Category: Marketing & PR (Page 4 of 9)

Smart Startups Sell Benefits, Not Features!

by Karen Milde, CEO & Co-Founder, Reframe Marketing Inc.

I don’t know how many times I have opened a startup company’s website and seen the front page covered with technical information such as how a product/service works on this and this platform, it can do this type of thing, here is a list of things it can do etc… and my cursor naturally goes to click the x button in the corner of my browser.

As the initial management team to the startup, it’s natural to push all the great features available or added to the product/service due to the amount of sweat equity that has been put into getting something off the ground.  However, keep in mind, a majority of customers are not interested in the details, they just want something that will solve their problem. If you want to provide details, just do not put all of it on the homepage. Instead, point them to other sections of the site or create a features section.

Inspiration Breathes Life Into Branding

Karen Leland

Karen Leland

by Karen Leland

One of the first things I do when I start working with new clients on their personal or business brand is to ask them to consider what mood or energy they consciously strive to bring to anything they do. In other words:

What is it that you can be counted on for in terms of your presence? Not what do you do (the description) or even the how (the mechanics) of what you do, but the way you do it.

Marketing isn’t Evil — It’s Good for You

Jeff Goldsmith

Jeff Goldsmith

by Jeff Goldsmith, Marketing Consultant

Have you ever felt distrust for the marketing department? I’ve heard it said that marketing is “evil”, “manipulation”, “spam”, and “the dark side”. Still, everyone expect results, glowing stories in the press, high quality leads, droves of downloads, viral growth. Good buzz early on in a startup can convince investors to fund a project, and perhaps that is manipulation. However, buzz is not marketing’s strongest potential contribution. The greatest good marketing can do is to clarify the core message of a company – and prove it with analytics.

Why Your Personal Brand Wants You To Take Time Off

Karen Leland

Karen Leland

by Karen Leland

I recently returned from a conference that was wall to wall with smart, successful, type A movers and shakers from the worlds of government, academia, business, entertainment, the arts, sciences, publishing and social profit.

Being around all those high-powered brains made me mindful about how our personal brands, be we small business owners or award-winning academics, can benefit from vacations and time away to rest and renew, regroup and redefine who we are today.

Top Android Market Alternative App Stores

So you’ve submitted your app to Apple’s App Store, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s NOOK and Google Play… what next?   Is that all you can do?  

Actually, there are a number of other apps stores out there than accept Android apps.  These include…

AT&T App Store
http://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId=2400458

Verizon App Store
http://developer.verizon.com/

Opera App Store
http://apps.opera.com/en_us/developers.php

GetJar
http://developer.getjar.com/

MobiHand
http://corporate.mobihand.com/developers_signup.php

AppBrian
http://www.appbrain.com/info/advertise

Five Ways to Kill Your Digital Brand

Lyne Noella

Lyne Noella

by Lyne Noella, CEO, WavePlay

Are you trying and failing in your use of social media to get your brand noticed and gain traction in the eyes of the business community potential investors?  Succeeding or failing to leverage your digital brand depends on your approach. The good news is that you have an opportunity to correct what’s not working, starting today. Here are five ways to kill your digital brand–correct any one of these pitfalls and you will begin to see results. Correct all five pitfalls and enjoy the traction that comes from being a digital branding artist.

Marketing Your App: Banner Ads vs. Bots & Human Water Armies

It’s tough to spend 6 months or longer working on an app and have it get buried in the App Store.

As a result, many app developers and startups restort hiring shady companies to boost their app’s ranking by using bots (overseas computers) and human water armies (cheap labor) to download their apps.  Both of the methods distort the App Store rankings, making it even harder for legitimate developers to get their apps into the top 50.

3 Key Steps to Launching Your Brand

by Julie Legrand, Off The Ground www.offtheground.biz

Branding is a very complex challenge. People often mistake a brand for a logo, but it’s much more than that. Often startups think branding is just an annoying thing on their “to do” list so that they just ignore it and push it off until they’re big enough for a full-time marketing team. Big mistake. Yes, branding does cost money, and to do it right, it’s a rather involved process. But it costs a lot more to rebrand later on in the game.

How to Promote Your Event on a Shoestring Budget

Lyne Noella

Lyne Noella

by Lyne Noella, CEO of WavePlay

Whether producing a single event or a series of seminars to raise visibility with customers and prospects, we all need promotions to fill the room, and traditional promotional venues such as advertising can be costly.  I’m going to assume that your topics, speakers, dates, registration fees (if any) and locations are on target. If you want to promote your events on a shoestring budget, consider these five tips:

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