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Let me help you with a tweet-sized content & social media strategy for your product/brand

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Thanks everyone for submitting your products, I had a lot of fun! I will answer for the people who already submitted but I am afraid I can not answer much more since I am going away for the weekend. Will do a round 2 soon!

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Hi everyone!

I joined not long ago into this amazing community and I have seen a lot of amazing products, services and brands being born here, so I would love to help with the journey.

Mi idea is to give you a "tweet-sized" strategy (around 280 characters) focusing on social media and content for your product/brand/whatever you feel like.

What I need from you:
-Link to your product/brand/channel: google.com
-Main communication channel: ex, Twitter
-Your target audience: ex, other indie makers

No need to say I guess but it's 100% free!

Let's have some fun!

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT claiming to be an expert on any of those fields at all, but I do have some experience that might be helpful for you! Some background about me:

  • +4 years of experience on advertising agencies and big media companies
  • Worked with top brands, mainly on social media strategy and management
  • Worked with top content creators helping with content strategy and monetization
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    Hey Alex! I think I'm late, but I'll a comment 🙂

    • Link: https://adpaca.com
    • Main communication channel: Twitter
    • Your target audience: website owners, creators, makers

    Thanks! 👍👍👍

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    Thanks for doing this Alex! 🙏
    -Link: https://upstamps.com
    -Main communication channel: Twitter
    -Your target audience: Developers, Product Managers, StartUps

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    Hey Alex, is this something that you like to do on a regular basis? I've started a project recently for devs and entrepreneurs that offer one-to-one consultancy session and I think you could be a good fit.

    There's no money involved.

    Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you the link.

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      Sure! Send me the link and I will take a look!

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        Hey, thanks for the reply. You can check it out on:

        https://getadvice.github.io/
        https://getadvice.github.io/about.html

        I'm more than happy to answer any questions that you might have.

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    Hey there - would love to!

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    Hey Alex, appreciate your help for doing this!

    Main product: LZVO.com (Help people out with automation, delegation and systems)

    Main communication: Twitter(most active)

    Audience: Entrepreneurs who don't want to compromise freedom for money and time.

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    Thank you for your time, Alex!

    -https://mktodyssey.wordpress.com/ aka my own personal brand
    -Twitter [I do use other channels as the main communication method but need to boost my Twitter game]
    -marketing managers and CEOs

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    Interesting, looking forward to it!

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    Thanks for doing this, Alex!

    Product: https://www.owlstown.com
    Channel: Twitter, but should consider other channels
    Target audience: Academics, PhD students, professors, postdocs, labs

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    Thanks for doing this Alex!

    Our product - https://browsee.io
    Channel - SEO
    Target Audience - Product managers/founders/marketers

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      Hi @cool_chaps!

      Strategy
      I feel like with this kind of tools an "before-after" approach with content is the best.

      Content

      • Suggested platforms: blog & twitter (lots of UX people there) and maybe LinkedIn
      • Create posts about your customer's main issues so when they look for them, they stumble upon your page. Example, extracted from your site "Why and Where are my users dropping?", would make a great blog post
      • Leverage case studies from users if you have them. "How X company multiplied their sales with this UX change"

      Hope it helps!

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        Thanks for taking the time! This sounds good!

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      If you've got an audience over any platform, you can start a weekly live show where you take submissions from your audience and analyse and give live suggestions for improvement.

      This will help you get some traction and build a loyal community around your product at the same time.

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    Awesome idea 💡

    Link: leonardoenglish.com
    Channel: IG & FB
    Target audience: High-Intermediate English learners (worldwide)

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      Hey @ambudge!

      Very cool niche!

      Strategy
      Since your main product are podcasts, let's try to leverage that into your other platforms.

      Content
      -Take small bits of the podcast and post them as posts on IG and FB, where people can listen and see the product.
      -Example (although on Twitter): https://twitter.com/brandonthezhang/status/1285765654000222208

      Extra
      If you are comfortable showing your face, I might try TikTok. I've seen accounts focused on languages that are very popular, doing stuff like "How would you ask for a cup of tea?" and explaining the best way to do it.

      Hope it helps!

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    Link: https://www.whoandwhat.io
    Channel: LinkedIn
    Target Audience: Enterprise (+1000 employees)

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      Hi @supermaxi31!

      Strategy
      I would suggest being really clear and descriptive on the problems your target audience has and how your tools solves that.

      • Example: A post on Linkedin starting with this sentence (taken from your site) "A business with 100 employees spends an average downtime of 17 hours a week clarifying communication, translating to an annual cost of $528.443." would work perfectly on the platform. You would just add how the tool helps solving that and plug it at the end of the post

      • Real Testimonials and social proof always work with a business audience

      Hope it helps!

