Marketing and AI - tools, platforms, resources
Drinks, Beverages Market: Branding and Startups - Direct to Consumer Brands
Branding - marketing and positioning for startups, business
TikTok and social media marketing, brand influencers
Author Dan Pallotta, and the book "Uncharitable", on issues scaling a Non-Profit
Luxury Clothing and Fashion Business
Virtual Influencers and Social Media Marketing - AI generated
Affiliate Marketing - tips, suggestions
Startup idea: Begin with making a Directory - examples
Fast Fashion and global competition in the Clothing Business
Mobile shopping - Clothing, Fashion e-commerce
Testimonials for Social Media Marketing - tools, platforms, resources
Link-in-bio companies - Influencers and Social Media Marketing - tools, resources
Book launch - how to market and promote your writing - tips, suggestions, challenges
ATT: Apple’s App Tracking Transparency - Data and Social Media, Facebook: Privacy, Security
International expansion strategies for Tech Startups - case studies, examples
How to build effective Landing Pages (websites) for Sales, Marketing - inspiration, suggestions
Fanjoy is one of the top influencer merchandise companies, creating products for digital stars like David Dobrik, Tana Mongeau, and Adelaine Morin. (2024)
There’s been a rise of virtual influencers in recent years -- computer-generated personalities who are just as active on social media platforms as ... (2023)
I'm working on a SaaS platform called Experiential Learning Tools which helps companies run remote professional development sessions. We've got som... (2023)
Two primary paths for entrepreneurs to sell their digital-first products globally: Stitch together point solutions or use a Merchant of Record. (2023)
Move over, Bud Light. Heed the power of the Hispanic market | Business Bud light, Americas, self styled “king of beers“ for 22 years, is dethron... (2023)
I've made over $4M in the last 42 months online, including over $2M on digital course sales in the last 30 months. I put together this free guide t... (2023)
Read my free guide on LinkedIn growth and discover how I've used LinkedIn to go from zero to over 260k+ followers and $2.65M+ in income with zero p... (2023)
In today's issue, I'm going to share 4 side hustle ideas that you can build to earn $100k or more. There has never been a more critical time to bui... (2023)
In this week’s issue, I want to share my 2 favorite ways to start a side business. While there is no “right way” to do things, I have found that th... (2023)
Around 2 months ago I took the leap of turning my pretty simple, mildly successful mobile bar directory into a fully developed two-sided marketplac... (2023)
Validating a product properly can be make or break. It's a big topic, so I didn't get into it in my post on generating startup ideas. But people se... (2023)
One of the hardest things for early-stage founders looking to gain traction is troubleshooting the copy. They're too close to the product and they ... (2023)
Affiliate program - Our streaming platform features thousands of short-form videos, long-form courses, documentaries, travelogues, tutorials, how-... (2023)
Mobile landing page builder Beacons has raised a $6 million seed round to expand its vision for empowering creators to make money beyond the crampe... (2021)
Who would’ve thought that an entire swath of startups would spring up all because Instagram, TikTok and Twitter only let you link to one website in... (2022)
Sequoia-backed startup Bento is launching its link-in-bio tool today for creators to display their work in an elegant way. (2023)
Shopify has entered the “link in bio” market with the launch of a new tool called “Linkpop.” The new offering is aimed at creators and allows them ... (2022)
Looking for more ways to grow its revenue, Linktree knows the way to creators' hearts and wallets: build tools to help them make money. (2022)
Koji, the link-in-bio platform, launched a new e-book app that lets users sell e-books and audiobooks within social media platforms. (2023)
I recently posted about what to include on a free tier vs a paid tier. But that assumes that you’re opting for freemium. Many don’t. So I thought I... (2023)
Last week, I posted about deciding what features should go into a product vs what features should go into the trash. It got me thinking about how t... (2023)
The App Tracking Transparency recession. Mobile marketing and advertising, freemium monetization strategy, and marketing science. Mobile Dev Memo. (2023)
The advertising has shifted from a Google-Facebook duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces. (2022)
