Learning Viral: What to do when you are NOT Viral

June 17th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

Welcome to Noah Kagan’s Okdork! I am really glad you found me. Don’t go just yet. If you’re killing time at work, enjoy marketing, online communities and other business things; then you are at the right place.

You should check out my Okdork Virgin Guide to get started.

If you like what you read why don’t [...]

The Gas Tank Chronicles

June 9th, 2008 29 Comments Noah

Last night I was at a friends birthday party and it was super crowded. And for some reason people love to point out the obvious, “OMG it is so crowded here!” My response is, “really, you don’t say (said with a cute face on).”
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Anyways, people complain about gas prices a lot now, myself [...]

Startup Tips: How I grew a waiting list of 20,000+ at Mint.com Part I

June 3rd, 2008 25 Comments Noah

Recently I got a question asking
“i was curious what methods you used to build a 20k pre-beta email list, and what were the conversion rates for those emails?”`

I love Mint.com and if you are not using them for your personal finance then bleh. Anyways, I think for many new startups the largest challenge is distribution [...]

Learning Viral: What my Brita taught me about Commitment

May 30th, 2008 6 Comments Noah

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 [...]

How the Top Social Networks got started

May 21st, 2008 10 Comments Noah

It might be unknown to many but the majority of all social networks were started by a spamming of some sorts.
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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 day.

Hi5 used their [...]

Be Careful what you Advertise

May 15th, 2008 16 Comments Noah

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…
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