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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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How would you reach language professionals?
I recently launched a Q&A language site (powered by StackExchange just like answers.onstartups.com) as a side project. Now that it's gaining noticeable interest, I am looking forward to push it to ...
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Asking customer to promote product
I have a new customer that is very happy with my software. He asked about a feature that the software does not have, but would be simple for me to add and would be a good feature. I am thinking of ...
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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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Digg vs. Reddit for promoting a blog post
If you are promoting a blog post, should one focus on digg or reddit ranking?
Which is preferable and why?
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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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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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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 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 ...
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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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What are the unexplored marketing channels for web apps?
Say I have a niche web app and need to raise awareness for it. The default route is to have a blog, ask around nicely for reviews, and buy Adwords.
I am currently trying out Adwords with limited ...
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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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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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How do I attract visitors to a niche content site?
I recently launched a niche content site.
The niche is actually fairly popular, but I am not sure how to attract visitors or promote the site.
I feel that my site offers value to people in this niche, ...
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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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Enterprise Software Promotion on tucows/softpedia
Does anyone have any experience to promoting enterprise software on download site like tucows/softpedia? Is it worth to try?
I'm looking a site where I can promote my product (enterprise market/web ...
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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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Include degrees/qualifications on business cards?
This is a pretty trivial question but I'd be interested in your opinions.
Would you include post-nominal letters and/or other qualifications on your business cards? Do you think it's overly ...
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Swag & Giveaway Advice!
I've just found out that I will be presenting my startup, mokabla at an Entrepreneur event in ATL in less than a week. There will be about 200 people attending. Since this event doesn't have sponsors, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Seeking tips on using competitions to promote a website
We are considering running a competition to promote the use of our website. We run a directory style site full of acting talent. We want to promote to advertising agencies and encourage them to hire ...
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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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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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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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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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Pilot customer incentives for intial launch of start-up
As I work on finishing up the final details for my start-up. I wanted to know if anyone here setup pilot programs for their first few customers at discounted rates or for free for a limited period of ...
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How effective is Twitter for disseminating links?
What sort of attention does Twitter get for links?
How effective is it for disseminating links, in comparison to other techniques?
In what circumstances is it the one of the best channels for ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Advertising - Yard Signs
I found a few places online that sell yard signs for advertising in neighborhoods (you usually see these signs for political ads, yard services, etc) and I was curious if anyone has a good experience ...
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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 ...
