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Re:Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing by ekianjo on Thursday November 07, 2013 @02:17AM (#6688080)
Just one thing I wanted to add. If anyone has a startup idea "Marketing as a Service", HN is probably a good place to start your service since we see this as a regular need: people making applications they have no clue how to market. There's probably a ton of unmet needs in this field.
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Re:Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing by RyanZAG on Thursday November 07, 2013 @02:30AM (#6688129)
Lots of people have had that idea, but it doesn't work because you just end up with "Sales as a Service" to use your words.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6686977

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Re:Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing by kreilly on Thursday November 07, 2013 @08:56AM (#6689274)
Marketing as a service has been around for years. They are called Ad Agencies.
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Re:Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing by ekianjo on Thursday November 07, 2013 @09:38AM (#6689506)
That's not really what I meant. Ad agencies only do a very tiny part of what I call Marketing. If you think that's only it, you are reducing Marketing to a very small chunk of what it actually is.
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Re:Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing by melindajb on Thursday November 07, 2013 @01:47PM (#6691462)
As a marketer who is also a founder I'd love to hear more about your idea.
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