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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

Agile VC

But my partners and I saw the potential for the community to grow virally, just as LinkedIn did, and to be monetized with a variety of products built on top of this community. I got to share some of our early dashboards from LinkedIn as GrabCAD crafted their own dashboards for early viral growth.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

Unique Hotels is a small group lifestyle hotels located mainly in Tallinn, Estonia and Manor house just outside the city. Viral aspect of the campaign: The more sharing, the more points, and the greater the chances of winning in both the weekly and main prize (luxury all-inclusive weekend in Vihula Manor) draws. Image credit.

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14 List Building Hacks to Grow Your Email Database Fast

ConversionXL

Launch a viral competition. A viral competition is a competition where you enter with an email address, and then get extra entries for every person who signs up from your referral. For this viral competition we generated 2,987 emails for a total cost of $6,661.11 Add a viral loop to your opt-in pages.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it. That's a very, very strong call to action to put at the end of an article, and I knew that would dramatically increase the virality. So you just shut down the country.