Marketing Questions

I've seen startups launch without one and fizzled until they reached out. What kind of details are important? Who do you reach out to? How do you get their attention? What are some dos and don'ts?

Marketing

asked Oct 10 '09 at 14:20

Van Nguyen
482 points

After I have my service up and running, with some private beta testers enthusiastic about the service, how to announce it publicly? What resources are available, what are the avenues, to make...

Marketing

asked Oct 10 '09 at 14:47

Remus Rusanu
3 points

You have a product alpha. How do you discover who are the customers for your product?

Marketing Sales

asked Oct 10 '09 at 17:49

Alexandre Gomes
95 points

Basically for purposes of marketing and product research we need access to data about the internet: what are people talking about, number of users in India, demographic patterns, conversations...

Marketing Data Request

asked Oct 10 '09 at 18:38

Sid6376
6 points

I am interested in creating an online service for the genealogy (family history) market. But I have no idea how you go about researching the size of a potential market. How would you discover the...

Marketing

asked Oct 10 '09 at 23:01

Phil Wright
131 points

When startups launch a new web site or application, and initially have no customers, what is the best way to attract customers to the site? SEO? Adwords? Word of mouth?

Marketing Strategy

asked Oct 10 '09 at 23:55

Alex Black
196 points

In this economic climate, competition for jobs is stiff. What should a smart, hardworking recent graduate of a business school program do to try to get a job that will give him the experience he...

Marketing Sales Hiring

asked Oct 11 '09 at 02:18

Jason Evanish
83 points

You have just released your product into the market and you want to start to get the word out there. What are 3 things that you think every startup should be doing to build traction?

Marketing Technology

asked Oct 11 '09 at 05:50

Usman Sheikh
1,728 points

What other resources are available to learn about metrics in general and other topics such as segmentation, conversion, KPI etc. Dave McClure has a good presentation up on...

Marketing

asked Oct 11 '09 at 07:01

Tsummit
116 points

There is tons of information on how to market products to people, but I have found little information on how to market to businesses. I have yet to see anyone translate the web 2.0 hype to B2B...

Marketing B2B

asked Oct 11 '09 at 15:45

Ron Ga
2,181 points

Is there a copyright infringment problem if you send an email with links pointing to other people's content.

Marketing

asked Oct 12 '09 at 01:34

Anup
547 points

In order to test interest in a product, I've been told that it's useful to use AdWords. What's the best way to maximize the usefulness of AdWords. How do I measure whether or not an idea is useful?...

Marketing Adwords Products Management Ideas

asked Oct 10 '09 at 13:10

Van Nguyen
482 points

At what point should I consider a contest as a strategy to get people to visit my business or website? What are the ways to track the ROI for this type of marketing?

Marketing Contests ROI

asked Oct 10 '09 at 10:08

Blizzard Digital
83 points

Our startup is PubliciTweet. We're like a Constant Contact for Twitter. While in public beta the service is completely free. We are most interested in acquiring more users than setting up payment...

Marketing Bootstrapped Funding

asked Oct 10 '09 at 07:22

Jaisen
28 points

I've read a lot of times in the retail world where the $49.95 (or $49.99) style pricing actually increases sales vs. just making it a round figure like $50. Has anyone tried this for a...

Pricing Marketing Sales

asked Oct 10 '09 at 03:59

Dharmesh Shah
2,865 points