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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

His analytics product links back to online coupons used, for example, to help restaurants see what did or did not work and plan for future promotions. And by regularly adding to their online content, restaurants will also find them organically through SEO.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

A few years ago, this is where you would sink all your hard earned bootstrap cash – but these days our friends at Amazon have given you a bunch of free hosting and space to get your next venture launched at no cost. The ability to drive user demand for your product through data analytics and testing to improve its conversion rate.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

SEO is crucial as well. We’ve bootstrapped since we launching. We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! and Trip Advisor and we have a presence on YouTube. Everything in our studio runs off iPads.

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“Why give up that much equity for an amount we could raise other ways?:” SMB Tech Talk from ArtJamz

Hunter Walker

SEO is crucial as well. We’ve bootstrapped since we launching. We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! and Trip Advisor and we have a presence on YouTube. Everything in our studio runs off iPads.

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Your Traffic Sources Have a Half-Life

Software By Rob

To understand the idea of traffic half-life, look at this Google Analytics screen shot from 6 weeks ago for traffic coming from Hacker News : Notice the spike and the decay. Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). Very rapid. It doesn’t sustain at all.

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Take Care Of These 6 Must-Do’s Before Getting Too Deep Into The Startup “Grind”

YoungUpstarts

Unless you have some serious startup capital, chances are you’re going to want to bootstrap as much as you possibly can. Building up an organic presence is a good start, as is publishing your own educational materials for the search of influence and SEO. Figure Out Your Budget. Determine What You’re Going to Sell.

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Case Study: 13 Pre-Launch Traffic Strategies for Startups (Part 1 of 3)

Software By Rob

The reality for most bootstrapped web startups is that you have time – but you don’t have money. My web app, Web Control Room is a simple live dashboard that reports on your business performance showing charts from a number of services (MailChimp, Analytics etc). Start with Google Analytics Custom Segments.

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