Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. That channel giveth and then taketh away so you had millions of users who had not grown accustomed to the feature set of Viddy and thus didn’t stick around.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” He advocates for people who test all channels, use quantitative methods and commit to growth as one’s “true north.” I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. Doesn’t.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Create viral content: Viral content can help you reach a massive audience in a short amount of time. However, it’s difficult to predict what will go viral, and this strategy is often more luck than skill. Start a blog: Write articles and create content that is relevant to your target audience. Rinse and repeat.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5 Omnichannel: Diversity and Inclusion Every successful organization uses multiple channels to communicate with potential customers and advertise its products. 5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models. million people and generate monthly revenue.

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eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. Step 2: Choose your sales channels. Direct sales: Selling one-to-one.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2018

Pinterest isn’t used to its potential and is seriously underrated for driving traffic to blogs, this won’t last forever. With many people struggling to drive web traffic from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to their blog many people are beginning to give up. Most people try and go for a multi-channel approach and hit all bases.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. Channel saturation. Market leaders may be left behind.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Shawns guest blog post describing describing the MVP Tree is below. In the Roku case study we’ve chosen three execution branches: (1) delivery platforms, (2) sales channels, and (3) chip platforms. Sales channels. Sales channels are the paths through which your product lands in customers’ hands. Delivery platforms.

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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. Thanks to Dani Mechlowitz, Delta Fulfilment ! #6-

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

And certainly if you write a good blog post, asking AI to create title and metadata, meta descriptions, it's better at that than you and I are once it's got something good to work with, it's my pleasure to welcome a new sponsor to the podcast. Do you think that today, the world we live in today, everybody should have a YouTube channel.

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SEO Technical Review Viral Video 80

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

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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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Almost 40% of small businesses that sell on Facebook say it is their sole sales channel. United Airlines spent a long time recovering from that debacle.

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Social Media Media Reputation Viral 355

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g., Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. My friend Seth Levine covered this well in his blog post on “ Handling Rejection ” which you should also read. But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. And it’s everywhere.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. Distribution Hacks.

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

unpaid) channels can be a goldmine for cannabusinesses today— if you know how to do it correctly. This article will discuss how to conquer the following unpaid channels to enjoy serious returns and long-term profitability from your cannabis advertising efforts: Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Instead, leveraging organic (i.e.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. Create a “ viral ” landing page, with LaunchRock or KickoffLabs. (Use the Startup Tools Page as the resource for tool choices). Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics. Use Skype or Google+ Hangouts for team conversations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews. You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. Make sure you communicate the right message, and use every channel possible, including body language, to make sure the message is understood by everyone.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Assign content & channels for each experience. Identify your channels. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. Embed blog videos hosted on facebook so you can track consumption and advertise to them. Messenger will become the biggest channel over the near years. Serve as a channel of knowledge.

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Board Effect

JULY 28, 2021

Before an unsavory post goes viral on the internet, we encourage you to take a look at our step-by-step plan for creating a nonprofit social media policy. Your board members should be aware that there’s no way to prevent a bad or questionable social media post from going viral even if the content was only up for a short time.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Identify the channels where your audience is most active and double-down. Start your brand awareness campaigns where you know your audience is active (turning up regularly, liking content, commenting, and sharing) and create content and creative that’s suited to those channels. Start with the channels you have experience in.

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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.

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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. Videos are viral in nature, and within the right marketing strategy, they can spread through the internet like wildfire.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 13, 2021

If your top five blog posts—which were published years ago—account for 30% of new users, then those posts are your brand for one in every three people. The most important topics and high-traffic posts may be buried deep in your blog roll. picking topics for blog posts). Blogs are hamster wheels. Organic takes time.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2023

You must represent your brand in your bricks & mortar building, online via your website, through your social channels, and in any other ad campaigns you run. 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.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

For $950K, I could also build a blog—from scratch—to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month. Otherwise, consider using those marketing dollars to scale up your core distribution channel first. Contrast this with a marketing team going after any particular channel—events, paid, SEO, community, PR, whatever.

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Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2014

Why Video Marketing is Underrated (and How to Use it to Your Advantage) written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Today is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is David Preston – Enjoy! Start a YouTube channel. photo credit: Andrew* via photopin cc.

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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. There is a critical mass of exposure you need to reach, so it’s better to synchronize everything together: PR, banners, and blog posts should all appear at once. Find blogs and niche websites where your potential audience is likely to be.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 19 best-selling books, including The Dip , Linchpin , Purple Cow , Tribes , and What To Do When It’s Your Turn (And It’s Always Your Turn).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. McPherson, who runs blogging courses, promised a course that “would challenge [participants] to take uncomfortable steps to ‘grow their blog.’” His solution?

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It involves using digital outlets like websites, social platforms, and software applications as marketing channels. Viral marketing. Small businesses and, indeed, startups can leverage the power of digital channels to build their brands, get leads , and reach more of their target audience. Infomercials.

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Marketing Early Stage Startup PPC 158

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Other marketers recommend that small businesses and startups build a website or optimize their existing website , develop email lists, start blogging, and develop newsletters. Many small business owners and entrepreneurs think that picking the right marketing channel will solve all of their problems. Few young can afford that cost.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2013

Books, newspapers, magazine, blogs, comment threads. I must have been channeling someone else for a moment there. Berger explains why people talk about certain produces and ideas more than others, why some stories have a greater tendency towards a viral effect and why some rumors are simply more infectious than others.

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Viral Small Business Social Media Technical Review 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

It highlights the story of how United Airlines paid no attention to social media while Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Almost 40% of small businesses that sell on Facebook say it is their sole sales channel. United Airlines spend a long time recovering from that debacle.

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Social Media Media Reputation Viral 246