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How to transform a free trial user to a paying one?
We are a B2B web company, which offers a tool for online sellers ( amazon, ebay ).
Since we got more and more free trial user, our ratio from trial to paying ( which was before near 80% ) got back ...
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How to approach SEO for a new website?
We have just launched (yesterday actually!) a website for our startup - providing mobile and Facebook app development services. Sales will totally drive from leads generated from the website. ...
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Sensible pricing options for a tiered translation service on retainer? Or - how do I add value more without exhausting myself? [closed]
I’m an English man living in Germany.
As a side line, I offer German to English translation, interpreting and language lessons.
These do not provide a steady income, so I’d like to offer a service ...
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Need guidance/suggestion on tough situation
We gave a free product trial for 2 months with our first potential client. It is a unique product, there's a great learning process and we have had an amazing response from both students and tutors.
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How to scale a startup?
We build a profitable startup In 2 years without any outside investment we are building enterprise software(and producing hardware) for Customer Service Improvement in different ...
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How can a bootstrapped startup start to expand sales without outside funding?
So I have a bootstraped startup that's starting to get some traction. A little background: we make a classroom recording appliance that works with fixed positioned cameras in classrooms to record and ...
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A customer gives a very low counteroffer for my service, how should I react?
I resigned from my former job and begin to prepare my international trade business. Since it probably will take me a lot of time before I make a profit, I also provide language ...
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What should be the first steps in developing leads for a start up?
I have a high tech software start up B2B ...I know in my industry that competitors market through blogs, webinars, seo, associations, broadcast emails etc... I am targeting the Canadian Small to ...
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A/B testing a price point
Is it legally/ethically bad to run a split test on the price point of your product?
Temporary coupons don't test the right things and introduce other variables into the experiment, and changing the ...
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How do you know what industry to choose?
My technology is at the early adopter phase of the market and most players have horizontal focuses into many verticals. Occasionally you see one competitor that has taken a vertifcal focus into one ...
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What are the pros and cons of repackaging our saas product as an OEM product?
We've started beta testing our WordonWiki software. WordonWiki is a Wiki with all the features you'd expect from a wiki, but it lets you create and edit pages with MS Word.
We're getting good ...
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How do I create a successful Email campaign?
I'm trying to figure out the best way of sending out an email campaign to alert potential customers about my desktop software application for fostering agencies and organizations.
I have looked at ...
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How best to deal with a rising Canadian dollar value for a software company?
My software company is in Canada. We sell our software for download from our web-site. Most of our sales are made in the US, though we do about %25 of our business in Canada and Europe. We sell our ...
