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Day 12: 30 Days of Growth

It’s day 12 of the #30daysofgrowth challenge, how's it going?

Name your product and share...

βœ… What did you do yesterday?

πŸ† Yesterday’s results

πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ What are you doing today?

on July 12, 2019
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    Growing views on https://nathangrieve.com
    βœ… Yesterday I wrote 4 posts for quora and one post for Intermittent fasting

    πŸ† Intermittent fasting article didnt do as well as others - need to remain focused on startups/growth etc.. Excited to see how quora does.

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Today I wrote about a company that failed and took a half day as holidaying with partner.

  2. 2

    Day 12 for pulsemetrics.io

    βœ… Yesterday was mainly doing other tasks that I'd put off for a bit while I worked with Pulse. Went to find venues for an app launch party that we're having for a friend's new dating app, tried to find more startup applicants for our investment program at https://www.reliablebits.io/free/. Spent a bit of the later part of the day trying to find a niche for my NYC event later in the month.

    πŸ† Secured the necessary venues. Still looking for the best places to find applicants for this program, it's pretty crazy how hard it is to find applicants for us to invest in honestly.

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Had a couple meeting with potential investment opportunities in the morning, later today I'll try to reengage with Pulse users and get a weekly email out. Also going to hopefully nail down a theme idea and start finding speakers for this event.

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    πŸ“Œ Growing: markd.co β€” relationship management web app + browser extension

    βœ… What did you do yesterday?

    • [A] Draft marketing plan in preparation for marketing help at the end of month
    • [B] Continue ideation for retention + traction product features
    • [C] More writing on Quora

    πŸ† Yesterday’s results

    • [A] Discovering a new way to define our target user based on personalities as opposed to job titles. Need to dig deeper
    • [B] Working on community + utility approach (ie. glitch.com)
    • [C] New answers on Quora has not generated meaningful traffic. To be evaluated in a few weeks time
    • [D] Woot IndieHackers instagram feature is out!
    • [E] Additional painpoint research - enjoyed my call/discussion with @yhoiseth (thanks @rosiesherry for connecting!)

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ What are you doing today?

    Today will be a short day:

    • [A] Company offsite (aka meeting up with co-founder - we normally live in the opposite side of the world!)
    • [B] Digging into community + utility
    • [C] Set up call with growth marketer, plan discussion
  4. 1

    Day 12 / 30 : www.powai.xyz #30daysofgrowth
    βœ… Nothing
    πŸ† +0 email subscribers (51 / 100)
    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Looking for a local sponsor. Just trying for another giveaway.
    πŸ™ Any ideas on how to reach locals. The website idea is to build a local deals community.

  5. 1

    Target: getting 100 Creators for Travel Marketplace on https://travlyng.com/
    βœ… Yesterday - not much, took a break
    πŸ† Results - got a very well-known traveler's (10K Twitter followers) email response with lots of questions
    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Today - Going to a travel/tourism fair in our city. Organize work for the week.

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    https://www.michaelagreiler.com
    πŸ† Had around 400 site visitors. Some from the HN post of my blog post.

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Send Newsletter Email about new blog posts to subscribers
    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Made first test intro for podcast

  7. 1

    Brighton Indie Hackers
    βœ…Scheduled a coffee meetup for the end of the month
    Not much else to report. I'm hoping doing meetups at different times might attract different people.

    Rosie.land
    βœ…Published a blog post, 150 views as a result. It's ok, it was something I just threw together on Notion.
    πŸ† 723/4000 website visits, I'm behind on my goal.
    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈI realise it might just take one good blog post to help me hit that target, so I may focus on writing that over the next few days

  8. 1

    Project: Google Analytics Alerts

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

    βœ… What did you do yesterday?

    πŸ‘‰ Sent a few emails to possible prospects and reached out to several users with follow-ups.
    πŸ‘‰ Established a workflow of daily prospects research/mailing/follow-up.
    πŸ‘‰ Made one more feature from a customer request

    πŸ† Yesterday’s results

    πŸ“ˆ +17 total users in July.

    πŸ› οΈ What are you doing today?

    πŸ”¨ Start changing site content, update several blog posts for SEO
    πŸ”¨ Tweet about the new feature in @StatsGlitch

  9. 1

    Project: Tripetto

    After an ambitious start with the #30daysofgrowth challenge early this week it's getting more and more difficult to keep up with the good results. But we're hanging in there!

