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Right time to partner with a bigger player?
I am launching my website in a month ( it gives local products info) . I was toying with the idea of partnering with a big classified ad website to show their classified ad results on my website to as ...
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Creating a maintaining followers of a brand [closed]
I read that creating communities are key to sustainability of a website. Big site like FB, google, started with a small community in this case the univ students.
I thought since I will be ...
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Promoting a startup website in early stages - help? [closed]
I am starting a website consisting of a info on products in the city and the best shops.
Now when I start out, such that in the early stage I want to aim at having little, but steady traffic
so I ...
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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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When a huge company copies your startup
What do you do when a huge online company (as dominant as say Google, Apple, Microsoft etc in their respective niche) has a big feature that's been lacking in their very popular product, and your ...
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Marketing in absense of portfolio of projects for a software start-up.
I am starting a mobile/web development outsourcing company. My development team (currently 4 developers) is moving to my starup from our prev. company, that worked in IT, but not in SD outsourcing.
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How to sell advertising space on the website during initial stages?
I'm building a web application for an academic community. I'm relying on advertisements as the revenue model for my business. My website is currently in its very initial stage so, how can I get the ...
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Publicising the business-plan?
Being a libertarian, I am completely honest with all my business-transactions, business-offerings and partnerships.
From a marketing perspective, would it be beneficial to post my business-plan on ...
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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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How to sell advertising-space on my website?
I have an idea for a website which I think will generate traffic. I want to put the material itself on the website but minimize taking care of the advertising which is how it's supposed to generate ...
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Strategy- How to make a single time visitor into a frequent visitor of your website? User engagement
Strategy- How to make a single time visitor into a frequent visitor?
I know subscribing is one of the many options for user engagement and frequent visits by users.
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How to post a request for site review on Hacker News?
A few people have suggested in different answers and on a couple of different blog posts I've read recently that it is a good idea to put your beta site on Hacker News, for example:
If you have a ...
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seeding content for a web 2.0 site
so you've built a great web 2.0 system....the system works great....but you need to seed it with content so that it reaches that critical mass....the question is how do you do it?
so...what are some ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages to entrust to a third party an application development?
I am quite experienced in the field of Web Projects and I have a capital (500.000 $). "I am planning"\"I would like" to create a "great" Web site and I noticed that I have two choices:
assign the ...
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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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Crowd Sourcing/Social networks: What drives user?
I am working on the business model for a web start-up idea.
The premise of the idea involves feedback generation for a brand/customer service, crowd-sourcing and social networking among ...
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It's a very new concept and struggling to convince the world in 3 seconds- help?
We have a very unique platform - connecting people by analyzing their wishes, worries, desires & dreams. People are not used to it, but when we speak then people get it. People spend 3 seconds on ...
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What are the options for running online B2B Surveys?
We have not launched yet, so we have no customers. We are a B2B company.
I have used www.kickfu.com for B2C surveys: it's cheap and quick. What are the best options for online B2B surveys?
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Should we tag our new website as 'beta'?
What does tagging your new website as 'beta' say to your potential customers. We intend a 'soft' launch to our website and are not planning any significant marketing at this period. We intend to use ...
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Question about timeline for our company [closed]
So we launched our website almost exactly one and a half months ago. We have about 900 unique visitors in that time. Not nearly as many as we all would have hoped, but hey, it's still early, and we ...
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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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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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Should I create Company or Product website?
For a startup company with 1 product which website will be more beneficial? Should I create website that concentrates on a product or my company?
My software targets transportation/trucking industry ...
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What to put in an about us page when you are one-man startup?
Most of the about us page puts the purpose of the startup, then the team, background of company, etc. But when you are just one person, no office, and sometimes history of the company is not so ...
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Need simple pre-launch website to attract mgmt. team, investors, and co-marketing alliances
I am looking for a simple website solution for my pre-launch (and pre-funding) start-up to do the following:
Introduce the business without totally giving the concept away.
Have a web address as a ...
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How to do marketing for a shopping comparison site like shopzilla?
Google Adwords or any other?
A website like shopzilla.com, how to do marketing ?
by the way , anyone know how does shopzilla do the marketing?
thanks.
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Finding an appropriate website investor
If somebody has a website idea and make the website successfully (not on paper) and the local market is good (idea succeed) but he cannot extend the market because of management, finance and marketing ...
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Crowdsourced logo and web design work. Recent experiences? Site you'd recommend?
