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Day 10: 30 Days of Growth

Itโ€™s day 10 of the #30daysofgrowth challenge , we're 1/3 of the way through!

Name your product and share...

โœ… What did you do yesterday?

๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What are you doing today?

on July 10, 2019
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    As an encouragement to everyone, if you tweet and use the #indiehackers hashtag then if it's good/interesting there's a good chance we can retweet it for you. No promises, but focus on making it interesting. Sharing something useful. An update on your progress. Etc.

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    Project: Tripetto

    โœ… Deployed a new version of our website to resolve some issues reported by visitors last week
    โœ… Gave support a Wordpress plugin user with some installation issues
    โœ… Replied to questions about our Wordpress plugin on Reddit

    ๐Ÿ† Went from Fewer than 10 to 20+ active installations of our Wordpress plugin!
    ๐Ÿ† 3 people reaching out via Intercom on our site
    ๐Ÿ† Progress on development of updates of the app, based on feedback of the community
    ๐Ÿ† Very happy with the current vibe in our team (thanks to partitioning in this #30daysofgrowth challenge)

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Deploying a new version of the Tripetto app
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Deploying a new version of the Wordpress plugin
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Preparing a landing page for a featured listing in the React status newsletter next week
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Contacting an old acquaintance about possible new markets
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Informing the communitity (email and Twitter) about new features and resolved issues

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    Formspree.io Community

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    Missed a day, but posted our new theme blogophonic.

    https://formspree.io/blog/a-hugo-theme-for-blogs/

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    @formspree on Twitter: +3, still 463

    @colevscode on Twitter: +3 to 593

    Formspree mailing list: +0 to 843

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What are you doing today?

    Need to catch up on CS and do some feature dev. I have a massive list of email addresses of free customers that I want to start sending to. Currently we don't have a free login experience for Formspree, and we are working on shipping that now. Once it's live we can message existing users and encourage them to sign in.

    ๐Ÿ™ Where I need help:

    Looking to talk to agencies that are working on static sites. If you're working at an agency and wouldn't mind chatting for 20 min sweet. Bonus if you're in NYC

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    ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿพโ€๐Ÿ’ป WIP
    Envoy

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    • Develop sales strategies for prospects
    • Follow up & follow-through w/ my outreach.
    • Focused on these active prospect/leads.
    • Finish a sales deck.
    • Schedule a follow-up call to connect w/ decision-maker.
    • Book a discovery call.
    • Did a discovery call.
    • Reply to emails.

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    • traffic - 3
    • connections - 0
    • subscribers - 0
    • responses - 0
    • booked - 1
    • meetings - 1

    ๐Ÿ“ What are you doing today?

    1. Reactivate LinkedIn Sales Navigator trial.
    2. Reply to messages.
    3. Develop sales strategies for prospects
    4. Prospect then outreach to avoid the awkward hello & icebreaker shenanigans.
    5. Start part-time job training.
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        @jas_hothi Love to share but right now those strategies are founders specific. I am thinking about writing up a few lessons I learned the hard way last year. Once I get a little settled into with a process and new schedule I'll share more.

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    RetargetKit

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    Completed a blog post but couldn't publish it.

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    No results... :(

    ๐Ÿ“ What are you doing today?

    Will publish the post

    write a new one

    work on marketing

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    This month I'm working on growing Indie Hackers' milestones feature.

    โœ… YESTERDAY I recorded two episodes for the IH podcast with people who've posted some great milestones here. They went really well!

    ๐Ÿ† RESULTS were that I now have two fully-edited podcast episodes to release, and they'll be released in addition to my normal recording schedule. I also got to talk about the milestones feature in both of them. It's too early to say what the effects will be.

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ TODAY I'm switching transaction email provider from SparkPost to Postmark. This should help with sending milestone-related emails a little bit, but it's mostly for technical reasons.

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    www.michaelagreiler.com

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Finally finished a blog post I was working on for weeks. It turned out really well.
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Worked on the guest list for the podcast.
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Invited first guests

    ๐Ÿ† A tweet related to the new blog post on technical debt was well received and brought some interaction and followers.
    ๐Ÿ† A retweet from an influencer also brought new followers
    ๐Ÿ† reached 30 new subscribers for my podcast. Wooha! dance

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      I really want to know who your first guest is now!

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        It's big :-) Can't say more for now

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    Invoice and payment scheduler for Salesforce.

    โœ… What did you do yesterday? Deployed website with product information. Took basic MVP screenshots to post.

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results. Unfortunately very little results. Just a realization that we are in need of major revamping of our launching. Maybe a little hesitation that we are ready for a launch even though the product is ready for use.

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What are you doing today? Trying to get onto Product Hunt and betalist so we can get some beta users.

    We need Salesforce users who need a direct CC payment tool with invoicing features.

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    Day 10 for Pulsemetrics.io

    โœ… Yesterday we launched on Product Hunt, so most of my day was spent marketing that post and drumming up support from the communities I'm a part of

    ๐Ÿ† Pulse got 9 new signups! An all day record for us by far. Of those signups, 4 are set up to be regular users (we send email digests of daily metrics to those folks).

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Dealing with the new users and asking them for feedback. I was sidetracked a bit from everything not related to Pulse yesterday, so today I'll go back to trying to find startup founders to invest in for the coming months. Also will start preliminary planning on an event I'll host in the NYC area in the next couple of weeks.

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    โœ…Yesterday I started Google ads, reviewed my reddit ads' performance, and continued reading the Traction book.
    ๐Ÿ†Compared to not running ads previously, my site traffic has gone up 12x on only ~$30 of spend.
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธToday I'm reading more about traction and starting up some twitter ads.

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    Taormina Innovations

    โœ… Reached out to several new prospective small businesses about projects
    ๐Ÿ† 2 responses

    ๐Ÿ† Finalized a retainer agreement with my first client!
    โœ… Pitched a retainer to a second client

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Following up on yesterday's emails.
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Print 2 Press classes page (https://www.print2press.com/classes)

    Danger World (https://danger.world)

    โœ… Posted some on IndieHackers
    ๐Ÿ† Still at 94 user accounts
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Still hacking away at multiplayer! Friends CRUD operations are nearly done.

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    โœ… I edited and published a screencast on how to add Vue and SCSS to an a Phoenix app
    โš—๏ธ Tomorrow, I'll update my site's meta tags to give its articles better descriptions.

    This is day #20, so as promised I'll share metrics/progress! (day #1 stats here)

    • 1,919 YouTube subscribers
    • 6,514 unique visitors to the site in the first 20 days this month (last month was 5,384)
    • 1,306 email subscribers
    • 450 twitter followers
    • no change in paid subscribers

    So far, the only thing really changed a lot is site traffic, which is my one goal for the month. In recent days it's about 50% more than what it was on a typical day last month. Twitter has also been a minor win in that follower growth has about doubled in rate, though it's still very slow in absolute terms.

    I'm aiming for growth in search engine traffic, which may be delayed by a couple of months. For now I'll just trust the process and keep the same goal of daily publishing for the remainder of month. I'll do one more update at day #30.

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    Brighton Indie Hackers
    โœ…Sent a message out to the meetup group, pointing them to a tweet survey
    ๐Ÿ† Not much change, we're at 50 members now, only up a 1 member despite my efforts!
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Search for IH people here on IH, follow them on IH and Twitter
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธI just put a tweet out tagging in WiredSussex, a local tech focused community
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธSchedule a coffee meetup for the end of the month

    Mostly not much movement on things. A few extra Twitter followers. 4 people on the email list. 28 views on the website.

    Rosie.land
    โœ…Wrote a blog post - Sometimes I work on the weekend
    โœ…Shared blog post
    โœ…Like my new logo, anyone? ๐Ÿ‘€Nobody really cares, lol.

    ๐Ÿ† A couple extra email subscribers, web visitors slowly trickling in. Not nearly where I want to be.

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธGoing to write a blog post on the Notion template that I set up.
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Share blog post on my social, as per standard, tagging in Notion as an option

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      Hi Rosie, haven't seen your previous logo but I like this one ๐Ÿ˜.

      Read your article btw and must say that I recognize that wonderfull feeling of having the freedom to decide when you work. Problems arise when the work you do is so much fun you can't stop doing it. Sometimes the work life balance feels perfect and sometimes you know you're doing it wrong. My guess is that you can't prevent those times and I personally don't have a problem with them. As long as you return to that wonderfull feeling as soon as you can. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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        Coffee meetups are more introvert friendly :)

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    WP Link Bio

    ๐Ÿ“ธ Snapshots

    • ๐Ÿ”ป 31/1000 downloads
    • ๐Ÿ“ˆ 6/100 active installs
    • ๐Ÿ’ฐ 0/10 paying customers

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    • +7 downloads

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What are you doing today?

    • Engaging with targeted users on Social Media and online communities
    • Planning submission to Product Hunt (any advice? ๐Ÿ™ƒ)
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    Day 9 / 30 : www.powai.xyz #30daysofgrowth
    โœ… 2 more stickers in action.
    ๐Ÿ† +0 email subscribers (51 / 100)
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Will use +2 stickers.
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Looking for a local sponsor. Just trying.
    ๐Ÿ™ Any ideas on how to reach locals. The website idea is to build a local deals community.

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    Project: Google Analytics Alerts

    Goal: +50 users in July (including the free plan)

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Made a few follow-ups to the existing customers.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Checked Google Search Console and was positively surprised by some results upon essential keywords.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Defined some high-level client personas, continued thinking about outreach strategy which will be using for the next 3-6 months.
    ๐Ÿ‘‰ After a long time, will start to cold-email people. Will try to target them very well to avoid negative impact. The goal is to contact those only, who would actually benefit from the project.

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    ๐Ÿ“ˆ +14 total users in July.

    ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ What are you doing today?

    ๐Ÿ”จ The same ongoing task, continue conversations with customers, make follow-ups, try to get valuable feedback or even testimonials.
    ๐Ÿ”จ Finish outreach email setup, start cold mailing to possible prospects for domain/email warm-up (using a separate domain just in case).
    ๐Ÿ”จ Establish a workflow of daily prospects research/mailing/follow-up. For now, 100% manually.
    ๐Ÿ”จ Make a content plan to boost SEO further.

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    Project: PanelJam.com

    โœ… What did I do yesterday?

    • Posted content to: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 9Gag, Reddit, Imgur, Pinterest, Tumblr, Webtoon, DeviantArt
    • Engaged on: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, 9Gag, DeviantArt
    • Published Newsletter
    • Reached out for quotes (for my blog) from 28 Instagram Influencers
    • Scouted my next artist to interview for the blog

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    • +3 signups (2935/3200 goal)
    • Collected quotes from 8 artists so far. 20 to go!

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What am I doing today?

    • Posting content to: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 9Gag, Reddit, Imgur, Pinterest, Tumblr, Webtoon, DeviantArt
    • Engaging on: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, 9Gag, DeviantArt
    • Continuing brainstorming ways to promote PanelJam. Need to really speed things up to meet my goals.
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    Product Travlyng (https://travlyng.com/)
    Target: 100 well-followed travelers to join as Creators in our (beta) Travel marketplace

    โœ… Yesterday - Did not reach out
    ๐Ÿ† Results - We have 1 new traveler response
    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ Today - Reaching out again

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    Growing plausible.io
    Goal: 40 trial signups in June

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    • Talked to a customer who told me that they found Plausible organically by googling for 'google analytics alternatives'. This tells me I need to double down on SEO and content.

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What are you doing today?

    A couple things I didn't get to yesterday:

    • Talk a couple of trial users who didn't end up upgrading to a paid account. I'd like to see what's holding them back.
    • Send cold emails to 5 people.
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    ๐Ÿ“Œ Growing: markd.co

    โœ… What did you do yesterday?

    • [A] Drafted an article on the Why behind markd.
    • [B] Reached out to 1 startup founder. Sent out questions to 1 founder/investor who's agreed to it.
    • [C] Messaged a potential marketing/growth help who we had been talking to
    • [D] Coming back to IH and PH after a short new-born related hiatus ๐Ÿ˜‰

    ๐Ÿ† Yesterdayโ€™s results

    • [A] The article became our About page
    • [B] No replies from the new email outreach.
    • [C] No reply yet
    • [D] Yay traffic from IH! 75% of you bounced... do stay for longer next time! ๐Ÿคฃ
    • [misc] Traffic from Quora continued yesterday since posting on Monday ๐Ÿ™Œ

    ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ What are you doing today?

    • [A] Identify platforms where potential users reside for outreach - recruiters, agents (real estate agents, agencies), entrepreneurs, investors
    • [B] Email outreach at least 2 people
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      Subscribed to your infclub newsletter :)