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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. We're better at SEO and social media. Well 80% of the folks I meet tell me they're way better than average at SEO, Twitter, and "building communities" whateverthehell that means. Social media and SEO is ever-changing quicksand. Can't be true, right?

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Cash flow is a matter of life or death when bootstrapped and pre-funding.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

And in 1M/1M, we're trying to short circuit their process of learning and maturing into successful, seasoned entrepreneurs by teaching them things that they need to know, and augmenting their rolodex (or lack thereof) by putting ours to work on their behalf to help recruit customers, channel partners, and investors. Rangrut.com.

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Strategy Roundtable: Spotlight On Jacksonville, Florida

ReadWriteStart

I reviewed Tim's financial assumptions, and advised him to redo them with the assumption that the team would have to bootstrap the business locally, get enough validation, etc., To make a case of the business he proposes, he would have to, somehow, channel the search traffic from Google to his site. SustanAbin.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

A few years ago, this is where you would sink all your hard earned bootstrap cash – but these days our friends at Amazon have given you a bunch of free hosting and space to get your next venture launched at no cost. Many social channels are free to use and help to drive traffic and sales. Step 3: Infrastructure and technology stack.

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Solving the "marketplace" business model

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

At the same time, they also run television ads (with celebrities), are expert at SEO and AdWords, built a user-friendly web site, and do tech support for consumers. To see this done right, consider Threadless , a bootstrapped marketplace matching people seeking unique T-shirts with people who invent them. Solve the seller side first.

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36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage

blog.traindom.com

The Atlantic Technology Channel (thanks Alexis) 39. Reply Alexis Madrigal says: October 4, 2010 at 8:01 pm Don’t forget your good friends at The Atlantic Technology Channel. Reply SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups | Shark SEO says: November 19, 2010 at 10:04 am [.] YouNoodle 33. Lovely Pages 34.