I'm at a fairly established startup, and we need our logo and look/feel overhauled. I'm thinking about using a crowdsourced design site, along the lines of 99designs. Lots of similar sites now exist. ...
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How to target multiple areas from your website
I run a software company and that means in theory any software-project is something we could do... in practice not quite but still the range is very wide. However simply advertising online as a ...
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What can I do to optimize B2B sales conversions on my website?
I just redesigned my website and it's cluttered with information but it's all information I feel necessary to include so I think I need a second opinion.
What should I change about my website to make ...
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I got a grant for my idea but now want to go out on my own. How will investors perceive this?
I applied for a grant to create a website that will 'save the world'. The grant-giving organization gave me a choice: take the grant which would fund the first two months (hiring a web developer), ...
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Web 2.0 marketing strategy tips that is not about SEO
Every single website marketing strategy tips that I find on the Internet virtually all talk about some sort of SEO technique.
Yes, SEO is important, we know this already. Now, has anyone actually ...
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Group Buy Business Startup Tips
Is there anyone that has experience with some groopon like applications (clones) and would like to share with me their experience?. I am just a programmer and I don't have much experience with ...
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Show competitors prices on e-commerce site, legal issues?
I am starting an ecommerce site selling electronics in the UK. I belive I can compete with price against others in this field, and was considering have a 'price compare' table on the product pages ...
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How to redirect to another website with tracking?
Our website promotes a web-based application that's actually on another site (in the ebay.com apps center). When someone hits the "sign up" button on our website, it implements a redirect as it takes ...
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How to find the correct keywords for your product?
I understand the marketing basics on keywords and the use of tools like Google Insight, Keyword traffic estimator, and others.
My concern comes from a product that people usually don't search for. ...
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Getting more customers for a resume writing service
I have a website providing online resume and cover letter services (resumesquare.com). I have used various inbound marketing techniques like Facebook, Linkedin, bulk email, Yahoo Groups, freelancing ...
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New web app - testing and pricing
We are almost done with a new HRD&M web application for pre-selecting the best fit candidates for a given position.
What we still need is some real-life test cases, design and content for ...
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How to get users enganged and active in a new website?
Me and my team are working on an online project where people can give away unwanted stuff and get stuff they are looking for.
The problem is that from my experience people tend to get engaged in ...
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What makes a Successful Web Site Launch?
What are the 5 must-do basic things to have a shot at being marginally successful on a first day web site launch? The measure of success is defined (in our case) as at least having:
1) 50000 hits on ...
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How to Resolve a classic Chicken and Egg Dilemma?
My team and I are facing the classic Chicken/Egg dilemma and need help resolving this issue. So here we go: We built a highly scalable, dynamic Career site 100% dedicated to to the IT Industry and ...
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I spent thousands of dollars creating a website. Now what?
What do I do next with a website I developed?
A little background. A few years back, I discovered there is no web directory of free email newsletters. However, virtually every organization of any ...
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How to gain members, contributers, and a community
In the next year or so I am opening up a website that targets coders and designers. Some features will be a blog (or blogs), categories to submit stuff and also a forum to help build a community.
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How to make a Web Site Profitable?
We built a high quality, scalable and well put together Career based web application that caters to the IT/Tech industry. It is designed to compete with the best and biggest (think Dice.com, ...
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Need a top firm for help with Marketing of software solutions
We have done marketing internally for several years. Now we have multiple markets and multiple new products, so need to get some professional help to scale things up and catchup.
I am looking for a ...
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How sites like formspring can earn money
I want to make a new site like formspring , but different idea . I didn't see any Ads or any advertising methods in these site . How they can they earn money from the site .
What's the best ...
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How do I attract users to an empty website so that they can add content?
I have started a website that I believe will be very useful, however it requires the public to report their own experiences. The problem is that when people visit the site they see that it doesn't ...
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Should testimonial negatively reference a competitor?
A new customer told me my product "Does an excellent job and handles our data much faster than ." The customer said I could use this as a testimonial on my website, but should I remove the name of the ...
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Do you go for the Quality or Quantity approach in your social media activities?
How many social network profiles should I have and in how many groups should I participate? What is your approach?
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New Classified Ads - Free or Not Free?
I've develop a job portal with classified (Sell and Buy), due to the nature of spam or duplicate ads issue found in other popular classified sites - mocca.com by Mediacorp, should the ads still be ...
