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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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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 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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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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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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Where should I promote this product?
I built a tool for myself and some relatives. It's a windows keyboard tool that allows someone to instantly type accent marks, other diacritics and often used special characters. No key combinations ...
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Is a “Discount for first N sales” promotion a bad idea for low volumes?
G'day!
My company develops and sells off-the-shelf (or rather, download-from-the-web) desktop software to quite a niche market. Our most popular product has user numbers in the hundreds (although how ...
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How do I identify the right bloggers to pitch a social network to?
I'm the founder of an interests based social network. A well known advice for promoting a startup launch says I should identify key bloggers, and introduce my startup to targeted early adopters.
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Standard Marketing and SEO Techniques [closed]
The new version of my business website is about to release in coming weeks which mainly includes UI improvement and support for some advance features. Within that time period, I don’t want to contact ...
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Tax implications of giving out prizes/raffles for my startup customers
I've ran a few contests / giveaways on my site for new customers. So far I've given away a color nook, 2 rounds of golf, and 2 ski lift tickets. Just some stuff to get people more active in the site.
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How to make an introduction movie for website?
I want to create an introduction movie for my website, to demonstrate the manual operation on website and simply add some background musics.
Twitter`s new version introduction movie is a good ...
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Suggestions for marketing a Twitter app to new users
Technical Background:
I have an application that relies heavily on the Twitter API. This app is genuinely very useful for Twitter users across the board but especially for Twitter users who want to ...
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Are there any blogs or websites introducing new website? [closed]
I want to know is there any blogs or websites introducing some of new websites?
New start-up websites are always looking for report and introduction by other famous websites.
As we know, ...
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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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How to promote a cooking software?
I have a hard time getting visitors to my site where I sell a cooking software for Windows. I'm still improving it by SEO (especially the english version is far from perfect) but suppose that will pay ...
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Snail Mail Press Release
We just released a Press Release that was a flop. I've been trying to figure out what that is,
especially compared to the Press Release I sent out 10 years ago for a
physical product I invented; I got ...
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99% OFF for the first month, any downsides?
I sell monthly subscription of a SAAS service. Currently, I'm handing out 99%-off coupon for the first month to new customers as a way to get them to get into the mindset of forking out cash. The ...
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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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Is this e-commerce launch promotion a winner or loser?
I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?
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Where to promote a travelers network site?
We created a site which aims to be a community of travelers sharing "off-the-beaten" track spots around the world with other travelers. We went live a month ago, we have about 150 users, 500 spots ...
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Is a promo code a good idea?
I'm getting ready to "relaunch" my site. The site currently sells royalty-free Silverlight controls by independent developers (sort of an iStockPhoto business model). I'm working on a massive ...
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How to get people to post on a new classifieds website
I have an upcoming website that will go live in about a month from now. The design and development has been going at a smooth pace so far. Since I don't program I have a developer make it for me. My ...
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Where do Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) hang out?
We are launching a new quoting software product targeted at ISVs, but don't know where to find them. I won't include the link as I don't want to seem spammy, but it's in my profile if you want to ...
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Promoting the application (SAAS)
I created a flash app. A service or a game - it does not matter. Advertising takes a lot of money and not always effective, it is desirable that my app promote itself.
Task - to create in the app (or ...
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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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What should a single individual do to promote a startup?
I am a programmer and have been developing a web app to facilitate appointment scheduling in my spare time. My target customer is a professional or a small business owner working on a well defined ...
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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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promoting web 2.0 sites
suppose a web 2.0 startup has completed its product and is trying to launch it...what are some of the most effective ways to promote the product that is specific to a web 2.0 model (ie. users come in ...
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How to get attention to an early-stage product or site?
I have an early-stage site that I think is pretty good. I won't put the link here because I don't want to seem like spam. But the link is in my bio.
While I have been able to get some attention to ...
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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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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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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 do I choose the right sub-segment to market my new Q&A community to?
I'm launching a new Q&A community and was wondering how specific a market I should target while seeding and promoting the site in its early stages.
If the ultimate goal is for it to become the ...
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Asking customer to promote product
I have a new customer that is very happy with my software. He asked about a feature that the software does not have, but would be simple for me to add and would be a good feature. I am thinking of ...
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How do I attract visitors to a free web app/social site on a low budget?
I've been working on a site. It started as a side project to teach myself a bunch of things but now that it's live I'd really like to pump some life into it.
Functionality is limited; basically, ...
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Seeking tips on using competitions to promote a website
We are considering running a competition to promote the use of our website. We run a directory style site full of acting talent. We want to promote to advertising agencies and encourage them to hire ...
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Advertising - Yard Signs
I found a few places online that sell yard signs for advertising in neighborhoods (you usually see these signs for political ads, yard services, etc) and I was curious if anyone has a good experience ...
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Startup social network free sites to promote on / free ways of promotion
Hey so I am wondering about methods of promoting a social netowork that I made.
Starting up a site and getting traffic is not as easy as it might seem. It would be nice to know how to get some ...
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Enterprise Software Promotion on tucows/softpedia
Does anyone have any experience to promoting enterprise software on download site like tucows/softpedia? Is it worth to try?
I'm looking a site where I can promote my product (enterprise market/web ...
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Can I offer points for participation to be redeemed for discounts and cash back rewards?
I'd like to offer points for posting product reviews, comments, purchasing products, etc... basically all different types of participation that can be redeemed later for discounts on products or ...
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Recommend a company for promo pens?
I'm looking for a legitimate/affordable/responsive company to order some promo pens from (with our logo etc).
I've found http://www.pens.com/pens/ via Google, they look legit, but I thought I'd ask ...
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Referral tracking services?
We'd like to generate business based on our customers referring us to people they know who could use our product.
Some questions about this:
Can you recommend a referral tracking service or ...
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Are there companies outhere that we can outsource PR, inbound marketing and general marketing/promo/sales work to?
We are small bootup startup.
We recently launched a MVP website. Marketing is generally, 'not our bag' and we would like to seek the help of someone/an entity that specializes in this field, to help ...
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Promoting a website by writing articles
We have recently launched a website, and we are now going through the promotional phase of 'getting the word out'. One of the ways we are doing this is by writing a series of quality articles to ...
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What are the unexplored marketing channels for web apps?
Say I have a niche web app and need to raise awareness for it. The default route is to have a blog, ask around nicely for reviews, and buy Adwords.
I am currently trying out Adwords with limited ...
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How would you reach language professionals?
I recently launched a Q&A language site (powered by StackExchange just like answers.onstartups.com) as a side project. Now that it's gaining noticeable interest, I am looking forward to push it to ...
