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How do I publizise our startup

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folks!

     We have recently launched an open beta for our solution to the perennial problem of growing companies. How to actively engage with their visitors, without putting too much money and effort into it ?

We provide emotionally intelligent agent who talk to your customers on your behalf and bring down cost of customer interaction by a factor of 100.

And this enterprise class technology is now for everyone to use in a pay as you go model and with no software required to download starting with 10 cents per chat. Check out www.vhelp.me and provide feedback.

Now the question is that what are ways I can market our startup?

Suggestions are welcome.

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I just tried it out on your page. I typed in my question "Does this operate on a subscription basis or is it a pay per use service?"

A bunch of questions were popping up whilst I was typing which I found offputting given the fact that this is supposed to simulate a conversation.

It made me ask my question twice, but it's response did not appear to be parsing out any of my question at all - as it was I had to type exactly the same thing twice and all it said was "we need more details".

I would say: rather than focus on publicity, focus on your product. I don't think I would install this on my site.

Need to bring someone on board with native English speaking skills and business/marketing background. Need a better more professional web designer to help with main page.

e.g. "Convince more visitors into becoming customers" on main page should be "Convert visitors into customers".

Some fonts on main page look amateurish, including the logo.

Your customer review looks fake.

Waived off => Waived.

Spell out the copyright and center it.

etc.

The design looks professional-enough to me. Better than a lot of B2B sites that make a killing. The logo is the weakest link design-wise. The V symbol is alright, but the fonts are poorly chosen, the color and edges show compression, the edges of some of the type is blurry, etc. You might want to give your call to action buttons (Start free trial) a color that stands out, maybe a bit bigger. The idea is to make it clear to the user what their next step is. Also, why are there two call to action buttons, sign up and start free trial, when they basically mean the same thing? I'd maybe suggest having a big sign up button with "30 day free trial" in text below, or something to that effect.

The copy is a bit clumsy. Definitely have a native speaker with some linguistic savvy look it over.

In terms of getting clients though nothing mentioned above may be a factor. What is your conversion rate? Improving your site will improve on that, but if no one is coming to your site then marketing your site is a more important step to address.

Do you have any existing clients? How has their feedback been?

I'd recommend finding people for whom you've delivered well and investigating what worked well about that relationship. Maybe they can give you referrals, maybe you can target people in similar situations, and so on.

You guys rock! Great suggestions, keep them coming in :-). We are incorporating your feedback on the website..

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