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1 Votes
2 Answers
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Meeting with a Payroll Processing Service - What to Ask

I own an Internet business. I've been in business for a couple of years now and I'm doing pretty well - but the workload is becoming too much to handle on my own. I recently moved out of my home...

asked Aug 27 '10 at 00:40
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Steampunk
166 points

37 Votes
11 Answers
8.41K Views
Sites where you can promote your startup?

What are the best sites or blogs to freely promote or prompt reviews for your new startup? (Except well-know sites like TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and so on ... or other sites where you don't have...

asked Aug 27 '10 at 00:11
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Ekvador
189 points

1 Votes
8 Answers
3.66K Views
Typical Pay or am I being taken advantage of

I have an internship for a small engineering company in the USA. I have been working about three years now. What started as an internship turned into a full-out job, and I have worked to take a...

asked Aug 26 '10 at 16:16
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User4070
8 points

5 Votes
3 Answers
3.11K Views
Can you recommend one (or two) book(s) that will explain the process of creating a startup with three cofounders?

I'm not sure quite how to explain this because I'm so new to it all. I've searched this site, as well as google, for books or online resources on how to start a startup and I'm still struggling to...

asked Aug 26 '10 at 14:11
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Beachrunnerjoe
319 points

5 Votes
4 Answers
3.3K Views
How much do you worry about keywords when blogging?

I'm relatively new to blogging - only been doing it for a few months. The common advice is to make your posts keyword rich for high search engine ranking. But I don't normally worry too much about...

asked Aug 26 '10 at 08:10
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Zuly Gonzalez
9,194 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
4.89K Views
Selling through VARs and Systems Integrators

We're developing an extension to a commercial open source enterprise software product. Most customers of the product we're extending buy it trough one of its system integration partners. To reach...

asked Aug 26 '10 at 05:33
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Jonas H.
108 points

1 Votes
5 Answers
2.83K Views
Hosting Options for a Review Site

I am part of a start up site that will review restaurants. We are in the process of finding the right hosting provider. What would be the option for an application like ours? We want the...

asked Aug 25 '10 at 13:09
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Emon
106 points

3 Votes
3 Answers
2.5K Views
What is the difference between advertising and marketing?

What is the difference between advertising and marketing?

asked Aug 25 '10 at 12:00
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Steven
1 point

1 Votes
4 Answers
2.52K Views
What is the best way to gain access to my attorney's client list?

Ok, slightly controversial headline - but at least, it got your attention. An associate of mine is an attorney. I used to work with him in the past, but have not made contact with him over the...

asked Aug 25 '10 at 00:46
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Morpheous
236 points

6 Votes
10 Answers
3.91K Views
What is the best book on marketing you have ever read?

What is the best book on marketing you have ever read?

asked Aug 24 '10 at 21:23
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Steven
1 point

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.29K Views
Marketing my website

I have a website which aims to let people meet and talk together based on subjects they are interested in. However I am having trouble marketing it! I admit that I am not a marketer guy, so if you...

asked Aug 24 '10 at 05:07
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Zys
121 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
2.84K Views
What would you do if you only had 3 months in SF?

For the last 4 years my partner and I have been building and running our online business based in Dublin, Ireland. A couple of months ago we decided to make a move to San Francisco in an effort to...

asked Aug 23 '10 at 19:29
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James Kennedy
76 points

3 Votes
4 Answers
2.65K Views
Starting New School Revenue Streams

Hey guys, it's me again. As was to be expected, I've run into funding problems with Idea School. The quality teachers I'm looking for are worth about $50-60K per year. Now, of course, they...

asked Aug 23 '10 at 04:26
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Ryan Chatterton
921 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.73K Views
What's the difference between others linking to you and a backlink?

I've been reading up about SEO that emphasizes the importance of backlinks. It appears that I can find out the backlinks by doing a google search using the syntax link:www.mysite.com My question...

asked Aug 21 '10 at 23:39
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User2306
232 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.53K Views
Talking to the head office

So as I said in my business idea. We will let users "buy" items using virtual credits, which they can earn in contests and from other activities. Again, people in the area like the idea, and some...

asked Aug 21 '10 at 22:08
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Bhargav Patel
784 points

0 Votes
4 Answers
3.38K Views
Are there companies outhere that we can outsource PR, inbound marketing and general marketing/promo/sales work to?

We are small bootup startup. We recently launched a MVP website. Marketing is generally, 'not our bag' and we would like to seek the help of someone/an entity that specializes in this field, to...

asked Aug 21 '10 at 16:37
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Morpheous
236 points

3 Votes
6 Answers
6.14K Views
What's a good conversion rate?

Ideally 100% :), but realistically, what should I expect a decent conversion rate to be? 20%? 2%? 0.2%?

asked Aug 21 '10 at 14:08
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Deb
314 points

6 Votes
3 Answers
2.71K Views
How to research about an application before doing it?

I am planning to make an application to digitalize and organize documents a company, or forum, etc may have. The first thing that came to my mind was about how i should look around for possible...

asked Aug 20 '10 at 16:18
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Prix
133 points

5 Votes
1 Answers
2.97K Views
Field Service Management

I need to manage going door-to-door to 700 properties. I need to be able to account for each property whether they require my service. Then I will need to provide that service every 2 weeks. I've...

asked Aug 19 '10 at 22:26
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Jeffrey Hicks
313 points

12 Votes
3 Answers
2.45K Views
Should we dare to "enter the dragon's lair" in order to promote our website?

We are a small startup, just released a MVP and are now in the promotion phase. As part of the promotion we are seeking to get the message out by writing articles on other (related) sites...

asked Aug 19 '10 at 19:46
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Morpheous
236 points