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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Identify the audience. On social media, you can pinpoint an audience in real-time. Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Once you have identified your audience, locating them is the next step. Startup Example: Zappos.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. The key to product launches is to create a resilient campaign—one that can survive the nonlinear journey. In Suspense the audience and characters know the same information.”.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience. Don’t copy the style of a popular video (especially a “viral” one) if you’re trying to drive home your unique value proposition or establish your brand. For YouTube pre-roll ads, Google recommends segmenting video ad campaigns into three phases: Tease. Stay on brand. Plan it out.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

Their marketing campaign has been quite strong and, while many features are the same, it offers a competitor, which makes both platforms better because of how hard they must work to stay on top. The platform offers low subscription prices, HD quality, and a new perspective to audiences with respect to TV shows and movies. 13- Unpakt.

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Lead Generation Is Still The Lifeblood For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. You can start an SEM campaign with as little as $50 today and get results very quickly. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 4/1/2014. Social-media advertising.

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4 New And Novel Approaches to Guerilla Marketing

YoungUpstarts

A decade or two ago, media was relatively consolidated; advertisers knew they could reach a significant segment of their targeted audience via newspapers and television commercials, which almost seems quaint today. Today, however, innovation in guerilla techniques is essential. Reverse graffiti. Aerial messages. My company, AirSign Inc.

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