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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 do I promote my soon-to-launch startup?
I'm about to launch a new web startup in less than a month. It'll be a freemium web application which will offer a Facebook-related service with various pricing plans.
I'm still a bit unsure on how ...
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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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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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Startup social network free sites to promote on / free ways of promotion
Hey so I am wondering about methods of promoting a social netowork that I made.
Starting up a site and getting traffic is not as easy as it might seem. It would be nice to know how to get some ...
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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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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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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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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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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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What is a good way of promoting new software on tight budget?
I need to find a good way of getting our new software known. Its an online system for computer and games console repair shops. We need to find a way to let all the repair shops know about the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Referral tracking services?
We'd like to generate business based on our customers referring us to people they know who could use our product.
Some questions about this:
Can you recommend a referral tracking service or ...
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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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Is Facebook “Like” button useful for small sites?
What are the effects of having a Facebook "Like!" button on your page, if you are a small site?
What are the benefits of it, and possible disadvantages of the Facebook Like button?
What effect does ...
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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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Promoting a website by writing articles
We have recently launched a website, and we are now going through the promotional phase of 'getting the word out'. One of the ways we are doing this is by writing a series of quality articles to ...
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Good ways to make a promotional video?
I'm a couple of months away from releasing my gradebook app for teachers, and will need a good promotional video. I'm bootstrapped and don't have much cash. Any suggestions? I can make a decent ...
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Article writing service?
Anybody has recommendations for good article writing services for SEO purposes? Especially the one that actually writes for real people and not just churn out the article out of a random word ...
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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 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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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 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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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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How do I attract visitors to a free web app/social site on a low budget?
I've been working on a site. It started as a side project to teach myself a bunch of things but now that it's live I'd really like to pump some life into it.
Functionality is limited; basically, ...
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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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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 ...
