Marketing questions are about the action or business of promoting products or services
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Which is the right way Technology Consulting or Technology Centric Consulting
I am a regular reader of this forum and am trying to clear my doubts before I actually dive in the real sea.
I am a hardcore developer working in a specific stream, web2.0. precisely on Rich ...
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Product Positioning-Large or Small customer focus
We are a software startup and trying to solve a unique problem, which is applicable for both small and large organizations. Is there any recommendation in positioning the product for smaller or large ...
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using GREE mobile platform (aka openFeint)
I uploaded two days ago my new game to the Andorid platform.
so far, I don't have many downloads.
I introduced with GREE which is kind of social network for mobile gamers
I think it's something ...
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How to improve the conversion rate of a software?
We have introduced a new software.It has been only 25 days since the launch,we have got only a single sale.I'm just concerned about the conversion rate.What can i do to improve the conversion rate?
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Promoting startup on Google+
I'm just getting started with promoting my startup in Google+, and am looking for suggestions on the best way to do this.
I can post to Google+ as (1) the "page" for the startup or as (2) my email ...
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How to find a Software Product Partner [closed]
We are into Human Resource Management Solutions (HRMS) Software since last 4 years and have done pretty well in the domestic market . We have our own Web Based solutions with 20+ modules in it with ...
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How to find business ideas and marketers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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Choosing a URL: balancing a bad name with a great URL vs. a great name with a bad URL
Assume I've made a (hypothetical) online game where you equip two cats that rule small feifdoms, and they fight each other. I haven't done this! It's just an example. But say I did this, and I wanted ...
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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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How to make an offer?
Assume that you are a custom app seller. You get your customers, on all kind of opportunities like events, blind mails, viral marketing.
When you are at the customer you present your product!
But ...
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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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How to create an online course?
I like the idea of creating an online course. However, I have never done something like that before. My idea is:
Create an online course about a field I know a lot about and charge for that.
So when ...
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What “problem” is the luxury industry solving?
The common wisdom is that when creating a product you must solve a problem or need people have. For example, Facebook solves the social problem, and Evernote is your "second brain".
However, it ...
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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. ...
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How do I get in front of the right people to share what my business does?
I'm a 22 year old mobile marketer and QR designer. I can create artistic branded qr codes for musicians, mobile app companies, and other mobile based companies.
How do I go about getting in touch ...
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Is lack of marketing from competitors a good reason to build a startup?
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I have a web app idea in mind that I have started developing for fun. As I started seeing potential for revenue, I realized that a lot of other competitors have already started this ...
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Is “Co” suffix obligatory? Or “Software”?
I have reserved a name for my business. It does not contain any "Co" or "Software" suffix. But sometimes it's more appropriate to use the suffix, e.g. in Facebook page's title.
Can I use the "Co" ...
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Average time for founder from technology background to get comfortable with marketing
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I'm a senior software developer and started my own company last year. Prior to last year, I worked for a couple of years as a software developer on contract for many companies. And ...
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will you use your competitor's community mailing system to promote your product/website?
Will you ask your site competitor's member to join your site by sending message to them through competitor's site (like maybe sending message,mail etc)?
Do you think members who received such an ...
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Is building fans on a Facebook fan page or Twitter with Fiverr worthwhile?
I've seen Fiverr used to build fans to a new social network page or profile, build links (spammy) for a website, or design a logo. Is it an effective tool for building fans to a social media page (in ...
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Consulting while working
I kinda have a dilemma! My partner and I, who are coworkers, came up with the idea to start our own consulting firm. Our firm will target our present clients. We are Medicaid consultants in a ...
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Fashion Online Store is my paid customer. what is the first step to approach?
Our paying customers are online fashion store owners.
This is a hard task for me to approach them for the very first time.
I went to their online store and can't find any appropriate department like ...
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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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Stuck in the middle on a start-up venture
My co-founder and I have invested $50k together and launched phase 1 of our social network website. We have started marketing in NY metro and have grown to 300 users in 4 weeks. We are in the process ...
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Does buying like on Facebook Fanpage works [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Has anyone ever used one of the buy Facebook fan sites?
If a startup company make new product or service.
They might make a Fanbook Fanpage and buy a lot of ten ...
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How effective is Facebook marketing?
