Marketing questions are about the action or business of promoting products or services
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gaining magazine subscriptions online? [closed]
I have started a a magazine about tech product reviews. I am attracting subscriptions only through digital medium. I have done a few email campaigns, but response is poor. Would like some advice on ...
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Best way to get critical mass of user base for location based chat application [closed]
I am developing a chat app which lets you talk to people near you, I know this type of application exist - but this app will be different from the existing ones.
Now this app will work as website and ...
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What user acquisition strategy would you recommend for a startup in the employee engagement market? [closed]
We've built a big part of our product, a tool for managers to gather anonymous feedback and happiness data from employees. We've already launched the iOS, Windows 8 and Android apps and have gained ...
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Disseminate site for free [closed]
I would like to know if you have tips for disseminating a site? It can be any kind of tip, like better ways of posting on Twitter, viralizing in forums, or even software that help you do this kind of ...
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B2C app marketers: Would 3rd party cross-app analytics data be valuable for marketing? [closed]
How valuable would the following be:
A service that provides analytics about your registered users based upon their behavior across a network of applications (either named or by category) and how ...
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When you are creating a voice over for your presentation, do you smile or not? [closed]
I started creating youtube videos showing me using my web offer(screenrecording software) while I am talking.
When I am smiling while talking I sound as if I didn't know what I was doing. I have a ...
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If I have Google adsense enabled, is it fine to say we are affiliated with Google? [closed]
Is it fine to use it in marketing? Is it ethical enough?
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Owner of Home Prep Detail Services [closed]
If I have a bussiness that targets Realtors. Property Managers, Bank Owned Properties, Landlords or Individuals that need property Move-In- Ready (cleaned) and want to refer other improvements through ...
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What is the best branding company or agency worldwide? [closed]
Which agency would you use if you had unlimited resources to allocate in your startup's branding?
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Licensing a Product [closed]
I have a patent pending on a product I invented for the home. I want to license it to a company. How do I start the process of licensing it?
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Choosing the right people for marketing the product [closed]
We have developed a new product that will hit the travel business soon at Pune India. One part needs to be installed on the cab drivers phone, and the other part needs to be installed on travelers.
I ...
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Solving the chicken and egg problem: how to attract paying customers
I am having a bit of a catch-22 with my business model. I am trying to link employers to prospective employees based on personality/work ethic profiles (think eHarmony for jobs). However, I need a ...
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What to do with leads on Linked IN?
We generated several leads on Linked IN through the ad campaign of our API. Verified that those are not bots. What should be the next step?
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Right time to partner with a bigger player?
I am launching my website in a month ( it gives local products info) . I was toying with the idea of partnering with a big classified ad website to show their classified ad results on my website to as ...
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is it all about how much sales you will make?
In the beginning of our online retail shop, we always have many thinkings about how much profit will we make per item that we sell in our online shop. But by the time, after 2 years, we ran the ...
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Funding Campaign Guidance
I just launched a funding campaign at SellAnApp. I am emailing multiple blogs and forums to help me spread the word and gain some great traction but I am running out of ideas. If this was you running ...
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Creating a maintaining followers of a brand [closed]
I read that creating communities are key to sustainability of a website. Big site like FB, google, started with a small community in this case the univ students.
I thought since I will be ...
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Promoting a startup website in early stages - help? [closed]
I am starting a website consisting of a info on products in the city and the best shops.
Now when I start out, such that in the early stage I want to aim at having little, but steady traffic
so I ...
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Are there benefits in targeting local companies to use my SaaS product?
I'm developing a software as a service product due to a problem I was experiencing when emailing clients. Without going into too much detail about it; it's a product that would be aimed towards ...
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Should I use my company or website logo on my business card
I have a start-up company and currently working and promoting one website. Should I use the logo of the website or the logo of the company on my business card when I approach corporate clients to ...
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How to market mobile apps?
I've been a developer at startups before, but I've never been involved in marketing. I'm now trying to sell a few of my own mobile apps, and I'm hitting a brick wall. Two months ago I released an ...
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Finding Investors/partners to fulfill the following needs
You've probably heard this before, but I came up with the idea for great product and I developed it. I measured the demand for it personally, by demonstrating it to the target audience and got a ...
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Appropriate equity for marketing / development work?
Looking for a little guidance on an equity offer for a project I'm involved in.
I was approached six months ago by a founder-developer who has written software to accomplish an idea originated by a ...
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Social Website woes: Need content to get Users, need users to give content (chicken and egg) [duplicate]
What is a strategy to get people to sign up and post content to my social website that is location-based community-driven content.
Its kinda similar to this website. How did these guys get the ...
