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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Learning Viral: The Leech Method
One of the best and most successful methods of implement viral is what I call the leech method. This is what has made some of the largest and most successful companies ever. How does it work? Great question. Leech Method: This is creating a viral system on the back of a system that has a [...]
Learning Viral: Add-on or Natural
Last week I had a great meeting with the casual-games / viral guru and VC extraordinaire Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed Ventures. If you can get money from him please take it. Anyways, we were talking about the casual games experience and virality when he mentioned something about the ways of incorporating virality. Add-on: This is [...]
Learning Viral: Track Everywhere from Linkedin.com
A really easy and useful thing to track is where your users are registering from. How can you do this? Basically on every page that you have a registration button you should pull what page they are on when they registered. As well, you can track their path using Goals on Google Analytics or Apache [...]
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