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Splurgy Engages, Motivates and Rewards Your Best Social Media Fans [video]


Robin Good: Splurgy is a new web service which allows you to engage and reward your best social media fans by offering them unique discounts, coupons and access to offers in exchange for their contribution to make those actions "visible" to their own social networks.


With Splurgy it is also possible to make access to exclusive content, links or guides on your web site available only to those that are your true social advocates. The “Fangate” feature allows your website to give access to exclusive content only to those who follow your social channels.


Last but not least Splurgy collects the name and e-mail address of every user that socially engages with your promotions.


Free to use.


Key features: http://www.splurgy.com/features/


Video tutorials: http://vimeo.com/splurgy/videos/rss


More info: http://www.splurgy.com/




Via Robin Good
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Malcolm Gladwell taught us not all customers are equal in his book The Tipping Point. Gladwell segmented customers into Salespeople, Connectors and Mavens. Each persona has different value and needs different communication. 

Splurgy looks like a great tool allowing segmentation and reward. The other thing we know from the 1:10:89 rule is that very few visitors will actively engage (1% will contribute content, 10% are willing to vote  on the content created by the 1% and 89% ride for free). 


Any tool that helps segment and reward the 11% (or so) of your customers that are highly engaged is valuable so Splurgy away.

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SEO and Content Marketing For Startups

SEO and Content Marketing For Startups | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Many startups think passion is enough. it isn;t. Successful startups learn how to tune their marketng with tools such as the 3 free Google tools discussed here: Analytics, Adwards and Trends.

Successful startups LISTEN at least as much as they TALK and this post explains how.

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Dumbest Excuse SMBs Use to Avoid Blogging

Dumbest Excuse SMBs Use to Avoid Blogging | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
SMB owners and managers often rattle off myriad excuses about why they don't blog. The worst excuse is not having enough time. Here's why that excuse doesn't fly.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Working on a piece for startups about how to create content marketing. Content marketing is the new advertising, the new market maker so to NOT blog and curate content across social nets is to give up on having online authority.

How will people BELIEVE, JOIN and GIVE MONEY to things without authority? Answer: They don't. Follow the tips here, my favorite is delaying gratification, and your startup or SMB strategy will be better.

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Lean Content Movement Brings HUGE Startup Opportunities

Lean Content Movement Brings HUGE Startup Opportunities | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it
Making the most efficient and effective use of strategies, tools, and technology for content marketing.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Understanding The Lean Content Movement
I just wrote my second piece on the Lean Content Movement being created by the team at @Scoopit (http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/scoopit-and-the-lean-content-movement/ ). 

Here are just a few opportunities that are out there for courageous startups to tackle:

* Tools capable of publishing to multiple locations simultaneously.
* Tools to create PERSONAS (customer archetypes). 
* Tools to create Segments (financial groupings such as VIPs). 
* Mobile content management tools.  

* Better Metrics tools (tie top of funnel TRAFFIC to bottom CONVERSION). 

Here are a few of the cool startups creating tools to support the Lean Content Movement:

http://www.Scoop.it  

http://www.compendium.com/

http://www.topsy.com 

http://www.storify.com 

http://www.tweetreach.com 

How about you? What are your favorite "lean content" tools? Comment them in and I will curate into the post. As as content publisher I offer my feedback services to any startup creating a tool to help curate and create for the Lean Content Movement. 


John van den Brink's comment, April 27, 3:52 AM
Martin, great tools!. I also use http://www.swayy.co/
Beach Buzz Media's curator insight, April 30, 4:17 PM

Indeed it does!

Beach Buzz Media's curator insight, April 30, 4:29 PM

Beach Buzz Media-- Perfect example!

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Find Any Type of Creative Commons Licensed Content with Let's CC

Find Any Type of Creative Commons Licensed Content with Let's CC | Startup Revolution | Scoop.it

Robin Good: Let's CC is a specialized search engine that can find any image, sounds, video or text that has been published under a Creative Commons license and is available for re-use.

 

Free to use.

 

Very useful. 8/10

 

 Try it out now: http://eng.letscc.net/ ;

 

***** Just thinking about how to be more deligent about attribution today and thinking how hard that was going to be to do when I saw Robin's latest great find. Most curators know they can easily change their visual presentation for many things without losing any punch or value, so if it is easy to do the right thing (vis a vis attribution) we do it. If it is hard we may still do the right thing, but chance go down. This cool tool from Robin may solve the problem Can't wait to try and see. Marty


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