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The 5 Commandments of How to Raise $1Million on Kickstarter

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Make a video and hawk it to the Facebook accounts of all your friends and family. With their campaign last spring, the creators of a watch that syncs with smartphones managed to raise over $10 million dollars. When they began the campaign, they set a goal of $100,000. Need $5,000 to get into a recording studio? Be transparent.

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12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

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Many of you are familiar with the Blue Key campaign that I’ve been working on since last year for my client, USA for UNHCR. So I figured I’d start with a post on one of our most successful tactics that helped achieve the 2011 goal for the campaign: tweetathons. Background. Decide your hashtag. Use that to your advantage.

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Should You Use a QR Code?

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Perhaps a coupon for a free sample, or a discount code? So the main point is this: don’t let the flashy, shiny thing – whether it’s a QR code or whatever hits the marketing circuit next – distract you from asking the questions you should ask before every marketing campaign. Why are you doing it?

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Monday Roundup: Understanding The 7C Social PR Framework™

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Why: “Best Buy shows that it values its customers on its Twitter accounts, @BestBuy and @twelpforce, which are constantly updated with answers to customers’ questions, replies to their concerns, and discounts for its products,” writes Kylie Jane Wakefield in this still relevant case study from Contently.

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How to Measure PR and Marketing Outcomes on Snapchat

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Despite Fein’s experience, it appears that Snapchat is a closed alternative to Facebook or Instagram for social communication. Capability to superimpose text and drawing on photos (which Facebook is comically attempting to emulate ). Texting and emailing are dinosaurs to them. We snap together over 100 times a day.”.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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Here are three examples: Facebook is best for B2C companies that share short, consumable content (see below) and special offers or discounts for first-time buyers. Put these two things together in a lead nurturing email campaign, add super valuable and helpful information and watch your open and click-through rates go up.

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

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Nothing that tells me if the person wants premium clients or discount jobs. I got a reply email 12 hours later, at 4:31 AM that said: Thank you for your quick response. There is nothing in that list that makes me think, “Oh, this person would be PERFECT for that project I’m working on!”.

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