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (2023)
How are healthtech companies creating sustainable growth paths by selling to SMBs? Can companies solely rely on SMB sales to get to scale, or do th... (2022)
Many of you may have heard me speak about Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, before, but for those who don’t know, MrBeast is a macro influencer with a ... (2022)
Carriers are banking on the psychological allure of marginal luxury. “One of the trends that everyone in the airline industry is talking about n... (2022)
Paid advertising by U.S. colleges and universities reached an all-time high, despite declines in higher ed advertising by the for-profit educationa... (2017)
Record amounts are being spent on higher education marketing and advertising as enrollment numbers fall and competition among colleges rises. (2021)
Voila, a startup building infrastructure for social commerce, is bringing concepts from China’s e-commerce market to the U.S. The company offers an... (2022)
Looking to make a healthier-for-you meat snack, friends Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali together put forth $6,500 to launch their "side hustle" back ... (2024)
Justin Gold put his homemade nut butters in Whole Foods, but still couldn't turn a profit. A 2006 mountain-biking ride inspired a new product that ... (2024)
After a chance encounter with two Brazilian women in a New York City bar in 2003 and hearing about the tasty coconut water they missed from back ho... (2024)
$100M CEO Explains How to Build A Brand in 2024 (2024)
Besides selling one can for almost every person on the planet in 2019, Red Bull owns several football clubs, runs two formula one teams and is famo... (2024)
Every so often, product marketing creates such a frenzy it becomes its own cultural moment - think Adidas Stan Smiths, Old Spice and Pokémon Go. Th... (2024)
CNBC’s Sara Eisen goes inside Formula 1, finding out how the racing league’s most prominent team principals manage their billion-dollar businesses,... (2023)
Liquid Death founder and CEO Mike Cessario spent years figuring out how to make water cool. Now his brand is valued at $700 million. After attendin... (2023)
The Olympic Games have been a revenue generating enterprise for the IOC from nearly their inception. WSJ’s Stu Woo unpacks the history of brand par... (2022)
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has mad... (2022)
This is Seth Godin's main stage talk from Craft + Commerce 2017. If you like what you see, learn more and grab tickets to the next Craft + Commerce... (2021)
Michael Seibel on pitching customers vs pitching investors. Michael is CEO and a Partner at YC. He was the co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Soci... (2019)
August 1st, 2018, 3:57 AM EDT Tina Sharkey, Brandless Inc.'s chief executive officer, discusses the company's business strategy with Bloomberg's... (2018)
You don't have to spend a lot of money on a bottle of wine. Few wine experts and regular people can tell the difference between expensive wine and ... (2018)
YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer, who was most recently a growth expert at Airbnb describes strategies for scaling your user base. You can find the lect... (2018)
Tyler Bosmeny from YC alumnus Clever shares his expertise on how an early stage company should think about sales and about building an enterprise s... (2018)
How to Start a Startup Published on Oct 14, 2014 Kevin Hale, Founder of Wufoo and Partner at Y Combinator, explains how to build products that ... (2018)
YC Partner Kat Manalac and Director of Marketing Craig Cannon describe the most effective ways to use PR and content to help your companies brand a... (2018)
a16z Published on Jul 15, 2017 World-class companies aren’t built on technology alone; even the very best products don’t sell themselves. That’s ... (2018)
Multilevel marketing companies claim to be legitimate businesses, but some seem awfully…pyramid shaped. John Oliver and Jaime Camil demonstrate how... (2018)
Feel like Click Funnels is overpriced? looking for a DIY sales funnel solution that is easy to set up for pennies on the dollar vs. Clickfunnels? T... (2018)
Suhail Doshi, founder of YC alumnus Mixpanel and a world-class expert on measurement, details how startups should think about discovering the impor... (2018)
YC Partner Adora Cheung - talks to Gobble (YC W14) founder and CEO Ooshma Garg... (2018)
Avni Patel Thompson is the CEO and Founder of Poppy - https://www.meetpoppy.com At the 2017 Female Founders Conference she shared how she struggled... (2018)
