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Founder Interview: Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of SoStereo, Marketing with Music

The Startup Magazine

We give brands and creative agencies an easy and affordable way to access real music by real artists for their branded content and campaigns. They had been licensing music from major artists, and while they loved the impact those campaigns created, they didn’t always have those kinds of budgets. I would also put culture in the top 3.

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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m often surprised when you as an aspiring entrepreneur, looking for investors, tell me your solution is so innovative that you don’t have to worry about differentiating it from competitors, and customers will flock to it without a real marketing campaign. I now use them exclusively. Target most relevant customer segments first.

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

Both Sides of the Table

The closest analogy I have for a PS person is a “sales engineer” who is normally a technical staff member who assists in sales campaigns. It also is a great way to finance your business without facing dilution before you actually raise venture capital and when the valuation you might get from angels is less than you’d want.

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Is Crowdfunding for Startups a Good Idea?

ReadWriteStart

While these fees may seem reasonable at first glance, they can add up quickly and significantly impact the amount of capital that the startup receives from the crowdfunding campaign. A campaign should only be used if your product has a “viral” quality to it. The crowdfunding act itself becomes a marketing strategy.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction. Whereas New York City has very high real estate costs and very high salaries, launching in Chicago and D.C.

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How to Create an Effective Branding Campaign That Inspires a Movement

ConversionXL

In this article, you’ll learn what’s required to create a branding campaign that strikes the right chord. We’ll look at the importance of strategy and cover the key ingredients a campaign needs to increase brand awareness. It’s also why campaigns can’t ever be led by gimmicks. But we can indirectly influence them. Image source.

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How Hashtags Can Supercharge Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

They rely on your own marketing to build momentum instead of piggybacking off of an established trending topic or campaign. Coke’s #ShareACoke campaign and Charmin’s #TweetFromTheSeat are examples of tremendously successful hashtag campaigns. These hashtags require a bit more work to get off the ground.