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Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels

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The Lean Startup movement provides a wonderful template, and Ross wrote a great post in which he discussed how managers can use these principles in their own marketing campaigns. We have written about many tactics that have worked in our own marketing efforts, such as public relations , goal-setting , branding , etc.

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Crowdsourcing: a 7+7 Primer (Pt. 1)

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We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. If you are going the build-it-yourself approach careful use of social media tools, public relations, and other word-of-mouth tactics can help you to attract the right workers to participate.

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Introverts Make Great Leaders – crowdspring.co/1yhmaS5.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction.

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

Every startup will use some kind of software: book keeping, word processing, presentation. “You do not need to buy that expensive office software and servers when you can switch to a cloud vendor-Google is an example-at a fraction of the cost,” says Ali Asadi of aprofitmaker.com. Review your operating expenses.

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Twitter Link Roundup #173 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seven Rules for Managing Creative People | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #77 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The original post is in the Random Fun section below.