Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.) We had around 300 attendees and our room at the Terra Gallery was packed.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Jun-15: Community Manager (growth team). 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Glossier runs an exclusive Slack channel and invites top customers to discuss all things beauty-related with the company. ” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold. So we see our community as co-conspirators, co-builders, co-storytellers.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

What does it take to grow a YouTube channel? Is a channel more than the sum of its video parts? Some solutions are simple—you need a consistent visual presentation on your channel page and across videos. If YouTube channel growth has felt unattainable, you’re not alone. Are most companies’ YouTube channels succeeding?

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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. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date. Has anybody else used this site yet?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

He would trade ad space on WebmasterResources for free hosting services. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. He mentioned that an idea is worth nothing and often times fails because lack of distribution channel. You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques.

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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. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

I know, monster list posts are so last year, but I wanted to put together a resource that could be a bit of a guide as you navigate all of the various platforms, networks, and channels available today. Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Creative Elements hosted by Jay Klaus. In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. Set up a banter channel in, or a shout out channel or both.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. 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. I love governments!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Otherwise, consider using those marketing dollars to scale up your core distribution channel first. Contrast this with a marketing team going after any particular channel—events, paid, SEO, community, PR, whatever. The long-term game completely changes: At scale, these channels can 10X the size of most companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

You know, that's why, you know, you see kind of a, a viral sensation happen and someone has a big following. Like, if you don't have any value to offer, you are not going to attract people to follow you or build community or build an audience. And I'm also on most of the social media channels. Right, John Jantsch (16:49): Right.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Try and tap into your networks and encourage them to share your fundraising webpage with their followers on social media channels. 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.

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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. A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . 1) Manage the firm .

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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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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Andrew : Why Loom and Zoom and Clubhouse and some of the other new social experiences benefit is that you can use the current boom in engagement and viral growth to build out your network. Transcript: Hi, and welcome to the a16z podcast. I’m Lauren Murrow. Whatever CAC LTV assumptions that we had potentially no longer hold.

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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. The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack. SEARCH FOLIO: Search. Careers Home.

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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 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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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – that means a one-time sale product, with a single traffic channel. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. Getting those initial early sales is a big win.

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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! startupcto

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Your own video-on-demand channel for potential customers to join and stay engaged with. To see a brand-owned, webinar-driven channel in action, check out SEMrush. For example, back when it was called “Google Hangouts,” we invited our community brand advocates to join a monthly video chat to discuss the best ways to use our platform.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – that means a one-time sale product, with a single traffic channel. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started with a subscription SAAS model. Getting those initial early sales is a big win.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The strategy that seems to give people the best chance of success is creating a simple product, with a simple marketing plan – one that only requires a single traffic channel. As for a single traffic source , focus on figuring out one way of generating customers, instead of trying to master all the different traffic channels at once.

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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. With explainer videos, visitor’s chose to be on your channel. How to Come Up With A Value Proposition When What You Sell Isn’t Unique.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 16, 2016

While you can use YouTube to host the videos on your site, I don’t recommend it. We use Wistia to host all the videos on our site because it gives us a lot of control over the viewing experience. As I mentioned before, we use Wistia to host the videos on our site. Thank you!

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Use a caching plugin for WordPress websites or install one at the hosting level; W3 Total Cache works for both. And his second low-hanging fruit follows suit: “Host your static files in the cloud that uses a CDN.”. Why Content Goes Viral: What Analyzing 100 Million Articles Taught Us” (Okdork). Singularity. They shouldn’t.

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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. The new owner redesigned it. I love that.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Channel relationships are very hard for any small company to establish even when interests are directly aligned, but this challenge is proving even more difficult for most SaaS companies given the restricted value proposition to the SI and ISV community. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5. Bessemer SaaS Law #6.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Are you hosting an event in the community? viral video. viral videos. Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. 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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. The group also hosts its annual QPrize competition, awarding winners with $750,000 in seed funding.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally. So don’t actively do SEO, but do do things that will bring you SEO benefit like outreach to relevant communities, viral blog posts, embeddable content etc. Plan a bit of post-launch viral content. Pure brilliance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2018

He is also the host of the Youpreneur Summit Podcast. He is, as he likes to tell people, a proud Brit, and the creator of the Youpreneur community and movement, and author of a book we’re going to talk about today, Rise of the Youpreneur. When I started this, it was another channel almost, like we do this and we do this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

Transcript of Creating a Community for Entrepreneurs written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. You’re doing, you actually mentioned the Bootstrap event, so you’re actually using that as a kind of a marketing channel, aren’t you? We host many sessions. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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