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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

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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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. Not so fast. Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB. Over one billion apps downloaded to date. Over three million daily downloads. Approximately 3,000 apps available for PlayBook.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. How many adds came through organic SEO? How many through affiliate deals?

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How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

The process is especially tricky before you’re ready to distribute your final product, but teaser videos, downloadable PDFs and other digital content provide options for social sharing long before a product’s ship date. With an innovative product in the consumer payment space, the company had viral-ready content. Target influencers.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

You can read more about the methodology here and download a high res PDF here. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. Source: The SaaS Napkin. Consumer apps and services.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

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.

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