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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Trada – Guerilla Marketing In Action.

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

InfoChachkie

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. We weren''t marketing the newsletter, it was just out there, sort of growing organically.". Saying, ''Hey, we want to pay you to write a book.’ Let''s get real.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

InfoChachkie

One that he particularly struggled with was "word-of-mouth marketing,”which he consistently referred to as "mouth-to-mouth marketing." We adopted his phrasing and made it our mission to devise creative, mouth-to-mouth marketing initiatives. I now realize why guerrilla marketing is not for the timid. we sure do.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

InfoChachkie

However, many people are not aware that prior to entering academia, Steve was a wily and creative marketing entrepreneur. As the VP of Marketing, Steve inherited a department of 14people that was burning $4M annually. Despite these abundant resources, the team's ineffectiveness was reflected by the company's dismal 11% market share.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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Commission Junction Co-Founder Lex Sisney Applies A Scientific Approach To Analyzing Your Business

InfoChachkie

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur, CEO Coach and Author Lex Sisney shared a preview of his newly released book, Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business. Lex's new book, Organizational Physics , is compelling, as it applies the fundamental laws of physics to the world of business.

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Startup Spotlight: Final Exams, Santa Chatbot and Clean Up Your Email

Tech.Co

Customers can choose among its many templates to quickly add a chatbot to any Facebook page and then use its different reply types to create lead generating bots, list of articles taken from RSS feeds, Mailchimp and Zapier integrations, carousel of images and full-fledged ecommerce or food ordering solutions within the Messenger interface.

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