Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Supplement text here with video and audio. Provide convenience through podcasts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Supplement text here with video and audio. Provide convenience through podcasts.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports startups tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.9

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

So we actually got in touch with them through an Intercom widget, asking a simple question of how do we get on the homepage. Unless you have the most viral, sticky product ever,” Woodhead noted, “there’s a bit of ‘coming over the hill’ with analytics, and you hope for a soft landing.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2013

Social media sharing widget? “Add social sharing buttons so your landing page can go viral!” and “Your Franchise Business!” ” also looks like a button, but it is not. For a long page like this, your call to action should be repeated at the bottom. Nobody shares a landing page offer. Get rid of it.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports startups tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. It''s a good measurement because it captures both satisfaction and virality. If I think I can sell 100 widgets at $10 apiece, and they cost me $5 to build and market, that''s a business model.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

A year or so ago, I noticed a marketing campaign by a company that involved offering bloggers a “plant a tree&# widget for their site – if you placed the banner on your site, they’d plant a tree. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally.

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venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Big brands, like Porsche, may want to get in front of their audience and have users speak about their brand in a viral, social networking space. Allocate about 10% of your ad space to product/widget based ad networks (Amazon Affiliates, Widgetbucks). Therefore, Porsche will pay LivingSocial for each exposure to their audience.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 12, 2013

However, SOPA and PIPA worked because the campaign went viral. Use your company homepage to drive traffic to marchforinnovation.com with their widget atmarchforinnovation.com/get_ widget. As we saw last year, virtual marches like the online protest against SOPA and PIPA can make a real difference in Washington.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

Incorporating referral links into your communications and incentivizing folks to share them facilitates “viral lopping” and organic growth. You can have your SMS contacts opt-in at your physical location or via “click-to-join” website forms, social media widgets, or browser pop-ups. Referral links. PR and media outreach.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. The recommender can then be posted here as an interactive widget. BrandDoozie – A DIY online marketing material creation suite that helps you create professional-looking business cards, brochures, logos, and more. What will you find here?

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 2, 2008

My conclusion is that we are entering into a new phase of the war for the killer app which will be known as the Widget Wars. What is a widget? Yahoo has one definition of a widget (specific to their product of course). WordPress.com has another widget definition. Should we use the Internet.com definition of widget ?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 6, 2011

We expect to see lots of startups launch over the course of the event, and LaunchRock , the creator of viral launch pages for startups is putting the pieces in place to make its own, newly launched service even more useful. The anticipation in the tech world is palpable, as SXSW Interactive kicks off at the end of the week.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2012

The easiest way to get any site content shared is to install a widget on your site. If your site has a number of different widgets, it might be better to remove one first and replace it with the “Pin It” button so you don’t clog up your site. PR Daily offers seven proven ways to create viral Pinterest posts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 10, 2023

In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. Well I think most trusted advisors, unlike selling widgets or unlike selling products, we are the product. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcast. (00:52): This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is David Newman.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Widgets and badges. A widget is a mini-app that displays or updates data either locally or on the web – to share something of value and interest. Keep the atmosphere relaxed and fun, to increase traffic, and maybe even go viral. Supplement text here with video and audio. Provide convenience through podcasts.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

However, it can be tricky to convince people to sign in to your newsletter without using a simple subscription widget such as described by leaderinternet.com. A subscription widget does the hard work for you, by collecting emails without complex integration forms. And it only takes a few seconds to fill in!

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

A few weeks ago Businessweek’s article Widget’s Worth talked about “cracking the monetization code,” wondering how social widget applications are going to make money. Now the new plan for distribution is facilitation through low-cost viral strategies via Facebook and other social media.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

A few weeks ago Businessweek’s article Widget’s Worth talked about “cracking the monetization code,” wondering how social widget applications are going to make money. Now the new plan for distribution is facilitation through low-cost viral strategies via Facebook and other social media.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

Sharability adds to the potential of your content going viral. Ensure that necessary widgets are present at the bottom of each page to enhance its sharability. Encourage people to share your content in relevant online communities.

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The Startup Toolkit

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Put this widget on facebook, spend $10k on that display network with this ad, and we guarantee you’ll end up with 500 entries because our acquisition, engagement, creation, and sharing rates are XYZ & Q, respectively. ”) which kill the virality and thus the campaign. UGC features usually don’t belong in v1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

At the time, Google’s established competitors all used search as an individual function among many others: news, weather, widgets; Google made search about search and nothing else and this clearly addressed the performance association and provided a compelling differentiator. Photo: Katie Weilbacher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I find that the users of Delicious are some of the old Internet souls that know quality from viral and I can always count on a romp through my favorite tags to produce ideas for my own content production. Content discovery. I’ve also long used Delicious as a content inspiration source.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2015

Research-driven with a healthy dose of humor and pop culture, WIDGETS is a. Personal narratives, exercises, and reflective practices make the material relatable to everybody’s experience.” ” Available: March 28 | Pre-order now. The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They’re Real People. By Rodd Wagner.

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unbounce.com

DECEMBER 11, 2012

CASE STUDY: How I Created a Viral Ebook Landing Page - Using ThemeForest, PayWithATweet, KISSinsights and Unbounce. Embed our collection of marketing infographics on your blog or website. The NOOB Guide to Online Marketing. The 12-Step Landing Page Rehab Program. Landing Pages for PPC. The 7 Secrets of Social Media Conversion. -->.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Pinterest has a page on adding a save button on their Pinterest for Business guide, and again the Pinterest Widgets page is a good resource if you’re looking for other buttons (such as follow buttons and embedded boards). The last thing you want is one of your pins going viral without users knowing that it came from your business!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Whenever you have code that is un-deployed or un-integrated, its helpful to think of it as a huge stack of not-yet-installed parts in a widget factory. For those of you with some background in lean manufacturing, you may notice that integration risk sounds a lot like work-in-progress inventory. I think they are the same thing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2017

If you manage a lot of websites, you can use Cyfe to create one dashboard consolidating all widget, each monitoring bounce rate of each of your websites. Ann Smarty is Brand and Community Manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas , founder of MyBlogU.com and manager at Viral Content Bee. Let’s find a tool for those in the comments!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Having widgets on the website that enables customers to call directly a sales person proved to work very well. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. And this human touch is necessary even if you have a free demo on available on the web. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. ► 03/25 - 04/01. (1). ► 2006.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. For instance, dropping pre-built widgets into WebPages without any understanding of the underlieing technology (HTTP, HTML etc.). March 26, 2011 at 10:22 am.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results. Traffic rolled in.

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