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Tech Support *is* sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When your customers expect a turd sandwich and you deliver a turkey club with chipotle mayonnaise, you earn major bonus points, like users twittering about your service , people switching to your service because of tech support, or customers not only following your Tweets but instructing their followers to do the same.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. Banks in other countries saw what was happening in Turkey and quickly followed with their own deployments using our software.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States and traditionally, most families make a turkey for dinner. Why a jewelry startup had to build enterprise software to survive - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Compare that to views in other countries, like Turkey, which averages 1.13 The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. views per person). views per person. According to SimilarWeb, only 15.7%

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

And as I like to say, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” In some ways having seen these trends before and being a bit more mature (code for I’m 47) I think I feel just a little bit less pressure than I did when I was younger. One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. Year in, year out.

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If you’re in the cloud you really need a parachute

VC Adventure

More and more people and companies are freeing themselves from the constraints of desktop software and captive data stores in favor of cloud based applications and the freedom of readily (and always) available data. The trick was switching cold turkey one day and learning the shortcut keys. Simply put, my new set-up ROCKS!

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Satisfying Your Customers Need for Speed Today

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And generally speaking, people expect a reply within four hours for everything except for email contact us form, and an online review. And then have a QR code that goes to that video like do it, you know, message it better. They can never, they never have Turkey.