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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Affiliate tracking? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Tracking URLs?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Is it pay-to-play? Affiliate tracking? Discount support? Free-trials? Often this ties to marketing support. In other words, you want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Tracking URLs?

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How to Win The Consumer Boredom-Span: The Key to Cutting Through Clutter

Duct Tape Marketing

At what point do those tools start making money off of that control and basically everything becomes pay to play. Alan (06:25): Yeah, I think probably the logical step for a lot of those tools will be to do some sort of pay per click or some sort of advertising. Ultimately open AI and tools like Claude will somewhat control.

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8 Reasons Why Startups Should Focus on Digital Strategies in 2017

Brandanew

Affiliate marketing still counts. Since affiliates often use methods like organic search engine optimization (SEO), e-mail marketing, paid search engine marketing (PPC – Pay Per Click), content marketing and in some sense display advertising, it’s more likely to reach a greater audience. Small investments will add up.

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EMaaS: How Email Marketing Can Be Your Agency’s Most Profitable Service

Duct Tape Marketing

With the two major platforms becoming largely pay-to-play for local businesses, email offers one of the best remaining opportunities for organic visibility — and actually makes paid visibility cheaper and more effective. Yes, I believe so strongly in Tidings that I’ve used an affiliate link!). About the Author.

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How to Build an Audience with Social Media Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

They know there are affiliate links. They know there’s pay-to-play stuff. When people share your content with like-minded groups on social media, it helps build affiliation and keeps you top-of-mind. They know that the vendor’s blog isn’t objective. These are key ingredients in building a brand people care about.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

These are all iconic leagues that people want to be involved and want to be affiliated with, so getting them on the platform first and catering to them, building that as our customer, and developing those customers was our focus. There’s almost $2 billion spent in North America on paying to play basketball.