I've been sending our weekly newsletters to my Mailchimp list for the past few months, and have noticed that my email open rates have been dropping. I am guessing that the content isn't as appealing to the audience anymore- any useful tips for increasing your email open rate?
I'm trying to see what clever ways people here have tried to get their first set of users for their product. Immediate network is an obvious choice but beyond that, what creative ways have people found success when getting their first set of power users?
Let me start first: - Posting on a niche community forum (without an explicit mention of my product). People just clicked on my profile, checked my bio/product and signed up. So I've basically used curiosity, under-estimating the effort people would take to get curious and check out my profile. What about you?
Did you know? Pigeons were used for sending messages and invitations not only in ancient times, but as recently as early in 1990s, during World War I. If you have been given a chance to train a Pigeon. What (one) skill will you train her for? P.S. - The average peak speed of homing pigeons is 60 miles per hour.
I have 4 kids, and it has been a long journey for me to balance how to be able to spend time with my family and kids while building comeet.me effectively. Being remote and async first has helped a lot. What's your experience and how you do it?
With traditional marketing methods yielding fewer results without a bomb combination of custom audience, content, and conversion funnels (not to mention budget) what types of unique strategies have you started to implement across product and free channels to increase acquisition, conversion, and consistent value to your customers?
My 7 years in the workforce has been as a developer, I recently started my startup journey by building out ditData.com As a developer this isn't too hard, but selling the product is - I don't enjoy it. I am lost on how to get my brain to accept the change.
I want to be involved in the sales and talking to users, not just writing codes, but the biggest barrier is psychological - I can't concentrate on anything other than coding. Any tip on how to make this transition?
We have a bunch of email leads, we are offering deals on F6S and other communities but we are yet to figure out any acquisition channels that actually works. Would anyone like to impart some of their wisdom?
Fall is one of my favorite seasons, but it's also when most people can start feeling depression and lack of motivation. I decided to start an October achievements chain where other makers/founders/marketer/etc, can tell other a recent goal they achieved. A pat on the back can do miracles sometimes Feel free to tell us your proudest achievement(or put a colleague on the spotlight) in the comments! I'll start: 3 months ago, our SEO monthly visits were around 800-900, and today, we reached out 1.7k organic visits
Looking for tool recommendations to keep up with Twitter conversations. Please share your favorites and why you like it. 1. Follow certain keywords with filters
2. Free or small monthly fee
3. Interact within the tool - DM, respond, threads Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
What do you think is the best way to make your newsletter subscribers grow? Maybe offering some kind of free resource? Or by advertisement? What worked better for you?
