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Yeah for sure, so imagine you've got a list of profile urls from a website. The task might look like this:

Find the website, name and email of the person at this URL:

* Extract the email address from this kind of format: [jon (at) website +dot com] * Include the name by visiting the website or extracting the name from the text * Do not include peoples personal website as the website, find the company they work for using google, yahoo, bing or duckduckgo * Do not include any emails that are or

Page example: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jasonlbaptiste

Nice. I tool almost the exact same path and thought process and ended up with this outbound sales email builder :) https://www.onepagecrm.com/sales-email-builder

I have tried this traction channel many times and it works great.

Launch it on ProductHunt!

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If it's a complex SaaS and it's easy to upsell it try doing a lifetime deal. AppSumo, SaaSMantra, Pitchground, etc...

Those are all great ways you could gain additional exposure.

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On the other hand, you could also utilize listing platforms like Capterra, G2, etc. They won't bring immediate traction but will still help in the long run.

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This will be useful for you for sure!

Hey makers and hunters, Do you remember your first... email? Most of us at Swifter were in our early teens, and the first email we sent felt like magic. Its been decades since then and nothing has really changed. Until now. With Swifter we're trying to change what email can *be*. But more on that later. As we were working on Swifter, we realized we were constantly getting stuck trying to write email headers and smart copy that'd stand out. This isn't a problem unique to our team, and any business that sends email faces a creative block when it comes to generating consistent, creative copy. To solve this, we built an AI-based email subject line and preview text generator (using GPT-3). Using this tool, you can:

1. Generate subject lines and pre-headers
   
2. For common B2B use cases (welcome, pain points and goal events)
   
3. For common B2C use cases (welcome, abandoned cart and discounts)
   
4. Preview your headers and pre-headers on iPhone mockups
   
5. Copy the results and share them
   
6. *coming soon* - Email body copy generator
   

This tool is in alpha stage, so we would love to know your feedback. Users are limited to 10 runs for free, but for Product Hunters who sign up today, we are offering 30 runs free (plus a chance at our early-access beta program).

Link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/swifter

>Maybe this can help: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-we-got-100-signups-for-my-saas-with-0-spent-on-promotion-ama-46d0159e1e

I think I sent the wrong link before, please check again

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Here is a list that I made for my own beta Product Hunt launch in December after going through a lot of the old lists that exist online and finding the most up to date ones. There is probably a better way to format this but hopefully it helps! If anyone has any suggestions to improve the list that would be great :)

Data analytics you mean how to set the metrics to measure?

In the initial phase, you should focus on positioning your platform in the market, that's what we call product-market fit. Create a persona using this tool 'Xtensio' and figure out who is your potential customer can be and define the metrics you think should be affecting in the initial stages, do experiments and tests around different strategies with some hypothesis. Okay wait, check out my recent talk and slides here https://www.slideshare.net/NsrcelIimb/growth-hacking-for-startups-by-pavan-belagatti?trk=v-feed

You say, much of the Growth Hacking tactics seem to stress essentially on cold calling. Maybe it is time you discover new sources to learn growth marketing from.

Seek mentors who suggest a mix of inbound and outbound tactics.

There are some instances where you definitely need to rely on outbound tactics and some that can do well with inbound or a mix of inbound and outbound.

Growth Hacking is full-funnel marketing. And in this post you seem to be only discussing the acquisition stage.

In the acquisition stage, you can adopt these strategies:

1: Inbound (Pull Tactics)

1.1 Your Audience: Blogging, SEO, Podcasting, Social Media, E-Books, Webinars, Guides, Whitepaper, Infographics, Videos/YouTube, Slide Decks, Contests

1.2 Leveraged Audience: Guest Blogging, Guest Podcasting, Speaking at Conferences, Guest Hosting Webinars, Deal Sites, Marketplaces

2. Outbound (Push Tactics) - Affiliates, Direct Sales, Paid Ads, Promotional Swaps

3. Automation / Technology - Network Invitations (Phone Contacts, Email Contacts, Social Contacts), Social Sharing, API Integrations

The content in this comment is copied from this book: The Growth Hacking Book 2.

Young parents aren't markets. They're your customers.

Gaming, AR/VR, Semiconductors, Healthcare, Logisitics are markets.

Market Size = totat number of customers x revenue per customer = total revenue that can be earned

If you want to find a 'hot' market, look at these metrics:

- TAM - Total size of the market. Something around 30B will do. TAM < 10B is not a good market. It is a vanity metric, but is to quickly shortlist.

- Target Market : Basically the people who will first buy the product. This market > 1B. (Rule of thumb)

- CAGR and YOY: This and target market are by far your most important markets. CAGR is basically growth. A hot market is a market that's growing extremely fast. Gaming's CAGR is around 30% which is one of the fastest growing markets.

Source : I'm an ex-CEO and this is what VC's care about. They've have told me this.

