Looking for interesting techniques, tips, experiences, etc. on different approaches to FB ads. Do they work? How successful were they? What level of creativity was involved in any ads that were run? All the ads I see are pretty bad, but if it was something unique that peak someones interest, would it make them click through?
Looking for good ways to find outsourced iphone development for our startup to build off an API that we have built for our HTML5 mobile web app. How much would that cost??
That said, they might not be able to totally define how the product will be received in the market, but they might be right on the money about customer acquisition and sales strategy. The main feedback was to have a lower cost and more scalable sales and acquisition model. This is why a product pivot may be a good start, because the product in development now might not be able to successfully find a good fit with customer and sales strategies.
However, not having the MVP out there to understand how users interact makes a product pivot question harder to address.
When is a pivot necessary? Before the MVP because of feedback on a demo? To help formulate an easier customer acquisition and sales strategy?
I see a lot of great business owners thanking patrons for visiting or tweeting about them on Twitter. Here is an example from a local business (Bocktown Beer & Grill) in Pittsburgh.@bocktown tweeted: "Thanks for the visits & tweets tonight from @jdprose @BrooklineBetty @tomtutty @enophiledude #craftbeer posse"Would you engage more with local businesses or talk about a business on...
I am wondering how startups in the past have marketed "in store" apps/software. By "in store" I mean, startups that are creating products that are used/bought by businesses, but also revolve around having the customers of those businesses as users of the app/software. How or what are some successful marketing plays that get the original vision of the founders across to users in a great way so...
I have learned more about pricing stuff from you than I hoped! Thanks for the valuable insight. I have one more question that does not apply to you and Freckle directly now, but I was wondering if you could share some thoughts on it anyway. Before launching a product, how important is it to have a marketing page visible on our website?
Let's just compare these two services and the somewhat different take they have between the tiers of pricing.
http://www.chompstack.com/pricing/
-only differentiation is if you need 11 restaurant. The upsell is only $15.
-Freckle obviously plays better with the "idiot package" by upselling 10 more accounts instead of 1 restaurant like chompstack
They both had different pricing strategies I see when sorting through the tiers: -Chompstack just went up $15 each tier -Freckle doubled each time instead of sticking with a fixed rate
Any feedback on those thoughts?
When you are making up a freemium business model pricing plan, what is a good way to come up with the difference in prices between each tier? It obviously has to include features that entice a buyer to pay more for the product, but what level of price increase is too much?
Looking for a discussion around some different successful or unsuccessful customer acquisition tactics (anything from viral to complete busts) that startups have implemented after a beta release of your MVP.
Anyone have any recommendations for sites or software that our small startup could use to control internal finances/accounting that would compare to quickbooks?
With foursquare closing its round of funding, I was wondering what the HN community thought that foursquare could do to innovate and cross the chasm into a more widespread adoption (especially with Facebook looming). All us early adopters love it, but are there any cool ideas they could play on? LooptStar is doing some interesting things with getting into the loyalty rewards before...
Now that foursquare received such a nice round of funding, what is the HN community thinking as far as cool things that foursquare could do in the space? Geo-location is turning into a white-hot market and with Facebook looming, what cool innovative things could foursquare do to cross that chasm into appealing to a mainstream audience? Looptstar is doing some cool things with getting into the...