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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be. Underbelly.

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Viral, Social, Sentiment, Mobile: 4 Delightful Web Analytics Solutions

Occam's Razor

Let's go look at some tools… Measuring "Invisible Virality": Tynt. If you are a regular reader you'll notice that at the end of every blog post (before the start of the comments section) is a Topsy widget. Goes viral. Invisible Virality. Or for that matter how many tools. People matter.

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7 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Use Video To Grow Their New Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Viral Video Marketing. In our example, we take a look at the 2011 start-up Dollar Shave Club and their viral video “Our Blades Are F ing Great”. Who makes your widgets and why do they love making them? Why did you start making your widget and why do you want to share it with the everyone? Creating Brand Recognition.

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Get a Viral Launch Page For Your Startup With LaunchRock

ReadWriteStart

But a team at this weekend's Startup Weekend in Philadelphia has taken this idea one step further, designing a product that will help startups build viral launch pages: LaunchRock. If you want to see the virality of LaunchRock in action, search Twitter for "Maple Butter," a new project from Flowtown 's Dan Martell.

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10 Top Marketing Content Sources For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Supplement text here with video and audio. Provide convenience through podcasts.

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The 4 Secrets Of Engaged Customers

YoungUpstarts

However, it can be tricky to convince people to sign in to your newsletter without using a simple subscription widget such as described by leaderinternet.com. A subscription widget does the hard work for you, by collecting emails without complex integration forms. And it only takes a few seconds to fill in!

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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

My conclusion is that we are entering into a new phase of the war for the killer app which will be known as the Widget Wars. What is a widget? Yahoo has one definition of a widget (specific to their product of course). WordPress.com has another widget definition. Should we use the Internet.com definition of widget ?

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