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How to generate revenue from a website using visitor counts? Is there a standard way for doing it?
I want to build a web application that would showcase realestate properties of different owners. One way to generate revenue from this is charging for their property posting and for featured posting? ...
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Non profits and Social Media [closed]
I´m working on a consulting on social media for a non profit organization that works with community tourism in Brazil. I would like to know good and practical tips for non profits to good repercussion ...
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How to successfully use a LinkedIn company page?
I created a LinkedIn company page a while back, but never did anything with it. Now I’m considering spending a little bit of time trying to use the company page to create brand awareness and ...
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Ignoring Facebook - is it safe?
I was wondering, if its safe to entirely drop facebook out of the focus and not bother with it at all.
The company in question is B2B and sells enterprise level software with licenses range 10k - ...
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I don't agree with my social media marketing team. Please advice who is right
I am working on developing a platform that allows sports fans to interact with their star athletes. I have outsourced social media marketing for initial 2 months. Now we have developed differences ...
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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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Rebranding a New Web Company
I have a website that I have been working on for a few months and I have a pretty decent social media following as well as a lot of visitors on my website and we have decided we need to change the ...
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How to spot a good social media marketer
It's a bit subjective but helpful and on-topic IMO, mayebe should be made community wiki
I've been in contact with some guest bloggers lately which are interested in publishing posts on my website's ...
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Patenting a website created with Ning.com
I would like to start a niche social media website but I have no knowledge of programming. I do have business knowledge but that doesn't help me in the actual creation of this website. I don't have ...
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Is building fans on a Facebook fan page or Twitter with Fiverr worthwhile?
I've seen Fiverr used to build fans to a new social network page or profile, build links (spammy) for a website, or design a logo. Is it an effective tool for building fans to a social media page (in ...
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Photo Marketing?
Aside from using twitter and facebook as a social media to market my product photos, what else are other media out there? Hope to find another one as great as this two. Hope to get some ideas.
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When (and why) should a small, niche company spend resources *promoting* Social Media Marketing rather than an email newsletter?
What are the types of situations (or examples) of when a small, resource strapped company should divert resources from other areas (product development, email newsletter) to Facebook?
Some general ...
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What social media accounts should a business have?
I know this question has a lot of possible answers, so I'll break it down to several questions so you'll understand exactly what I want to know.
Which social media accounts should I maintain to help ...
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Is marketing the most important thing?
I was reading about the creation of mingle2.com, and what struck me as curious is that at that time (in 2007) the online dating market was well on its way to being saturated (aside from niche areas of ...
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Developing a social payment system
I have seen sites like klout.com used in measuring social influence of people. I want to know if it's possible to develop a payment system where people pay using their social influence. For example we ...
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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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Early stage strategies of growing your customer base for online start-up?
I wonder what do you recommend are the best strategies for growth and promotion of your online start-up in the early stages after launch?
How do you get your name out there and how do you effectively ...
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Pricing for the premium content?
We are in a process of launching a new start-up. It is a web based software application/platform providing business networking services. Although not directly comparable, however for the illustration ...
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Marketing of a Tweetdeck type app [closed]
Is it possible to estimate the cost of acquiring 1 million users for an app similar to tweetdeck, but with different, unique features?
Thank you in advance.
Awni H.
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Securing your company's name on twitter?
I'm currently using @zeeenmedia because someone on the other side of the world has an account, used only intermittently, named @zeeen.
Is there a good way to contact that user to work out a swap?
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Offering customers a discount in exchange of social media publicity - Does this make sense?
Yesterday, I added the following special deal in my service web site :
Help us promoting the site (blogging/tweetting about it, sharing the link in facebook, google+, delicious,… and committing to ...
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Will social media take over traditional means of marketing?
With the increasing number of social media websites, and businesses all over the world using social media for promoting and branding their products, will this over take the traditional way of ...
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Facebook pages for different websites
I am having problems getting my head around facebook pages. I'm a technical guy, and I have read the facebook docs as well as a few blogs on why to use facebook pages - however, I don't quite get it. ...
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Getting engagement on Twitter
We launched our company Twitter account by getting a few thousand other Twitter users to follow us -- by following them. The result was like a crowded pick-up joint on Saturday night. People were all ...
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What social media information or solution do you miss?
I am looking into building a social media tool and would be curious to know what the entrepreneurs here are missing.
Is there one information (raw data, aggregated data, chart, etc) that would help ...
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Best practices for Twitter B2B lead Generation
One of our client companies has just launched an aggressive Twitter campaign on behalf of the product with a focus on securing B2B clients.
