after all – at age 12, he’d host computer Bulletin Board Systems right out of his parent’s closet. Facilitating Blog Interaction.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

As business owners on Alignable start to interact with each other, they’re simultaneously building a core network of trusted peers by following, connecting, and recommending each other, strengthening bonds within their community and/or industry. Card games?) Card games. How do you create an infinite loop?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Maximizing your PR efforts involves defining, controlling, and distributing relevant messages in the form of a press release to your target media outlets, as well as your intended audience and business partners. Many of them have been broadcasting for several years, and have an existing established audience base. New branch opening.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

The first step is to collect data on how businesses are affecting their communities and the environment. And, if 2022 has taught us anything, it’s that brands need to be adaptable to change and meet their audience where they are. When you connect your story to a viral event and piggyback on its coverage you can get attention.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2020

Become Part of the Community. If you decide to open a physical store or another real-world location, it is paramount that you choose to integrate your business with the community that you are hoping to garner the support of. Then, to communicate with a broader audience, you should consider contacting your local press office.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

It’s the principle underlying “viral marketing.” User to brand (engaged audience). Get in the habit of having genuine conversations with your engaged users to create an engaged audience. User to user (engaged community). Now you have an engaged audience of people who feel an emotional connect with your brand and product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. Below are a few of the better examples of videos produced by Israeli startups and those that managed to get a plug in traditional media, reaching a huge potential audience. Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. Amazing, no?

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. Video, audio, text and images – it’s all part of the content game and there are plenty of platforms with an existing audience you can leverage. Several startups, like Copy.ai

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Other tactics leverage partnerships with other businesses to create mutual value and introduce our respective communities to one another’s services or product offering.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

The platform offers low subscription prices, HD quality, and a new perspective to audiences with respect to TV shows and movies. Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Social Media Community Management Social Commerce Social Integration Social Media Smarts. Audience/Traffic. Additionally, use social media advertising to target your audience and to send them to your page rather than off of the social media site. Show your emotional side to increase virality. Community Management.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. We want to recognize new audiences that require a new approach than the brand is currently taking. Never has it been more important to strengthen your community than right now.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. In Suspense the audience and characters know the same information.”. Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Marketing is often directed at a faceless, voiceless audience and you rarely, if ever, hear from that audience. Build a community, support them, leverage them. Market WITH not TO your community.&# This is sound advice and is in stark contrast to the way most companies market. So what can they do?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2021

The falling economic costs of production and distribution have been replaced by a new set of taxes — physical, emotional, psychological — as your community expects new content, accessibility to their heroes and open book authenticity. Being a modern creator is, for many, exhausting. was the beginning of Creator Health initiatives.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Beauty brands need to be audience focused and feedback driven in order to thrive. ” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold. You can also use the power of micro-influencers to market your beauty brand to a targeted and niche audience.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Or, try product demos at community events such as festivals and fairs. If you have fewer posts but of a higher quality, it’s much more likely one of those posts will go viral and reach an exponentially larger group than you would reach if you had focused on quantity,” he says. Identifying and adapting to your audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product. Viral marketing costs real money these days, which usually means adding at least an extra zero to budget estimates. Figure out what is valuable to your audience. Establish partners and referrals.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Wondering what your audience is glued to while you are busy using traditional advertising, core campaigning, and doing paid marketing for your products? Exactly where they need to be, on their smart screens scrolling some viral internet discussion. 4: Find out where the community hangs out. 5: Sense the Ebb and Flow.

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