Hey everyone! I'm Rosie Sherry and I love building communities. I started about 15 years ago with meetups, I then started Ministry of Testing and boostrapped that to $1.5M annual revenue over 10 years. I still (co)own, but don't run the business day to day. I led the community over at Indie Hackers for a couple of years. More recently I started Rosieland, a community for community builders. This has evolved over the past couple of years, from a newsletter, to a paid newsletter and now to a community with a 'community garden' approach. Rosieland is still my side-gig as I recently joined Orbit
The first 100 users is often the first big milestone when it comes to user acquisition. I've seen countless blogs, articles and of course Twitter threads about it, how did you get yours?
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?
