Questions regarding promotion of business' product or service to potential clients.
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How Do I Promote My Business
Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.
For this question and answer, we will tackle the Promotion ...
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I build good products, but can't get anyone to use them. What should I do?
I am a web developer. In the last year and half I've been working on several ideas, one after the other. I found that as much as I enjoy developing them, in the end I keep bumping my head against a ...
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12answers
884 views
SEO: Where can I get reliable information about building my website presence and reputation? [closed]
Every web site owner wants more traffic. There's an overwhelming amount of information out there about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Some is legitimate, some outdated, much is based on rumor and ...
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5answers
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How to promote my business using social networking
I see many companies using social networking (Twitter, Facebook etc) to promote their products and services. I've never used sites like this, and don't really know where to begin from a marketing ...
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2answers
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Why are Daily Deal sites "hard to scale'?
I read a lot that daily deal sites such as groupon and livingsocial are hard to scale from a business viewpoint.
What does this mean, and why is this so?
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6answers
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How to estimate revenues/valuation of an advertising-supported internet website?
Do you have a rule of thumb that calculates approx. advertising revenues of a Website based on the traffic generated?
How form there can you estimate a valuation of the website?
Let's take some ...
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3answers
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Has anyone ever used one of the buy Facebook fan sites?
I just set up a Facebook page for a totally new business along with a teaser page. The Facebook page is looking a little lost. I still have some work to do to spruce it up and give it a little more ...
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2answers
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What are the best ways of advertising a new green-technology product to angel investors
My company recently completed development of a new highly innovative commercial green-technology product. The product has two versions - for commercial and residential use. I need help of an ...
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Besides Adwords and SEO, how do you advertise an international customer support service?
Given that you want to provide quality computer support for customers in the US remotely, via online chat, phone and screen sharing solutions, how would you go about advertising such service among ...
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6answers
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How do I price website advertisements?
We want to start selling ad space on our niche website, however are unsure at what factors make up the ad price.
We will start offering ad space once we are getting 3k-5k visitors per month. Based on ...
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2answers
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How do AdWords spy services work?
There are several services like SpyFu, AdBeat & ispionage which advertise they can provide the keywords, budget, ad copy and other information which competitors use in different ad networks like ...
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12answers
861 views
What is the best book on marketing you have ever read?
What is the best book on marketing you have ever read?
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5answers
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Looking to create a video demo of software; Tool suggestions?
I used MS free development tool (sorry forgot the name and not on the computer where I did it) and the video was just old and not that good. I'm not good at the whole video thing but would really ...
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7answers
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Invest in best possible SEO rather than using AdWords?
From stratup MicroISV perspective, the way I look at the possibilities for advertising, it's much better, as a long-term strategy, to invest and work on the best SEO possible for your web site rather ...
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4answers
232 views
Coffee Startup — How to decide where to spend the marketing dollars?
We just opened a coffee store online. This store brings exceptionally good quality coffee to the door steps of every person in every US state. We are based on the Caribbean area. Enough with my own ...
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1answer
2k views
Can you sell ad space within Facebook?
Does Facebook's Terms of Service allow you to sell ad or banner space on your own tab page or canvas application within Facebook?
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Isn't there a standard for categorizing products and services?
I am building a database of products (and services) and need to put similar items in the same category. That's got to be a common need, and I don't want to recreate the wheel.
For example, a ...
