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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. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Underbelly.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. companies versus the Web 1.0

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

Maybe you identified your target audience and conversation through Twitter research, but discover a handful of forums or blogs that attract essential influencers. Regardless of the social networks you identify as worthy of prioritizing, longer-form blogs likely generate much of the content your audience eventually shares.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. This attention is valuable to yet another set of people: namely, the traditional businesses (see above) who are using marketing to grow, and are looking to advertise to new prospects. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook.

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Critical Marketing For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Poorly chosen text colors that make them difficult to read, third party advertisements, and unnecessary graphics that slow down the site and get in the way of the customer should be avoided. If you spend much time on business blogs and other business related sites, you may begin to feel as though a physical location isn’t important at all.

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3 Insights for Creating Viral Content

Duct Tape Marketing

3 Insights for Creating Viral Content written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. For marketers trying to achieve goals tied to increased brand awareness and higher search rankings, viral content becomes the ideal solution. Spark social discussions through rankings and comparisons.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

Both Sides of the Table

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. It is absolutely MVP of advertising. I guess this video won’t go viral, then!

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