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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Quality assurance / testing communities?
I've been developing a test plan / test case management tool and am nearing the point where I will release version 1.0.
Can anyone point me to any online communities of software testing / quality ...
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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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2answers
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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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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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1answer
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Livestream vs. Spreecast vs. Ustream? Does anyone have expertise and can recommend? [closed]
My company is about to do a webinar via Spreecast. The folks there are very helpful but there are some problematic UI issues and feature limitations. I just had someone recommend Livestream to me. And ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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4answers
187 views
What marketing materials could be created for presenting outsourcing company?
I'm focusing on direct sales at software and mobile outsourcing company, located in Eastern Europe. Our management is often traveling around Europe to meet with clients.
I was wondering what ...
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12answers
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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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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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0answers
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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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2answers
195 views
Any recommendations for getting listing in DMOZ.com directory? [closed]
We've been trying for a long time with no success. I've heard all sorts of stories. Anybody have any suggestions?
Appreciate it,
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3answers
357 views
What is the best way to find a marketing partner in the real estate industry? [closed]
What is the best way to find someone interested in partnering and helping market a startup regarding real estate? Specifically, a site where buyer and sellers choose their agent based on ratings as ...
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
120 views
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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2answers
173 views
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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2answers
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How do we additional marketing channels such as affiliate partnerships, Fab.com, specialty retail/wholesale for a physical product? [closed]
We are college students bootstrapping out tech startup the AirBNB cereal box way and have launched a physical product to help with this effort; we sell exclusively through our own website. This ...
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2answers
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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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3answers
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Explain product by example?
Is it a good idea to describe the features of a product/service by making fictional scenarious how to use this product?
I know the best aproach would be to present at first the problem and show ...
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0answers
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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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3answers
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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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3answers
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Salary to expect for a “well-funded” Manhattan startup
I have a second interview this week for a "well funded Manhattan Startup". They are looking to fulfill the position of both Account Manager and Business Development Manager. I am coming from a very ...
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1answer
274 views
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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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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1answer
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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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3answers
131 views
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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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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1answer
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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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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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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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Dealing with Free and Lite Version of Competitors
We are new to the software field and have been launched ~4 months = 8 sales so far.The conversion rate is 0.5 %.Product is priced around $25-$30
We are in a market with lot of competition,in fact the ...
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How do I develop my personal brand with two unrelated topics?
I have a full time job and career but I also have a side business developing desktop and web apps. There is very little overlap between my career and my side business. I have been using my personal ...
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Managing multiple online personas
I currently own a resume writing business, but am also starting up a separate B2B copywriting business as well as another online marketing site. All of these ventures have very different customers, ...
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Should company A have different social network identities for each service/website?
Let's say company A produces various online services that fill different needs. Do you think they should have a separate Twitter/Facebook fan page for each service? Or should there just be one main ...
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4answers
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How do you monitor Internet perceptions of your company?
I'd like to know how the world perceives our company and products. (One reasonable response to this question is: "Don't pay any attention, just do good things." However, let's suppose I want to watch ...
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2answers
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Where do you go for naming resources/ help?
We are working on a site which will basically be an event directory/ aggregator for tech and business events, conferences, workshops, etc.
Focus on tech events...
We don't have the money to hire a ...
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What are the best ways to get traffic to your website?
Tons of web startups are at the stage of "built it, have visitors, but need more." Compare this to similar sites created when the word "webmaster" was the buzzword of the year, that get 100-200k+ ...
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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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How to get long time clients
We are a startup web development venture based in India,we have some one time clients from e-commerce industry but they will not benefit us in the long run.So we are planning to showcase the work we ...
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Solving the Chicken and Egg Problem
My partner and I are in the development phase of a website which essentially is a new marketplace for a sector that we believe is lacking one.
However most of our resources are going for design and ...
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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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2answers
108 views
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 best way to use stickers in marketing?
I have recruitment startup based on web application , I purchased 5000 sticker with the logo,slogan and the link of the startup on it.
now I'm really confused how could I use the stickers in ...
