This slide deck was presented by Pradeep Chopra (Digital Vidya) and Sahil Parikh (Deskaway) as a part of the LIVE webinar of a 3 part series called Digital Gurukul on Enterprising.IN.
22. 18% converted to paid. Top 3 traffic source. We didn’t push again… Potential reach… 3 million followers on twitter 500,000 readers for their blog Sahil Parikh
23. Hello world, we exist! Find people with similar interest. Reach out to a larger audience. Sahil Parikh
24. The little birdie has sent us 5-7% of our total traffic in the last 2 years. 9-12% converted. We wonder how many people heard about us on Twitter and then later came to our site? Sahil Parikh
35. The Mantra for Success! Be Social Be Visible Be Relevant Be Credible
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37. Let’s stay in touch through Social Media! http://facebook.com/pradeepchopra http://linkedin.com/in/pradeepchopra http://twitter.com/pradeepchopra Follow-Up @ http://bit.ly/dg2-followup
WOM is inexpensive and powerful. Paying $ on old-school marketing is very expensive for a startup. Rather spend your money on your service and product and give people a chance to talk about it. If they like it, you are in business...
- Go where your audience goes - It is ok if there is a bad review - Participate in comments - People will hear about you, like you and remember you. - Conversations will drive sales. Don't be pushy.
Knew people who read WWD could use our product Were active readers and commentators on their blog Dropped an email to their editors a few times When the time was right they wrote about us.
Traffic spiked. A signup every 30 secs for a day and then tapering off. 15% of them converted. Still get traffic from this blog
Same with Mashable
Use it mostly for brand awareness and let people know we exist Participation is easy since we can be mobile and share stuff Lead gen is difficult to measure
Closing a sale
Closing a sale
Closing a sale
Closing a sale - We have Darrin participating on our blog and even submitting a casestudy as to how his company uses DeskAway. We hope this will drive more sales.