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Day 16: 30 Days of Growth

It’s day 16 of the #30daysofgrowth challenge, what are you doing today?

Name your product and share...

✅ What did you do yesterday?

🏆 Yesterday’s results

👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

on July 16, 2019
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    Project: Tripetto

    ✅ Thinking about a better name for our app. What do you think of Studio?
    ✅ Setting a goal for this week; 2 new paid customers for our Wordpress plugin. Exponential growth is the target here. 💪
    ✅ Improving the website (ongoing)

    🏆 Got another review in an article about our Wordpress pluging (free publicity again!). Really great to see people reviewing your product and seeing the potential.

    👷‍♀️ Finishing new features (coding, code reviewing, testing)
    👷‍♀️ Improving the website (ongoing)
    👷‍♀️ Starting to research the opportunities of an article about a comparison between a competitor and Tripetto. Thinking of a side by side video to visualize the benefits of using our plugin.

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    I've decided not to post results everyday, partly because they are a bit depressing (haha), but I also just want to get on with doing and then reviewing results weekly or so.

    Brighton Indie Hackers
    👷‍♀️ Today I'm hosting a dinner meetup, we're expecting 10 people to show up, it show be fun!

    Rosie.land
    👷‍♀️ I wrote a blog post about something I've posted on IH a couple of times related to LinkedIn page growth
    👷‍♀️Posted it to GrowtHackers, last post I posted there didn't result in anything
    👷‍♀️Copy/pasted blog post into /marketing reddit. I didn't put a link, but I may add it in afterwards or as a comment. I'm waiting to see the response to it first.

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      Thanks for sharing about your LinkedIn page growth! We have very few followers there to our page. Would it still be of any use trying to be more conversation driven? How do none followers find your updates? Search and hashtags?

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        I think you should get followers before posting conversations, otherwise conversational posts will have no comments.

        To get followers, things I've done and would recommend, I'm doing this for IH LinkedIn page too:

        • post useful things without links more often than with links
        • talk about people and tag them in
        • try to find some relevant hashtags
        • try to find relevant posts to comment on
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          Great actionable tips. Thanks @rosiesherry!

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    Growing plausible.io – simple, privacy-focused web analytics
    Goal: 15/40 trial signups

    ✅ What did you do yesterday?

    • Spent most of the day debugging an issue for a customer. I think I'm mostly done with that.
    • Submitted an article of mine to a larger blog

    🏆 Yesterday’s results

    0 new signups

    👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

    • Will find 3 blog posts about analytics tools, and contact the author to get on the list
    • Feature work
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      That's a very good lander - One thing I felt missing though is a comparison table with GA. I mean since your tagline mentions about being a GA alternative, shouldn't there be a comparison?

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        Thanks, that's a very good point! I'm writing it down :)

        I have thought about creating a separate landing page to compare with Google Analytics. Hoping that page would rank for keywords like 'google analytics alternative'.

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    Day 16 / 30 : www.powai.xyz #30daysofgrowth
    ✅ Looked for local Instagrammers.
    🏆 +0 email subscribers (51 / 100)
    👷‍♀️ Looking for a local sponsor. Not much luck. Been talking to local shops.

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    Project: SaaS Pegasus
    Metric: Sign ups

    Bit of a slow day yesterday because I had a big backlog to catch up on.

    ✓ What I Did Yesterday

    • Fixed failing payments UX
    • Added screencast to docs and landing page
    • Clarified CTAs on landing page and during onboarding

    💪 What I Plan to do Today

    • Make screencast documenting Pegasus’s features

    📈 Sign Up Count: 52 (+1)

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    👩🏾‍💻 WIP
    Envoy

    What did you do yesterday?

    • Reply to messages.
    • Research on a few prospects.
    • Book a few discovery calls for the week.
    • Add value to my replies, follow-ups, and calls. Work on defining a playbook.

    🏆 Yesterday’s results

    • traffic - 6
    • connections - 1
    • subscribers - 0
    • responses - 3
    • booked - 2
    • meetings - 0

    📝 What are you doing today?

