Archive for: Marketing
How Jesus Christ can improve your Conversions.
I was outside of the ACL concert last weekend and this Christian guy came up to my friend and me to convert us to Christianity. Being the great Jew that I am he gave up instantly but he came back to me with a killer question. pic of me at corcovado (christ) in brazil Do [...]
How Compete.com kicked everyones Ass
If you haven’t noticed in the past 4 months slowly all the techies, bloggers, VCs, soccer moms, etc… refer to compete.com for all site traffic. WTF happened to Alexa? Remember them, we use to clamor over those #s for our sites and others to prove that we are worth some valuation . And before that [...]
How NOT to do Marketing…Microsoft Style
Recently I was trying to sign up for a Hotmail account (forgive me) and I came across this ad for imtalkathon.com blog. Oh interesting, clicked ad, what is this about? Cool? This guy blog is about a guy who wants to chat on IM / email for 30 days to raise money for causes. Relatively, [...]
Startup Tips: Getting to that first 10,000
This post was written by the great Vincent Lauria on how they grew Lefora.com so fast. So how did Lefora get to 10,000 communities in just 3.5 months? I think it can be broken down into just 3 steps: Solve a Problem Develop alongside a real audience Support the early community . 1. Solve a [...]
Startup Tips: How I grew a waiting list of 20,000+ at Mint.com Part I
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 [...]
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 [...]
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