A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. I had a good idea what my customers should look like.

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Campaign Software Review Brazil Conversion 272

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. Even when you have no money or very little money, get them committed to you, get investors committed, get customers committed. Like this show?

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 98

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Small business and startup issues: choosing the wrong software – [link]. crowdSPRING SmallBiz Newsletter: new 1099 rules, biz plans, building software products – [link]. 9 Step SEO Checkup Using Google Webmaster Tools – [link]. Being bad to your customers is bad for business – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. What we have taken on is hard enough.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

HW: All of the social platforms claim to help small businesses and brands amplify their voice, find their customers. We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! SEO is crucial as well. Are you active on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, etc?

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Technical Review Equity SBA Software Review 50

Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

HW: All of the social platforms claim to help small businesses and brands amplify their voice, find their customers. We further leverage mailchimp (eblasts), wordpress (website), hootesuite (social media messaging), review sites such as Yelp! SEO is crucial as well. Are you active on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, etc?

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Technical Review Equity SBA Software Review 48

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Aside from the weekly trough on Saturday there is very little fluctuation month to month (what can I say, I guess reading Software by Rob is not everyone’s favorite Saturday night activity). Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). The Interesting Part.

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Viral Software Review RSS Bootstrapping 55

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We got to thousands of customers and millions in recurring revenue. We started seeing the writing on the wall, I’d say at least a year ago where, again, you’ve got to listen to your customers.

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Community SEO Technical Review Audience 40

blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Traindom Traindom Customer Login Sign Up Affiliates Support Information Marketing Conversations 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage October 4th, 2010 § 45 Photo used under Creative Commons from theparadigmshifter So you have a new startup company and want some coverage. Killer Startups 2. Springwise 3.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review PR 63

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2017

What’s the Difference Between Small Business and Large Enterprise SEO? Big data and cloud-based software have definitely helped level the playing field for businesses of all sizes. In Search of SEO Success. Basic rules for good SEO. written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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SEO Small Business Metadata Software Review 57

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. Maybe you didn’t think it was worth it to spend $5,000 or more on a custom website, something along those lines.

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API Software Review Hosting Technical Review 220

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Just so you know, at any given point and time, there are usually several others who are competing for the same customer base. Just so you know, you will need slightly more in terms of scalability, marketing, software, sales, laws and software in order to make the business a success. You would be tempted to quit.

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Software Review Due Diligence Cofounder Bootstrapping 100

Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 41

Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. Specifically, I’m suggesting that you don’t get started by building a stand-alone subscription software (SaaS) product. all at once. Lifetime value.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 36

Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

I decided it was time to put pen to paper and lay out what I see as a repeatable path with a higher-than-normal success rate, to bootstrapping yourself to the point of quitting your job. In my case, that meant getting good at SEO with my first project, instead of trying to learn SEO, Adwords, Facebook ads, etc. all at once.

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Bootstrapping Technical Review SEO Revenue 27

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. What’s up with the Series A?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

[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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Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Clearly define how our product benefits the customer (our unique value proposition): If the visitor to your service doesn't understand exactly what the value is to them and why they should use you then they'll hit the back button. In one sentence, you should clearly define your unique value proposition for the type of customer you want.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Here’s the Data | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lLgAjK. Re/code - crowdspring.co/1embSqM. Study: Expert Content 83% More Effective Lifting Purchase Considerations Than User Reviews – crowdspring.co/1e8zfyc. Myths, Best Practices, SEO & Usability Tips – crowdspring.co/1kY1LHR.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 I was doing freelance SEO consulting for e-commerce businesses and on my first trip to Thailand fell in love with the country and the culture. Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! Image Credit: Jeff Quinn.

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Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 128

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in.

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Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link]. Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. The future of search & the death of SEO link building?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53