Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 10, 2010

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. But at first your marketplace won't be large, so to get started you have to deliver value even though you're small. Typically P is small, so N has to be really big.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

IM Creator is gaining speed on its Israeli competitor Wix.com to become a leading WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) web design website. Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. mo or $5.95/mo mo or $5.95/mo

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Sales and marketing costs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books – crowdspring.co/1f1zOfD. 21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Last up, Adarsh Jain pitched Fippy, a Web-based interface offering consumers customized mobile phone numbers in India. As presented, this is a classic nice to have, but not a must have business. Initially I thought he was targeting young Indian consumers, but then he started discussing small business owners.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This article is a guest post by Dan Norris, founder of Web Control Room. The reality for most bootstrapped web startups is that you have time – but you don’t have money. Here are 2 charts from Web Control Room which show my last 30 days worth of traffic from my top 10 traffic strategies. Traffic strategy 1.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Of course, in the internet age, that means reading a ton of current articles and online blogs covering Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content marketing, and social media marketing. The first place I recommend spending some time learning about SEO is YouTube. See Also: 20 Marketing Tools Every Small Business Owner Should Try.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Few things have changed – rush hour is still insanely busy, but at least nobody is moving logs through the center of the city. 1lNUUDJ - crowdspring.co/1lNUWLN.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 17, 2021

And knowing that my work can have a positive impact motivates me to grow my business every day. As a small business owner, self-confidence can change your perspective in any situation. Having launched my bootstrap startup earlier this year my motivation to grow the business is to get beyond the initial MVP/ POC stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” Josh Slone: Yeah, it’s very important to both be where your customers are, but then also have all those things in the easiest to understand format for business owners and marketers. So how does the small business owner take that level of sophistication really tapping into behavior? John Jantsch: Okay.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The reality for most bootstrapped web startups is that you have time – but you don’t have money. My web app, Informly is a simple live dashboard that reports on your business performance showing charts from a number of services (MailChimp, Analytics etc). Ignore most SEO advice.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. process in detail. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. process in detail. This is her core market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Marketing: Website Design Best Practices and Tips – [link]. Small Business Marketing: Website Design Best Practices and Tips – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And when I start companies now, and I know a lot of listeners are listening here who are run small businesses, when you don't have a huge amount of money for marketing budgets, for example, I'm the perfect person to come in and work with you because I know how to be resourceful cause I had no money. Should you bootstrap?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. Our existing web design and development agencies had gotten most of our clients through word of mouth.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5 I loved small business owners and their stories of success. If I can put it in a few words, I started my business to bring real change to the way small businesses and freelancers manage their accounting. Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #6

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. Our existing web design and development agencies had gotten most of our clients through word of mouth.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In this article I will take you beyond the traditional funding sources and show you that it is possible to fund your idea by operating a successful side business. Bootstrapping your business. There isn’t one way to bootstrap your business—and this can be both a positive and a negative. Let’s begin.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

[link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. From Nothing To Something.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Insightful.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Domains.Co.

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