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        Awesome, thanks Alex!

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    Link:Video Marktech News
    Main Communication channel : SEO/ Email Marketing
    Target Audience: Digital Marketers

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      Hi @wasim117!

      Strategy
      I see that your newsletter is the main place where you will store your content. I would suggest redistributing that content on other social platforms

      Content

      • Where to be: Twitter and Instagram
      • Create newsletter posts, then break down into tiny bits and redistribute, with a link back to your NL.
      • Content: your first post works perfectly. Share a timelapse or a gif on how you made those cool looking profile pics and share them on IG and Twitter. People likes that kind of content

      Hope it helps!

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    Hi Alex, awesome idea! 🤟
    Product: TaskBite
    Main communication channel: Twitter
    Target audience: Product managers, freelancers, solo-founders/indie hackers

    Thank you!

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      Hi @elmehdikamar!

      Cool product!

      Strategy
      Makes sense to hone in on how your app is NOT just another product management app. Also, since Pomodoro since to be one of the main cool points, lets dive into that

      Content

      • Create product around productivity hacks and the pomodoro technique and how it helps improve companies workflows.
      • Distribute in Twitter with to forms: actionable tweets (lists, graphics) and threads, where at the end you can plug the tool.

      Hope it helps!

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        Love it! thanks man 🤟

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    Hi Alex, thank you for doing this for IH community!

    • Link: ReportHQ
    • Main communication channel: SEO
    • Target audience: Website Owners

    Thank You!

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      Hi @qilisiang!

      Strategy
      Your product is for a very specialized audience, so I would suggest to go ultra niche on their problems and create content for that on a blog, since SEO is your main channel. Attract people with the solution to their web owners problems, make them stay for your product

      Content

      • Blog posts that tackle ultra-niche problems that website owners have
      • Repurpose those blog posts on Twitter in thread-shape with a link to your blog and tool at the end( big audience of web devs there)

      I would have to dig deeper in your industry to give you more concrete advice, but I hope it helps!

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    Hi Alex, brilliant idea.

    Product: https://www.vollna.com/
    Main communication channel: Twitter
    Target audience: freelancers

    Thank you!

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      Hi @hebrian!

      Nice product and page, really liked the style!

      Strategy
      You are already tackling one of the freelancers main issues with your product, but you need to deep-Dive into their other problems with your content to attract more.

      Content

      • Divide freelancers issues and create content specific to them (budgeting, get more clients, time management...)
      • Distribute said content on Twitter with threads and actionable tweets and redirect to your site at the end (maybe add a blog too)

      Hope it helps!

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    You are doing great work Alex! My company Grandeur Technologies offers:

    1. a platform that provides an exclusive set of tools required in an IoT product development.
    2. it's fully managed so developers do not have to worry about anything after basic setting up.
      So it's developer tools + managed platform in single package.
    • Website: https://grandeur.tech.
    • Main channels: Twitter, LinkedIn.
    • Target audience: IoT startups, SMEs, Big Enterprises. For example, businesses producing smart ACs, invertors, or batteries which van be monitored/controlled from mobile phone, or a central computer etc.
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      Thanks for sharing @abdullahmahboob!

      Strategy
      I think it would be cool to see more of the product in action. Also, your product seems to solve a lot of issues so, for communication, I would focus on separate clearly those issues and create content specific for each on of them

      Content

      • Blog posts on LK and repurposing on Twitter about the issues mentioned above. Example, "3 tips to improve your asset management" and link your product at the end.
      • Also, if you have customers, try to talk to them and get case studies. "Company X improved their workflow by a 200% using our product. Here's how"

      Sorry for not being able to be more specific, but your product & audience is not my forte. Hope it helps somehow!

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        No it's okay. Thanks for taking the time to go through it. Your points are good. We are targeting a very deep tech niche and that's exactly why it sometimes gets difficult to explain it to regular people 😅
        Thanks again.

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    Link: enwake.com
    Main channel: SEO // E-Mail Marketing
    Target audience: Journalists, Students, or any Knowledge worker.

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      Hey @Jorge_Silva!

      Your tool looks impresive! I can see a lot of potential on Twitter. Here's what I would do:

      Strategy
      Showcase your tools potential on Twitter trough the use of threads.

      Content

      • Distill complex articles by top authors using your tool and then compiling everything into a Twitter Thread tagging the author. Then, a the end, plug the tool. You get eyes on the content because its of interest and eyes on the tool for its potential.
      • Example: Justin Mikolay does this and his twitter threads are the best. https://twitter.com/jmikolay/status/1263475761153036294

      Can't say much for your other communication channels since they are not my forte.

