Marketing Questions

An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a product, service, or organization and its value proposition. What was the elevator pitch of Facebook when it started?...

Getting Started Marketing Ideas Business Model

asked May 20 '12 at 23:54

Anlai
375 points

i know, i know: go after large markets. the math is easier. but my business plan calls for selling an inexpensively developed but highly compelling product to a niche industry. further, the...

Marketing Startup Costs

asked May 23 '12 at 10:32

Brianb
21 points

Background: I'm a tech guy with alot of product building experience I've built and recently launched a SaaS/cloud application for a niche market, targeting small-size companies The product...

Marketing Sales Hiring

asked May 23 '12 at 11:39

Cloud Mark
125 points

Lets's say you guys had a product you sold for $20. Let's say the product was for high school football coaches. What would be the most effective way to reach the North American Market? The only...

Marketing Market Research

asked Apr 28 '12 at 10:03

Mike
11 points

Is traditional marketing (newspapers, magazines, outdoors, tv, radio..and so on) necessary for a web startup in a tough niche (travel industry)?

Marketing Web

asked Apr 30 '12 at 16:47

Daniel
118 points

How would you go about marketing to consumers a service which is free to them? If it were a product or a paid-for service you could offer discounts and things, but since its a free service you...

Marketing

asked May 1 '12 at 09:10

Blazemore
106 points

Suppose there's a site that runs a blog about computer hardware and on one of the blogs about dealing with old hardware stuff, a blog reader asks something like 'Looking for possible online sites...

Marketing Legal Ethics Internet Marketing

asked May 2 '12 at 08:59

User16659
18 points

Wouldn't I be more effective doing a marketing plan first - before working on a business plan? Everybody's working on business plans, and I know they include Market and Marketing information. But...

Marketing Business Plan

asked May 3 '12 at 22:22

Patrick Ny
300 points

We build a social network.. We're not the expert on the market stuffs but actually it's as hard as developing a new stuff.. Anyway I'm just curious about how to grow a new social network.. I know...

Getting Started Marketing

asked May 8 '12 at 18:19

Tylerdurden
131 points

I am starting a business that produces its product based on customer opinion that is collected via a website. How effective is word of mouth proliferation over online social media for spreading the...

Marketing Social

asked Apr 18 '12 at 02:54

William Ernster
1 point

I would like to hear from those folks that have gone through their initial market research and idea validation stages of their start-up and would like to share how they went about making sure their...

Marketing Ideas Customers Valuation

asked Apr 24 '12 at 12:34

Victor S
141 points

I've developed iPhone and Mac applications in the past, with reasonable success. Back then, Apple would take care of the distribution, and sales were pretty constant. I just launched a website...

Getting Started Marketing Launch

asked Apr 9 '12 at 09:38

Boopyman
113 points

I've read that the online image editor app http://www.picnik.com closes. How should a competitor react on such a message? What marketing measures are the right ones to reach users that are looking...

Marketing Competition Online

asked Apr 10 '12 at 19:40

James
16 points

I created a few applications. One of them is very good and users like it. However, I can not increase the number of installations to more than 50 per day. It is very small. The program is unique,...

Marketing Advertising Apps Android

asked Mar 26 '12 at 14:20

Astraport
186 points

We have a product which we would like to market using LinkedIn. Now I have a group of contacts(1'st connections) in LinkedIn who are our prospects. But I have never interacted with them. My...

Marketing

asked Mar 26 '12 at 20:28

Feroz
14 points

There's a truism I often hear - claiming that the less complicated the signup process for a web-service, the higher the conversion rate (as a rough measure of complexity, count mouse clicks to...

Marketing Conversion User Acquisition

asked Mar 13 '12 at 00:52

Blueberryfields
426 points

My friend and I are about to launch our website in 6 weeks. We do not have a company registered yet. We are working on full time jobs and plan to set up a company once our website launches and...

Getting Started Marketing Technology Conferences

asked Mar 14 '12 at 02:21

Raj
24 points

I'm looking to hire a experienced professional on a part-time contact basis to manage the online marketing of my smartphone app. Our focus will be social media. I've found many qualified people on...

Marketing Salary Social

asked Mar 17 '12 at 07:13

Barry Fruitman
119 points

In our tribe, every single bit of what we put on something we make has a story behind it. It has some meaning. So it takes me several days to make Indian art. I sell the art I create at pow wows...

Marketing

asked Mar 19 '12 at 09:33

Tribaldude
6 points

As the owner of a business with a Facebook "place" page I wanted to know if I could sell status/post updates to my fans to various suppliers of goods and services in the area? Having started a...

Marketing Facebook

asked Mar 21 '12 at 23:27

Jamie
6 points