Archive for: May, 2008
Learning Viral: What my Brita taught me about Commitment
I just moved into my own place in Pacifica,CA. Feel free to come work over here with me if you are interested. Can you believe I have my own place? Anyways, I bought a Brita water filter to have some delicious filtered water. After I took out the pitcher it made me tear apart some [...]
eduFire Grouporation: Getting More Peeps to Habla Espanol
Product: eduFire.com allows people to teach and learn over the Internet using video chat (think education meets eBay meets Tokbox and you’ll get what we’ve built). We’re starting with foreign language teachers and students and will be expanding out from there. The platform is totally open to use to teach and learn and tutors set [...]
Obama uses viral marketing to raise money and love
My friend Christel Hyden told me how the Obama campaign got her to donate twice as much money–and made her heart Obama more. Here it is in her words: I decided last night to finally give to Obama because they sent me an email saying that my donation would be matched by someone else, and [...]
TOMS makes its do-gooder message viral
Olivia bought a pair of shoes from TOMS because she’s a do-gooder. She loves that every time someone buys a pair of shoes from them, TOMS gives away a pair to a person who can’t afford shoes. After she finished her order, the Web site asked Olivia to dedicate the given pair. She dedicated the [...]
How the Top Social Networks got started
It might be unknown to many but the majority of all social networks were started by a spamming of some sorts. link to photo MySpace used their ResponseBase email marketing list of 100 million+ people to send for first users. Facebook spammed all the Harvard email lists to get the first 2,000 users in a [...]
Be Careful what you Advertise
Yes, Google Adsense can make you a lot of money but at the same time it can hurt you. Notice anything wrong with this photo? Solution: Go to Google and filter out your competitor list… The person with the funniest comment wins the book Difficult Conversations.
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