tips for web startups AND mistakes of the PR's - article reviews

There are lots and lots of web startups, and many of them(maybe even most of them) are going down - carsonifield shares Some lessons learned thru many experiences....

10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups

1. #1 Choose Your Payment Provider Carefully
2. #2 Know How You’re Going to Deal with Invoicing
3. #3 Be Super-Organised with Customer Support
4. #4 Provide a Demo
5. #5 Make it Easy for Customers to Send Feedback
6. #6 Just because a Market’s busy, Doesn’t Mean it’s Saturated
7. #7 Don’t Worry About the Dinosaurs
8. #8 Release Early and Often, but Plan Ahead
9. #9 Make Full use of Existing Tools
10. #10 Hire in the Experts
    

These above are just ideas - read more about them and the experience others had in this realm - online via 10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups.

On the other hand, as we all experience some of these, below is a list of common issues experienced by journalists when dealing with PR people. Most of these are quite famous -

15 savage mistakes commonly made by PR folks

• BCC fail
• Totally irrelevant content
• No understanding about audience
• Impersonal emails
• PDFs / attachments
• Weird formatting
• “Feel free”
• “Let me know if you post something!”
• Lack of a decent response channel
• Poor service
• Big Brother-style lurking
• ‘Exclusive!’
• ‘Embargoed’
  
• PRspeak overkill
• CAPS LOCK SUBJECT LINES!

this article is quite interesting, and I guess that the guys at econsultancy are just like us - sometimes not so happy about the way people at some PR companies deal with us! Continue to read this article online - 15 savage mistakes commonly made by PR folks.