Spencer Fry

AUGUST 26, 2014

Today is the day that Sweat The Product is live, and I couldn’t be happier. Even though I was curating the blog and helping photographs get exposure, it didn’t feel as fulfilling as writing an article or doing product work. And what I’ve always cared about and will always care about is building product.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

link] / Thanks, Anand blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car.

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Spencer Fry

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Exactly one week ago, I launched Sweat The Product , a growing collection of stories from people who build product. Of course, I hoped for the best, but I’m always cautiously optimistic when I launch a new product. Launch Day was a whirlwind of activity, as everyone knows who has ever launched a product. Twitter: 376.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 2 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

link] / Thanks, Anand blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

COMEDIVA, a web production company developing a female-driven video comedy site, is searching for that multi-talented web developer / designer / SEO guru who can handle. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Kanye Wests Epic Hip Hop Opera "Runa.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Makes Hilarious Soc. Kanye Wests Epic Hip Hop Opera "Runa. Lady Gaga Hits 1 Billion Views on You. Netflix Tests Streaming-Only Subscrip.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. the catalyst. itunes.apple.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2013

photo credit: Ozyman via photopin href=”[link] I’m an admitted RSS geek. Back in 2008 I wrote a series of blog posts extolling the emerging virtues of RSS technology. In that time most tools, services and networks have essentially turned RSS into the plumbing that makes everyday things like Facebook and Eventbrite work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I still use Delicious every day to bookmark and automatically publish content to the web via RSS and I think you should too. I use it to curate collections of things related to marketing topics. One of the most underutilized features of the Delicious technology in my opinion is the ability to grab tag specific RSS feeds.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2013

In an attention-deficit economy, the only brands which stand out are those that offer something remarkable – a Purple Cow in a sea of “me-too” products and services. This is what most social media marketers focus on, and can be calculated by the number of followers, RSS readers, “likes” on Facebook, and so on.

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Once you have engaged your Advisors, you will want to ensure a productive relationship. 99U RSS Feed. What to Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways. 10 Laws of Productivity. The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!). Buy Paper Products and Creative Tools.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2014

This post is one in a series of tips designed to guide small business owners through the challenges of today’s startup environment and is sponsored by Canon MAXIFY – the printer lineup designed to help small business owners increase productivity so that they can focus on everything else that matters. Using a tool like Scoop.it

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. Superbly curated, and Guy Raz is just a pleasure to listen to. Today I’d like to talk about one of my new favourite media formats: Podcasts. Serial – the catalyst.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Marketing podcast with Jay Heinrichs (Click to play or right-click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes or subscribe via other RSS device (Google Listen). Carefully choosing memorable words allows you to simply brand a product or frame an issue. In the book we meet a language device called a trope.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Confusingly, Major League Soccer’s website has three sitelinks with a “news” label, including their RSS feed. Sample product category URLs: [link]. The lack of a hierarchy weakens search engine connections between the top-level page and product categories, preventing that section from earning expandable sitelinks.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Our Associate Scott Sage has curated a tech news feed and a VC blogs feed on Taptu and I check those first thing every morning, along with Taptu’s own Chelsea feed. One is Abundance , which I hope will come out on Kindle soon, and the other was a productivity book my brother recommended which I probably won’t ever read now.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Also, all this online participation has a variety of helpful side-effects for my business: more consulting leads, link juice to help my SEO out for the product businesses, reputation/credibility enhancement, yadda yadda. how I more-than-doubled customer lifetime value on Appointment Reminder by implementing a product tour.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2012

There was a day when the press release did a lot of the work in generating actual media coverage for a firm announcing a new product, acquisition, award or some other newsworthy milestone. Think about things like milestones, new hires, new products, new eBooks, awards, new clients, or new certifications. Yan Arief via Flickr CC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Blending social media data into CRM systems is becoming commonplace, but smart salespeople are taking it much deeper by mining networks like Twitter to develop and save searches related to their products and services. Google Reader – a free tool that allows you subscribe to and read RSS feeds.

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Social Media Sales Media Social Network 73

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 20, 2013

Blending social media data into CRM systems has become commonplace in the sales environment, but smart salespeople are taking it much deeper by mining networks like Twitter to develop and save searches related to their products and services. Feedly – a free tool that allows you to subscribe to and read RSS feeds.

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Social Media Sales Media Social Network 75

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Bag the Web – helps users curate Web content. Even allows for you to set a mile time pace.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Draw It Live - a free application that makes it simple for you to draw with others online.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! You can even embed the clips as you curate. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The name-in-a-sans-serif look says your company has nothing to prove and that you focus on product over promotion. Fine for online, but when a company is looking to brand the logo on promo products, they get annoyed that their shiny glass orb gets reduced to a dot. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Any thoughts?

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Web Design Social Media Software Review 111

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The name-in-a-sans-serif look says your company has nothing to prove and that you focus on product over promotion. Fine for online, but when a company is looking to brand the logo on promo products, they get annoyed that their shiny glass orb gets reduced to a dot. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. Any thoughts?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. It's still largely a desktop experience driven and produced by publishers clinging to siloed production and consumption experience. That also means the experience starting from the product onboarding and the web article.

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Product Clickthrough RSS Venture Capital 121

mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

” Along these lines, a strong brand or product can overcome a potentially ill-conceived name. Curated Commerce: How Retail Brands Can Cash in on the Latest Craze. I thought is was a US product, but looking into it now it may only be an Australian product. RSS Feed 576,593+ Subscribers. Productivity Lists.

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Naming Social Media Social Network RSS 97

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s very much a partnership where we give you the opportunity to not only curate what words we’re looking for, but then enhance the content with that magical human touch, that only you and I, and the rest of the humans have, John. We do that automatically, so you can add an RSS feed. Chernis: Yes. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Artificial Inteligence Social Media Audience Campaign 44

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The most intense amount of effort companies put into their site happens at site launch or the yearly new product launch. Everyone gets excited, agencies are hired, content is scraped from product box-shots, prettiness is sprinkled everywhere and much happiness, represented by a gigantic sigh of relief, occurs. All of that is good.

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Analytics Marketing Social Media Technical Review 156

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Why listen? Especially if you don’t normally listen to podcasts?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated. I just didn’t stop.

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