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Starting a review/rating website - for a social cause [closed]

After a lot of brainstorming I have come with an idea of setting up a review website. I know this idea is not new but I want to do this to help people, earning money is secondary Now the main problem ...
5
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3answers
299 views

Best strategies for approaching customers via phone

We are currently creating a spin-off from the university, that offers services to biotech/pharma companies. We have tried to reach our first customers by cold emails, but we were not very successful. ...
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2answers
171 views

How to transform a free trial user to a paying one?

We are a B2B web company, which offers a tool for online sellers ( amazon, ebay ). Since we got more and more free trial user, our ratio from trial to paying ( which was before near 80% ) got back ...
8
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6answers
701 views

How to approach SEO for a new website?

We have just launched (yesterday actually!) a website for our startup - providing mobile and Facebook app development services. Sales will totally drive from leads generated from the website. ...
3
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3answers
149 views

Right time to start adwords ads?

We recently launched a food gift website where you can create & personalize your gift. The site has several innovative features which people like a lot. There is an online food gift market in my ...
2
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2answers
264 views

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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1answer
101 views

importance of a community?

I recently launched a web site but I have a dilemma between building a community completing business model at the moment the site just MVP so it has some attractive features but doesn't have ...
3
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1answer
139 views

First partnership that could get us half a million users - help!

We are a startup currently building a prototype version of a software with 20 developers within the websemantics field. We are developing a really innovative tool and have already received the ...
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2answers
49 views

How people may react if you ask them to join your “hospital” for internet ingorants?

I came with an idea, it is mainly a small internet company that will help and guide people with no or little experience with computers and internet. Something like e-learning. My main problem is not ...
3
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2answers
96 views

Strategy- How to make a single time visitor into a frequent visitor of your website? User engagement

Strategy- How to make a single time visitor into a frequent visitor? I know subscribing is one of the many options for user engagement and frequent visits by users.
5
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4answers
274 views

First time in a startup meeting. What should I take care before it?

I am going to a startup seminar/meeting this week where there will be entrepreneurs, investors and business people . I am getting ready for my startup 's online/offline presence, hopefully that this ...
3
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3answers
81 views

What carries more weight, adding new users or increasing interaction with existing members?

I'm Founder to a new online application/website. We have made modest progress in the past 6 months (just over 150 member sign ups). Given that we were in beta for the first couple of months, I feel ...
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1answer
70 views

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 ...
2
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1answer
123 views

Is it better to launch all the feautures of your web application at the beginning?

I am developing a web application, the whole idea is a social network. There is a list of features/characteristics/apps that the users will be able to use either free or charge or paid and a list of ...
3
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1answer
93 views

Getting started on a vertical market application

I have an idea for a vertical market application. Although I have the skills to create the application, and have some business experience, I really don't know generally how to proceed. There are a ...
1
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5answers
248 views

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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2answers
170 views

How to scale a startup?

We build a profitable startup In 2 years without any outside investment we are building enterprise software(and producing hardware) for Customer Service Improvement in different ...
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1answer
26 views

Do any services provide email management to allow a limited number of 'shareable' invites? Or are there alternatives to that system out there?

Here is the backstory - we are launching a service in the next few weeks, but wish to invite a limited number of contacts initially. A major part of the plan is to allow these contacts to invite ...
5
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4answers
255 views

I have a startup that is almost ready and I'm finding it hard to get companies on board, what can I do?

I know this question has been asked many times before in a plethora of different ways, but I couldn't find anything to help me out, so my apologies if this comes off as a duplicate of another question ...
2
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4answers
277 views

What kind of software could be sold to a large company in one week?

In my experience, it takes around a year to sell software to a large company. I have seen it getting done in three months, but it is very seldom. Therefore, my question is whether you know of any ...
0
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2answers
334 views

How to start selling locally developed CMS and ecommerce system globally?

I have developed advanced CMS software with integrated ecommerce system for running large eshops and managing content on multiple websites. It has some really modern features it's all AJAX, ...
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4answers
103 views

Getting more customers for a resume writing service

I have a website providing online resume and cover letter services (resumesquare.com). I have used various inbound marketing techniques like Facebook, Linkedin, bulk email, Yahoo Groups, freelancing ...
1
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6answers
309 views

Bad Signs: When non-tech people say “what am I looking at”

So I am finally finished writing my software product after a long time (1.5 years)...full time almost development and research by myself. This software is designed for businesses and research ...
3
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2answers
174 views

How do you determine which online marketing tools/applications to use?

So you want to do marketing for your company. You've created a marketing plan and want to implement it. How do you determine which applications/vendors to use? For example, for email marketing and ...
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5answers
148 views

How do you market your business in a saturated economy?

How do you market your business in a saturated economy?
3
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7answers
433 views

What should be the first steps in developing leads for a start up?

I have a high tech software start up B2B ...I know in my industry that competitors market through blogs, webinars, seo, associations, broadcast emails etc... I am targeting the Canadian Small to ...
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3answers
100 views

Future development of an e-learning product

I initally started with the aim of rolling out a number of courses based around peer-to-peer learning i.e. you learn by marking and commenting on other students essays. This soon to be too broad a ...
1
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2answers
160 views

Should I create a new brand of products for different audiences?

I'm very curious about which option is better for the company's strategy view: A one general product for the three target groups, Or three different products for three target groups Or a product ...
2
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2answers
149 views

marketing a upcoming website

I will be launching my website (ecommerce site) in two weeks. I was wondering if there is an effective way (or what shoul I do) to tell people about the official launch of my website. should it be a ...
3
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1answer
159 views

How to best make use of large corporate “partnership”?

Let's say a small software company has a product which can help several very large key players within the industry sell far more of their products. Let us also assume that these corporate giants have ...
4
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4answers
244 views

Why do some companies like Apple hide announcing their new product till the last moment

One reason I can understand is that they don't want competitors to find out the features of their product hence releasing their own product before they get a chance to release it themselves. I ...
8
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4answers
3k views

I created a software product. How and where do I promote it?

So I had an itch to scratch, and out came my startup. Granted it's a simple product, but what it does it does well. Now that it's launched and available for purchase, I'm at a loss for where to ...
4
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3answers
787 views

Website launch strategy with

My partner and I would like to lunch a new marketplace for products that, for obvious reasons, we can't disclose at this point. We don't have any patent or proprietary IP to raise the entrance ...
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6answers
2k views

What's are some good strategies to attract customers to a new website?

When startups launch a new web site or application, and initially have no customers, what is the best way to attract customers to the site? SEO? Adwords? Word of mouth?