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Does Your Business Have a TV Show?

Duct Tape Marketing

written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. If you watch any television at all, chances are you’ve stumbled across one of the many reality TV shows that turn the day-to-day drama of a small business into prime time entertainment.

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e(verywhere)-Commerce

This is going to be BIG.

Closely just launched at DEMO this week and is the natural evolution of group buying and discount sites—allowing retailers to run these deals on their own in front of their own audiences. I’m sure at some point, the best of these deals will be syndicated to Homerun , Groupon, Buywithme, etc., Enter Closely.

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7 Examples of Effective Cross-selling (and Why They Work)

ConversionXL

For example, a two-person partnership probably doesn’t want to be cross-sold a demo for an enterprise-level company. But they might want to read a customer story on how you helped a small business succeed. With a case study, they may be better primed for you to sell them an add-on to help them scale.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

One Codebase, Endless Possibilities: Real HTML5 Hacking — [link] [link] joemccann Blatant self promotion: If you’re coming to SXSWi I’ll be giving a talk with demos using Phonegap, Titanium and other HTML5 tools to build cross-platform applications from a single codebase. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

company has to be more than small and newly founded to be astartup. There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. No, not generally.A

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

Can we put our demo video on the launchrock page? But what you CAN do is put in the notification bar at the top with a link to your demo video. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. startupcto

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

For us, we threw together a fun, one-minute video of us acting out a live version of our product that we tacked on to the beginning of our boring product demo video. link] Accelerator Program Applications: 7 Common Mistakes | Accounting and Small Business /Beverly Shares [.] pior é que o empreendedor-deus também erra.