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Primarily my business is consulting, but lately I've developed an application that allows people to create their own HMI's (Human-Machine Interface). I really don't have a problem marketing that product since my customers are taking care of that for me...
The question I have however, is that in the course of creating this product there are a couple of libraries that would be really useful to other developers. I've put in a lot of time into these libraries so I don't want to give them away, but I'm planning on making them cheap enough for casual developers to get. I really don't have the means to join an affiliate or advertising network, or anybody to develop the advertisements. There are a couple communities like CP, but as far as I can tell, CP has the biggest online community for developers. CP also does not allow me to make an article about how to use the library, so I really can't do that.
How would you suggest a cost-effective way of getting the word out about these libraries? If CP had an article section that I had to pay to post an article in I would jump on that in a minute, but it doesn't exist. CP has a section for sponsor articles, but I can't see any way to become a sponsor. I'm also not sure if it would be "kosher" to post in the forum about the product and offer it free to a few developers with the stipulation that if they liked it to write a review. I've been developing for 20 years, but this is the first foray into marketing my creations, any advice is appreciated!
-Ron B.
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Hello, everyone,
Our company has just developed two business computing software, which are quite innovative, and there are few similar tools on the market. The target customers involve any person including both business users or technicians for complex data process.
Could anyone give some suggestions about how to enter international market?
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Meet some people who already using similar products such as office manager or CEO and ask for an appointment for demo of your application. In this meeting explain what are your special things aquinted in that software and how different your service and software are. Do not miss how you can help then in migrating other software to your software. Then you can open up.
Use Google to show in top ranked using similar keywords. Offer trial periods etc.
But it is a very long run approach.
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It depends on the product, and how many you need to sell in that market to break even or produce a profit, and then consider market demand in that country.
EMS, they make database manager software does a good job, and is Russian, but sure looks like a US company, you might want to copy what they did, or else consider putting a boot on the ground in that country, to generate interest, create advertising campaigns, advertise on the radio, perhaps retail sales.
NOD32 is Czech, but has boots on the ground in San Diego, that runs the US website, creates advertising campaigns, handles licensing, etc. Expensive operation, but effective.
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