      Hope it helps!

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        Fantastic, thanks a bunch

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          No problem hermano!

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    Awesome! Twitter is what I really want to attack this year. My growth channels are SEO and e-mail, but I really want to drive engagement on my twitter account.

    Link: mentorcruise.com
    Main channel: SEO // E-Mail Marketing
    Target audience: tech employees (engineers, designers, PMs)

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      Hi @dqmonn!

      Mentorcruise looks really good! Great product, at first glance, this is what I would do on Twitter

      Strategy
      Leverage the people on your platform (pros & students).

      Content

      • I see that on Twitter you redirect to your site a lot. That's not bad, but try to be more organic to the platform, make users stay, not leave. Example: This could be translated to a great thread, with a link at the end for people to check your platform: https://mentorcruise.com/blog/5-ways-influence-your-your-career-path-ux-designer/
      • Guest threads on certain topics by mentors of your platform. Showcases what people could learn on your platform and also drives traffic to mentor profile (win-win).
      • Social proof threads: Testimonials of your students on how mentorcruise helped them on their projects and jobs. Example: Thanks to mentorcruise, Lauren got a promotion. This is how.

      Hope it helps! Don't hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss more about it!

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        Thanks man, that's what I had on my plan.. Dial back on the links, drive more engagement

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          Good luck, the project has a lot of potential!

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    Great way to give back to the community here. Love this @alexllr

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      Hey Gordon! Thanks for the nice words. This is a great community and I always found myself profiting from other's knowledge, so I decided to chip in for a bit.

      Cheers!

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    Hey Alex, thank you so much for doing this.

    • Product: Wicked Templates
    • Channels:Indie Hackers, Devto, Twitter my newsletter
    • HTML responsive templates ready to customize out of the box. For startups & personal use.
    • Target Audience: Indie Hackers, Startups, Devs and Designer who code a bit.

    Again, a lot.

    /Mike

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      Hey @Michael_Andreuzza!

      Nice product, not much my area of expertise but seems very very helpful!

      Strategy
      For this, I would try to leverage more your personal brand (which you are already doing), because it's way more powerful. Your audience specifically (makers, devs) love to hear from the person, not the brand.

      Content

      • Create posts on IH and then break it down on your Twitter
      • Learnings, DOs and DONTs work very well in your niche.
      • Be 100% transparent with the journey, people will reward it. Share numbers, customers, revenue...(might not be comfortable but there's more upside than downside)
      • Your newsletter looks dope, maybe every now or then add a small update of the building journey.

      It's not much but hope it helps a bit!

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        Hey Alex, Hhow quick man!

        Yeah we are trying on Twitter actually. But it can be improved for sure.

        Transparent, I can deffinately I had shated my last three months of analytics just like that before, without an issue. And is not uncomfortable to share the economical, I think is fun.

        I just haven't thought about it actually.

        I heard a podcast of @ajlkn and he mentioned that he felt like a duchebag when sharing the economic progress once you get a certain number.

        So I have it in the back of my head all the time...

        We still haven't made a dime with it, not even launched. Is just being mentioned and tested when we drop links a d posts....

        Regarding the posts on IH, sometimes it puts me back the fact that my English is not the best ever, and sometimes I kick the dictionary pretty hard.

        But I will do more of it, sure thing.

        Honestly, I haven't thought about sharing progress on the newsletter, it might be fun and cool to try it. Better no to waste 1k plus subscribers i guess...

        I forgot to mention that i reach out more audience from my other site, with 33k users a month.
        I have a small banner on bottom right to not bother users....

        I will try to apply the stuff you mentioned Alex, so I will see if I get better on IH...

        Thank you so much for the mind words about WT and the newsletter, they mean a lot.

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          Glad to help Michael, my english is not the best either but this is a great way to practice.

          Buena suerte!

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            Genial ! No te preocupes, soy medio Español . Yo tambien le doy patadas al diccionario.

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    • Designtack - Create social media content, in bulk.
    • Twitter and sometimes, Facebook
    • Content Creators, Marketers and makers.
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      Hey @vaibhavThevedi!

      Love the product, this is a GREAT idea for content creators.

      Content

      • Break down visually (images, graphics) how the tool can help creators and share on your social media. Make it clear. Example from my own content: https://twitter.com/AlexLlullTW/status/1283733767807524864?s=20
      • Partner with some mid-tier content creator and build a case study (win-win collab, you help them with content, they help you with exposure and testimonial).
        Example: "Designtack helped MrBeast 25x his reach on 4 different platforms". That's a huge attention drawer.

