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How much time should be spent on expandability in front of investors?
I have five minutes to present a web app in front of investors (well, actually they are contest judges, but they are still looking for an app that will take off), and then I get five minutes for ...
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Best way to promote a contest for small businesses?
I run a web design company and we're having a contest for business owners. We're giving away a lot of prizes, with the grand prize winner getting a free website, hosting for a year, and other prizes. ...
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Swag & Giveaway Advice!
I've just found out that I will be presenting my startup, mokabla at an Entrepreneur event in ATL in less than a week. There will be about 200 people attending. Since this event doesn't have sponsors, ...
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How to get publicity for a product naming contest
We're giving away a $100 Amazon Gift Card to whomever gives our product a name. We've tried Twitter (though with a new company we have few followers) and an individual with 700 followers, Facebook ...
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Public contest to design new product identity: good idea or not?
We're planning to re-build our product identity (which has never been built in the first place, it just came out of nowhere).
Obviously, we're somewhat tight on money, so hiring a professional ...
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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 promote a twitter crowdsourcing contest?
I created a twitter crowdsourcing contest to get some tagline help and raise pre-launch awareness (build a great tagline and get an iPhone). http://roadbud.com/iphone-contest/
The problem is, I'm new ...
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Any early stage concepts had difficulties associated with entering and competing in startup contests?
I've just entered the vator.tv splash competition and was wondering what other people have run into as far as problems.
I assume:
overzealous preoccupation with winning could hurt a team, but that ...
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What do I need to know and do before I can run a contest on my website
I intend to eventually run a contest as a promo. Specifically, I'd like to do a random drawing of a pool of registered users that meet certain criteria.
What legal and tax related concerns do I need ...
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When Should I Offer a Contest to drive site traffic?
At what point should I consider a contests as a strategy to get people to visit my business or website? What are the ways to track the ROI for this type of marketing?
