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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire – crowdspring.co/1jrrtm7. 15 Useful Bootstrap Tools and Generators for Web Developers | DJDESIGNERLAB – crowdspring.co/1iDkMPO.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Richard Burner, Goals Marketing ! #2- Your investment can be worth it since micro-influencers are prone to being more engaged with their smaller following, which helps them build more personal interactions and connections that can be more influential than other marketing strategies. Thanks to Nick Chernets, Data for SEO ! #17-

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Transformify

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You will work closely with our Digital Marketing Execs to deliver digital content on time. As well as producing content for our clients, you will be responsible for our internal website and marketing material. Understanding of SEO Experience of mobile application development frameworks and technology. Requirements.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Myths, Best Practices, SEO & Usability Tips – crowdspring.co/1kY1LHR. Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers - crowdspring.co/1kY1Qey.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. This can be used to either skyrocket a company’s sales or identify market gaps.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 23, 2023

You might be hiring a person for marketing or HR, but would this person be willing to dabble in the responsibilities of another position? Use Organic Marketing Your business isn’t going to grow reliably unless you employ some kind of marketing or advertising strategy. Focus on versatile picks. Or another department?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Marketing Without Strategy is the Noise Before Failure – [link]. 9 Step SEO Checkup Using Google Webmaster Tools – [link]. Bootstrapping is Bullshit – [link].

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Spencer Fry

MAY 11, 2011

A quick Google search for "bootstrap marketing" brings up a bunch of useless nonsense. The results are either in the form of "Top 10 Bootstrap Marketing Tips" or "Bootstrap Marketing 101" guides. Let Your Users Market For You. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is unquestionably a first step.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Marketing: Website Design Best Practices and Tips – [link]. Small Business Marketing: Website Design Best Practices and Tips – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

They offer improved SEO, maximized revenue and ROI with ads and landing pages, higher performance, and richer UX— all while providing flexibility and major results. Learn more about Roberto’s history with coding and ROBOAMP’s new product that will change email marketing as we know it. Who would you like to meet?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor]. He didn't just "tell it like it is," he gave up his marketing secrets and opened his company books.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 9, 2012

So should you hire an expert to run your SEO campaigns? But that doesn't mean you can't still achieve reasonable SEO results on a DIY basis. There are lots of things you have to learn when you start a business and SEO should be one of those.". So Brick Marketing now runs one-day workshops for startups on a budget.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. What drove you to seek out content marketing as a growth solution? Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

by Taylor Ryan , head of marketing at GenieBelt. For instance, their branding may seem snazzier than yours; their marketing budgets may seem larger than yours etc. 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Practical Strategies For Starting A Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve Hoffman. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Steve Hoffman, also known as Captain Hoff. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

From a narrow niche of IT professionals who were our early target market, we now have a wide variety of customers.”. On a macro level, one of the most daunting challenges was the prospect of entering a market with a fairly large entrenched player. Don’t try to be everything to everyone right away. Find your niche(s).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

a pile of content-free marketing buzzwords. Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. In my opinion SEO is the same way. If you're doing SEO as one of ten tactics to get people to show up to your site, that's great. Like with SEO for lead-gen, you still do it, but it's not your only means of lead-gen.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

When I started marketing my first webapp almost two years ago, I started the way I imagine most people do: online. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. I didn’t know much about marketing and I hadn’t prepared for the kind of lead time necessary to be effective. Someday he’d like to work for himself.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We went on to do some market research and survey our peers to gain feedback on our ideas. What expanded our clientele was our dedication to our brand and creative marketing. One of our marketing strategies was to partner with an underwear company, and have models do deliveries in the underwear. Why don’t they have any security?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I pointed Zubair to a couple of case studies of bootstrapping using services to get more of his core product built; in parallel, I will help him pursue institutional funding. But when I found out that Rajeev is a computer engineer, I suggested to him to build a cost-effective SEO services firm, which would be more interesting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Pick any 5 successful software companies you’d like from one-person microISVs up to the largest and trace how their market focus, product, marketing etc. Q: You spent two years working on StartupToDo before bringing it to market. Jason, you’re right: social media marketing takes lots of time.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., Again, here is a piece of wisdom for all of you who are blogging and doing e-commerce simultaneously: you need to build up SEO leverage ON your e-commerce site, so be sure to bring the blog onto the main site, not leave it off someplace else by itself. Very encouraging! Discuss.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

We determined that we could best monetize the business by focusing on online marketing, particularly our pay-per-click services. Today, Yodle monetizes its online marketing solution as a one stop shop for small businesses. Because we bootstrapped, the biggest challenge right out of the gate was getting customers on board fast.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 19, 2014

I’m finding many business advantagesb in this world for a group of websites I am building to bootstrap a few “baby startups” in areas I’m already interested in – #travel, #classic-cars, #SaaS #Art sales, #techjobs, etc. It’s a somewhat different world than the VC funded startup world that is my day job.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I catch up with Brian and we just talk about a whole host of things. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Transcript of The Key to Success? Transcript.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

In addition, there is significant work to do on market sizing and go-to-market strategy. Direct selling simply is not the right solution for bringing this product to market. This is the domain of PPC and SEO, and the market is very competitive, buying extremely expensive. pay2pitch.com. SustanAbin.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This applies to bootstrapped companies. 1: Choosing a Market with Funded Competition. I’ve seen first-hand how funded competition can crush a bootstrapping company. And your search engine rankings drop as competitors hire high-end SEO firms. 5: Choosing an Idea with a Two-Sided Market. AdWords go from $.50

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

“Marketing sources have a half-life.&#. Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). Given the above we can gather some interesting realizations: Realization #1: If you’re bootstrapping, don’t plan to advertise. I read this quote a few weeks ago.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 10, 2010

It's a "marketplace" in that they "create a market" in which sellers connect with buyers because eBay provides a sufficient quantity of both. At the same time, they also run television ads (with celebrities), are expert at SEO and AdWords, built a user-friendly web site, and do tech support for consumers. (I won't spoil the surprise!).

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

We have a marketing coordinator who helps get our voice heard as well as listens to and communicates with voices talking about and to us. SEO is crucial as well. We also believe in old school marketing — fliers, posters, street teaming and outreach to editors and media gatekeepers. MC: We are activate on all of these.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Lead generation marketers capitalize on the interest demand generation creates. Demand generation is about creating demand.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

We have a marketing coordinator who helps get our voice heard as well as listens to and communicates with voices talking about and to us. SEO is crucial as well. We also believe in old school marketing — fliers, posters, street teaming and outreach to editors and media gatekeepers. MC: We are activate on all of these.

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Technical Review Equity SBA Software Review 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K. Of course, a word of caution is also in order here.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Doing your homework on your competition is essential to making any sort of significant marketing or positioning decisions. How do you plan on pricing your services (and how does that pricing compare to your market at large). Tasks such as marketing, freelancing, link-building and many others do not necessarily require full-time talent.

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Intellectual Property Due Diligence Startup Social Media 109

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

Often your best estimate of any metric or market behavior or business model component is at best accurate within a power of ten, for example “expected conversion rate between 0.5% Question: How big does this company’s target market need to be? Bigger markets make things easier. So what can be shifted?

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