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Start Your Marketplace Engines

Genuine VC

The most often I’ve seen this approach work is through a fostering community of sellers, where these sellers find benefit in just interacting with each other. It’s perhaps an older example, but Bitpipe ( sold to TechTarget in 2004 ) did just that in becoming the largest distributor of IT white-papers which attracted CIO buyers.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004. Quality of Life in the Game Industry: Challenges and Best Practices " white paper. Community Chapters. Here is a collected list of documents I have either quoted from or consulted extensively. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada.

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Demand Generation: 7 Tactics to Fuel Your Funnel

ConversionXL

The information needed to make decisions is all around them: in their communities, at events, and at the end of a Google search. Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. It uses marketing to raise brand awareness and get people excited about your products or services.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

lincolnmurphy is probably the expert on Freemium in SaaS and he wrote a brilliant white paper on the subject- you should check it out! Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. Justin #14 Eugene Mandel on 08.18.10 They have something around 20 employees.