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Starting a blog while product is in-development stage?
I am developing an online management platform for certain type of business and I thought that it would be a really good idea to engage possible customers from an early stage by keeping a blog about ...
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Exchanging newsletter mentions and tweets with other startups?
What do you think about exchanging exposure with other startups which has users that are your potential clients?
For example you have a time management app, other startup has a note taking app, the ...
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How can i find reliable fellow independent online retailers to blog about?
I am starting a blog to coincide with my online gift business and i want to write positively about other gifts i have found on the web. I would prefer to give credit to fellow small online independent ...
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Can i sell my Blog somewhere? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to sell a website?
I own a blog earlier its has alexa ranking as well. Its a technical blog where we used to update about the recent software, technical concepts, ...
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Starting Blog Business - How should I pay for writers?
I'm about to start a blog business and I decided to hire writers but I don't know what to do and how much should I pay?
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What is an average reader/commenter rate for a news or blog article? [closed]
Quite an ambiguous question, I know.
But probably you guys have the websites with a good traffic so that you could share the average numbers with us?
This rate seems to be changing with the time and ...
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Strategical question on starting a new service. Should I follow my existing road?
I have a website where bloggers share their posts in it, so visitors will visit their blogs. It is local, with a quite good number of members that share about 300 posts per day.
Even though this ...
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1answer
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Good startups resources on Europe? [closed]
I'm looking to expand my network in Europe. I have a good set of US-based sources that enable me to stay updated and in the loop about startups, funding and the sort of things I'm interested in as a ...
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How to get an LLC license for my Blog business?
I've been blogging for a while now and I would like to establish my blog as a business (LLC). I heard that its the best license that suits a blog business.
Any suggestions as to where I can get the ...
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1answer
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Is using feedburner still a must for blog feeds?
I'm setting up a blog for my OSS/startup and I'm wondering whether given the uncertain future about feedburner (or maybe thats just the API) whether people are still setting up their blogs to use ...
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272 views
Good idea to send beta version of software to bloggers?
I have a software program that I'd like to sell after it's perfected, but I'm in a catch-22 situation; I'm trying to get publicity for the program (in part to attract more free beta users, who I'd ...
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How to structure the multi-layered(?) blog of a startup
So, this is likely more of an "information architecture" sort of a question... but I admit, in the last 20years of internet revolution, I've been on the frontier of pretty much every new wave... ...
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Blogging about your startup
Most people recommend you blog about your startup while building it, and I have a couple questions regarding that.
Do you tell them exactly what your company will be doing? (ie. your "secret")
If ...
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Article writing service?
Anybody has recommendations for good article writing services for SEO purposes? Especially the one that actually writes for real people and not just churn out the article out of a random word ...
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Automated article submission to tech sites?
I'm looking to start increasing exposure to my website and I am looking to do so thru a series of small but quality articles that I plan to be publishing on a "few times per week" basis.
There are a ...
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Should I have 1 blog for each product or 1 blog for the company?
We have several products in several different areas (some are in the same areas). Should we start a blog for each product or should we write in our company blog everything?
What's the best strategy ...
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Should I start a blog if I don't plan to add to it often?
If every once in a while I get an idea for a good article I would like to write. But not very often.
Should I start a blog for this? If not, what should I do with the articles I write?
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Hosting advice for B2B SaaS Startup - just sign-up page, and a blog
Ours is a B2B SaaS startup (LAMP stack). We are at a very early stage of the Startup. So, we don't need any dedicated hosting at this time. We have planned to use Amazon (not finalized though). In ...
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I need to change the name of my blog… can you help with suggestions? [closed]
I created the blog Austin Tech Geeks in August of last year. It's been somewhat successful as I have been able to get a decent number of subscribers and uniques every month. The blog is about tech ...
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Can you refer step by step study material for creating wordpress blog [closed]
I am a newbie to Wordpress and have set up a hosted blog with wordpress but the default theme is not what i am looking for. I am looking for a theme that is SEO optimised and then also have the ...
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How to gain members, contributers, and a community
In the next year or so I am opening up a website that targets coders and designers. Some features will be a blog (or blogs), categories to submit stuff and also a forum to help build a community.
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Blog syndication to expand reach
My company (TheRedPin.com) has a blog (TheRedPin.com/blog), which covers many facets of real estate news about Toronto's new condo developments, Canada's real estate news and many other aspects of ...
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In your opinion, what's the best, easiest, and cheapest blog platform for blogging?
I particularly like Smart Bear's Blog interface. It's easy to leave a comment, sign up, low barrier of entry to leave a comment, and it's easy for others to chime in on comments. I like the clean ...
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How effective it is to give away prizes to increase subscriptions in a blog?
For example offering a gift card, t-shirt, etc... to people who sign up to your blog or website in general... does this work? is it worth it?
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How to monetize my Tumblr blog
I'm new on Tumblr, and I have over 180 followers. With all these eyes on my blog, how do I monetize it?
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How much to charge for sponsorship spot on my blog?
