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Tips on promoting a start up [closed]
What is the best way to promote a starting up like(follow, tweet, share, etc.) exchange site at minimal costs?
Any recommendations on how should one build strategy to enable paid services without ...
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Who do I need to hire?
I've started a company approximately 2 years ago that provides monitoring services for a niche cloud-based industry. My target customer base are IT and Development shops of various companies ranging ...
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Adwords - Understanding Modified Broad Match Keywords
I'm not completely new to Adwords optimization, but I guess the learning process never really ends...
My company is focused tightly on a specific niche. All of my keywords (across several ad groups) ...
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How to calculate return on investment?
While my online product is free for users to use and a paid marketing platform for business owners, How can I calculate return on investment of advertising campaign I am running on various advertising ...
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How to find business ideas and marketers? [duplicate]
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What's the best way to find/evaluate a Marketing co-founder?
I work full time as an asp.net developer. I have more than 5 years of professional experience in writing ...
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Why do marketers limit special pricing to one per person or household?
I've noticed resellers sometimes offer great deals but with the restriction you can only buy a limited quantity per person or household. From a consumer perspective, it may at first glance seem ...
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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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Where to advertise for such a very targeted market?
My company makes and sells computers for Autodesk software, so Structural Engineers, 3D designers etc.
Where would be best to advertise? We have an adwords campaign running, but we are only spending ...
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Advertising campaigns that drive mobile downloads
I want to run an advertising campaign that will drive downloads of my mobile app. I'm open to AdWords, Facebook ads, Reddit self-serve ads, AdMob ads that appear on mobile devices etc. The mobile apps ...
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How should we advertise towards the Chinese demographic for our new startup?
So my new startup is ready and I want to market it to people living in china.I live in India.How should I put best efforts to advertise to Chinese People living in China.
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Ways of promoting Android app
I created a few applications. One of them is very good and users like it. However, I can not increase the number of installations to more than 50 per day. It is very small. The program is unique, ...
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Should I go for SEO or PPC?
I am working on starting up a new company for providing software development services for iPhone and Android apps. My goal is to get at least 10 projects in a month to reach break even in 3/4 months. ...
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Marketing and advertising to IT / Support departments
Does anyone have any good resources or suggestions on how to market and advertise a software tool to IT / Support departments?
We're trying to move our startup "Beyond Adwords" to get our product in ...
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How to sell advertising space on the website during initial stages?
I'm building a web application for an academic community. I'm relying on advertisements as the revenue model for my business. My website is currently in its very initial stage so, how can I get the ...
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Publicising the business-plan?
Being a libertarian, I am completely honest with all my business-transactions, business-offerings and partnerships.
From a marketing perspective, would it be beneficial to post my business-plan on ...
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Are there any 'rules of thumb' regarding email response rates?
I am running a startup and I reached out to an industry publication that I read while I was working for my last employer (for advertising our product with them). I am interested in their email blast ...
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How to sell ad space for a local coupon shopper?
I started a local coupon shopper for small businesses, but I am having a hard time selling ad space. My costs are much lower than any of my competitors, however I'm stuck on how to attract local ...
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Advertise a freelance/one-person graphic design business?
For 15 years or so, I worked at various graphic design firms as a production artist. Two years ago I left "Design Firm" in "Big City* and started working freelance from home in "Rural Area" about 90 ...
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Any thoughts on Ask v Bing v Google for search advertising?
I am looking for an alternative to AdSense. Have you had any experience of the non Google ad engines any any advise on the relative costs and performance?
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How do you get your Startup featured on national television news?
I am wondering if anyone has any advice on how to get your startup featured on TV?
I have had some success getting written about on some blogs, but nothing that non startup / tech people would see.
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Placing Ads in highly targeted email
I run a mail service for a particular community of users. This email system goes far beyond an occasional email to a basic mailing list - it is the fabric that holds the community together. I would ...
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Will people use a site that pays them to share?
We have just launched a beta of our website that pays people to share products and services they like with friends in their network who might be interested. We are trying to figure out the best way to ...
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Video trailer services for startups
I've been working on a web-app that is set to finish late November and I'm now looking for ways to demonstrate my app via a promotional trailer (preferably not a just a screencast) of some sort.
Are ...
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Marketing suggestions for a small startup?
I am interested in starting a small (to start with at least) software company. The Software I would be selling would be add-ons to Microsoft SharePoint. While I am skilled technically, I know ...
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Marketing my niche web application
I'm a web developer by trade but I work for a graphic design agency.