What impact did your Facebook fan page have on your sales or traffic?
Did you try to measure conversion rate: "Facebook fans/visits" or "Facebook fans/sales"?
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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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How do I determine the optimal price to maximize profit from a contest?
We are trying to setup a contest at my school where contestants have to pay to enter and compete. We have enough money to cover a grand prize, as well as other minor prizes. According to my naive ...
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Effective way to build up sales channels with low budget
We have a software product to be marketed to Enterprise Level commercial entities. We would like to build some Value Added Reseller and Distributor network with a low budget (unfortunately). What is ...
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Should I have a “presence” on Facebook & Twitter & Google+?
I have a habit of registering my own name on social sites, just to ensure that nobody impersonates me. Now, starting a business, I am doing the same with the business name and the product name:
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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 to market my customer's webshop?
I have my own web development company and I created a web shop for a customer using Drupal Commerce.
My customer was selling children's clothing in a regular store. This store, however, no longer ...
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Next steps after launching a social network
So my co-founder and I spent 10 months and launched a social network 2 weeks ago. We are doing simple fb ads and craigslist advertising and have reached 200 users. As anyone will say, our idea is ...
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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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When to give up on a product?
I'm getting ahead of myself here because my product hasn't launched yet, but I thought about this and would appreciate the thoughts of this community:
Imagine this:
You're launching a great app (or ...
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About to launch - based in Prague
I'm about to launch a social travel network PhD colleague. It uses a complex algorithm to rank results and recommendations. We've just concluded the development and must say that we made mistakes by ...
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Has Red Herring 100 award have any significance for a start up?
A lot of start ups are tweeting and/or doing press releases today about being chosen as a Red Herring 100 company. I couldn't find many other sources talking about this award other than the award ...
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Hire a sales guy for a part-time start-up?
Background:
I'm a tech guy with alot of product building experience
I've built and recently launched a SaaS/cloud application for a niche market, targeting small-size companies
The product provides ...
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Niche market ok if startup and operating costs are low?
i know, i know: go after large markets. the math is easier. but my business plan calls for selling an inexpensively developed but highly compelling product to a niche industry. further, the customer ...
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What is/was the elevator pitch of Facebook?
An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define
a product, service, or organization and its value proposition.
What was the elevator pitch of Facebook when it started?
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Is it normal to have 0 signups after pitching a startup to dozens of journalists?
I've sent concise pitches about my startup (general, and for various features) to around 20 tech journalists from tech blogs/sites (Mashable, Techcrunch, TNW, RRW, Lifehacker, Venturebeat, etc.), both ...
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How do i find a business development co-founder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best way to find/evaluate a Marketing co-founder?
I've been working on my mobile security startup since last 6+ months and the product is getting close to ...
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Should I offer discount coupons for beta users when turning to paid service
This is bit generic question, however I would appreciate to hear different opinions.
I have developed a user based over the last couple of months for my online SAAS business. Now I am going to end ...
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how to grow a new social network
We build a social network.. We're not the expert on the market stuffs but actually it's as hard as developing a new stuff.. Anyway I'm just curious about how to grow a new social network..
I know ...
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Marketing Plan or Business Plan first?
Wouldn't I be more effective doing a marketing plan first - before working on a business plan?
Everybody's working on business plans, and I know they include Market and Marketing information. But I ...
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Is this an Endorsement?
Suppose there's a site that runs a blog about computer hardware and on one of the blogs about dealing with old hardware stuff, a blog reader asks something like 'Looking for possible online sites ...
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Marketing a free service
How would you go about marketing to consumers a service which is free to them?
If it were a product or a paid-for service you could offer discounts and things, but since its a free service you aren't ...
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Do I need traditional marketing for a web startup?
Is traditional marketing (newspapers, magazines, outdoors, tv, radio..and so on) necessary for a web startup in a tough niche (travel industry)?
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How Would You Market A Product To High Schools? (Most Effective Way)?
Lets's say you guys had a product you sold for $20.
Let's say the product was for high school football coaches. What would be the most effective way to reach the North American Market?
The only way ...
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Changing to a new domain name
What should a company do before they switching their domain name? (In my example it's a small change in the name like DropBox's getdropbox.com to dropbox.com)
I'm thinking about writing a blog post ...
