Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Not everyone has a knack for marketing, content creation, community building, or other techniques. When it comes to marketing, what have you found to be the best tools and strategies to market your product when it's not your strength?
They say the best investment is in your health. (I agree, although I have to admit I don t really stick to that myself.)
Right now, health is mostly being supported at the level of:
physical fitness (workout apps, weight-loss tools, smart devices for heart-rate tracking, step counters) mental health (e.g., digital detox apps, a personal therapist in your phone) longevity (more of a long-term process, experimenting across different areas)
At the beginning, we tried to define pricing early. Plans, tiers, limits: everything looked clear. But once we started getting real users, things changed. Feedback came in. Some features were used more than expected. Others not at all. Sometimes it felt like the first pricing we defined was just a "starting point", not the final one.
From your experience:
Did you change your pricing after launching?
And how important was the first pricing you defined for launch?
Between Slack channels, Teams groups, WhatsApp threads, and Telegram I feel like I'm in a constant catch-up loop and I still miss things. Curious if this is just us or if it's universal. What's your actual number, and have you found anything that helps?
Today, I read a study showing that social media use is linked to weaker reading, vocabulary, and word-recognition skills in teens under 16. Yesterday, I read an article saying that students who used AI showed up to 55% less brain activity and remembered less. According to the news, if this is what technology was supposed to help us with and make our lives easier, then I don t see the future very brightly.
On the contrary, I have to say that I use AI for education (e.g. for building, explaining things when I do not understand them). But 80% of people just take the information and do not bother to think about other things. Yes, we can save a lot of time, and mental capacity/energy with "no memorising" but do we really spend that saved time on something useful and meaningful?
But companies are still opening internships, which suggests something deeper than just skill-building still matters (like understanding systems, workflows, and how companies actually operate the management part).
PLG was the backbone of some of the fastest-growing companies in history.
Slack grew by making team invites frictionless. Dropbox gave you free storage for every referral. Zoom let you host 40-minute meetings without a credit card. Those models worked because reducing friction was enough.
It feels good to wake up every day to log Into the first app which was once just an idea in our head and now is used by many others. What is your first app you begin your day with?
I recently switch from Chrome to Edge, because I got tired of my laptop sounding like it was about to blast off into space. It seemed like a lot of folks enjoyed Edge so I decided to give it a shot. So far, I've been pleased with it. Just curious what others are using.
For MakerBox (products for Indie Entrepreneurs), we tried a lot of freebies: 1. Check-lists
2. SEO articles with value
3. Demo-versions of products - 30 tools from MakerBox Tools (full list is 600+) - 3 Frameworks from MakerBox Frameworks (full product is 50 frameworks) So far, 3 Frameworks from MakerBox Frameworks had the best performance. We got 100 users in 2 days. The reason is that it was a complex end-product itself. Today we're launching a free marketing week challenge! Excited about the results. Did you try challenges as a lead magnet? https://www.makerbox.club/market...
I'm always looking for new ways to streamline my tech news consumption, what blogs, news sites, newsletters and twitter accounts do you follow to keep up to date?
We talk about building community around products to be able to launch and have the early support. But if it came to either using time to support and build the community vs building social media traction, which is more effective in your opinion?
Our habits assist us in growing or limit our ability to do so. It is indeed not an easy job to give up our bad habits and replace them with positive ones. It requires dedication and willpower.
How do you define if any particular habit of yours is good or not?
What do you practice to overcome it?