The iterated prisoner's dilemma is just like the regular game except you play it multiple times with an opponent and add up the scores. But it can ... (2018)
Daily fantasy sports sites claim they are not gambling enterprises, but they seem awfully…gamblish. If only their ads were more truthful. Connect w... (2018)
Cities spend massive amounts of public money on privately-owned stadiums. Cities issue tax-exempt municipal bonds that — wait, don’t fall asleep! C... (2018)
The NCAA doesn’t pay athletes because they consider them amateurs. The NCAA considers them amateurs because they don’t get paid. Connect with Last ... (2018)
OMR (Online Marketing Rockstars) Published on Mar 18, 2015 The content marketing animal, Gary Vaynerchuk's Keynote at Online Marketing Rockstars ... (2018)
Y Combinator Published on Oct 13, 2017 Camille Ricketts - is the Head of Content and Marketing at First Round Capital. Sonal Chokshi - runs th... (2018)
Listen to this episode from Decoder with Nilay Patel on Spotify. Nilay Patel talks with Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify. Shopify makes sof... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Indie Hackers on Spotify. Nathan Barry (@nathanbarry) has grown ConvertKit from $7M to $27M since I last spoke with him... (2021)
Nilay Patel talks with Marques Brownlee, otherwise known as MKBHD, about building a business as a YouTuber, how content creators make money, and ho... (2021)
a16z Podcast on Spotify. Okay, so we know community is important -- whether for developer relations for your product or other types of... (2020)
Greg Isenberg (@gregisenberg) has spent years practicing the art and and studying the science behind building hit viral products. Today he's using ... (2020)
Ghyslain Gaillard (@iamghyslain) of Indie London knew that he wanted to be at the heart of the indie startup scene in Europe, but when he couldn’t ... (2019)
One of the toughest challenges for founders -- and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales --... (2019)
It’s hard to overstate just how important record album art was to music in the days before people downloaded everything. Visuals were a key part of... (2018)
David Hua is CEO and cofounder of Meadow. Meadow makes retail and delivery software for dispensaries. They were part of the Winter 2015 batch. You ... (2018)
The lessons of blitzscaling to achieve market dominance are counterintuitive. The strategy requires a shift from the traditional thinking of growth... (2018)
Eli Schwartz is the Director of SEO and Growth at SurveyMonkey. He came in to answer commonly asked questions about SEO.Eli blogs about SEO and gro... (2018)
Peter Reinhardt is cofounder and CEO of Segment. Segment helps companies capture data from every customer touchpoint and send it to the tools wher... (2018)
Once you have users, how do you keep them engaged, retain them, and even "resurrect" or re-engage them? That's the focus of this episode of the a16... (2018)
Growth is one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs building startups of all kinds (and especially consumer ones) -- but how does one... (2018)
ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia knows: the price that bleeds your business may save your business. Sometimes you have to scale first and figure out... (2018)
Jesse Genet is Founder & CEO @ Lumi, the startup that has raised close to $10m from Homebrew, Forerunner, Spark Capital, Lowercase and more. (2018)
E627: Pinterest product growth lead Casey Winters gives a crash course in growing a startup (or, WTF is growth?) | This Week In Startups (2018)
The purpose of category creation, argue the guests in this episode of the podcast, isn’t just about making a dent in the way companies work and cha... (2018)
Oaxaca is the heart of mezcal country, where the pungent booze is made from the same plant as tequila by traditional distillers. As U.S. drinkers e... (2018)
Building Products That Deliver: Jason Palmer of New Markets Venture Partners Shares Advice for EdTech Startups “In both higher ed and k-12 mark... (2018)
Hiring a VP of Product — especially as the founder of the company — can almost feel like handing over your baby to someone else to hold, observes a... (2017)
Masters of Scale (podcast), 2017: “In this extended interview, Nancy Lublin, founding CEO of Crisis Text Line, shares insights from her restless c... (2017)
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and sca... (2023)
Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bring... (2023)
The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that... (2023)
Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coi... (2022)
