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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Debbie is also a proud member of the DTM network for the last 3 years. It's also a proud member of the Duct Tape Marketing Network for the last three years.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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2011 Consumer Internet Predictions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

While the amount of social gaming on other social networks, especially the Asian networks, has significantly increased over the course of the year, the vast majority of social gaming still takes place on Facebook. Twitter continues to grow in usage, overtaking Myspace to become the third largest social network in the world.

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Episode 44: Communication and Credibility with Scott Spiro and Tony Lillios

Mike Michalowicz

He enjoys working in a variety of industries and is currently actively involved in a publishing, a MI (music instrument), and a social networking business. For Scott, that means going out into the community and networking. Get involved with direct marketing, go into media (news channels, radio shows, etc) to build credibility.

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Businesses Must Manage the Twitter Conversation

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter is the new CRM (customer relationship management) channel. On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook.

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Agam Berry’s Six Startup Tips For Aspiring Indian Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Direct marketing. Remember that it’s a person behind the computer and participate in trade shows, conventions, and networking. Maximize your efforts on social media by taking advantage of advertising across multiple social media channels with a focus on mobile. Don’t forget about the offline world.