Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 1, 2011

Take Control Of Your Publicity (Or End Up Like Bill Clinton) Most companies employing this strategy to gain profile and publicity do so with the intention of creating a buzz and ideally having the resulting video going viral. This is the reasoning behind the concept.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! image credit: Coletivo Mambembe.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

Try what I call the “the viral reality check” or “bar test”: show your bar buddies your new app. Share this story everywhere including your website, in the app’s description page, and as part of your PR efforts. Those are not the apps that get featured. Do they want to have it right away? Timing and momentum.

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PR Development Team Review Viral Mobile 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. How many through SEM? Do you have a customer referral program? If so, make sure you can track which leads come from this. How do the mobile customers break down by device type?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

While it’s important to keep up traditional communication and PR, business owners should also be extending their relationships through online forums – website, blogs, and social networks. Use food to generate PR for your event too — one company I know of sent S’more’s kits to local TV newsrooms to help promote a camper and RV show.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. 12 Creative Design Ideas That Went Viral (And The Lessons You Can Learn) – [link]. Tips, Tricks and Inspiration for Creating Great Screencasts – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Five characteristics of a viral product – crowdspring.co/1aa5ZGk. Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction: study – crowdspring.co/16owp3Q.

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Brandanew

MAY 29, 2015

Startups need PR, publicity and proof of visibility for investors and while you may have a PR agency, many struggle with producing enough or high quality content. Sure-shot way to lose trust and potential customers (even if your terrible response does not become viral). You and your brands get perceived as douchebags.

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Curation Social Media Viral Startup 100

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

New OK Go Video – White Knuckles (Have these guys mastered full-proof viral videos?) – [link]. How Google Saved $100 Million By Launching Google Instant – [link]. The future of books – [link]. If superheroes were hipsters – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

For instance, it can help you see what advertising and PR techniques you can apply to shine in your niche. And if you get viral content that spreads like wildfire, that is a sure-fire way to get an immense boost in sales. This research will help you fine-tune your margins while offering competitive rates. Create a Loyalty Program.

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Social Media SEO Programming Technical Review 158

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The number of PR people you can now fire because your Facebook page is such an awesome PR platform – not. Virality is also really interesting (again, actual human interaction), people who "create a story from your post" (share etc). An additional prove value scope can also be: Cost savings. Time to dive deeper.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It’s sometimes not entirely clear where content marketing starts and where SEO or PR end. Virality and Referral. Virality is the key lever of many of the most famous growth examples: Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, Hotmail. Resources on virality/referral: Referral Marketing Master Course. So is this content marketing?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

Interesting Facebook post on the viral potential of rumors … The strange truth about fiction – crowdspring.co/1rJBrCv. Marketers Not Prepared for Negative Feedback: New Research | Social Media Examiner – crowdspring.co/1mVP5ES. Is Native Advertising Even Profitable for Brands? Copyblogger – crowdspring.co/1kl099w.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Nor to achieve the greatest “virality” in our digital campaigns. Avoid confusing Social CRM with its disparate components like database marketing, IT systems, loyalty programmes, social media platforms, or marketing and PR alone. The greatest challenge of the social media age isn’t to grow the largest fan or follower base.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

7 Things Marketers Can Learn From 2,616 Viral Headlines. Failure is Opportunity: It Was Good That Shaun White Lost in Sochi | by Barry Moltz - crowdspring.co/1gMg1js. Top 50 Startups To Work For After College | Business 2 Community – crowdspring.co/1kJbIIh. ripenn - crowdspring.co/1gSudHW. Responsive, adaptive, mobile or native?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There, I Said It: Screw Viral Videos – [link]. Tags: Awesomeness How To Interviews Strategy Technology business community crowdsourcing design inspiration marketing social media start-up tips writing copywriting entrepreneur entrepreneurship facebook leadership pr public relations small business smallbiz startup twitter.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Letting Go: The Best (and Hardest) Thing You’ll Ever Do | Inc – [link]. 5 Ways to Lose Investors in Under 3 Minutes – [link]. Auto-responders: Why Trigger-based Email Will Increase Your Conversions – [link].

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Offer reporters an exclusive on the successful, viral campaign that got you there, or a behind-the-scenes look at what your product does and how you’ll deliver on this huge campaign’s promises. You set a $50,000 Kickstarter goal, reached it in four days, and the donation counter’s still ticking toward a million. That is objectively crazy.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2016

From Aspiration to Hero For companies that do have that moment of success where everything seems to come together: funding, hiring, customers, PR, product releases and so forth — you have a “hero” moment where you feel invincible. Maybe it’s the system, maybe it’s me — but either way what could I do differently to change outcomes?

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2). Laughing Out (c)Loud. ► 07/05 - 07/12. (1). United Breaks Guitar and more! Software 2.0:

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2). Laughing Out (c)Loud. ► 07/05 - 07/12. (1). United Breaks Guitar and more! Software 2.0:

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Software Review Europe Technical Review Spain 95

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. But the cost of PR and marketing is going to outstrip that within a couple of months of being up and running! Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. This is essentially a version of the viral loop.

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Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Thanks to Danielle Sabrina, Society22 PR ! #3- As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

So, if you're a junior VC, a great goal to have until you build out that big track record is to be able to look at a BD pipeline, and make some intros to partners, help fill some holes on the team, and help the company get some PR through your media contacts. 4) Companies should have a balanced set of investors and advisors.

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Venture Capital PR Hiring Networking 110

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 24, 2021

Here is how to properly use PR and SEO to amplify marketing results. PR and SEO handle the same segment , but their approach is different. PR and SEO handle the same segment , but their approach is different. Let’s take a look at a few tips on how to use SEO and PR to conquer online marketing. Increase Brand Awareness.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

This video is a very smart viral marketing initiative from Cardo Systems , a provider of bluetooth headsets and it reached more than 6m eyeballs (this number includes the different versions of the video as well as the videos of people trying the experience to show it is a scam!). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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Software Review Technical Review Viral Europe 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2013

They want the perfect feature set, the PR company lined up to do the perfect press release, they want maximum coverage, rave reviews, viral adoption and they want to sit back and then wait for the signups to come roaring in. I hear about it in every first product release. You can see it in the founders’ eyes.

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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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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOG. Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2). Laughing Out (c)Loud. ► 07/05 - 07/12. (1). United Breaks Guitar and more! Software 2.0:

Software Review 67

Software Review Europe Technical Review Search 67

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Marketing the Viral Effect and Not-for-Profit Gold – [link]. How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web – [link]. Twitter’s Ad Sales Are Booming, Says Gawker – [link]. Why Marketers Never Learn From Others’ Social-Media Mistakes – [link]. How This Man Made Dos Equis a Most Interesting Marketing Story – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

There are two viable growth engines for tech companies: Viral, or “inherently viral” growth: Customers either intentionally or unintentionally recruit new customers by using your product. Social platforms use intentional virality; this occurs when users get a more fulfilling experience as more of their friends join the same platform.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

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