Marketing Questions

Marketing is the process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of influencing buyer behavior and/or precipitate behavioral change.

3 Votes
2 Answers
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Should I pay for blog content?

I recently created a blog asking people to discuss their missed opportunities, hoping to spark more conversation. I am getting some traffic but no one ever posts anything. As a promotion, I...

asked Sep 13 '11 at 08:50
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Keith
35 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
3.08K Views
How Do I Define and Research a Market and Estimate Market Share

Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place. In this question and answer, we will discuss place, which...

asked Aug 27 '11 at 23:45
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Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.26K Views
Thoughts on service motto

I am working on a service that makes certain aspect of project management accesible for regular stakeholders (i.e. non-techie users). I though that a motto like "[certain aspect] for mere mortals"...

asked Aug 29 '11 at 14:19
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Aku
229 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.48K Views
How do I get the word out about my SMS Reminder Service startup?

Possible Duplicate: How Do I Promote My Business I launched an online SMS appointment reminder service about 6 months ago. So far the users have been quite happy with the service and the...

asked Aug 30 '11 at 16:03
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Michael
6 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.53K Views
Head of Sales/BD/Marketing Equity Share for Prefunded Startup?

I'm considering joining a great team/early startup. Founder A engineer / mba, brought the vision. Founder B phd relevant to product C head of Product - person poached from another company very...

asked Aug 31 '11 at 12:37
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Lisa
11 points

1 Votes
1 Answers
2.43K Views
How to Find a CMO for niche products

I currently run two 3rd-party poker related SaaS and will soon launch another. Both products are very specialized and niche but there is a large demand for both products within the community. My...

asked Sep 3 '11 at 01:47
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Nextgenneo
327 points

4 Votes
5 Answers
2.74K Views
Best Way To Market Online Company

I own a company that performs computer repair and help etc online via remote support. There is no physical location for a customer to come in and drop their computer off. With that being said,...

asked Aug 18 '11 at 08:13
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James
133 points

2 Votes
1 Answers
2.13K Views
How Do You Go About Defining and Releasing a Product

Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place. For this question and answer, we will tackle your Product...

asked Aug 19 '11 at 22:04
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Jarie Bolander
11,421 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.9K Views
Affiliate Marketing Sales Statistics

How do i go about forecasting sales for a new affiliate marketing / e-commerce website? Are there any relevant statistics for this industry available for free?

asked Aug 24 '11 at 22:06
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Yoav.Aviram
108 points

1 Votes
5 Answers
4.46K Views
How to promote a cooking software?

I have a hard time getting visitors to my site where I sell a cooking software for Windows. I'm still improving it by SEO (especially the english version is far from perfect) but suppose that will...

asked Aug 25 '11 at 21:25
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Amenti
167 points

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3 Answers
2.49K Views
Do I need a Market segment?

When starting a On line Retail store that uses drop-shipping services, will I still need to choose a market segment? Or can I just market and sell to anyone all over the world. I mean the...

asked Aug 11 '11 at 03:42
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I Scotts
152 points

3 Votes
1 Answers
2.57K Views
Launching Competing SaaS (how blatant can you mention your competitor)

I am launching some SaaS later next week that will be directly competing with someone who has a monopoly in the space. We will (hopefully) be cheaper, more features, better support and more...

asked Aug 11 '11 at 04:59
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Nextgenneo
327 points

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4 Answers
2.82K Views
How to Market Web Hosting

I have a question as to how to market something that's in a rather saturated market. It's a hosting company that's just getting started. Hosting's a tough nut to crack. How would you market...

asked Aug 11 '11 at 15:06
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Melanie
133 points

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4 Answers
3.25K Views
Is there a cheap way to get traffic statistics for a competitors subdomain?

I would like to find out the unique monthly traffic for a competitors subdomain. I know that compete.com does this but it is very expensive. Are there any free or less expensive tools out there...

asked Aug 11 '11 at 16:29
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Jon
6 points

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3 Answers
3.04K Views
How to attract people to attend newly established alumni event

I am orginizing an alumni event. We used to have several event but was not so successful. We now have over 100 alumni in the city of Shanghai, half of them are 30-40, half of them are over 50. How...

asked Aug 12 '11 at 23:53
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User12632
1 point

3 Votes
5 Answers
2.87K Views
Method to create a funny slogan

We're trying to develop a t-shirt slogan for out website. We're going for something funny, that doesn't even really have to do with what our site's about, just something to make people laugh and...

asked Aug 13 '11 at 05:33
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Slandau
203 points

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3 Answers
2.83K Views
Co-founder required - cut your own deal

I'm taking my first few steps in attracting a co-founder. With all the questions, comments and advice I've read concerning attracting a co-founder comes down to integrity...thee most important...

asked Aug 13 '11 at 05:34
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Donald Bailey
27 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.24K Views
How do you get your product featured on Review Articles?

I did a back-link check on my competitor and his product was featured on many authoritative websites. I've tried the similar approach by contacting bloggers of a free review copy of my product but...

asked Aug 13 '11 at 11:23
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Nick
173 points

7 Votes
4 Answers
3.41K Views
Should I email existing customers if they didn't 'opt-in' to receive email?

I have about 2000 users of my first product. When they bought (over the past 3 years), I didn't have any checkbox on my order page asking if they wanted to receive notifications or updates from my...

asked Aug 14 '11 at 20:09
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Carlton D
38 points

1 Votes
4 Answers
2.58K Views
Question about timeline for our company

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...

asked Aug 17 '11 at 05:40
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Slandau
203 points