What best practices do you recommend for leveraging ...
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What do you do when you have an idea _and_ money but no expertise or experience creating a technical product?
I know that seems like a "how do I cope with my spoil of riches?" type question and I apologize in advance for being the type of amateur class that for all I know has a popular tumblr blog dedicated ...
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How can social media create value in innovation and product development?
An increasing number of companies are trying to make sense of the world of social media tools and their implication for innovation and product development.
I'm doing a research to better understand ...
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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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Internet Marketing lessons/course for a startup founder [duplicate]
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How to promote my business using social networking
Hi All,
I am going to roll up my sleeves and learn internet marketing to make my startup succeed. Need help with ...
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What aspect of your startups workflow could be better, or how have you improved it?
I have asked a few fledgling tech startups about what they wish they didn't have to spend as much time on.
The answer is almost invariably 'not coding' and 'context shifts' as exemplified by ...
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What would you spend 15 minutes a day of “Social Media” on?
I work in the B2B market. Many of our clients are owned and managed by the entrepreneur or owner. These are not high-tech companies. They make things, they manufacture, they develop, they produce and ...
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How do I find a bona fide Social Media consultant?
Everybody and their brother claims to be a social media "expert" these days.
How do you find a consultant who actually knows what they are doing?
How much should they cost?
What should you get for ...
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How 'bout a combined StackExchange/Wikipedia hybrid solution?
Our start-up site will use a listing of product/service categories. I want our site's community of members to decide what categories/subcategories get added, as well as, other aspects about each ...
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Should I have 1 blog for each product or 1 blog for the company?
We have several products in several different areas (some are in the same areas). Should we start a blog for each product or should we write in our company blog everything?
What's the best strategy ...
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Social Media Auction website startup
I need more vendors to join my startup, likebids.com, but I only have 10 so far. Can anyone give me more information on where to find the right advertisers that would be interested in our concept?
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Please suggest how I can establish a relationship with young startups in US using Social Media?
We are an young startup whose target market in other young startups and SME's. We intend to provide them with service like blogging, link building, content research and other activities that will help ...
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Name some innovative Social Media Campaigns that garner a lot of attention
Beyond the tools, like Twitter and FB, what are some proven strategies or creative concepts that you have seen companies employ to build their brand. For instance, one company I know of, is currently ...
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Approach to online marketing
What online marketing strategy do you use if you run site that sells services? Where do you start?
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How can we get more sales for our daily deal app? (not Groupon clone)
We've launched our group buying app (no, we're not a Groupon clone) for online retailers about 3 weeks ago. Traffic has been okay, and we have a fair number of sign-ups for the trial. We've only had 2 ...
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Concentrated course on Social Media in top schools
Are there any top or mid level schools that offer an MBA degree with a concentration on Social Media, SEO, etc.?
I would like to also know whether theses concentrated courses would also include ...
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Looking for a social network to deploy my concept
I have (yet another) concept for social media (don't worry, it's cooler than all the other ones). And I am looking for ideas about where to deploy it first. The market group is 18-35 yr olds who are ...
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The network effect: your best friend - your worst enemy
The network effect is the thing that makes certain products or services useless until everybody is on board. But once everybody is on board then said product or service becomes very useful.
Case in ...
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What term is the business world equivalent to the term “social media”? (Or help us coin the term right here!)
My business will provide an automated “tool” that can be used as part of the pre-sales/pre-purchase process. A by-product of using this tool is the creation of a network of buyers and sellers. (In ...
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How To Get Featured in the Media
For my new startup, I've tried contacting numerous blogs, newspapers, news channels, and other media channels to help feature my startup.
I've written kind, catchy, short, and to the point emails to ...
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DMCA for Startup Social Media sites
I will be launching a social media website very soon that will include user generated content like video, and images.
It is my understanding that sites based around user generated content draw many ...
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Best way to do Social Media Management?
I am aware that the use of social media is a must for most of the companies. When it is about my start up, what is the best way to manage them? In the beginning I will take care of them but thinking ...
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How to start spread the fire
I've gotten a page up and running. It's some what appealing but not the best in the world. I am wondering how I can start spreading the word, fire, using Facebook.
I've gotten the site up, I've ...
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Whats better for Social Media Marketing? Facebook Share or Facebook like?
I am trying to collect numbers, to show how many people like my idea. I am thinking of making the website viral. I want to make it so, that when one person likes/share the site, other people see it ...
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Outsourcing “product development” for Tech startups
what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing "product development" eg new social media website project?
