What are some real actionable steps that you have taken to get your first paying reoccurring membership signup. Every company, product, or service started from somewhere. I have not come across anybody's story about their first official signup or customer and what actual steps led up to it.
Most of us start as a solo founder or bunch of cofounders. Who do you hire first, why, how and for what profile? I know it would be very specific to your startup. I am looking to hear your stories.
We run a public REST API and want to add an API reference to our developer portal. Our backend generates the OpenAPI spec from code, and we're trying to decide how to get that spec to the portal.
What we want
- Docs update when the backend changes, without redeploying the frontend
Last year our online store had almost two hundred product pages that were on page three of search results and had almost no organic traffic. I first thought our domain authority was too low. An audit then revealed that our product descriptions were about fifty words of manufacturer supplied specifications. We systematically rewrote each product page to include one hundred and fifty words of customer use cases sizing context and direct answers to common buyer questions. We also avoided keyword stuffing entirely. We focused on natural phrasing that matched what shoppers actually type into search bars. Within six weeks organic search impressions doubled. The conversion rate, on those product pages climbed by three percent. Clear informative product text beats manufacturer specs every single time.
What strategy do you use to scale copywriting across hundreds of inventory pages?
I'm curious to know what has worked well for others and how they have integrated these tools into their daily routines. Sharing our experiences and insights can help us all learn and improve our time management skills. So, what tools or apps have you found to be most helpful in managing your time?
Building something, maybe also on your own sometimes makes it hard to celebrate and enjoy the things we've achieved along the way. How do you celebrate these things?