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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art. The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). For example, approximately one-half of the art market worldwide is auction sales. The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Stretch your imagination and it is not hard to come up with some super-clever nudges that incorporate aggregate non-PII information that is public. Direct competitor comparisons. But you get the idea.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Developing Web content (both the design and underlying code) (copyright, trademark).

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. Facebook works. The case study seemed to contain a rookie mistake.

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

Overall, I spent about 1/3 of my time looking at Web 2.0 Today, thanks to Eloqua , CMOs have a clear visibility on their return allowing them to better allocate their budget and sales people can prioritize prospects to maximize their effectiveness. sales and marketing. (10). ► 2011. (2). Watch this! Online Gaming.

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Is crowdfunding legal?

Startup Company Lawyer

On April 23, 2012, the SEC published guidance reminding issuers that “any offers or sale of securities purporting to rely on the crowdfunding exemption would be unlawful under federal securities laws” until the SEC adopts new rules. Most importantly, the crowdfunding provisions of the JOBS Act are not yet effective.

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