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What's an appropriate approach to finding a Digital Marketing “shepherd”
I'm the CTO of a SAAS startup oriented towards non-technical internet users in the 40-65 age demographic and we're preparing for our initial launch. Naturally, much of our conversation has shifted to ...
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What is the title of someone that produces website content from technical documents?
I am willing to hire a person who will take our technical documents (internal) and produce the content for our website, that is, describe the product in a clear way.
What title shall I use, if I want ...
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Initial Result of Customer Development
Hope all is well. I just conducted a round of feedback interviews with 20 people(mostly students) about my startup. The results are 50% saying its a great idea and other 50% think its not worth it. I ...
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Writing a plan for business promotion/marketing
I have been reading a few books on startups recently and particularly promoting the business on a tight budget. Some books break it down into daily, weekly, montly activities. Some talk about making ...
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what is a good call to action on postcard marketing
Our company has a platform and managed service for SME that allows them to communicate with customers on (social media, SMS email) create an online presence (with reviews, deal and events pages) and ...
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Is advanced SEO snake oil?
I keep reading about how search engines like google keep changing and optimizing their algorithms so I wonder how effective SEO is beyond the basics of having the right keywords, robots.txt, etc and ...
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I don't agree with my social media marketing team. Please advice who is right
I am working on developing a platform that allows sports fans to interact with their star athletes. I have outsourced social media marketing for initial 2 months. Now we have developed differences ...
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Is there a method for creating achievable financial forecasts?
Is there a method or set of methods for writing the financial forecasts and profit loss statements for the next two years of business when you have never actually traded?
These documents are often ...
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How to direct marketing initiatives for a Start up
We are a location based social network connecting like minded people. We are ready with our product and want to select a city to start marketing. Basic costs touch upto $5k a month just for marketing. ...
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How to market an online gallery?
I have recently launched a new gallery selling my London artwork. I don't mind saying that the problem now is that I am unsure how to push the site forward and begin making sales.
I know about the ...
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How to deal with competitors who are constantly slashing their prices?
I recently noticed that one of our competitors has been very aggressive in slashing their product prices. Although our costs are relatively low I am not much of a fan in reducing our product prices to ...
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Direct Email Marketing?
I've validated a solution, have a few committed customers, and want to move forward with development and subsequent marketing of my app. In validating the solution, I simply went onto the yellow ...
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Unable to find right direction for generating revenue as Marketing Manager in a StartUp Mobile App Development Company
I have recently joined a newly established Android & iOS App Development Company. This StartUp was formed for creating apps for app stores but were unable to get the kind of revenue they were ...
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What would be the right strategy to promote a startup in India?
We have a rating based social blogging platform. The webiste got launched about a month ago and is in its beta stage now. Being established in India, where the domain of users of the site, the readers ...
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Sign ups for a beta launch. What are good indicators?
I have been working on a startup for some time now, and a couple of weeks ago we came up with an idea for a pivot (the original startup isn't getting the traction we were expecting).
To avoid the same ...
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How important is it to have people on specialised roles?
I have some products which I am putting out into the world. In the past I've worked freelance for others. I am aware of my skillset, and it has mainly focussed on the making side of the development of ...
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How to promote Education Management software in India [closed]
I have designed and developed Education Management software. How can I promote a Education Management software product?
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What is an acceptable commission structure for a marketing rep?
I am a marketing professional with over 10 years of successful experience. My specialty area is strategic thinking/planning.
Recently a local company in its first year of operation asked if I ...
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How should a press release be written?
I uploaded my brand new physics 2D game to the playstore a few days ago, and have had a substantial amount of downloads per day so far. I think it has great potential and people like that kind of ...
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Stealing customers from competitors on Twitter?
I am currently running a very simple side project which I hope will lead to something bigger.
I see quite a few tweets from my competitors customers saying they're using their product for a ...
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How do I effectively communicate my mobile site to non-technical users?
I have a product designed for mobile browsers.
When I promote the site to my target audience, I find that they understand the term "app", but terms like "website" or "web application" do not ...
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Commercial product name similar to open source product name
I have a commercial software product that will be launching soon.
It has a very similar name to a piece of open source software in a non-English speaking country. The only difference is a space.
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How should I approach the media and influencers about my small business software?
I recently spoke to the Director of Sales of a new, successful CRM software. He said a key part of their marketing is PR and getting the media to talk about them.
We're building a software for small ...
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best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling? [closed]
Best practices of managing follow up calls in cold calling?
Actually, I am searching for the best protocols in managing follow up calls.
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I am going to launch Product beta version next month. Whats my next steps? [closed]
What should be our next steps regarding marketing, funding etc..
please give your valuable suggestions...
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Location Specific Domain Name?
I am about to name a business that I have been working on and I want to leave room to expand but I don't want that to dampen the response for the initial location where I am starting the business. I ...
