marketing

What Kind of Knowledge is Necessary For a Permon Who Does Not Have IT Background?

One of my colleagues joined our company, which by the way is a internet company, months ago as an on-line marketing specialist. He majored English in his college and has never deeply touched IT before. He says that to be a good on-line marketing specialist he needs to lean some basic IT skills in order to deliver superb work. According ...

Whats the best way to launch and promote a mobile application

I´m looking forward to launch a mobile application for Android, iPhone and maybe other platforms like Blackberry, Symbian, ... too in the future. What do you think is the best way to promote this application? Is setting up a website; provide a screencast with the features; running ads on ad networks enough or are there other ways too ? W...

What is the official marketing name for C# 4?

What is the official marketing name for C# 4? Apress writes "Visual C# 2010 Recipes" Apress also writes "Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 platform" O'Reilly also writes "Microsoft Visual C# 2010" Jon Skeet and Scott Hanselman both write C# 4 yet Dino Esposito writes C# 4.0 this MSDN page is entitled Visual C# 2010 Samples, refers to C# 4.0, ...

Is it common or even a good idea to release source code for automated tests with a closed-source app?

Please point me to any dupes or better places to post this question that you may find. I have never sold software before, but when I put myself in my customers' shoes, I think, "I sure would like to see source code for automatic tests for any software that I buy. It would serve as awesomely detailed documentation for the software that ...

PHP Affiliate Marketing System

I'm trying to set up a system that allows members of my web site to fill out surveys or offers through affiliate links, and then reward the member's profile with points for completing the survey (assuming the survey is correctly completed). These points will be used to purchase prizes on my web site. My question is: Once the user succes...

Is there a World-Wide Stock Market real-time quotes Application Programming Interface (API)?

Hi there, I'm looking for an Application Programming Interface which will allow me to access quotes and other data about multiple company symbols for at least the following stock exchanges: American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Bank of Canada Bombay Stock Exchange (BOM) Canadian Venture Exchange (CVE) Euronex...

What systems officially support OpenGL?

I know OpenGL is cross-platform and runs across Windows and Mac, but what other marketable products support it along with OpenGL ES? I'm just curious of its current market. Thanks! ...

How do you make yourself stand out as a consultant?

How do you make yourself as a consultant stand out from the others? It's frustrating trying to learn how to market yourself when everyone and their brother is advertising themselves as an SEO expert and/or website developer. I don't want to come off as elitest, but I've seen some sites done by local companies that, frankly, would mak...

Teamclipse.com Does it pass the sniff test or not?

Hi, I hope this question is not out of line on this site if it is I apologize I am trying to get an objective answer if teamclipse.com sounds like a good name for a web based service that allows teams to quickly build and deploy tactical applications via ondemand. I've been up for a while thinking about this any input would be greatly ap...

Neolapis For Marketing/Branding

Hello, I am asking a quesiton related to marketing and branding of software. I'm looking for some answers from people who have been in the industry for a while regarding the name Neolapis for a software company. Most people don't know what it means which is New Rock in latin but regardless when you hear the name Neolapis does it sound ac...

Best Shareware Price

I know that this question is too generic but yet, Which is the price you think a shareware buyer is most inclined to pay. I know (from my experience) that $9.95 is scary low. Even you product is a killer in its niche, people refuse to buy it at such low cost. I sell at $19.95 but I believe even more can be achieved. So far I only have...

What topic is more perspective in terms of market - Cloud computing or Video restoration?

I am choosing topic for a paper to work on during this year at university, I wonder which one is more wanted by market \ job providers here are ones I have some knowledge on: cloud \ farm computing ( meaning task management, process control, creation of environment, messaging between parts of system etc) and 2d video to 3d reconstruc...

Tracking email deliverability using our own mail server

I am trying to find out a way to track what the delivery rate of mails sent from our ESP is. I am aware of services like AWebber, but I was trying to find out a way to track complaints from the mail providers we send mails to using our mail server. Is there any kind of header tag that somehow "alerts" us when an user clicks on Report Sp...

What kind of jobs are there for a small web dev shop?

Sales guy here (duck) has a 3 programmers strong team at hand and asks what kind of clients he could provide them with. They love RoR but are not shy of other technologies. They want to do web development as a team. Now the question is what kind of projects can they realistically tackle? I researched the market and it seems there are...

How do I start showing off this project i'm working on?

I'm a web developer. I've put many nights into this idea/project over the last several months. And I want to "get it out there" … My dream is to create a successful (i.e. large user base) service free to the public. What are some ways to start? I've considered blogging but I don't know if that would give away the idea too soon. I could ...