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Should we pick a “boss” in a startup with friends?
I recently began working with two longtime friends on a startup, and we are hitting a wall when attempting to progress on anything.
We all possess fairly similar skills, so we can each handle any ...
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Is it necessary to build a mobile version product website in order to promote mobile app
I was wondering, is it necessary to build a mobile version product website, in order to promote your mobile app? I take Evernote for instance, I do not see they provide a mobile version product ...
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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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Promoting sub-communities of a social website?
I'm currently working on a social website that bases itself on specific sub-communities (something along the lines of Reddit meets Pintrest for lack of a better description). What are some effective ...
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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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How to announce releases?
I'm launching an app soon. I set up a "coming soon" page to get some buzz and to collect emails from interested user. The app is for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8. The iOS release comes first and ...
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How to get my app reviewed by review sites like LifeHacker? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it normal to have 0 signups after pitching a startup to dozens of journalists?
Recently I have write a Android app and I think I am in the stage called promoting. I ...
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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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How to integrate promotional code ad network w/ online retailer?
I would like to create a print ad network for online retail advertisers with the following features. The ads will be distributed as posters.
The printed ad includes a URL with a link to the ad ...
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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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Android Market - Give out coupon codes for bloggers?
I'm about to bring a 3$ app to the Android market. To get reviews and for promotion I'd like to give out coupon codes for a free download.
Is there such a feature build in the Android market or are ...
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Just Released First App… Promotion Help
I am relatively new to programming. I have been programming with Java and Android for about 2 years now and just recently released my first app to the Google Play app store.
I have passed the word on ...
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How to promote my social project?
I have created a social media website - it's a place for men who have questions about relationships. The main goal is to make users proud of their own achievements. For example, your son has graduated ...
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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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Offering some risk-free services
We are a new start up and we offer several services (Mobile,Software development,CMS,Web,etc). The classic problem that all the start-up got is to face at the begin is how to get into the market ...
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What is a good way of promoting Freeware desktop software? [closed]
Our company develops a Windows based desktop software product (photo and media document management software for small teams). The first product version will be free of charge. The next major release ...
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How Can I Promote my Translator Android App?
I recently created an Android App. It translates thousands of frequently used words from each language.
When I started learning Dutch with a friend of mine, he suggested it would be great to have an ...
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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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Running an aggressive promotion against a competing product
We want to run a promotion on our website. In the promotion, if someone can provide us proof of purchase of a competitor's software license, we will give them a free software license of our product.
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What are the key factors in the initial promotion of a lean startup?
I've made my first effort to promote my soon to be released mobile application, by making a landing page for it and posting to reddit.com and now, stack exchange.
The application is a special kind of ...
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Promoting landing page to get signups
OK, now I have my landing page with a signup form ready. Now how do I promote it to get early adopters? Should I:
Pay a content farm to put backlinks to the page
Pay adwords to get traffic
Find a ...
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Does anyone know any good examples of websites that promote themselves by giving users a clear promotion path?
I think EmpireAvenue does a good job of this but looking for other examples.
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Making a video for promoting the webapp/Startup [closed]
These days most webapps/web startups have really attractive videos about their "about to launch" or launched startups highlighting the features of it. Are there any web services or companies that make ...
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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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How to make customers eager to give comments about products which they bought from us?
I have an online store which sells baby products. Thankfully, some customers have already bought my products, although my startup is just 2 months old. One of my plans is to make my customers come ...
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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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Legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required for prize based promotions
I'd like to run a prize based promotion in the USA -- and looking for suggestions on legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required to execute one.
Yes, I know there are lots of ...
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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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Are there any startup showcase websites?
The web is full of gallery websites for CSS design. e.g:
http://www.css-showcase.com
http://www.cssmania.com
http://www.awwwards.com
Is there such a thing for startups?
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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 to find people interested to participate in a brand-new open-source project?
I recently set up an open-source infrastructure for Obix.
Obix is a new, object-oriented programming language designed to help people writing more reliable code in less time. More information can be ...
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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 ...
