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

Both Sides of the Table

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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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

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I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. I’ll finish writing around 1am and that’s a dumb time to Tweet because few people in the US are online. In fact, that is what I plan to do for this post. So, whaddaya think?

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. Write out the topic and maybe even the blog title. I wanted to write about the top 10 attributes of an entrepreneur.

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

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Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter. That’s boring.

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

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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. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block.

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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. Give people a way to follow news around a particular block.

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