      Social

      • Get on IG too, what better way to showcase the tool?

      Hope it helps!

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        I was actually planning to do the same thing as you mentioned. I have started to post on IG. Thank you for the advice!

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    • Writing an ebook about my experiences of building, growing and selling a side-project in 3 months - https://gum.co/side-project
    • Communication: Indie Hackers, Reddit r/Entrepreneur.
    • Target audience: Entrepreneurs, other indie makers.
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      Hi @nscode!

      Wow, looks like a very cool product and experience you had.

      Strategy
      This might sound weird, but you should share most of the content of the ebook for free (bit by bit). Your content needs to work as the main magnet for the sell.

      Example:
      Inside chapter 2, write a thread on IH or Reddit about "My 2nd online endeavor and takeaways" and, at the end, refer to the ebook for people eager for more.
      Write a few of those every week and you will generate a stream of traffic to your ebook.
      Protip: add numbers (email subs, users, etc) and $, those work the best when drawing attention

      Hope it helps!

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    A side project we're working on: https://funnybone.ai
    Communication: Instagram, Twitter
    Target audience: People who like to laugh and are interested in a "personality test" for their sense of humor.

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      Hi @gilbert!

      Love the project, looks fun!

      Strategy

      • Showcase how it works with video/gif (not 100% clear to me)
      • Partner & distribute that content to bigger meme accounts on IG and TW (huge exposure + 100% on target + not very expensive) and ask to link back to tool
      • Create your own organic humor channel (I see you already do that). Will take a long time but you will find a lot of upside

      Humor is a very saturated niche but if your tool can deliver, you have a real chance! There's a lot of stuff but most of it is low quality.

      Hope it helps!

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    Keepsy.app
    I’ve just started using Twitter and IH. We haven’t launched yet, but have a landing page.
    We think our audience is young but mostly middle age, anyone who wants to safekeep their important data and prepare in case something happens to them.

    Thanks in advance @alexllr

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      Hi @mangooly,

      Curious project you have there! this one was harder than I thought.

      One of the main elements you can play with your content is "fear". Like, fear of what would happen if your docs, pics, etc were lost forever or ended up on the wrong hands.

      Social media
      Consider checking because of target:

      • LinkedIn (business man/women have a lot of precious data)

      Strategy

      • Blog posts about real cases of lost information and its consequences
      • Showcase how the app works (with gif, videos). Could be interesting in general
      • Repurposing to Twitter (threads) + LK (share blog post)

      Definitely should give more thought on this one because it was a bit hard for me. Hope it helps even if its just a little!

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        Thats really good, thanks a lot @alexllr

        Whoa you’ve had a lot of requests!

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    Uclusion
    We don't have a main communication channel yet.
    Target audience is anyone creating something in a team.

    1. 1

      Hi @disrael!

      Here's what I would do having just had a quick look at the tool:

      Places to be:

      • Twitter
      • LinkedIn
      • Blog & newsletter

      Content (capture audience)

      • Content around teamwork, best practices, common mistakes, etc.
      • Main pilar: blog/newsletter, then distribute bit sized insights into Twitter and LinkedIn. Repurpose.
      • Success stories when you have them. "X company went from 20kMRR to 40kMRR after using Uclusion"

      Of course there's so much to expand upon! But maybe this can help you get started!

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    Product: Bettersheets
    Main Comms: Twitter, twitter.com/bettersheets
    Target Audience: Small Businesses who want to do more with less.

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      Hey Andrew! Nice to see you here, I actually purchased Better Sheets two days ago (for real) and my goal this week is to start learning how to better use my GSheets to build cool stuff! The product looks awesome!

      This is my tweet sized advice:

      Double down on gifs/video:
      -Timelapse of building a sheet in real time that solves X problem (example, building a expense report)
      -Video/gif of cool “sheet tricks” that produce the “aha” moment of “wait, can you actually do that?”
      Keep doing:
      -Sharing social proof from customers

      Of course this is a general advice and compressed into a tweet, but I would love to chat more about it if you need it.

      Thanks!

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        Much appreciate the purchase and the tweet advice.

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      Hi @indiepanda!

      Cool product, very similar to one I've seen below!

      Strategy
      Leverage your mentors, they are your strongest selling point.

      Content

      • Create guest threads with them, where they talk about their knowledge and refer back to your page
      • Create actionable and short tweets about self-development. For example, quick 3 tips on how to do X.
        -Mention from time to time the social component of your platform.

      Hope it helps!

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