Marketing questions are about the action or business of promoting products or services
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Starting Online MLM Business! [closed]
Everyone in online marketing knows you got to have traffic in order to get leads. I am looking for free ways to get the ball started. I do free traffic sites, list builders, google email extraction ...
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2answers
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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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How should I write / implement a marketing plan on a tight budget / limited resources [closed]
I want to write a marketing plan for a small business that sells guided adventure tours. There is a big community of existing (mountain bikers) but they are in the location itself. I need to attract ...
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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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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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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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66 views
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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4answers
184 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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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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3answers
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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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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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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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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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What is the best way to find a marketing partner in the real estate industry?
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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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 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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Ideas on celebrating 10 year anniversary [closed]
We are going to celebrate our 10 years of existance, at our annual client conference in St. Louis. I am looking for ideas to make this a memorable event for customers and staff.
I know, been way too ...
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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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what's a good title to put on my business card? [closed]
I'm an independent software developer. My job title on site is usually "Software Designer", "Senior Software Developer", "Software Architect" ... that sort of thing.
I've incorporated a company for ...
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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
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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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2answers
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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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Starting a business - marketing/legal questions [closed]
I'm new to this part of SOE, but it's mission specific so:
I want to start marketing my IT skills independently in the US, and was wondering what are the various components involved in doing so?
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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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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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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
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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 ...
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SaaS, should we pick the payment options or let the customer?
Working on a new B2C SaaS will allow our customers to accept payments online from their customers.
Currently we're trying to decided whether its better to have a list of payment gateways for our ...
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3answers
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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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Initial Result of Customer Development
Hope all is well. I just conducted a round of feedback interviews with 20 people(mostly students) about my startup. The results are 50% saying its a great idea and other 50% think its not worth it. I ...
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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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Recommended courses for a social network co-founder
I am a social network co-founder who recently relocated to NYC area. Apart from focusing on the social network start up, I am trying to take some courses at columbia or NYU. The issue is this -
I am ...
