Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. High LTV can usually be found in transactional or subscription businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

Video marketing helps you to build rapport with your audience quickly. Engage Your Audience With Visual Representation. In this day and age of social media sharing, it’s possible to reach millions of viewers if your video goes viral. Utilizing videos can help businesses reach more audiences, generate more leads, and build trust.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

So if Photoshop were trying to appeal to the widest possible audience, they’d have tools like “Lighten&# and “Darken.&# Over time, expand your offering to appeal to a wider audience. Photographers know what those things are; everyone else is in the dark. Ohh more puns! When will it end?). Working the pain in B2B.

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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. You are not rushing the audience to your digital existence.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

With this strategy, financial institutions can better communicate with their target audience, manage their online reputation, and negotiate the intricacies of the digital financial market. It involves telling stories that engage, educate, and encourage continued interaction with audience members.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

The year was 2015 and my company, Shareability, had already been behind some of the biggest viral hits of the past few years. The resulting video, “Ronaldo in Disguise,” became an immediate viral sensation. Going Viral. There was a time when “viral” simply referred to, well, viruses. The shoot was on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I think about how the audience might react and whether if I were in the audience I would be intrigued. It’s why before every speech I call the organizer and drill them about who will be in the audience. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. They are places to create, to innovate, to interact and to be in touch with your audience. That’s the place where you tell your audience what they will get by being your fans on Facebook.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

hoping to scoop up that small percentage of your audience who is ready to buy. Once you’ve created your list of potential themes, test them in front of your audience. Obsessing over going viral. Creative agency founder Dan Kelsall has helped many of his clients go viral. In most cases, viral posts generated less demand.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

They bring your vision to life and help you communicate with your target audience, all without endangering human lives. They also have immense viral potential on social media. You can opt for a hand-drawn style frame by frame, or you could go with 3D animated characters and locations. What about real product demos?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Shortly after its private release, we announced Product Hunt in the press and shared with our audience, acquiring another 1,000 users over the next week. It’s a Long-Term Investment - It’s highly unlikely your first, second, third, or 50th post will “go viral.” It’s Not About You - Readers also don’t care how awesome you are.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 14, 2012

Given that base plus the inherent viral component to these social apps, it seems natural that the first overnight success of a Kinect-powered app will be a social one. Anytime a fundamentally new platform is introduced, it creates white-space… especially for startups. Mash-up of many other technology platforms.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although the wallet apps are deployed in every medium, ones deployed as a web app provide a much larger audience to developers with minimal effort. There are increasing efforts in the industry to create MVPs to validate your app, make it go viral, and collect customer feedback with minimal investments. Wallet App Tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The best examples of marketing are those that make emotional connections with its target audience.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 17, 2020

In this article, we’re going to see what the best production companies in the business can teach you about using video to elicit trust from your audience — While also making your new venture stand out amongst the competition. A vid can promote a brand, but they should also give something back to the audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Jamie understood the mass-market appeal and the massive audience he could reach going on the show. Viral Adoption / Group Use Cases Jamie didn’t want to stop at a single household. Brand Jamie was one of the first entrepreneurs I knew to go on Shark Tank. so he went on.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Some have experimented with virality ( Pepsi Test Drive or Dove Beauty , etc.), Audiences, Relationships, and You(Tube). When I have a choice, I now buy Prudential.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. Though, increasingly, you can target with great granularity (especially on social) and set up custom audiences to create a holistic full-funnel paid strategy. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. Virality and Referral.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. First and foremost, it's vital to understand your audience profoundly.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TikTok’s audience uses the app with an exploratory mindset and a willingness to engage with branded content. While the majority of TikTok’s global audience are younger users, it’s a platform that’s aging up. And the type of products this audience is into is equally as diverse. Ads are a natural part of the experience.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 Analytics — An Essential Role in Trends Analytics, without a doubt, also play an essential role in trend watching: when you notice your competitors doing something new, you want to try it yourself and test it with your audience. What Works for Trends in CIS Countries?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2025

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio Do Know Your Audience Before you do anything else, youve got to work out who youre talking to , and a common startup mistake is trying to appeal to everyone – in the end, that usually means you dont appeal to anyone.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Additionally, content is a tool that can be used to make your company go viral. Blogs are important because they generally enable you to engage your audience in a personal manner that helps accelerate the relationship-building process. Share Buttons. This tool can take your conversion rates from average to awesome.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Our only viral gaming app on the list, we asked DJ Saul , the CMO of the DC-based iStrategy Labs , a DC-based digital agency that has built products like Grandstand and Social Machines for clients like The Washington Redskins and Nickelodeon , for input. 8) Angry Birds. Linus Pauling. Image credit: bloomua / Shutterstock.

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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.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Try what I call the “the viral reality check” or “bar test”: show your bar buddies your new app. Find blogs and niche websites where your potential audience is likely to be. Those are not the apps that get featured. Do they want to have it right away? Do they spend more than 30 seconds playing around with it on their phones?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2021

11 LinkedIn Posting Tips to Get Viral on LinkedIn. Yeah, you have a post that has the potential to go viral, and then also human editors will come in. So think about the moment that your audience might be online, the moments that they might check LinkedIn and might engage with your content. Why is this going well?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

It can help connect the audience in ways other media cannot. It can help connect the audience in ways other media cannot. User-generated videos have enormous potential for sharing and to go viral. Using UGC videos is better than traditional advertising, as they can help you connect with your audience and show support.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Read the publication, understand its audience, and write your pitch around that. The more you consider the audience when you make your pitch, the less likely that reporter is to hit “delete.”. Don’t pitch the real estate reporter on an app that has nothing to with housing. Pitch late. The operative word in “news” is “new.”

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Brand awareness metrics should also be broken down by segment, to understand which audiences your messaging is resonating with most, and to identify areas for improvement. This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Test by target audience and target segments.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

Infographics offer the unique ability to go viral and get your brand in front of millions of online visitors in a single day. Here are five tips for creating an infographic that will go viral and global: 1. The key is to create a viral infographic campaign that has mass appeal, is timely and innovative.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

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. At the same time, a formal video demo may not capture audience attention, especially at the top of the funnel. Stay on brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Display advertising.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target audience. Choose influencers based on influence, not audience size 5. Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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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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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

A keyword-targeted strategy builds initial awareness and subscriptions that, in turn, create an audience for videos with little or no keyword volume. So,” Hudgens continued, “view count should not be the goal—finding your audience where they live should be the goal.”. The choice may hinge on the diversity of your audience.

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