I've written a subscription service (I own the code) that allows design studios to track jobs, allocate them to staff and track ...
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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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Company Showcasing: Do Recruiters have the need to showcase work/ projects of their organizations while promoting company to potential candidates? [closed]
Do Recruiters have the need to showcase the work/ projects of their organizations while promoting their company to the potential candidates ?
If this showcasing is required, through what means is ...
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How to sell software tools to developers?
I have Windows desktop tools for developers. I have a few large companies that bought them. It is mostly project managers that did the buying and so far they found me via Google search(I have done a ...
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What are the best magazines to put an ad seeking for sales&marketing bus. partner on commission basis?
My company developed and validated highly innovative water purification products for residential and commercial applications. What are the best magazines to put an ad seeking for sales&marketing ...
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Where to start with Marketing? Need better Internet reach
My company is in a niche with over 11 million potential customers, yet we have a little less than 100k customers currently. Given that we currently spend $0.00 in marketing (we focused on recruiting ...
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Advertising with buysellads.com
Anyone used buysellads.com? Do you recommend this provider or do you know of a better one? If so, why is it better than buysellads.com?
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Free or not free
We're developing an idea for a product that we can give to retailers at no cost by subsidizing the cost through advertising. Retailers don't pay much for it, but it is still an expense to them. The ...
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How to “market” my web software company?
I have been developing database-driven software since 1996. During the last year I decided to "sell" this software.
I've a lot of source code for a lot of ... customer needs. Starting from help desk ...
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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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How did youtube get people to upload videos in their early days?
I was wondering how did youtube get their first initial 1,000 videos. What kind of marketing method did they use? How did they get people to upload so many videos in such a short time?
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Need advice on getting the word out about an open source and free site
A few months back I got tired of doing portfolio tracking in a spreadsheet and sat down and made a site. I got a few friends and family to start using it as well for their portfolios but have been ...
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Is Google inflating the cost of AdWords with all of these coupons they are handing out?
Google occasionally sends me free coupons for $100 on AdWords for the various sites I run. I just blew $100 on advertising on my startup's website.
I set the campaign at an aggressive $2 bid and blew ...
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What role do you see QR codes playing in marketing?
Those funny square codes seem to be popping up everywhere.
From the pages of USA Today as a hyper-link to news pictures, in the airport to download reading material after watching a bank ...
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How to find the correct keywords for your product?
I understand the marketing basics on keywords and the use of tools like Google Insight, Keyword traffic estimator, and others.
My concern comes from a product that people usually don't search for. ...
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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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How to get the word out on a shoestring budget?
I am a stay-at-home mom who managed to develop a piece of software for Windows desktop PCs, laptops and netbooks.
The theoretical market is HUGE but the traffic to my website, where I offer my ...
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Why is this fever of getting followers on twitter?
My twitter account is followed by hundreds of proposing me to return following, to get software for and learn techniques for getting thousands of followers.
But why?
I personally read most of all ...
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Advice in placemat advertising for a web based healthy snack delivery startup?
I'm starting a web based healthy snack box (consisting of a variety of dried fruits, nuts, organics, etc.) delivery business in a busy commercial area. The box is designed to provide a healthy ...
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What is a good way of promoting new software on tight budget?
I need to find a good way of getting our new software known. Its an online system for computer and games console repair shops. We need to find a way to let all the repair shops know about the ...
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General cost per click (CPC) price in developed countries?
I know this question is a bit artificial, please don't explain me the concept, etc. because I am a professional senior e-marketer. I was just wondering how much do you think one general link click ...
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What is the most effective way to market a Local Small Business?
We have successfully launched a small business providing services locally in a couple cities. Uptake of new clients has been slow and we want to spend some of our (limited!) cash to market the ...
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Is there any business model for Chrome or Firefox addons?
I want develop pretty advanced add-on for Chrome (and later for Firefox). I plan to sell it. And i am sure users will pay. But i have some apprehensions. There no add-ons in chrome or firefox add-ons ...
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Pre-launch Advertising
My partner and I are launching a website for widgets you can put on your website. We design a few nice looking ones and make it really easy to grab your own version. We want to end the pain of ...
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What results have you seen when advertising your company online?
I wanted to know if any one here has used any of the following methods to advertise their startup company and what results have they seen?
Google Ads
LinkedIn Ads
FaceBook Ads
Online Press Releases
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How do I attract users to an empty website so that they can add content?
I have started a website that I believe will be very useful, however it requires the public to report their own experiences. The problem is that when people visit the site they see that it doesn't ...
