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6 Keys to Attracting Customers Based On Social Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, these days, I am seeing overwhelming evidence that customer buying decisions, especially with consumers, are often based on emotional and psychological factors , including passions from others, your experience, and social relationships. Nurture relationships with popular social influencers.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” Who are the customers? Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? will you leverage?

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How to Successfully Engage With Your Customers Online

Up and Running

Bringing in customers is important. Holding onto those same customers is even more crucial. Which is where customer engagement comes into play. Which can be disastrous if you’re delivering different messages or even a misaligned tone through every channel. This is why you need to develop a customer engagement strategy.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? While Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have found ways to monetise their platforms, many are still figuring out ways to connect the social web with the corporate wallet.

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The Planned Iteration Startup Launch Minimizes Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Your strategy today should be to define and excellently prepare the absolute minimum product that will excite a selected small segment of your intended customers, and roll it out to them – as a Beta, early promotion, or even a give-away. Find customers, partners and channels early. Use social networking to start the wave.

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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you’ve gotten 100 customers you can probably get another 100 in a similar way. One way to understand why 2x is plausible but 20x requires innovation, is to observe that the actions that got you your first 10 customers are probably not sufficient for generating 100, even though they’re probably sufficient for getting another 10.