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.

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Focus Group for marketing how and effectiveness (Boot Strapped)?

I'm a B2C start up bootstraping. I'm working on a software product and am looking for techniques to talk with my hopeful customers. Working a real time dictionary solution that integrates and...

asked Nov 3 '10 at 01:22
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John Bogrand
2,210 points

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3 Answers
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How do you use web data with heuristics to group customers

I've read a few blogs on identifying a customer type from how they get onto your page. I'm not familar with these techniques but the implications I find intriguing and would like to incorporate...

asked Nov 4 '10 at 12:40
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John Bogrand
2,210 points

4 Votes
6 Answers
3.84K Views
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...

asked Nov 5 '10 at 08:22
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Scott Griffis
23 points

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6 Answers
3.06K Views
Web Design Startup India -- Feel Alone & Depressed

I just started a new web design & SEO company in India. For now we are targeting US, UK clients only.. so no personal meeting only email marketing stuff. Most often I feel very alone and some...

asked Oct 12 '10 at 01:25
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Kashish
95 points

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2 Answers
3.34K Views
Recommend a company for promo pens?

I'm looking for a legitimate/affordable/responsive company to order some promo pens from (with our logo etc). I've found http://www.pens.com/pens/ via Google, they look legit, but I thought I'd...

asked Oct 13 '10 at 10:37
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Roman M
106 points

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3 Answers
2.49K Views
How can we pivot our startup?

Our idea mixes social with ecommerce, and we work with retailers to introduce social throughout the buying process. However, we're not seeing adoption because -- and we guess -- people just don't...

asked Oct 14 '10 at 15:51
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Alvin Tan
30 points

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3 Answers
2.48K Views
Qualities Your Web design & Internet Marketing Company Must Have

Everyone want to have a website now but few of them prefer to outsource to companies in India, China etc but few want to get work done in their country, someone nearby. Do you prefer to outsource...

asked Oct 17 '10 at 04:04
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Kashish
95 points

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3.75K Views
"Invite your Friends" feature - best practices

We're in the process of adding an "invite your friends" feature to our dating site, and I was wondering if anybody has any tips/past experience in the best way to utilize the invites. Here's what I...

asked Oct 20 '10 at 06:35
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Sherif Buzz
462 points

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3 Answers
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Budget video solutions: looking to make a quality video on a small budget

I'm looking to have a professional quality video made of my company's mobile application. My company already did this once before I came on board and apparently it carried a staggering $400-500...

asked Oct 22 '10 at 05:46
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Mike N.
6 points

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2 Answers
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How do you determine which online marketing tools/applications to use?

So you want to do marketing for your company. You've created a marketing plan and want to implement it. How do you determine which applications/vendors to use? For example, for email marketing and...

asked Sep 26 '10 at 04:11
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Chris
4,214 points

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2 Answers
2.87K Views
How do daily deals or coupons website handle marketing?

I'm developing a startup website like groupon.com for daily deals. I'm located in Nigeria and I have my system developed already. I started marketing it myself, but this business model seems to be...

asked Sep 26 '10 at 05:54
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Stanley
59 points

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2 Answers
3K Views
Marketing benefits of participating in BizSpark program

Microsoft BizSpark proposal for startups is undoubtedly great. Software provided by this program is huge help for a company working with Microsoft development stack. It is for sure. But I'd like...

asked Sep 27 '10 at 03:54
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Rem
352 points

4 Votes
3 Answers
3.35K Views
Marketing budget for web startups

Any good read or advice on budgeting marketing for web startups.

asked Sep 30 '10 at 08:15
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Jewelthief
151 points

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2.83K Views
What's the best way to give away $25 amazon gift vouchers?

I would like to give away $25 Amazon gift vouchers as a strategy to get people to use my bootstrapped startup. What's the best way to give the vouchers away? I would like to give them to the first...

asked Oct 3 '10 at 00:35
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Venturesocially.Com
241 points

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2 Answers
2.71K Views
How do I convince a client to use a computerised accounting system?

This is marketing question but don't know where to ask it. My possible client is relying in traditional manual accounting system. I want to convince him to use acomputerised accounting system. As...

asked Oct 6 '10 at 07:05
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Kool Kabin
106 points

6 Votes
4 Answers
4.1K Views
How do you handle the "how many customers do you have?" question when you are a start up?

So when you have little customer and I mean one what do you do when you are asked the question how many customers do you have and can you provide customer references when you are a start up?

asked Oct 8 '10 at 04:29
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Stacey
484 points

2 Votes
2 Answers
3.51K Views
What is considered a "good" click through ratio on Facebook Ads?

I've been running ads on Facebook for a few months and have seem a good stream of traffic from there. I'm running a niche dating site, and here's my average CTR : Females 0.5% (0.5 click for every...

asked Oct 9 '10 at 01:15
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Sherif Buzz
462 points

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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

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

1 Votes
4 Answers
2.51K 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