Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Enjoy watching key members of your team grow from followers to leaders. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

unpaid) channels can be a goldmine for cannabusinesses today— if you know how to do it correctly. This article will discuss how to conquer the following unpaid channels to enjoy serious returns and long-term profitability from your cannabis advertising efforts: Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Or consider sponsoring a local event.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 31, 2016

More than 75 marketplace founders and investors attended the event – coming from as far as South Africa and Nova Scotia. Virality and marketplaces: generally low, but…. Generally speaking, marketplaces aren’t blessed with intrinsic virality. Every viral company is built on top of a larger, pre-existing platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. Surprisingly, word-of-mouth and viral efforts require more work and a larger budget than you would expect. Enjoy watching key members of your team grow from followers to leaders. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2018

With more or less everyone owning a smartphone, along with other scanning technology, the use of QR codes in event marketing is firmly staking its claim as a useful tool. Hence, it is possible to set up a specific landing page for your event and when a customer scans it, is taken to the ‘book tickets at 10% discount’ page or similar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. A valid milestone might be closing a specific big-name customer or channel, such as Walmart, or it might mean getting your first 100,000 social-media followers, by a given target date. Make sure allocation amounts are reasonable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

17:21] When you talk about gatherings sometimes people just jump to big trade shows or events – but bringing your customers together for lunch could be a really simple way to gather, right? [20:02] Same with events. A lot of event professionals are like, well my event is the community. I just ran an event this weekend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? Research the top digital channels for your business today. There is no one best channel for all businesses.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I intend to release one study every three months, which I'll send to journalists in the hopes of generating viral attention on social media. I believe that if I can have one piece of content go viral every three months, not only will I be able to develop more links but also raise my brand's recognition. social media advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

You can comment on each other’s posts, and, more importantly, share content to promote your business on these channels, and effectively at that. Helps Content Go Viral. Posting on social media can increase your chances of making your content go viral. But, how can sharing content through social media really help your business?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Another similar trend I can foresee is streamlining multiple channels of business called the ‘omnichannel’ strategy, which involves managing online channels websites, mobile, and social media. When you connect your story to a viral event and piggyback on its coverage you can get attention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. A valid milestone might be closing a specific big-name customer or channel, such as Walmart, or it might mean getting your first 100,000 social-media followers, by a given target date. Make sure allocation amounts are reasonable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Choosing the Right Marketing Channels for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As of October 2017, there are roughly sixteen marketing channels available to us. Businesses need to get very, very good at getting clients in just a few of these channels. Why do I recommend that you do this?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, ultimately, product launches are merely one event in one phase of the product lifecycle. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Depending on the channel, delay until you’re ready for that channel.

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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. It has significantly boosted our sales. via Shopify ].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Email marketing is one of the fastest ways to drive sales of any online channel. Think about it… What other channel can you launch something and drive sales immediately? How many businesses can afford to take away $50k from their online advertising channels to grow their email database? Launch a viral competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels.

Marketing 260

Marketing Viral Demand Channel 260

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Then it’s time to innovate through the channels or platforms that are relevant. Digital quite simply is not for repurposing content that exists in other channels.

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Marketing Viral Demand Channel 120

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Try what I call the “the viral reality check” or “bar test”: show your bar buddies your new app. The launch of an app is an event designed to get maximum exposure and start momentum. From my experience, these are the most effective channels for creating a steady download stream. Those are not the apps that get featured.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. As Facebook is a very young channel, it is not surprising that everyone's struggling with the answer. Lesson 1: Correlations don't imply causality.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

So just like you could do with a podcast, just like you could do with a YouTube channel is just where are you producing that original material? I also look at sort of the virality. This is sponsored by this course or this whatever, this event that I'm going to or whatever. So yeah, I mean, it's the classic ones. And that cuts.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

With the help of press release distribution services, your press releases are sent to the right media channels, such as reporters, journalists, printed or online media, and news agencies. A heartfelt message or story can spread good cheer and go viral. Your story should be inspiring, relevant, useful, and informative.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

So, you know, just like you could do with a podcast, just like you could do with a YouTube channel, it's just, you know, where are you producing that original material? I also look at sort of the virality, like how can I take any subscriber that maybe I've bought right at $4 or $6 or whatever and turn that into 1.5 16:13): Yeah, yeah.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2017

How to Use Events for Evergreen Content Creation written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Conferences, workshops, and events are a big investment. When treated properly, events can be a great source of content. Luckily, your events can be a huge source of evergreen content. Both during and after the fact.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It’s also a good idea if you want a cohesive campaign that reflects your company’s goals, messaging and branding across multiple channels, from Facebook to smartphones. Events Content Coordinator at Mashabl. Events Assistant at Mashable (San Fra. Events Manager at Mashable (New York, Sr.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

To put that in context, the two most-watched shows in TV history (outside of global live events) are: Mash – the final episode, 105 million viewers and; Seinfeld – the final episode 76 million viewers. Donaldson claims to have cracked the code for making viral posts and that once you’ve mastered the art, “you can make unlimited money”.

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thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

1 A viral launch page. If you can’t get into LaunchRock, take a look at Launch Effect , a viral ready WordPress theme. #2 One great way to reach out to early adopters is to attend events focused on new startups. Sesame Streets YouTube Channel Hacked. Energy Goes Social On Facebook. All Stories. Top Stories.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Pay attention to your close rate per channel. Doman-Pipe’s team does this with a dedicated feedback Slack channel and an internal “Voice of the Customer” report. This reveals content types, channels, and possible themes); What kinds of content do you share most often? Channel and format do matter.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 25, 2016

Everything You Need To Know About Marketing Channels In 5 Minutes Or Less written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this article, you’ll discover everything you need to know about marketing channels. First, let’s take a look at the most popular marketing channels. Those 19 channels are: Targeting Blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. A valid milestone might be closing a specific big-name customer or channel, such as Walmart, or it might mean getting your first 100,000 social-media followers, by a given target date. Make sure allocation amounts are reasonable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. A valid milestone might be closing a specific big-name customer or channel, such as Walmart, or it might mean getting your first 100,000 social-media followers, by a given target date. Make sure allocation amounts are reasonable.

Elevator Pitch 139

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 139

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP.

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