Promotion Questions

I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?

Marketing Launch Ecommerce Promotion

asked Jul 17 '11 at 18:09

Bold Rusty
11 points

I have an online store which sells baby products. Thankfully, some customers have already bought my products, although my startup is just 2 months old. One of my plans is to make my customers come...

Ecommerce Customers Promotion

asked Jul 8 '11 at 13:28

Kalingga
245 points

I'm getting ready to "relaunch" my site. The site currently sells royalty-free Silverlight controls by independent developers (sort of an iStockPhoto business model). I'm working on a massive...

Marketing Promotion

asked Jun 21 '11 at 00:55

Steve Wortham
287 points

I created a flash app. A service or a game - it does not matter. Advertising takes a lot of money and not always effective, it is desirable that my app promote itself. Task - to create in the app...

Marketing Saas Promotion

asked May 27 '11 at 01:05

Astraport
186 points

I'd like to run a prize based promotion in the USA -- and looking for suggestions on legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required to execute one. Yes, I know there are lots of...

Legal USA Promotion Legal Documents

asked Jun 3 '11 at 10:06

Blunders .
899 points

My company is in a niche with over 11 million potential customers, yet we have a little less than 100k customers currently. Given that we currently spend $0.00 in marketing (we focused on...

Marketing Planning Advertising Promotion

asked May 19 '11 at 10:34

John
23 points

The web is full of gallery websites for CSS design. e.g: http://www.css-showcase.com http://www.cssmania.com http://www.awwwards.com Is there such a thing for startups?

Resources Promotion

asked May 7 '11 at 21:22

Cherouvim
219 points

I am a programmer and have been developing a web app to facilitate appointment scheduling in my spare time. My target customer is a professional or a small business owner working on a well defined...

Marketing Promotion

asked Apr 26 '11 at 18:43

Lollercoaster
6 points

I recently set up an open-source infrastructure for Obix. Obix is a new, object-oriented programming language designed to help people writing more reliable code in less time. More information can...

Recruiting Community Open Source Promotion People

asked Apr 20 '11 at 17:05

Christian Neumanns
11 points

suppose a web 2.0 startup has completed its product and is trying to launch it...what are some of the most effective ways to promote the product that is specific to a web 2.0 model (ie. users come...

Marketing Web 2.0 Web Promotion

asked Mar 31 '11 at 05:45

Kamikaze Pilot
253 points

I have an early-stage site that I think is pretty good. I won't put the link here because I don't want to seem like spam. But the link is in my bio. While I have been able to get some attention to...

Marketing PR Promotion

asked Mar 27 '11 at 08:26

Genadinik
1,821 points

I'm about to launch a new web startup in less than a month. It'll be a freemium web application which will offer a Facebook-related service with various pricing plans. I'm still a bit unsure on...

Promotion

asked Feb 11 '11 at 23:57

The Coding Monk
163 points

I've just found out that I will be presenting my startup, mokabla at an Entrepreneur event in ATL in less than a week. There will be about 200 people attending. Since this event doesn't have...

Marketing Contests Swag Promotion

asked Feb 18 '11 at 14:39

Shaymus
176 points

As I work on finishing up the final details for my start-up. I wanted to know if anyone here setup pilot programs for their first few customers at discounted rates or for free for a limited period...

Launch Promotion

asked Jan 31 '11 at 17:35

John
161 points

I'm launching a new Q&A community and was wondering how specific a market I should target while seeding and promoting the site in its early stages. If the ultimate goal is for it to become the...

Marketing Launch Community Promotion

asked Jan 19 '11 at 03:09

Zakgottlieb
103 points

I'm a couple of months away from releasing my gradebook app for teachers, and will need a good promotional video. I'm bootstrapped and don't have much cash. Any suggestions? I can make a decent...

Advertising Video Promotion

asked Dec 20 '10 at 05:22

Riley
193 points

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,...

Marketing Traffic Promotion Web App

asked Dec 23 '10 at 04:11

Sergi Papaseit
113 points

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...

Marketing Promotion

asked Dec 9 '10 at 21:51

James Kennedy
76 points

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...

Marketing Swag Logo Promotion

asked Oct 13 '10 at 10:37

Roman M
106 points

This is a pretty trivial question but I'd be interested in your opinions. Would you include post-nominal letters and/or other qualifications on your business cards? Do you think it's overly...

Subjective Promotion

asked Oct 3 '10 at 02:45

Dan Dyer
657 points