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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Are they dismissable?

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. Google – we are building the world’s 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.

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Latest digital marketing trends to give a boost to your business

The Startup Magazine

It is the most mainstream marketing strategy because the everyday use of the internet and social media has become the most significant source of influencing the audience displaying the intended product. You can either pay the social networking applications to display your advertisements in video form.

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Make Pinterest Your Marketing Secret Weapon

Duct Tape Marketing

What you’ll learn if you give a listen: Why Meredith considers Pinterest to be more of a search engine than a social network. ManyChat makes it easy to have automated conversations with prospects and customers through Messenger, SMS, and email. How Pinterest can help you meet your business objectives. Follow on Pinterest.

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Tool and resource list for new founders

The Startup Toolkit

Google Keyword Planner – see how many people are searching relevant terms. Lean Domain Search – suggests all available.coms with a given keyword somewhere in the name. Instant Domain Search – quickly check specific domain availability. TextIt – create SMS applications without programming (e.g.

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3 Creative Ways to Grow Your Email List

Duct Tape Marketing

SMS : If you are someone who does a lot of presentations – both online (webinars) and in person – using an SMS short code can be an effective way to grow your email list. In November, I contacted my friend Justin Mastrengelo who owns JA.TXT – an SMS marketing software application. I also mention the “Bonus.”

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

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices.