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Two months ago, we showed you how to raise $15,000 in 28 hours on Kickstarter. But one question kept coming up: how do you crowdfund without Kickstarter? Are the tactics the same? Are there any advantages to not using Kickstarter? How do you set your site up to collect funds? I found a crowdfunding case […]
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Pop quiz: What do all of these sites’ home pages have in common? Okay, I admit, the title of the article is kind of a giveaway. They’re all using social proof to show you how big their reach is, immediately when you show up. Tim Ferris displays how many people on Facebook like his […]
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The press is an enigma. Everyone wants to be featured (free traffic? hell yeah!) but how do you get the big media outlets to pay attention to you? It turns out that there’s a very simple strategy that any website, entrepreneur, or team launching a product can employ. I’ll let Jordan Bishop from How I […]
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When Cathryn and Allen hit the “Launch” button on their “SELF Journal” Kickstarter campaign, they were confident it would be big. 28 hours later it hit their funding goal of $15,000, and it earned $322,695 from 6,531 backers during the campaign. How? Well, they didn’t just launch and hope for the best. They collected 3,235 […]
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Collecting emails is important. You know that, I know that, our office dog Bambam knows that. But what may surprise you is that depending on your goal, you can actually get more sales, increase your conversion rates, and get more from your visitors by giving them a big clear call to action instead of asking […]
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HEADS UP SUMOS: Conrad is giving away his $199 course for a limited time at the end… read the post to find out how you can get it! But first, I’ll let Conrad, co-founder of Fedora, tell you about how he boosted his signups by 70% with one tool… — As co-founder of a startup […]
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How long does it take you to check your site stats? If you’re using Google Analytics like 99% of site owners, it goes something like this: Go to Google Analytics and log in Find your site in that series of folders and click on it See your total stats Navigate through 50 confusing menus to […]
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When you go to Spotify.com, what do you see? What about Uber.com? What do these sites have in common? They display a full-screen call to action before showing anything else. Why? Simple. Because it works… insanely well. At AppSumo, we tried this out and quickly saw that it was THREE TIMES more effective than any […]
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This is a case study from Robbie Richards. Building an email list should be your number one priority. Period. The question is, how do you quickly build a list without giving away burritos to every reader? I’m going to let Robbie show you how below. Take it away, Robbie… In this post, I’m going to […]
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Let’s say I put you in a sealed room and tell you that you need to draw a picture of a poodle. But, there are two cases here. In one case, I don’t give you anything else. Just a pencil, some paper, and say “go.” In the second case, I give you a few pictures […]
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