Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

For example, I type in for "trip to Hawaii" (not an esoteric destination) into Google. Name, date, text comment. Yes these brands have YouTube channels and every once in a while they throw up a viral video and everyone oohs and aahs. Solving for short-term virality is not a sustainable strategy. Two examples.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. His name is Kai Budde. In 2004 I began blogging. He’s German.

Technical Review 82

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

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. What was the most surprising was the fact that most participants came from viral growth (shared links, which where tracked). 6600+ new fans.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. First Name. Company Name. * The breakdown: “Pinterest doesn’t have an open API yet, so data has been pretty limited. Industry Offers & Promotions. Webinars, Content & Events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

His name is Tomas Pueyo. 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.

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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. I was chatting to the people actually from the bar via Twitter DM and they sent me photos and they told me all their names and they described exactly what happened.

Czech Republic 113

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