A world-renowned innovation guru explains practices that result in breakthrough innovations "Ulwick's outcome-driven programs bring discipline and ... (2021)
High Growth Handbook book. Read 83 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Well-known technology executive and angel investor Elad ... (2020)
Smoke & Mirrors book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. 'Robots will steal your job!''AI will revolutionise farming!''Geneti... (2020)
Contagious has 15,291 ratings and 1,344 reviews. Liz said: If this material is enough to cover an entire Wharton MBA course, then I'm not sure what... (2018)
“To Sell Is Human offers a fresh look at the art and science of selling. As he did in Drive and A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink draws on a rich tr... (2018)
As Al Ries and Jack Trout—the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning—note, you can build an impressive airplan... (2018)
Ultimate Sales Machine has 5,595 ratings and 139 reviews. Nicholas said: One of the best business books I've ever read. One of those books that cap... (2018)
Sell digital products and SaaS software the easy peasy way with Lemon Squeezy. As your merchant of record, we handle the tax compliance burden so y... (2023)
Start using the best A/B testing tool to improve your conversion rate now. Simply select an element you want to test ideas on, and get testing! (2023)
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The next best thing to sitting beside someone browsing your site. See where they click, ask what they think, and learn why they drop off. Get start... (2023)
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Famewall is which helps you highlight & display social media, text, video testimonials seamlessly & automates collecting them from customers (2023)
Launch a Landing Page and Validate startup ideas in minutes. (2023)
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Scalenut is a content intelligence SaaS platform that helps you discover and create the most relevant content for your customers. It uses deep lear... (2022)
Namelix uses artificial intelligence to create a short, brandable business name. Search for domain availability, and instantly generate a logo for ... (2022)
Easily create a perfect profile picture and get 14x times more views & 36x times more chances to receive a message. Upload your photo and instantly... (2022)
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Create content 5x faster with artificial intelligence. Jasper is the highest quality AI copywriting tool with over 3,000 5-star reviews. Best for w... (2022)
TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now. (2022)
Privacy-focused website analytics from a sustainable company. A GDPR compliant, Google Analytics alternative. (2022)
With Testimonial, in minutes, you can collect and display testimonials from your customers with no need for a developer or website hosting. (2022)
Discover Rakuten Advertising's affiliate marketing services today! We help you build strategies to connect with your audience using our global netw... (2022)
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Turn your biggest fans into your best marketers. Rewardful is a simple way for SaaS & subscription companies to setup affiliate and referral progra... (2021)
Edvisor is the #1 Student Recruitment Software that helps international education companies streamline the way they sell education - whether they ... (2021)
Cameo Calls allows you to meet stars 1-on-1 in a live video chat you'll remember forever (PS: you also get a pic of the two of you)! Go big for gra... (2021)
Get the email marketing tools and automation you need to grow your blog and business. Join more than 100,000 creators and try ConvertKit today. (2021)
One Word Domains is a collection of available and brandable one-word domains for your next startup idea. Our TLDs include... (2021)
Indiebrands offers the best, original domain names for your startup. Each one is handpicked and ready-to-use with a logo included. (2021)
ilo.so is a Twitter analytics tool which helps you get better at Twitter by letting you understand which tweets do well and analyse your follower g... (2021)
Find the best times to tweet when your audience is listening (2021)
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The altMBA is an intensive, 4-week online workshop designed by Seth Godin for high-performing individuals who want to level up and lead. (2021)
This is the 10-step blueprint I use to write email, landing page and blog copy that generates $millions in revenue. You can improve your copy (a... (2019)