All of these can give you a rough idea on how much money you can make, but I would suggest you follow this process

- Choose a market you know well and know is kinda hot (Use your gut feeling / Do some basic research on google and see what products are VC's talking about) For example right now it's better ways to communicate remotely - clubhouse.io is making waves

- Find a problem in the market and VALIDATE. Do not build anything. Just talk to potential customers and find out. Use the mom test. Talk to as many customers and find out if they have a problem and find out how much will they save.

- If you get a good response, only then start building.

customer.io and sendgrid are not comparable really. sendgrids main focus and strenght is transactional emails wherea customer io is focussed on email flows. if you want to go the cheap and quick and dirty way... check out mailchimp + mandrill, i think that should be enough for the beginning,

>Thank you, UX checklist is really helpful. Also you can check our UX game to find out the worst UX ever: https://www.plerdy.com/ux-game/
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>Thank you, Glazdham!

1. Add some great visual concepts to their music. It doesn't have to be an expensive video but something catchy and creative. For example, the young Ukrainian band Brunettes Shoot Blondes posted this video which was made with mobile phones. Video went viral with 16,069,227 views for today and the band became famous.
2. Play a live show on several platforms. It's fun, engaging, entertaining, and gets a wide audience from different platforms (e.g. Youtube, Facebook, Periscope, etc.). Here is a great guide for musicians.
3. Publish some of their music to use for free. For example, there is a Youtube library where people can get music for their streams, vlogs, etc. It can be a good promo.
4. Entertain the audience. Not only with music, but they can post funny videos of the music creation process, or make a podcast a music genre, or share favorite playlists. Make everything that can boost awareness and raise some interest in the band not only as a musicians.
   

I hope at least some of my suggestion will be useful :) Good luck!

Use Tag Manager to extend the functionality of GA. Google have added some new features around user engagement recently (scroll and video tracking) so you can get a better understanding of which types of content people find engaging.

But really, the most value that you can get out of GA is by conveying what metrics mean for the business to as many colleagues as will listen. Knowing what users are doing is only worth while if you use the knowledge to make their experience better. Rather than showing people a list of metrics or graphs, do some of the analysis for them and make some recommendations about how you think things could be improved.

We are a startup that is about to take off. Gonna have AppSumo campaign starting tomorrow and have a lot of traction lately.

The product is: https://www.webarxsecurity.com

If you're interested. DM me :)

I had experience with a local niche, and tried many of these bots. Jarvee is the best, hands down for features and cost-effectivness. Here's the link http://jarvee.com/?ap_id=alord

Thanks everyone for your tips!
We have 1 month gone on AppSumo and still have 1 month to go.
I've collected our results and some experience tips and write on my blog on IndieHackers https://www.indiehackers.com/post/what-it-s-like-to-run-a-campaign-on-appsumo-viewst-1st-month-on-air-66acb9b493

And feel free to ask any question about the campaign if you need it!

Well, I saw the post of this guy today on IH and apparently he had a similar experience but decided not to take the offer. https://www.indiehackers.com/post/i-passed-up-an-opportunity-to-make-200k-in-revenue-from-my-microstartup-156a257cab

Hey there, it's not for sale. We just have launched the product and we are looking for some feedback from the relevant reddit communities. Actually the business is doing pretty well, we have 10 paying customers already.

Here you can see our revenue and other data: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/angel-match

intercom is a suite and hence expensive, so if you need only the event base campaigns, go for a best-of-breed solution. In any case, you need some development to integrate your backend to a service. I guess the best would be to use a connector such as segment.com and then connect that e.g. to customer.io or mailchimp. keep in mind that these are not transactional messages though so if you need immediate emails, check out sendgrid or anything like that.

I think advertising your product is ineffective if you aren't getting any feedback on it, so I wrote a little article that details our methodology for garnering feedback when I launched https://sideprojects.net. It also lists a couple platforms that you can use to garner feedback.

Check out https://airtable.com/shrItXCucFcCyoDDu/tbl4Lt56yLCEwNBu2?blocks=hide- there are a bunch of startup plans that work with Segment's own startup plan (which gives you $25K in segment credits). You can get 12 months of Amplitude free for 20M events/ month or 250K users (with 1000 events per user) from Mixpanel with both the messaging and the pipelines packages. There are a few other packages there that I would check out such as Intercom.

Mixpanel's come quite a long way in the last year or so to the point where I'd say its definitely better than Amplitude when it comes to doing deep analysis. The messaging is obviously a big plus, as is the ability to send data back into your own warehouse of choice for additional analysis + joining with any data you don't want to track. Check out both products and you can see the difference for yourself.

You should check out the Startup Growth Book. I didn't know much about marketing and this book taught me everything I needed to know for my marketing internship. https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Growth-Book-Business-Marketing/dp/1953153526

Thanks for the great list!

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Not specifically 'Growth Hacking' but they do instil the core principles:

• The Lean Startup: Eric Ries

• Hooked: Nir Eyal (sp)

• The Art of War

• Anything by Seth Godin / Neil Patel in terms of content.