Marketing Questions
I was wondering if it's a good idea to build awarness and inform potential customers about your service by starting a discussion(thread) in a niche forum. is it? Any do's and don'ts you could...
Just curious how people feel about business names. Do you think the name of a company composed of the last names of the owners is "old fashion" (i.e Brown-Smith Web Services, Johnson-Nixon I.T....
If you are a startup that is just about to launch your product/service are there steps that every startup should take to form a solid foundation for their marketing outreach strategy? What were...
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We've had a few good unsolicited articles written about us over the past few weeks which have driven quite a lot of traffic our way. We have noticed that many of them don't use great screenshots,...
I'm a big believer of "release early, release often" but what's the limit? Our software Traditional - Desktop software We are new but already got many clients Updates requires about 15-30...
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I have made a simple sales web page to generate leads for my new business. One problem I think I have is that the current web page tries to be "all things to all visitors", when in actuality I...
A makerting company has approached me to ask to do "RON" marketing on our site. I assume this involves us hosting some adverts. Is this correct? How does this work? What are typical pricing models?
I recently launched a Q&A language site (powered by StackExchange just like answers.onstartups.com) as a side project. Now that it's gaining noticeable interest, I am looking forward to push it...
What's the best practices to send a follow up email after the user's trial version expires? What questions to ask? Is a short survey good idea or an email which asks a generic feedback better? Is...
I recently saw a video with Jeff Bezos saying (to paraphrase) "with the internet you should spend much more time on making a great product that can market itself.". I have spent (an unbalanced)...
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Just outsource tasks, projects or services,etc, to other companies or individuals through internet.
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This is my website, Tenxian.com. We have very few users right now. How can I market/promote it? Any good ideas?
My last product, initially targeted at graphic designers, found a sweet spot with small business owners that struggled with FTP and who were looking for a drop-in replacement for their FTP server...
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I have a list of potential customers who I must 'interrupt' in order to get their attention. I have a website where they can join a mailing list, but for one reason or another my potential...
I created a twitter crowdsourcing contest to get some tagline help and raise pre-launch awareness (build a great tagline and get an iPhone). http://roadbud.com/iphone-contest/ The problem is, I'm...
We're set to interview Seth Godin (Linchpin, Tribes, Permission Marketing, Purple Cow and other bestselling business books) 2/24. If you've read any of Seth's books, especially his latest,...
My website is about "Crowdsourcing", a platform to make money or outsource your tasks, projects, problems,etc. www.tenxian.com. Is there any good software that can assist me in writing a business...
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Let's say a small software company has a product which can help several very large key players within the industry sell far more of their products. Let us also assume that these corporate giants...
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We have a lite version of our desktop software and many features have been removed in this version. What's the best way to tell people we have those features but they can't access because it's the...
I'm trying to get some clicks from Google Adwords. I'm quite new to it, what's the reasonable CPC? I noticed that my ads are not showing and I think it's about my CPC budget. To me over $2 CPC is...
