crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Don’t try too hard to “go viral” and above all, obey the law. Find and host an interesting speaker whose message or talents mesh with your marketing strategy. Host your own networking event. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Get efficient.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Don’t try too hard to “go viral” and above all, obey the law. Find and host an interesting speaker whose message or talents mesh with your marketing strategy. Host your own networking event. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Get efficient.

Small Business 48

Small Business Marketing Technical Review Audience 48

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

I'm working with a PR/Communications gurus who is trying to focus me on a name, that when you hear it, it tells people what it is you are doing. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Some of the things you mention I have done.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The PR and buzz is unparalleled. Late night and morning show hosts, news anchors, magazine and newspaper writers, bloggers, and tweeters are all talking about who’s on the game and what to expect. Pregame buzz – You’re not buying 30 seconds; you’re buying two weeks of pregame hype as well.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

While it’s important to keep up traditional communication and PR, business owners should also be extending their relationships through online forums – website, blogs, and social networks. Twitter is a great place to share photos (TwitPic), host contests, shout out to loyal customers, have scavenger hunts, and promote events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Recently, we hosted a project on our site for the United Nations Population Fund 7 Billion Actions Campaign , which has a goal of raising awareness around global population growth, specifically preparing for this October, when the world’s population will top the seven billion mark. Remember, what comes around, goes around.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Contrast this with a marketing team going after any particular channel—events, paid, SEO, community, PR, whatever. Their growth came from users, and they had true virality. Just remember that true virality is really rare. We have one primary funnel. Once conversion increases hit a wall, there’s not much else to do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. He’s the host of EOFire , an award-winning podcast that interviews successful entrepreneurs seven days a week. .” I’m on a Heil PR-40. He is the host of EOFire. We’ll have that in the show notes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. The PR Masterclass : How to develop a public relations strategy that works! Tools: Zoom – Lightweight online video chat platform for hosting meeting. PRNewswire – Press release distribution service.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

While Facebook and Twitter offer their own analytics tools, a host of third-party offerings exist to pick up where they leave off. Marketing/Communications/PR. Here, digital audience marketers chime in on the ones they’re using now, and why. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Advertising/Sales. Operations.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. "10 New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2). Software 2.0:

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. But the cost of PR and marketing is going to outstrip that within a couple of months of being up and running!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. via TechCrunch). Ads drive awareness…to drive sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop? The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) Vanity metrics are generally bigger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

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. Have you researched a PR / launch strategy? The result of that?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Software 2.0:

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2014

A Liability Risk for Airbnb Hosts – crowdspring.co/1w2ZD8T. Not All Viral Videos Are Good Content Marketing – crowdspring.co/12NPqSc. Inside Square’s Winning PR Strategy | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/1u8oYst. I hope you enjoy! Getting Virtual Teams Right – crowdspring.co/1u8p2sv.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

And the good news, is that is it easy to implement, as the application is hosted by the vendor, not the customer. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Successful companies have developed specific teams focused on developing and monitoring key usage metrics.

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Software Review Internet Software Technical Review 48

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Tools such as NHibernate, Castle Windsor, lots of.NET devs host code on github for instance, use open-source build tools (Rake, CruiseControl), or use NoSQL style databases such as MongoDB (check out NoRM on github). I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. Eric Ries : Well that. Jeremy Howard : Thank you.

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