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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. Or creating quizzes or games with your content. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. And of those 35 people.

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Topic customization.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. This is the main focus of EveryBlock, where they give each city block its own Web page, its own RSS feed and its own e-mail alerts. Geographic customization. Topic customization.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

When I asked Michael about soliciting such feedback, he admitted that, "Timing is the hardest thing to control: you can carefully craft worthwhile content, word your message brilliantly and then post at what you think is the perfect time and still end up with zero traction. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Distribution.