    βœ… Working on video tutorials and template forms

    πŸ† 2 people reaching out via Intercom

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ Updating website with video tutorials and form templates for smooth onboarding Tripetto

    For the other participants. Keep up the good work! πŸ’ͺ

  10. 1

    Danger World (danger.world)

    βœ… Thinking about shipping another game (https://taormina.io/gem-trader.png) and growing other parts of Taormina Innovations.

    πŸ† Flat. Still at 94 user accounts. Danger World was installed 33 times since this challenge began!

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ I need to go beat the drum! I have some client work to wrap up today, so I think my goal will be to get gameplay videos of Danger World recorded and uploaded to the app stores. Those are also a good thing to share on social media and see if anyone shares it.

  11. 1

    πŸ‘©πŸΎβ€πŸ’» WIP
    Envoy

    βœ… What did you do yesterday?

    • Do a discovery call.
    • Prospect research
    • Reply to a last-min canceled follow-up call.
    • Edit transcripts
    • Reply to emails.
    • Follow thru on a lead magnet.

    πŸ† Yesterday’s results

    • traffic - 2
    • connections - 1
    • subscribers - 0
    • responses - 1
    • booked - 0
    • meetings - 1

    πŸ“ What are you doing today?

    1. Prospect then outreach
    2. Evaluate & research my pipeline.
    3. Update my CRM.
    4. Organize feedback & customer insight into one doc.
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    Growing alchemist.camp

    βœ… What I accomplished today

    • I published a podcast and transcript on getting the most out of MOOCs
    • As planned, I've started my next screencast.
    • I spent some time studying my notes on my target customers and figuring out not just what their technical pain points are but trying to deduce what their "dream", the perfect world where those pains never even existed, would look like. This is for improving tutorials and how I pitch the site.

    βš—οΈ Alchemy to be done tomorrow

    • I'll create a written tutorial
    • Continue recording the screencast if it's not too noisy
    • Spend some time with a book on Ecto (a DB wrapper) I just bought, and deepen my understanding that crucial part of the Elixir ecosystem.
  13. 1

    Formspree.io Community

    βœ… What did you do yesterday?

    I'm up to 3 in person or video chat interviews with agency people. Learning lots of interesting things. Lots of ideas for new features unfortunately... and also found out some data about existing form alternatives.

    More support. Lots of support requests right now. I'm trying to be better at solving the problem on the spot instead of just triaging and writing bug reports.

    πŸ† Yesterday’s results

    @formspree on Twitter: +0, still 463

    @colevscode on Twitter: +0 to 593

    Formspree mailing list: +0 to 843

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ What are you doing today?

    IM GOING TO THE BEACH πŸ–πŸ–πŸ–

    πŸ™ Where I need help:

    What frequency do y'all send to your mailing lists? What is too much?

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      I think it's hard to say with emails. There are some lists, where people pay to get emailed every day. See https://substack.com/ for this kind of business. There are others where people just want one useful message per month.

      I try to focus more on whether or not the emails actually provide value for the recipients! Gary V's whole "jab-jab-jab... right hook!" thing.

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        Thanks for the tip. I wasn't familiar with the gary v thing, but here's a decent summary that I found:
        https://medium.com/@tannerjhunt/6-takeaways-from-jab-jab-jab-right-hook-8d3097072292

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    Project: PanelJam.com

    βœ… What did I do yesterday?

    • Posted content to: Twitter, Instagram, 9Gag, Reddit, Imgur, Pinterest, Tumblr, DeviantArt
    • Engaged on: Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, 9Gag, DeviantArt
    • Began being active on r/ArtistLounge...going to see how I can bring more value there.

    πŸ† Yesterday’s results

    • +5 signups (2948/3200 goal)
    • +2 blog post quotes from IG influencer artists

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ What am I doing today?

    • Posting content to: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 9Gag, Reddit, Imgur, Pinterest, Tumblr, DeviantArt
    • Engaging on: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, 9Gag, DeviantArt
    • Reaching out to more IG Influencer artists
    • Sending interview questions to this month's featured artist
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    WP Link Bio

    πŸ“Έ Snapshots

    • πŸ“Š 59/1000 downloads
    • πŸ“ˆ 9/100 active installs
    • πŸ’° 0/10 paying customers

    βœ… What did you do yesterday?

    • πŸš€ Launched on Product Hunt
    • Promoted PH post on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Groups
    • Engaged with people talking about the product

    πŸ† Yesterday’s results

    • πŸ”Ό 31 upvotes on Product Hunt
    • πŸ“Š +28 downloads
    • 52 comments on Facebook Groups
    • 5 shares on Facebook

    πŸ‘·β€β™€οΈ What are you doing today?

    • Engaging with people on PH, Social Media, and Facebook Groups