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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:
Hey Alex! I think I'm late, but I'll a comment 🙂
Thanks! 👍👍👍
Thanks for doing this Alex! 🙏
-Link: https://upstamps.com
-Main communication channel: Twitter
-Your target audience: Developers, Product Managers, StartUps
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.
Sure! Send me the link and I will take a look!
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.
Hey there - would love to!
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.
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
Interesting, looking forward to it!
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
Thanks for doing this Alex!
Our product - https://browsee.io
Channel - SEO
Target Audience - Product managers/founders/marketers
Hi @cool_chaps!
Strategy
I feel like with this kind of tools an "before-after" approach with content is the best.
Content
Hope it helps!
Thanks for taking the time! This sounds good!
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.
Awesome idea 💡
Link: leonardoenglish.com
Channel: IG & FB
Target audience: High-Intermediate English learners (worldwide)
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!
Thanks @alexllr
Link: https://www.whoandwhat.io
Channel: LinkedIn
Target Audience: Enterprise (+1000 employees)
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!
Awesome, thanks Alex!
Link:Video Marktech News
Main Communication channel : SEO/ Email Marketing
Target Audience: Digital Marketers
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
Hope it helps!
Hi Alex, awesome idea! 🤟
Product: TaskBite
Main communication channel: Twitter
Target audience: Product managers, freelancers, solo-founders/indie hackers
Thank you!
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
Hope it helps!
Love it! thanks man 🤟
Hi Alex, thank you for doing this for IH community!
Thank You!
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
I would have to dig deeper in your industry to give you more concrete advice, but I hope it helps!
Hi Alex, brilliant idea.
Product: https://www.vollna.com/
Main communication channel: Twitter
Target audience: freelancers
Thank you!
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
Hope it helps!
You are doing great work Alex! My company Grandeur Technologies offers:
So it's developer tools + managed platform in single package.
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
Sorry for not being able to be more specific, but your product & audience is not my forte. Hope it helps somehow!
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.
Good luck!
Link: enwake.com
Main channel: SEO // E-Mail Marketing
Target audience: Journalists, Students, or any Knowledge worker.
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
Can't say much for your other communication channels since they are not my forte.
Hope it helps!
Fantastic, thanks a bunch
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)
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
Hope it helps! Don't hesitate to reach out if you want to discuss more about it!
Thanks man, that's what I had on my plan.. Dial back on the links, drive more engagement
Good luck, the project has a lot of potential!
Great way to give back to the community here. Love this @alexllr
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!
Hey Alex, thank you so much for doing this.
Again, a lot.
/Mike
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
It's not much but hope it helps a bit!
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.
Glad to help Michael, my english is not the best either but this is a great way to practice.
Buena suerte!
Genial ! No te preocupes, soy medio Español . Yo tambien le doy patadas al diccionario.
Hey @vaibhavThevedi!
Love the product, this is a GREAT idea for content creators.
Content
Example: "Designtack helped MrBeast 25x his reach on 4 different platforms". That's a huge attention drawer.
Social
Hope it helps!
I was actually planning to do the same thing as you mentioned. I have started to post on IG. Thank you for the advice!
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!
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.
Hi @gilbert!
Love the project, looks fun!
Strategy
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!
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
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:
Strategy
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!
Thats really good, thanks a lot @alexllr
Whoa you’ve had a lot of requests!
Uclusion
We don't have a main communication channel yet.
Target audience is anyone creating something in a team.
Hi @disrael!
Here's what I would do having just had a quick look at the tool:
Places to be:
Content (capture audience)
Of course there's so much to expand upon! But maybe this can help you get started!
Product: Bettersheets
Main Comms: Twitter, twitter.com/bettersheets
Target Audience: Small Businesses who want to do more with less.
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!
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
-Mention from time to time the social component of your platform.
Hope it helps!
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