VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, keep in mind that your friends may not be your target audience, so don’t get discouraged if they’re not interested. Go where your target audience hangs out: This is the most popular and effective strategy. Find out where your target audience spends their time online and offline, and get in front of them.

B2C 89

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

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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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Different websites will use varying techniques to win over an audience. Quite frankly, if a website isn’t optimised to suit the smaller screens, it is essentially shutting its doors to an audience of millions. A successful website targets the widest audience possible; mobile optimisation is key.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

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. Driving huge audiences can be worth millions of dollars, that’s why.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 17, 2020

If you’re in the early stages of promoting your startup , you’ve probably thought about trying every possible marketing tactic out there: emails, blog posts, targeted ads on social media — you name it. It has become both a key piece of every marketing strategy and the most preferred way in which audiences consume content online.

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Video Software Review Startup Audience 150

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're going to get reviews on blogs.". 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. I know of no companies who have " gone viral " because of buttons.

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Software Review Technical Review Viral Software Development 261

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. iPullRank Blog. Litmus blog.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Additionally, content is a tool that can be used to make your company go viral. While having a great medical website is important, so is maintaining an incredible blog. Blogs are important because they generally enable you to engage your audience in a personal manner that helps accelerate the relationship-building process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

Key Takeaways Tim Brown underscores the pivotal role of quality content and strong backlinks in SEO success, emphasizing the importance of creating original, engaging content tailored to the audience’s needs while acquiring reputable backlinks. Some people want to watch video, so I incorporate it into most blog posts.

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SEO Technical Review Viral Video 77

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000 5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Your audience will flock to brands with a strong reputation because they don’t associate you with their need. Brand recognition happens when your target audience recognizes your brand when they see it (even if they’ve never used your solution). Identify the channels where your audience is most active and double-down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. It’s the principle underlying “viral marketing.” User to brand (engaged audience). In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It.

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Social Media Media Viral Audience 352

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

Many years ago I coined the phrase “ Pillar Article ” or sometimes called, “ Pillar Content “, to describe how to create great blog content. To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe what good blog content is.

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Media Audio Video Social Media 103

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Yammer sreenshot “Going viral” is often the holy grail for Internet startups, who hope to quickly scale to hundreds of thousands of users (then hundreds of millions) with relatively low user acquisition costs. When you turn your attention to SaaS products that are narrow in industry and profession, it’s even harder.”

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Viral Product Vertical Acquisition 149

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

. ” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 28, 2023

Almost 20 years ago, sometime after Fred Wilson started writing and just before Brad Feld jumped in, I started “blogging”. I put that in quotes because no one really calls it blogging anymore and there aren’t even that many people still doing it from those days. That’s how Substack was for me—a letdown.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

Many components of a good blogging strategy also work for YouTube. you would expect that—just like a great blog—they would earn more conversions. A keyword-targeted strategy builds initial awareness and subscriptions that, in turn, create an audience for videos with little or no keyword volume. Image source ).

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Channel Video Audience Software Review 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

For some customers and many investors, a heavy focus on social networks and viral marketing may be a negative, rather than a positive. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. A balance of conventional and social communication and marketing is always advised.

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Social Media Media Startup Analytics 315

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2016

Publish a blog post at the right time and you will get tons of qualified traffic. The big question is when it’s the best time to publish a blog post? Every day, more than 2 million blog posts are being published. If you publish an article when your audience is not active, you won’t see much engagement.

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Viral Audience Social Media Engineer 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had called on Chamillionaire from the audience and asked him to provide some views on how artists view social media, why they use it and where it’s heading. Cham studied early in his career how to hold the microphone, how to project his voice, how to watch the audience and pay attention to what interested them.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Los Angeles Norway Audience 356

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. One-­to-­many” resellers already hold a significant audience. In today’s world, you can sell through blogs, podcasts, video, eBooks, newsletters, whitepapers, SEO, social media marketing, and other forms of content marketing. Well, then you’ve got to go viral.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. It’s often hard to tell stories about change—audiences grow wary or defensive—but Margolis helps leaders in Silicon Valley and other hotbeds of innovation make that change feel exciting and achievable. Click here to listen to the episode.

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Marketing Silicon Valley Cofounder Framework 97

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

In the world of marketing, it has been established that that blogging is a great way to keep content unique and fresh on a website. Have you heard of video blogging, also known as Vlogging? Rather than simply “telling” in a blog post, you can start “showing,” as well. 3: Attracting a larger audience.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

It provides your business with unlimited potential to tap into endless audiences. If you go viral, your brand will soar. All your ads, all your social posts, each blog or guest blog you add will all direct your customers to this HQ. You can create pay-per-click ads, hire an influencer, or guest blog.

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Marketing Social Media Audience SEO 103

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 19, 2019

Additionally, you will have to understand the type of audience your business caters to. It is also important to develop high-quality content for that audience. One of the ways to do that is by making the content go “viral”. It is very difficult to predict what exactly will your audience like. Practical Value.

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Viral Marketing Audience Algorithm 178

Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

This requires having a blog with guides and how-to information. These platforms will give you insight into what your audience is searching for and which words you should be targeting in your content. So get a YouTube channel and start embedding videos with keyword-rich descriptions within your blog posts. Referral links.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. 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. So, that’s why we are excited about 2023 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. My main objective for 2022 is to get more press.

Social Media 127

Social Media Entrepreneur Retention Finance 127

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The challenge is that we, and our HiPPOs, bring opinions and feelings and our perceptions of what will go viral to the conversation. As I’ve passionately shared frequently on this blog, we, Analysts, are all in the business of persuasion. This graphic went viral on the socials, and deservedly so. The Conflict of Obsessions.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Airbnb learned its audience used Craigslist to list and search for accommodation. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. For each potential channel, look at: Customer acquisition cost How many customers you can reach Whether the channel reaches the right audience.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting. This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. Attending this presentation inspired me to write this blog post.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2012

It’s the dream of every business to have a social media campaign that goes viral. So, how can you get your Tweets to go viral too? You can up your odds of having a tweet go viral simply by tweeting more and having more followers. According to a paper she co-authored, emotions are a key factor in the “virality” of tweets.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You’re not going to go viral Dropbox style, so having a freemium model doesn’t really work. Let’s take a look at the benefits now: Freemium customers could be a great source of virality. If you go for freemium, consider the conversion rates I’ve mentioned above, and estimate the size of the audience you have to tackle.

Startup 110

Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

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.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. This content relates strictly to the products and services you provide, and have a very limited audience. So, from day one, we invested heavily in YouTube, our blog, Tumblr, and Reddit.

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

The tremendous growth predicted in this industry means that marketers will have a wealth of new opportunities to capture their audience. According to AppLift VP Strategic of Development, Maor Sadra, social media platforms, will create a virality-based ecosystem which puts users in the driving seat and vindicates their preferences.

Mobile 100

Mobile North America Marketing Technical Review 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2014

7 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Use Video To Grow Their New Business written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Viral Video Marketing. Seeking out a firm with good copy writing and production staff can help bounce your ideas into a whole new audience. Congratulations!

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