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John Donovan of AT&T says that getting credit isn’t as important as assembling and leading the best team.
How to find and interview potential customers - LaunchBit
For more tips and resources on starting a web business without coding, visit LaunchBit. The Boston Lean Startup Circle , run by John Prendergast , Abby Fichtner , and Matthew Mamet , is really awesome -- always new stuff to learn there. So, if you haven't attended before, you should definitely go. Or, check out a Lean Startup Circle meetup in your local area.
chris dixon's blog / SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
Google seems to be doing everything it can to improve its algorithms so that the best content rises to the top (the recent “panda” update seems to be a step forward). But there are many billions of dollars and tens of thousands of people working to game SEO. And for now, at least, high-quality content seems to be losing. Until that changes, startups – who generally have small teams, small budgets, and the scruples to avoid black-hat tactics – should no longer consider SEO a viable marketing strategy. The web economy (ecommerce + advertising) is a multi-hundred billion dollar market.
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Here are his ten tips for marketing on Twitter:
Twitter Influence - Guy Kawasaki at SES NYC
Social media and customer service – some examples | FreshNetwork
Dell is an example of ‘bad turned good’ and has moved from its period of ‘Dell Hell’ to being perhaps one of the best example of businesses having an integrated approach to social media. We discussed in the workshop the case of how Dell make $3 million on Twitter , and how their forums are so well used that peers are solving others’ problems and saving Dell significant amounts of money on support costs. United Airlines . Finally we looked at the ‘ugly’ example of United Airlines and what happened when Dave Carroll had his $3,500 guitar broken on his way to a gig with his band Sons of Maxwell. He started to produce music videos about United Airlines which have each now been viewed by up to six million people. Virgin Trains.
Lessons Learned: Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedba
If you subscribe to the theory of the minimum viable product , the answer is: only enough to get meaningful feedback from early adopters. Sometimes the best way to do this is to put up a public beta and drive a limited amount of traffic to it. But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one.
Seth's Blog: How to lose an argument online
The best way to get someone annoyed and then have them ignore you is to bypass any thoughtful discussion of facts and instead question what's in it for the person on the other end.
