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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. We're better at SEO and social media. Well 80% of the folks I meet tell me they're way better than average at SEO, Twitter, and "building communities" whateverthehell that means. Social media and SEO is ever-changing quicksand.

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SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups

sharkseo.com

[link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

And in 1M/1M, we're trying to short circuit their process of learning and maturing into successful, seasoned entrepreneurs by teaching them things that they need to know, and augmenting their rolodex (or lack thereof) by putting ours to work on their behalf to help recruit customers, channel partners, and investors. Rangrut.com.

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36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage

blog.traindom.com

The Atlantic Technology Channel (thanks Alexis) 39. Reply Alexis Madrigal says: October 4, 2010 at 8:01 pm Don’t forget your good friends at The Atlantic Technology Channel. Did you happen to use any of the free social media press release sites? YouNoodle 33. Lovely Pages 34. Generation-y Startup 35. TechPluto 36.

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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

Up and Running

Of course, in the internet age, that means reading a ton of current articles and online blogs covering Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content marketing, and social media marketing. The first place I recommend spending some time learning about SEO is YouTube. Resources for the first-time, do-it-yourself online marketer.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging

ReadWriteStart

By using social media to spread the word, this free site currently lists over 10,000 service providers, ranging from hairdressers to personal trainers to piano teachers. We discussed marketing, advertising and direct marketing agencies as being the best channel partners for him. I recommend he picks three categories to focus on.

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