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Critical Marketing For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Building a professional website, user-friendly site is a somewhat more complicated undertaking, but is absolutely crucial for any business wishing to operate in the digital world. If you choose not to hire a professional web developer for your site design, consider some of the business websites that you have visited as a customer.

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Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups

crowdSPRING Blog

Other marketers recommend that small businesses and startups build a website or optimize their existing website , develop email lists, start blogging, and develop newsletters. Build a community, support them, leverage them. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. 3) Facebook. 8) Angry Birds.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

mashable.com

Anyone in the community can edit posts and frequent users are allowed to vote irrelevant questions off the site. PartnerUp If you have a question that can be expressed in fewer than 140 characters, the PartnerUp community will likely have an answer. Has anybody else used this site yet? I have been so focused on traditional mediums.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

mashable.com

There’s also a searchable service section with advice on logo design, website development and a service request board if you prefer that providers come to you. Pros: There’s no registration required, and the site maintains a sizable community of experienced coders who are up for side projects. What will you find here?

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

You can get more sign-ups using viral techniques. The dating website mentioned above leveraged user’s imported email contacts to get more sign-ups, for every 100 email contacts imported, they got 10 new users (10% conversion rate). I’m going to have to try this one day.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.