I have been asked how much do we charge for a sponsorship or an ad in our blog... what is a fair price, do you charge per month, size, location in page? any tips will be greatly appreciated.
The ...
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Looking for tips on how to obtain a corporate sponsorship for a blog
I have been running a blog about tech related stuff pertaining to the city of Austin for a few months now. I know is a very short time, however, in this short period of time I've seen how traffic has ...
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If all your competitors are educating in their blogs how do you differentiate?
So I want to start a company blog and I looked at my competition and noticed they are all educating the market about the software because its an emerging market which I agree with needs to be done. ...
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Current best practices for blogging
I'm getting ready to start posting on my blog that I've neglected for a while.
I'm interested in hearing what are the best practices in terms of the mechanics, not the content of the blog. I've ...
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How much do you worry about keywords when blogging?
I'm relatively new to blogging - only been doing it for a few months. The common advice is to make your posts keyword rich for high search engine ranking. But I don't normally worry too much about ...
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What's a good application for forum & blog capabilities to add to my website?
I want to integrate (finally) a blog into our site (blog.domain.com) and also add a forum. I'd really like to avoid having my team build it. What are potential solutions that you can recommend that we ...
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I started a Blog, looking to add video to it and a reliable hosting company
I launched a blog last week. I am looking to add some video blogs and I am looking for an inexpensive video camera that can output decent quality HD video, and reliable hosting for the site. Any ...
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Looking for blog recommendation
I'm looking for blog software for a new community site we have just launched and have very specific criteria:
1) it must be hosted (where the software is regularly patched for security ...
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Google Adsense disabled account and keep the money
I am Using google adsense for 2 years. i have received payment onece.Second timeit did not arrive due to some address problem.the check returned to google i have request for a repayment.
Now after ...
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How often do I post a blog?
SO I was told I should have at least three posts a week but do I post a blog every two days or just post all three at once at the beginning of every week? Why was makes more sense?
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Blog Marketing vs. Article Marketing
What is your experience?
Which one is better for:
Targeted traffic
Better conversions
Long term effects on sales
If you have product that is not "blogable" a lot, which route will you choose?
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Digg vs. Reddit for promoting a blog post
If you are promoting a blog post, should one focus on digg or reddit ranking?
Which is preferable and why?
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How to find and evaluate the most popular blogs to promote your business
I would like to find bloggers who speak to my target market, and who might mention my business and therefore drive name recognition and search engine optimization for my website. Any suggestions on ...
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Why structure url as blog.site.com, rather than site/wordpress.com?
I was one of your recipients of $20 at the New Comm Forum yesterday, and I went out and bought your book with it! You clearly know a LOT!
I told my Tech Director last night that we should ...
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Website Grader says “No Twitter accounts associated with this website”
When I run my blogs through the Website Grader, one of the things I'm dinged for is that no associated Twitter accounts are found. I have Twitter accounts for all my blogs, and the URLs are present in ...
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How do I find out which blogs/websites are visited by a certain region?
I am developing an online marketing campaign for a local start up in Long Island, New York. I would like to find websites and blogs that are predominately visited by the Long Island community.
Is ...
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Twitter vs Company Blog
I read many of the useful answers to questions on this site like:
Should I use my personal blog as my company blog?
To blog or not to blog? Joel Spolsky says no to blogging...
...
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1answer
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Finding the right partner first? [closed]
I am an Entrepreneur and I have plenty of experience running my own business online successfully for the past 12 years, but I have a new project that really fills a need, and I know what needs to be ...
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From BHAG to MVP?
I have a big, hairy audacious goal of a project, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to carve out an MVP. There's a lot of potential for revenue streams, including brand marketing, ...
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How Do I Hire/Find A Knowledgable Ghost Writer For My Firm's iPhone Blog?
How Do I Hire/Find A Knowledgable Ghost Writer For My Firm's iPhone Blog?
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Should I seek an investor simply for credibility and exposure?
I am frustrated. I am a software engineer, not a marketer. I recently launched a website called Trivlike, and online matchmaking site that uses trivia to match compatible people. I spent 6 months from ...
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To blog or not to blog? Joel Spolsky says no to blogging
A few months ago I posted a question about using a personal blog as my company blog and now I just want to know what the opinion of all of you is regarding blogging for our startup/business.
I find ...
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What can you do when someone blatantly plagiarizes an entire blog post?
It's nice when folks quote parts of your post with a link back. It's another thing when the entire RSS entry is duplicated verbatim, including my "Retweet" buttons and the "Please leave a comment" ...
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Which is more startup-friendly: Tumblr, Posterous, or self-hosted Wordpress?
Tumblr has that follow and stumbling upon features which might aid discoverability of your startup company blog, but it seems to be very SEO unfriendly. I have not used posterous. And self-hosted WP ...
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How many visistors to get a business going?
I know that this question depends on what kind of business one is in.
But if you where to get a healthy business out of a website based on advertising how many monthly users would you need to have, ...
