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Digital Design & User Experience Best Practices: Happiness + Profits!

Occam's Razor

For example, I type in for "trip to Hawaii" (not an esoteric destination) into Google. Yes these brands have YouTube channels and every once in a while they throw up a viral video and everyone oohs and aahs. Take any metric you want. Solving for short-term virality is not a sustainable strategy. Follow-on views.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. In the Magic site’s case it was a forum that would grow virally by itself. The actual goal here is really to increase the main metrics – the amount of money it generates and the amount of traffic it gets.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it. That's a very, very strong call to action to put at the end of an article, and I knew that would dramatically increase the virality. Tomas Pueyo : So many things.