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. That being said, virality is a matter of more than luck. About the Author.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing. First of all, Seth Godin pointed out a long time ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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The Next Web

JUNE 29, 2012

Like every startup out there mine is also after the holy grail of finding our viral loop — our interpretation of “invite a friend and get 1 GB free” of DropBox. I cannot stress enough the importance of finding the viral loop. If you don’t have a critical mass of users or customers you cannot start thinking about going viral.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Follow him at @rrhoover or visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. I think you know the punch line… Blogging is the new resume. Blogging is an effective way to illustrate expertise, personality, and most importantly, thought process. Blogging opens doors. We can all benefit from blogging.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unveil the secrets of viral marketing! Dive into transformative strategies and insights from successful campaigns to catapult your small business to new heights.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

But it isn’t just memes and videos that can go viral. World’s First Viral Bank Failure Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is a very important bank to the startup and tech eco system in the USA. As you can imagine, this blog post, raised many eyebrows in Silicon Valley. Because they expect it, they make it so.

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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. Whenever you create content on LinkedIn, never have a link to your blog or website in it. They affect the total reach that you can have with your LinkedIn post.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

In a world where having a strong online presence is essential, this blog post offers tips and tactics for maximizing impact as it delves into the subtleties of incorporating digital platforms into financial PR. Furthermore, upholding integrity amid viral trends and clickbait culture requires strong ethical fortitude.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 12, 2010

In this blog post I want to share four analytics tools that I have been playing with for a while… tools that solve an interesting problem… tools that point to what might be in terms of our near term analytical future… and in almost all cases they don't even know! It measures how often a blog post is tweeted/retweeted.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating. This became a global viral sensation. And I’m calling it now – it will be a global viral sensation. A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

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. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Good comment community = viral blog.

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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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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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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Blog posts are one way to do this. Obsessing over going viral. Creative agency founder Dan Kelsall has helped many of his clients go viral. Curious about the impact of virality on revenue, he dug into demand generation campaign data. In most cases, viral posts generated less demand. Don’t focus on this at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Viral marketing. Crowdsourcing.

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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. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Underbelly.

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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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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. Some people want to watch video, so I incorporate it into most blog posts.

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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]. iPullRank Blog. You could read about email marketing for days, but here are a few resources to get you started: Email Marketing articles on CXL’s blog. Litmus blog.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2019

Many people do not pay attention to the quality of the blogs but poorly written blogs don’t do much for brand image. To effectively turn your SEO blogs into leads the content you put out, i.e. your blogs, need to be written nicely too. The use of headings is one of the easiest and fastest ways to write a blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site. On the other hand, don’t assume that viral marketing is the only marketing you will need. Everyone knows that word-of-mouth advertising is an effective and important part of any small business.

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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.

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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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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  But I also love to follow blogs by entrepreneurs.    So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs.    So if you know of other blogs that should be included on this list, post a comment here and I'll update the list. .  My list has many biases. 

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Starting a blog is a great way to do this. A blog provides a steady flow of content without impacting other parts of the website. A blog provides a steady flow of content without impacting other parts of the website. The best blogs will provide information on the industry to build a larger audience.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here are a few essays, articles, blog posts, etc that I’ve enjoyed recently. Winter Break week for my kid more time with her, and when she’s with her friends, more time with New Yorker magazines. What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department [David Segal/New York Times] – Was it organic? Was it spon con? Was it both?

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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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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. The Best Day to Share Blog Posts on Facebook. The Best Time for Going Viral. What day of the week?

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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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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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Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2014

The ultimate thing we all seem to want (even if secretly) is to get everyone to pay attention to our blog post, video, social feed, pithy statement of insight and all other forms of digital output. That’s the promise of something going viral. That’s the promise of being shared on the Verge or Buzzfeed or Viral Nova.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 29, 2013

Nothing is as viral. This technique is powerful, so I want to keep it secret (in other words, just for my loyal blog readers). Nothing spreads as fast. And nothing becomes the talk of the town (and the internet) as quickly as a secret. Gossip and whispers existed well before the Internet. Tell a few people (your best customers).

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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. 2: A richer web experience.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

In this article we’re going to look at 7 different ways to drive more traffic to your blog site. Creating viral blog content. This is a great way to make it go viral. Attracting laser targeted subscribers is a sure fire way of boosting traffic to your blog. The post Proven Strategies to Increase Blog Traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

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