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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

socalTECH

On average, not including our internal friends, every user who joins the site is inviting four new friends, and we haven't done any marketing except a press release. He put out a blog article and spreadsheet which outlined if you were going to be able to scale your sales team, or if something was not scalable.

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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

InfoChachkie

Subscribe to their blog. Based on your research from Step 1, you should be able to communicate meaningful and insightful comments regarding the partners’ tweets, blog content, etc. If you are deploying a freemium business model, test your upsell strategy on a portion of your users to establish concrete free-to-paid conversion metrics.