Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. Goes viral. I can measure the "invisible virality" / "spread" by this big huge non-commenting, non-tweeting audience. Invisible Virality. We, computer programs, are simply not there yet. People matter.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Besides convenience and affordability, online programs often offer courses and instruction that might normally not be open to the general public. The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Safari.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Betancourt Lopez understood the value of viral marketing, especially for a key demographic — young people. He also created a program that used college students to spread the word about Hawkers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Viral marketing. This is a marketing program on the Internet that you make so popular it spreads like a virus, like "word of mouth." Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. Streaming video.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

How to Optimize Your Referral Program and Boost Your Sales written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. But here’s the thing: creating a referral program isn’t hard. But here’s the thing: creating a referral program isn’t hard. Referral marketing looks like the elixir of marketing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.". We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". This is the viral step: Having trialed the tool, the stranger might use it herself, then more people find out about it, and so forth. "We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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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. Photo Credit: Larissa Pickens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Viral marketing. This is a marketing program on the Internet that you make so popular it spreads like a virus, like "word of mouth." Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. Crowdsourcing.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? The post Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral. A story of an app from nowhere to near dominance.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Use referral programs to attract new customers and reward your current ones 7. Google also recommends signing up for their Merchant Center program and uploading products directly, or through a data markup structure on your ecommerce website. Use referral programs to attract new customers and reward your current ones.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 1, 2024

Add this data to a simple software program or spreadsheet… whatever works best for you. Remember, you may get a lot of “No’s” but just one “Yes” can provide a feature story that goes viral! How will you share your message? Create a schedule to call the people on your list personally. Let them know what you have to offer.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? Retail or end user web sites do not even receive limited notice without being discovered through a real marketing program, aimed at finding the flywheel effect (the moment. Not every social network is a Facebook or Instagram. Fourth: measurement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

So much of what criminals do is really about writing programs and bots that simulate human behavior to do human-like things. How do you solve the problem that there is no real authentication mechanism when a video or a photo is being shared and propagated and virally explodes on social media? Worse when it goes viral.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 18, 2023

Listen to Steve read this post (9 min audio) An AI-generated song purporting to be Drake and the Weeknd caused a stir in the music world after going viral and accumulating over 20 million views on streaming and social platforms. Called ‘Heart on my Sleeve’ track was originally posted on TikTok by a user called Ghostwriter977.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Additionally, content is a tool that can be used to make your company go viral. This could be anything from making an appointment to joining a referral program. Share Buttons are a wonderful web design and development tool that can be used to make your medical brand go viral. The call to action should be concise and clever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Every company and startups needs marketing experts, who are skilled and knowledgeable in the development of marketing programs, content creation, lead generation, and the utilization of social media. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

Given that base plus the inherent viral component to these social apps, it seems natural that the first overnight success of a Kinect-powered app will be a social one. Mash-up of many other technology platforms.

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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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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. If you are in the almost 30 percent of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.”

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This is pretty much how all the value ­added resellers (VAR) programs work. You can get in touch with an ereseller with just a cold email, and you can be your first resellers’ program manager. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Product virality is an art.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Social relationships are built around zealots and their disciples who ultimately engage a wider congregation and perpetrate the culture shift.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. And yet, it’s surprising how hesitant small businesses are to engage in loyalty programs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2011

They typically manage processes that touch every employee every day: payroll, health benefits, incentive programs, performance reviews, pension and retirement plans, and vacation policies. You can create and send invoices directly from the program, and track aging and payment of these as well. Sweetness indeed. Photo: J.A.G.A.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In addition to that, RIM has had several Developer Day programs in various countries, to reach out directly to developers. The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

It went viral shortly after, but let’s back up. Gmail and Adsense came from Google’s “20% time” (the program is sadly no longer around). There’s never a guarantee that something will go viral, but there are ways to stack the deck so the chances increase. Running a startup can be a grind.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. If, for every customer you acquire, you can acquire 1-10 more with viral loops , you can spend a lot more on acquiring that first customer, right? If you sell shoes, would virality work for you?

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

Russ also consults and trains employees of companies through his Digital Advisor program. Russ also consults and trains employees of companies through his digital advisor program. 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

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Social relationships are built around zealots and their disciples who ultimately engage a wider congregation and perpetrate the culture shift.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

According to a report released today (embedded below) by Altimeter Group's Jeremiah Owyang, "only 23 percent of social strategists have a formalized program with long-term direction". In justifying and expanding programs for longer-term planning and budgeting, 48% of social strategists place measurement as a primary objective in 2011.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The team created a referral program that allowed users to earn more storage for recommending Dropbox to their friends. Similarly, Dropbox’s referral program might have fallen flat if people had to personally pester their friends. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Will the average person care which language you wrote your program in? Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. That is objectively crazy. You’re breaking taboos. As with No.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested. Please read my post on this, “ Why You Should Stop Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle.

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