9 Effective Strategies to Get More Customers
How to get more customers? Last year we launched our first product called Hypemarks. It was a social bookmarking service aimed at meaningful discovery of links through your friends and people you care about. We were fresh graduates from college…
How to Create A KPI Dashboard
Our Story A couple of months ago, I was reading Suhail Doshi’s post on Bullshit Metrics, another name for vanity metrics. In the post, he describes the idiocy of focusing on metrics that don’t matter like new users or pageviews….
The Ultimate Guide on How to Get More Followers on Instagram
With over 100 million monthly active users, 40 million photos shared per day, 8500 likes pressed per second and 1000 comments shared per second, there is no doubt that Instagram has a huge community for your business to tap into….
How to Effectively use Social Media for Events
There is no doubt that many brands have turned to using social media to market their event to attract attendees and using social media to follow up with attendees after the event, but not many brands have tapped into using…
Improve SEO: How we increased search traffic by 2600%
This is a graph of the organic search traffic for my startup, Tint. Copied straight from google webmaster tools. In January, our splash page was getting 602 monthly visits from search. In March, it had grown to 15746 visits. An SEO improvement of 2600%! What happened in between? If…
The Ultimate Guide on How to Cold Email Effectively
Being a first time salesman responsible for acquiring customers at Tint, I had done thousands of cold emails and had the same results: emails get ignored and not knowing what to do next. After many failures, I have learned some…
9 Dead Simple Tips to Get more Twitter Followers
Here are 9 super simple tips I’ve tried and seen work to get more Twitter followers for our @tint Twitter account. 1) Use a Relevant Profile & Cover Photo The first step to get more Twitter followers is to make…
How to Make a Facebook Fan Page
Making a Facebook Page is an easy and important way for businesses to find their customers. If most of your customers are on Facebook, creating a Facebook page allows them to access your brand in seconds, while at the same…
Why You Need a Complementary Team of Different Skills When You Start a Company
This is a guest post by Bill Gross, an entrepreneur who has started over 100 companies & is the CEO of Idealab, one of the first technology incubators that creates and operates pioneering technology companies. I believe that every…
How Watching Shark Tank Helped Me Get My Startup Funded
I have to admit it: I watch Shark Tank religiously. Every Friday, instead of going out, I turn on my television and glue my eyes to the show, sometimes humming along to the Jaws-like music. Why am I addicted…