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How Much Money Has Been Invested In Content Marketing Technology

Marketing Insider Group

In 2014, CBinsights noted that $292M had been invested in content marketing platforms (including ours) from Q2 2013 to Q1 2014, noting that there was a 125% increase in investment money as well as a 47% bump in deal activity from the prior year. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/virally. CrunchBase. 11,000,000. 24,246,000.

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Are You Ready for Content Marketing in 2018? 60+ Predictions

Content Marketing Institute

Virality and reach will become less important, and marketers will instead focus on better segmenting and targeting capabilities, enhanced with the help of AI. Check out our forecasts for 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , and 2017 , to see what we got right, and where we went way off track.

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What Pisses off the Man Who is the Face of 3D Printing

Chris Koch

Viral How-Tos. From that base emerged MakerBot in 2009, which was co-founded by Pettis and two others. In 2013, the company launched a program called MakerBot Academy, in which teachers can request a 3D printer for their classrooms through DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding site for educators. Not that Pettis was a bad teacher.

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Audience over ego

ConvertKit

It was April 2009, and Srini Rao graduated with an MBA – and no job offers. He wrote about all the ups and downs he was facing trying to build something from scratch on the internet in 2013 and people connected to the raw and unfiltered way he wrote about his struggles and his ideas about art. The economy had just crashed.

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Kale, Podcasts & Yoga Pants: The Secret Formula Behind Ideas That Take Off

Hubspot

Virality isn’t born, it’s made. In his book, Berger fuses the concepts of virality, social influence, and interpersonal communication with research and stories around what makes an idea not only stick, but also spread. Between 2012-2013, 608 baby Kales were born. The Kale Campaign. No, not the vegetable.

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4 Growth Strategies Used By The Most Successful Companies

Hubspot

Growth Strategy: Viral Loops. The service hit its million users milestone by April 2009 , doubled to two million only five months later, and to three million just two months after that. Viral loops. The basic premise of a viral loop is straightforward: Someone tries your product. Source: Inside Viral Loops.

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The Future of SEO and What it Means for Inbound Marketing [SlideShare]

Hubspot

The Future of SEO - 2013 edition from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software. 2013 : Studies from Moz and Search Metrics find high correlations between search results and social shares (particularly Google +1s). Below are a few early signs of how we can expect SEO to evolve in the coming years. Mobile Search Will Continue to Rise.