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Viral Marketing Costs Real Money These Days

Startup Professionals Musings

Every time I see 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 couple of years ago that viral marketing does not equal word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. Seed viral activity.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Europe is roughly the same as the US. And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. Think of the Internet, short-formate equivalent of Discovery, NatGeo, E! Much of it already is.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. Spotify came to the the US from Europe this year, and TaskRabbit and Outbrain just raised money to grow beyond the US.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies.

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Which Social Networks are for Entrepreneurs?

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s the Internet version of the old daily newspaper, with serious news links, celebrity gossip threads, and business people of all sorts looking for information and leads. For example, Orkut is most popular in India and Asia, while Ryze is popular in Europe. Believe it or not, this is my favorite for entrepreneurs.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies.

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