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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? How many through SEM? Do you have a customer referral program?

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. My rule is that conferences are to be avoided unless it’s purely for PR purposes or if you’re in sales. .

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The 4 Critical Challenges of Tech Startup PR

ReadWriteStart

Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR. To have the correct image in technology means businesses must have a thorough understanding of the field of public relations (PR). It seems clear that most entrepreneurs need help to navigate the ultra-dense tech industry PR environment. Letting Social Media Do The Legwork.

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25 Marketers Share Awesome Social Analytics Tools For 2016

Brandanew

Maggie Kravchuk , Rubenstein, PR. Maggie Kravchuk has had work experience on social media brand management and now works for Rubenstein PR. Click on the “trending now” tab and you can also see which articles are going viral across the web. Ken Herron is the CMO of Unified Inbox , and voted #2 CMO on Twitter.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

The number of PR people you can now fire because your Facebook page is such an awesome PR platform – not. Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. The reduced TV ads you have to run. Too strong?

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

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. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference. We have one primary funnel. What do we do instead?

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. Look at Quora.

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