Monday, Sept 18: Starting a company for under $1,000

See also Under1K-Business, Under1K-Engineering, and Under1K-Operations

Marketing

• Outbound email services and listservs, none are free:
  • Vertical Response is not expensive -
  • ListServ
  • MailerMailer
  • StreamSend
  • ResultsMail
  • Microsoft Small Business Center
  • Constant Contact

• Speaking opportunities, parties, general networking - Stirr, SV & SF Meetups, camps, IBDNetwork, O'Reilly conferences

- workit.com is a calendar list.

- stirr.net meets every month. 1 minute for each attendee.

- To be an IBD member is expensive. http://www.ibdnetwork.com/

- SVASE http://www.svase.org/

- SDForum http://www.sdforum.org

- Mobile Monday http://www.mobilemonday.us/

- Silicom Ventures http://www.silicomventures.com/

• Press mentions - PRWeb http://www.prweb.com/ , Techcrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/ , GigaOM http://gigaom.com/ , industry pubs

- venturebeat.com

- Large press may also print your story. Try them.

• CRM - SugarCRM

ACT - $495 license. Buy on ebay for less.

• Blogging software -

- Wordpress http://wordpress.org/ or hosted http://wordpress.com

- wordpress is highly customizable. Has host version for free.

- TypePad http://www.sixapart.com/

- Squarespace

- editme.com

- qumana.com it's for blog management.

- statcounter http://www.statcounter.com/

- mybloglog http://mybloglog.com/

- Feedburner http://www.feedburner.com

• Logo design, Marketing materials:
  • LogoWorks You can request revisions all for the same price, once you accept the logo you own it.
  • BannerStar from Paceworks for banner ads with animated fonts.

• Printing
  • CafePress books, bound volumes
  • Lulu books, bound volumes
  • Zazzle books, bound volumes
  • small local printers, less than $100 for 500 -- http://www.discoveryprinting.com/
  • overnightprints.com -- full color, cardboard -- $49+tax+shipping for 500. High quality.
  • VistaPrint business cards, invitations, brochures

• Industry directories

- linksv.com -- trying to verticalize.

• SEO, SEM

- Google Analytics

- Google Toolbar shows how each page is ranked in Google (Page Rank).

- wordtracker - generates a list of keywords

- adtech http://www.ad-tech.com/