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Test Your Aptitude for Business Internet Jargon

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. No SEM plan means you are missing a huge marketing opportunity. " Examples include give-aways, contests, and celebrity stunts that grab attention.

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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing. Viral marketing costs real money, but is often worth it. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews. Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Nor to achieve the greatest “virality” in our digital campaigns. These require integrating Social CRM systems with both customer and non-customer facing processes such as the following: Customer service processes – eg call centre, conflict resolutions, technical support. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boston University’s business incubator has produced numerous success stories, including HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals with two drugs in Stage 2 clinical development to treat blood disorders and viral-related cancers, as well as Modular Genetics, a biotechnology company focused on sustainable gene engineering. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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How to Keep Starting a Business from Ruining a Friendship

ReadWriteStart

Mitch saw this as an opportunity to build a successful business, and I came on to offer technical support,” Dunkle explains. “We Since Plenty of Twenties launched in September 2011, the site has gone viral and given more than $6,000 to perfect strangers by hiding $20 bills all over the country. so Mitch could pursue an MBA.”.

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Startup tips: 5 great tools for freelancers (and small businesses)

crowdSPRING Blog

It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Two great resources are Salesforce and Zoho.com.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

For this product, I later realized that I was the software architect, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, the database administrator, the systems administrator, the QA engineer, and lastly I was the only technical support guy. The product eventually became bigger and bigger and more difficult to maintain.