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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Except the "strategy" is a tirade of drivel I've heard so many times I can lip-sync as the words spew out the founder's mouth: "We're going to A/B-test AdWords campaigns until we discover our hook.". We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". Which is OK — not all products need to be viral!

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User-generated content for startups

The Startup Toolkit

If you don’t have either performance data or best practices, then you need to either charge based on performance (which nobody will be happy about, including you) or spend a while as your own guinea pig running a [set of] user-facing campaign[s]. ”) which kill the virality and thus the campaign.

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