Are there any paid startup promotion sites you'd recommend?
Toby Benedyk
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There are lots of startup promotion sites (PH being the best of course). Promising traffic, early adopters. But often for a small fee you get something more. Promotion on their twitter, in a newsletter, or just skipping the approval queue.
It's hard to tell when it's worth paying the fee. So I thought I'd ask if anyone here has had any luck with any. Perhaps it's specific to your niche or a more general one. I'm interested to hear!
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Nico Spijker@nicolaas_spijker
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Personally always been a bit skeptical of places that ask for a one-off fee because it's not tied to success.
Obviously there are places where you can get good results and traffic, but it's always just such a gamble.
I like Appsumo for a very early stage launches or other solutions that have profit-sharing to a certain extent. That way their platform has to deliver to earn as well.
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@nicolaas_spijker Agreed. Sometimes it's like 10 bucks though so it's tempting. If you paid 10 bucks for all of them though it'd get expensive fast. Just wondered if some were better than others!
You can try Brandpush.co (not affiliated with them)
They're not for startups specifically, but they work great for startups nonetheless.
They guarantee you'll be posted to 200 news sites. I've noticed this is something that sets them apart, because most of these promotion sites state they'll "submit" your promotional post to xyz amount of news sites, but brandpush actually guarantees it because they're partnered with these sites.
However, the disadvantage is that your promotion will get removed in 3-24 months. But that's plenty of time for a startup anyways, and a PH launch locks comments at 2 weeks, so I'd say you'd be getting your money's worth.
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