crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Don’t try too hard to “go viral” and above all, obey the law. Guerrilla marketing is a little risky, but the risk should be in the success or failure of the campaign and not in running afoul of the law. The goal here is to foster and grow your relationship with the greater community. Host your own networking event.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Don’t try too hard to “go viral” and above all, obey the law. Guerrilla marketing is a little risky, but the risk should be in the success or failure of the campaign and not in running afoul of the law. The goal here is to foster and grow your relationship with the greater community. Host your own networking event.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. Eric Ries : First ever?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. Entrepreneur Connect Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine , hosts this online network of entrepreneurs. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A great example of the is last year’s (PRODUCT)RED campaign, a major marketing effort, the goal of which was to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Remember, what comes around, goes around.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 17, 2010

DIG’s podcasts will discuss the way brands are using emerging media, interview both established and start-up technology companies, host debates between field experts, and provide conference-insider information access to our listeners. Juicy Fruit – Serenading Unicorn, catchy and viral, but no connection to brand.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat. In addition, Bill supported the Seattle Flu Study, which launched in 2019 to learn how the flu and other respiratory illnesses spread through local communities.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

We will create an appealing referral campaign in 2022. This isn't the same as an influencer campaign. 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. What I plan to do is host more online events such as giveaway contests.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Making Your Fundraising Campaign Go Viral Online. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014 is a prime example of an effective international charity campaign that went viral right across social media sites. In order for a fundraising campaign to go viral online, it must be engaging, amusing, and entertaining.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

People have always gathered to talk about business, life and community events. Many communities now have online forums/bulletin boards that offer varying levels of paid memberships. Just remember not to get caught up in community drama as every post represents you and your business! Social media isn’t new. Why shouldn’t you?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. AdEspresso – The easiest online tool to manage and optimize your Facebook Advertising Campaigns. WordStream – Service that manages PPC campaigns, but great info too. Further Reading.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

One time, we ran a bunch of tests on our drip email campaigns over a five-month period. Our new email subscribers would receive email campaigns for different products. We were optimizing revenue from these campaigns by testing different versions. Suddenly, our revenue from these campaigns dropped by 50%.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

Or, try product demos at community events such as festivals and fairs. If you offer an online service, host webinars, have contests on social media, design a virtual tour of your facility. In other words, if there’s any one way to control whether a post goes viral, quality is it.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. We use Google Analytics, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Campaign Manager for the majority of our analytics. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

Professional communities on social media are strong. You can catalyze that sharing, something Ann Smarty of Viral Content Bee does regularly: Any time I feature influencers in my content, I tag them on Twitter, not just in my own tweets but also in updates from everyone else. B2B brands shouldn’t feel left out, even if they lag behind.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

For example, your company is shifting aggressively into leveraging Machine-Learning in your marketing strategies and hence have made a shift to Smart Display Campaigns a huge priority. I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. It is not hard to pick New Subscriptions.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

The higher production costs, off-site hosting, and late adoption have made YouTube a tangential component of many strategies, even as video—according to seemingly every study —moves toward the center. They’ve used the channel to promote their “Stand for Tomorrow” campaign, which donates money to charity for each purchase.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

MediaPRO Community. While Facebook and Twitter offer their own analytics tools, a host of third-party offerings exist to pick up where they leave off. It will allow us to track conversations about our brands and campaigns, spot trends in core content areas and identify key influencers that are connected to our brands.”

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Especially apps such as Seesmic , a powerful web app dashboard for power users and the enterprise, and GitHub , an industry standard for source code hosting. Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Especially apps such as Seesmic , a powerful web app dashboard for power users and the enterprise, and GitHub , an industry standard for source code hosting. Slab serif fonts — if they’re unique fonts — are still a viable alternative to been-there-done-that sans serifs in logos, and the web community still enjoys them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

He’s the host of EOFire , an award-winning podcast that interviews successful entrepreneurs seven days a week. It is the golden age of podcast and you’ll hear it over and over again, but for a host, if you’re starting any time this year or next, find that narrow niche and dominate it. That’s right.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2016

As such, leading platforms continue to promote the most viral content dictated by your digital social circle. A number of interest driven networks offer an alternative, and a host of smaller sites are building smarter tools to gain deeper insights about you and what you actually like, showing the bigger guys how this can be done.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

So in Steps 1 and 2 I see people succeeding by sticking to free traffic channels (typically organic or viral), sticking to the first one that works for you, growing it until it plateaus, and focusing on replacing your income by repeating this with multiple products.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. I have found that our venture’s costs up to the date of launch were probably split between development (70%), legal (20%) and hosting/admin (10%). Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started!

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

So in Steps 1 and 2 I see people succeeding by sticking to free traffic channels (typically organic or viral), sticking to the first one that works for you, growing it until it plateaus, and focusing on replacing your income with the first product, or by repeating it with multiple products.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

So in Steps 1 and 2 I see people succeeding by sticking to free traffic channels (typically organic or viral), sticking to the first one that works for you, growing it until it plateaus, and focusing on replacing your income by repeating this with multiple products.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Sidetrack: What Are The Elements of a Viral Pre-Launch Page? For Brookdale – a community for senior citizens – sticking with video would have cost them $108,000 in monthly revenue. Making The Most Of Your Autoresponder Campaign. Recommended Reading: Useful Value Proposition Examples (and How to Create A Good One).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Further, all sources are lead-nurturing mediums to engage with students or email subscribers on a regular basis—and get them closer to the final conversion: With a video course, you can engage your students by providing updates, hosting Q&A sessions, sending out a survey , etc. When your course or knowledge base is live (i.e.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. To find that buyer, I pretty much contacted the people who were within my sphere of influence within the community of Magic – players, card store owners, people who traded cards. They may have servers that can host a website.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Are you hosting an event in the community? I find generateanchors.com really useful to generate a huge list of natural anchor texts you should use in your link building campaign. viral video. viral videos. Have a blog and update it at least once a week. Put out a press release once a month. Hiring someone new?

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

A year or so ago, I noticed a marketing campaign by a company that involved offering bloggers a “plant a tree&# widget for their site – if you placed the banner on your site, they’d plant a tree. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March. If something like that happens, you want to close everything, because it's a community spread. One of them was a suggestion that the speed of viral mutation was going to or could be very fast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. We should all wear them in public." I've discovered this.

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