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Cheap Ways Validate Your App Idea And Get Early Users

YoungUpstarts

Landing Page + AdWords Campaign. credit and launch your campaign. Similar to AdWords campaign, use your landing page and submit it to startup directories like Betali.st Many mobile entrepreneurs got their first customers through direct emailing. Set up a simple coming soon page with a mail subscription form (e.g.

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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

It wasn’t that long ago that web-savvy marketers were touting the advances in technology that allowed anyone to build a website, publish a blog, or embark on a social media campaign. Parents are putting their kids’ sports schedules on custom mobile apps. The advent of mobile platforms has rendered all of those tools passé.

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5 Tech Business Ideas You Can Start Fresh Out Of College

The Startup Magazine

A dynamic skill that’s easy to learn without formal instruction is mobile application development. People spend an average of four hours per day on their mobile devices , making smartphone users a reliable and influential base of potential customers. Create Smartphone Apps.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. He’s a natural leader, appropriately competitive, very customer focused and a pleasure to work with. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

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Should You Build a Mobile App or a Website for Your Startup?

Up and Running

Conduct a series of customer interviews, browse online industry reports, or invest in professional market research. Use data to understand your customer and their online behavior. You will have to compete for customer’s attention with other businesses. Gather more statistics about your current customers.

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How AI Creates a Highly Engaged Customer Base

The Startup Magazine

One such benefit is meeting the customer halfway to give them a personalized and enjoyable consumer experience. When entrepreneurs achieve this, they’re far more likely to stimulate an engaged customer base that’s connected with their brand. The Struggle to Engage Customers. Without trust, customers won’t engage.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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