The Business Times: Marketing on a Shoestring Budget for Start-ups

by Sneha Menon

Let’s face it, web start-ups hardly assign any marketing budgets for their products. Building a product and adding features can take up most of their time and money. However, with the web being a level playing field, where a freak hit on YouTube can resurrect a brand like Old Spice and potentially generate sales, start-ups with minimal budgets can aim to achieve the same traction as the big players.

Ryan Lim, an echelon 2010 speaker, writes in today’s Business Times in Singapore about five basic ways to get the word out for your start-up’s product on a minimal budget.

On a related note, here’s an interesting case study on online marketing for Bonobos, a start-up that sells men’s clothing online.

Marketing on a shoestring budget – Business Times Article by Ryan Lim

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  • http://asiancorrespondent.com/jon-russell Jon

    I think calling the Old Spice campaign a freak does a great amount of disservice to what was one of the most original, and successful online/social media campaigns in recent history. Not that I liked it, but I can appreciate the marketing brains behind it.

  • http://asiancorrespondent.com/jon-russell Jon

    I think calling the Old Spice campaign a freak does a great amount of disservice to what was one of the most original, and successful online/social media campaigns in recent history. Not that I liked it, but I can appreciate the marketing brains behind it.

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    @Jon : Didn’t mean to belittle the efforts that went behind this campaign. I loved the video and was pleasantly surprised by how quickly it caught on with people.

  • Sneha Menon

    @Jon : Didn’t mean to belittle the efforts that went behind this campaign. I loved the video and was pleasantly surprised by how quickly it caught on with people.

  • http://asiancorrespondent.com/jon-russell Jon

    Fair enough then, sorry perhaps I’m being a little pedantic on this one :)

  • http://asiancorrespondent.com/jon-russell Jon

    Fair enough then, sorry perhaps I’m being a little pedantic on this one :)

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