Marketing Questions

Netflix introduced a new way to rent DVD's. Zappos introduced a new way to buy shoes. When both ideas were just starting out, they must have seemed crazy to most. How does one take a "crazy new...

Marketing

asked Oct 26 '09 at 00:36

Ez Yz
473 points

What are your favorite websites for learning about or building effective landing pages for online advertising? How should these pages relate to your main site? I'm a software programming geek that...

Marketing Advertising Website

asked Oct 27 '09 at 07:30

D Thrasher
894 points

Its a common feature of many sites... the "Email a friend" link that sends an email to the users' friend(s). e.g. something like: Hey {friends name} , I found this great site called...

Marketing

asked Oct 27 '09 at 10:31

Scunliffe
310 points

Can I list some of our clients on our website without their knowledge or do we need any specific permission from them? I understand that it's always the best practice get a specific permission...

Marketing Legal

asked Oct 28 '09 at 21:15

The Dictator
2,305 points

We're a software startup and our app (desktop app) is basically a virtual folder manager where the virtual folders are also tags: you "place" files/folders into several virtual folders and you find...

Marketing Software

asked Oct 29 '09 at 09:55

Andrea D'intino
21 points

Where can I brainstorm to find (Different, Emotive, and Simple) stories about my small business in order to craft messages that will catch the attention of traditional media? Where do freelance...

Marketing Outsourcing Coverage

asked Oct 30 '09 at 23:39

Jeffrey Hicks
313 points

What if run a twitter campaign like so: Tweet FooBarCompanyXYZ.com for chance to win $xxx.xx Is this legal? Is there some sort of rules about sweepstakes, etc? I live in Arkansas. Do you have any...

Marketing Legal

asked Nov 1 '09 at 08:26

Jeffrey Hicks
313 points

What is the distinction between these two? In today's era it seems one overlaps each other and I'm wondering whether in a startup these roles can be covered by one person. Is it effective? Is there...

Marketing Sales

asked Nov 2 '09 at 20:46

Jpartogi
1,342 points

I'm curious if anyone has any examples to share of local businesses that have grown using social media alone. Good examples: Real Estate Agent facebook...

Marketing Web 2.0 Research Website

asked Nov 4 '09 at 12:34

Adam
446 points

If you were the owner/partner in a traditional professional services business, ie an accountant or a lawyer, how would you use internet marketing to build your practice? One path would be to run...

Marketing Location

asked Nov 4 '09 at 12:57

Adam
446 points

any good tips how to reach this particular group of people?

Marketing Research

asked Nov 5 '09 at 16:12

Ondrobaco
131 points

Within the online marketing space, a standard rule I have heard about landing pages is to limit choice. Ideally you have one page, with your sales pitch and they can either take your desired action...

Marketing Sales B2B SEO

asked Nov 6 '09 at 03:42

Adam
446 points

TweetMiner is just starting to build some buzz... http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tweetminer http://www.google.com/#q=tweetminer&hl=en&fp=1&cad=b Currently there are 1247 free...

Marketing

asked Nov 6 '09 at 08:18

Justin Vincent
176 points

My business, targetmeister.com, sells target stands for shooting. I was exclusively using Google AdWords for advertising and that has been effective, but I need more traffic/sales. Today, I signed...

Marketing Recommendations Advertising

asked Nov 6 '09 at 23:08

Clint
695 points

I'm interested in insider secrets on how to effectively launch a campaign on sites like digg or Reddit. It seems more planning/thought is required than just submitting a link to digg/reddit. Are...

Marketing Inbound Marketing

asked Nov 6 '09 at 23:25

Mathaix
510 points

I would like to determine the potential market demand for a non-software, travel product that requires significant up-front capital for manufacturing. What open source software, if any, would you...

Getting Started Marketing Technology Research

asked Oct 15 '09 at 23:47

Val Lynn
483 points

Tons of web startups are at the stage of "built it, have visitors, but need more." Compare this to similar sites created when the word "webmaster" was the buzzword of the year, that get 100-200k+...

Marketing Traffic

asked Oct 16 '09 at 03:54

Mark Bao
604 points

I don't want an ad network that puts you anywhere. I don't want dozens of ad sizes and specs to worry about. I could really use an ad service that let's me easily buy and manage the basic blog...

Marketing Blog Advertising

asked Oct 17 '09 at 07:00

Paul O'brien
521 points

How does one convince customers to spend more money for the environment? Following the inconvenient truth, global warming and raising oil prices last year, it seems that developing clean green...

Marketing Technology

asked Oct 18 '09 at 16:38

Ron Ga
2,181 points

We have an online application. Lots of people are using it but of course not everyone. My goal is understanding the recently inactive people and what I can do to make them more active. What I'm...

Marketing Web

asked Oct 20 '09 at 06:20

Chris
4,214 points