Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. How has the viral coefficient been for you? Gregg gave us specifics on how viral adoption has worked. The viral adoption went to 15-20 per share action.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). Mistakes, scandals and bad PR happen, and they can influence results drastically in the short term, as can positive events such as going viral.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle. Incorporating referral links into your communications and incentivizing folks to share them facilitates “viral lopping” and organic growth. PR and media outreach. Schedule a few public speaking events to boost customer reach and loyalty.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? Blogs/ press – to get consumers to learn about your new app, PR remains a viable source, especially when it comes to buzzy/social apps. Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. Do your own PR. Whether or not you’ve got the budget, doing your own PR to start with is a good idea. Don’t forget real-life products.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. Most startups however, don’t have the kind of money required to do that. Why does it work?

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 1, 2024

Post your message on social media, add it to your newsletters and marketing materials, send an email campaign, distribute a press release… you get the idea. Remember, you may get a lot of “No’s” but just one “Yes” can provide a feature story that goes viral! Communicate in various ways so that your target audience responds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

PR can be executed on a modest budget, and the awareness and word-of-mouth that can be attained is priceless for a small company. A couple of weeks ago, Ross wrote about setting goals for your company , and this is critical in your approach to PR. Create a budget. Have a plan. Be a resource.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A DAM tool otherwise know n as a digital asset management software is an innovative software that stores, organizes/sorts, distributes, and utilizes digital assets with its greatest and characteristic feature being the ability of the tool to store the assets in a central location. What Then is a DAM Tool? Benefits of Digital Management Tool.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. Now, people begin defining growth hacking as a process, a systematic approach, a “viral loop”, etc. Ads drive awareness…to drive sales.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. It can serve as a centralized hub for distributing all of your most important information. Lorien Strydom , Executive Country Manager, Financer.com No, Beware the Double-Edged Sword Crowdfunding is a double-edged sword because of its public nature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

Websites like Amazon’s CreateSpace , Blurb , and Lulu allow authors to design, produce, and distribute their own books, either digitally or via print-to-order hard copies quickly and inexpensively. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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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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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Marketing/Communications/PR. Distribution. Operations.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I had just enough data to optimize the main funnel, found a bunch of wins, then hit a hard wall and needed to rebuild the entire distribution strategy from scratch to keep growing. Otherwise, consider using those marketing dollars to scale up your core distribution channel first. Just remember that true virality is really rare.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Right now there is almost certainly an enterprise exec in a boardroom somewhere saying, “We need it to go viral.” Kittens and memes and babies kissing puppies… viral. When most people think about going viral, they think about raising a lot of awareness for their product or company. Do you even want to go viral?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. Simply adding a Twitter share button on your blog or website can make your back catalog go viral. Look at Quora.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2020

Now to pitch something like this, you do not need to create a fancy PR release. If you want your data to be understood quickly by the PR reporter, graphs are a great way to do this. The graph above shows the distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases clearly and is easy to understand. Image Source. Example: Image Source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

For much of the past five years academics, journalists, bloggers, and assorted mass-media-tag-alongs have been heralding the “ death of newspapers ,” the downfall of the publishing industry and the collapse of information distribution as we know it. In PR placements, ‘place’ matters. Leverage your friends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

Referral Marketing– This includes intentional word of mouth activities, viral tactics as well as intentional referral generation. PRNewswire – Press release distribution service. The PR Masterclass : How to develop a public relations strategy that works! Ambassador – Online referral program, starts at $200/mo.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Global warming, by accentuating drought and melting glaciers, will have a key impact on water resources distribution and will increase the unbalance. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. So, which one will have the greatest impact? ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. He thinks the very nature of video is changing. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. Eric Ries : Well that.

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