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.

2 Votes
5 Answers
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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,...

asked Dec 18 '10 at 04:30
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Donald
136 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.92K Views
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....

asked Dec 18 '10 at 14:09
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Trippy
106 points

2 Votes
7 Answers
3.39K Views
What's the best sales book you've ever read?

Any recommendation? Is sale a process to deliver comfort which is declared in the book "E-myth revisited"?

asked Dec 19 '10 at 16:11
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Steven
1 point

4 Votes
5 Answers
2.97K Views
What was the last book you read?

Possible Duplicate: What books do you recommend? Being an entrepreneur, we may need to learn from books. What was the last book you read? To me, it was "Founders at work".

asked Dec 20 '10 at 00:30
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Steven
1 point

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.5K Views
How To Market A Service/Product That Has Never Been Available Before

I'm in the process of building an online service that is primarily focussed on businesses. I can't go in to too much detail about it, but it's a piece of software that would be used by people who...

asked Dec 23 '10 at 00:40
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Mickburkejnr
111 points

2 Votes
4 Answers
3.45K Views
How do I attract visitors to a free web app/social site on a low budget?

I've been working on a site. It started as a side project to teach myself a bunch of things but now that it's live I'd really like to pump some life into it. Functionality is limited; basically,...

asked Dec 23 '10 at 04:11
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Sergi Papaseit
113 points

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4 Answers
2.93K Views
Testing a product before making it?

What do You call testing a product before it is made with a 'fake' website, that measures how many people actually click on the 'buy' button?

asked Dec 27 '10 at 18:06
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Domas Monkus
1 point

8 Votes
10 Answers
6.77K Views
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. We built a highly scalable, dynamic career site 100% dedicated to the IT industry and are ready to...

asked Dec 27 '10 at 19:46
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Donald
136 points

1 Votes
2 Answers
2.34K Views
Do research firms benefit startups?

If a startup sells into IT departments, is it beneficial for that startup to enter into a relationship with IT research and advisory firms like Forrester, Gartner, etc.? Do these firms bring...

asked Dec 29 '10 at 06:36
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Matt
16 points

1 Votes
3 Answers
2.39K Views
Building a twitter feed of links for my site's demographic

I'd like to build an RSS feed for my website's twitter. It would be a feed of links that interest my user demographic-- college students.. the links would be funny, informative, interesting, etc....

asked Dec 30 '10 at 11:32
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Babonk
143 points

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2 Answers
2.61K Views
Suggestion for my eCommerce business. [Selling developed software]

I have developed few software products for micro to small businesses and a security product. I want to market these products but I can't spend much on paid online marketing. I am noticing that...

asked Dec 30 '10 at 18:44
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Rpk
208 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
2.65K Views
can-spam advice, are these messages transactional, relationship or commercial?

I'm running a dating site and as the volume of emails is growing dramatically, I want to be 200% sure that I am can-spam compliant. Here is the types of emails that I send and how I classify them...

asked Dec 6 '10 at 21:31
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Sherif Buzz
462 points

4 Votes
2 Answers
2.98K Views
Cheap alternative to Performable

I love the concept of www.performable.com however pricing is ridiculously expensive for a small-medium startups. Is there any cheap alternative for Performable? I'm actually interested in...

asked Dec 8 '10 at 06:00
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The Dictator
2,305 points

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2 Answers
2.37K Views
Seeking tips on using competitions to promote a website

We are considering running a competition to promote the use of our website. We run a directory style site full of acting talent. We want to promote to advertising agencies and encourage them to...

asked Dec 9 '10 at 21:51
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James Kennedy
76 points

26 Votes
21 Answers
13.2K Views
Why do developers/techies avoid salespeople?

Over the past several months, we've been expanding our marketing efforts to include developers and other techies. One thing we've noticed is that these front-line folks don't want to talk. At...

asked Dec 10 '10 at 11:39
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Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

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3 Answers
2.51K Views
What industry/field are going to change the world during next decade?

What's your opinion? Will it still be the Information technology?

asked Dec 10 '10 at 19:15
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Steven
1 point

4 Votes
6 Answers
3.38K Views
How do you get developers/engineers to engage salespeople?

The other day, I asked Why do developers/techies avoid salespeople, and found some great insight. To sum up the answers on the question, it's a matter of introversion and arrogance. So how does...

asked Dec 11 '10 at 08:06
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Alex Papadimoulis
5,901 points

2 Votes
3 Answers
2.23K Views
How important do you think the domain of a web/mobile game is?

Say you have a game (we'll call it Widgetville) that is web based and will also be extended to mobile devices. But "widgetville.com" is taken. So your main domain would be something like...

asked Dec 14 '10 at 14:51
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Shpigford
146 points

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3 Answers
2.27K Views
If you have a single vertical strategy, but now want to go to other verticals- where do you start?

Say you have a productline which is ony being offered in one vertical and with some success. Now when you want to exapnd and want to diversify into another unrelated vertical - 1) What gotchas...

asked Dec 15 '10 at 15:24
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Paroon Chadha
61 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
3.16K Views
How did you promote awareness about your website startups? And what kind of results did you see?

I have a site which is currently in Beta that I plan to start heavily marketing in January. I wanted to get people's approaches on how they marketed their websites and their ROI (return on their...

asked Dec 15 '10 at 17:19
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John
161 points