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  1. UpViral Review + Case Study: Why Giving Away Free Stuff is Harder Than You Think

    Marketing Tools

    “114,585 leads in less than 30 days!”“We collected over 100,000 new subscribers in our first month!”“We gathered 20,000 leads in 14 days!”These are the kinds of claims used to advertise viral giveaway or contest apps. When you read such statements, it’s easy to think that…

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  2. Webinars vs. Livestreaming: What’s the Difference?

    Webinar Marketing

    I recently started a series of reviews with the goal of answering one question: "what's the best webinar software available?" As I soon found out, this was the wrong question. There are many tools that bill themselves as "webinar software", but they're made for different…

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  3. ClickMeeting Review: Why You Should Avoid It

    Webinar Marketing

    Of all the webinar software reviews I've done, this one was the most frustrating... and the most heart breaking. ClickMeeting is a webinar platform with a long list of impressive features, that inititally showed so much promise. But it also contains a fatal flaw, which…

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  4. Live Chat During Webinars: Don’t Use the Default Setting

    Webinar Marketing

    Live chat is a feature in almost all the webinar tools I've been reviewing. Chat is a familiar interface and it gives attendees on your webinar an easy way to interact with you as well as with each other. But just because something is common…

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  5. Demio Review

    Webinar Marketing

    Demio bills itself as "a webinar platform built for marketing". That sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for! What are the marketing features on offer here and does this product compare favorably to other webinar software like GoToWebinar or Webinar Ninja? That's…

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  6. Crowdcast Review: Webinars With a Social Factor

    Webinar Marketing

    Crowdcast is a webinar and livestreaming platform. When I first started testing this service, it immediately struck me as easier to use and more socially oriented than any other webinar platform I've ever used. What's clear is that Crowdcast is taking a different approach to…

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  7. Webinar Ninja Review

    Webinar Marketing

    If you're looking for webinar software with a marketing and lead generation focus, Webinar Ninja looks like a very promising solution. As a long time GoToWebinar user, the features and screenshots shown on the Webinar Ninja website definitely got my hopes up. So, how does…

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  8. The Branding Trap: Niche Branding vs. Broad Appeal?

    Entrepreneurial Skills

    Have you backed yourself into a corner with your choice of branding? Or are you looking to start a new brand and wonder how broad or narrow your focus should be? It's a tricky situation. Branding is important from the moment you choose a domain…

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  9. GoToWebinar Review: Should You Still Be Using it in 2019?

    Webinar Marketing

    Live webinars are a not-so-secret weapon in online marketing. Used right, webinars will help you build & engage an audience and they can be an incredibly powerful sales tool, as well. I have hosted well over 100 webinars over the years and one of my…

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  10. “Easy Business Opportunities” vs. Doing Difficult Things on Purpose

    Entrepreneurial Skills

    I recently got one of those "make easy money" emails in my inbox. This one had such a dumb subject line, it inspired me to create this post. It read: "[NEW] AgencyBlitz Allows ANYONE To Start An Agency NOW" This subject line epitomizes so much…

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  11. Free Traffic: Why Your Course Marketing Sucks

    Podcast

    Information doesn't sell anymore. In the age of Wikipedia, Google and Quora available at the click of the finger, anyone can expand their knowledge for free - Tom Libelt points out. Yet, he believes that online courses are one of the greatest ways to make…

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