Target Deeper

When adding a new campaign I make sure we do also a Display Ad campaign (which is the Banner ads placed on various websites). The main reason is the fact that it enables targeting that is not available in standard text AdWords campaign. When doing Display Ads make sure you go to ‘display Networks’ tab then…

Hebrew URLs and The WWW are not the best of friends

Writing in Hebrew is a bitch. Even for me, and I was born in Israel. So marketers often have a problem with Hebrew websites (cause they live and work in Israel). The URLs are headaches, since the internet places % (percentage sign) between every word. It’s just too confusing for the web, this silly language (again, I’m a native…

Getting Indie Developers On-Board With Online Contests

The reason I had originally designed this online contest was to enhance our company’s game portfolio. We needed developers, mostly Indies, to work with our Software Development Kit (SDK) and generate new content. This was our marketing strategy to improve our credibility and to define the market of the SDK we’ve just released. Getting games…

IN THE NAME OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Being in a startup stage is great in terms of flexibility and adaptability to change. But on the same time you need to endure being the under-dog, most always. That means usually you’re struggling to convince the world they should try your product. The ultimate way in doing that is proving your product was already tried by…

Get More Tech Loving Users

Two websites to feature your start-ups/products and increase notice-ability: Betali.st – This website features the site to a huge number of users and gets them to sign-up to beta programs/products since this crowd is extremely interested in discovering new technology and projects. Price – Free, but you need to stand in line for a while….

IN THE NAME OF AWARDS

Winning prizes. One of the sure ways of gaining market credibility is to get an award. Some times any award will do. Here’s an example (3 years old list but all awards are annually reoccurring). This month my company was selected for the Red Herring 100 Europe award. Every year 100 companies are selected regionally…