    1. Do discovery calls
    2. Schedule a few explore calls for next week.
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    Maybe this is anti-growth move, but yesterday I turned off my ads because my website wasn't converting them to users at a high enough rate. I'm going to take a couple days to make changes to the website copy and run a pricing test via surveys to see if there might be an issue with how I'm pricing. I learned about the Van Westendorp pricing survey which will hopefully give me the results I need.

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      That made me think of the not to do list discussion I started recently.

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    Growing alchemist.camp one happy camper at a time
    Goal: site traffic (reported every 10 days)

    ✅ What I accomplished today

    • Podcast started, still need to edit it
    • Coding part figured out for next screencast (had some Webpack + Vue snags)
      ❌ Tutorial not written, will publish something before sleeping!

    ⚗️ Alchemy to be done tomorrow

    • I'll record the screencast
    • I'll do some exploration of how Rails, Laravel and other communities are working with Vue + Tailwind and hopefully find some improved ways of doing the same with Phoenix
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    Https://www.software-engineering-unlocked.com

    First complete interview done

    https://www.michaelagreiler.com

    Blog post prepared for tomorrow

    My little one is totally sick 😭 so I’ll take it slow this week.

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    Growing FREJA NYC - Vegan leather handbag brand https://frejanyc.com/blog/
    ✅ Followed-up with the interviewees who participated last week
    ✅ Engaged in social media for promoting Freja

    🏆 Got few more subscribers to the blog

    👷‍♀️ Looking for other ways to promote our blog on Social media

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    Day 16 for pulsemetrics.io

    ✅ Yesterday I sent emails to every person who had signed up for Pulse but was not yet an actual user. Also sent info about the project to some early stage startups.

    🏆 Got one reply from a guy in Germany who we'll have a call to walk through the setup process tomorrow. No new subscribers, will have to work a little harder for the remainder of the week. Early stage startups replied back with some kind remarks, but they didn't show extreme enthusiasm for the product.

    👷‍♀️ Today I'm going to update our contact lists and send out an update email to our subscribers. Was thinking about recycling a blog post from earlier in the year, but I only sent one out yesterday for a separate blog so don't want to spam the groups I'm in. I'll probably send it out in some other groups and then circle back to my Slack channels tomorrow.

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    CloudSPRT.com - A customer support and success tool.

    ✅ What did you do yesterday?

    Responded to emails and played catch-up.

    🏆 Yesterday’s results

    About 5% Page Views increase (0 Sign-Ups)

    👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

    Creating blog post and cold-emailing more companies.

    Change Analytics from Google Analytics to see if this improves page speed.

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    📌 Growing: markd.co — relationship management web app + browser extension

    ✅ What did you do yesterday?

    • [A] Think through community + utility
    • [B] Consider paid ads - Google Ads, BuySellAds.com
    • [C] 5 email outreach

    🏆 Yesterday’s results

    • [A] Have a much clearer idea of how this should work. Awaiting further discussion with co-founder
    • [B] Did not get to this. Wait to have discussion with growth consultant next week first.
    • [C] No replies yet

    👷‍♀️ What are you doing today?

    • [A] Finish Startup School joining form/application, participate in forum
    • [B] Persona work in prep for marketing discussion with consultant next week
    • [C] More email outreach, Quora writing
    • [D] Review Gist cross posting effectiveness.
    • [E] Update info for Markd on AlternativeTo
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      Also, the mortgage advisor forum, let me know if you need some advice on that.

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          Just remember, communities someone leading and pushing for conversations to happen otherwise it will die a sad sad death. :)

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              It doesn't have to be the same person leading it, but there always needs to be someone there leading the conversation, imho. Or it will die. It's what I keep seeing. If someone doesn't lead/push then things die.

              Same with bootstrapped businesses. If the founder(s) don't lead and push for their vision, it will (probably) fail.

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                  Yeah, I've looked into all sorts of models in the past. I think I've probably used many ideas from many different approaches.

                  My rosie approach is 'do what's right, be nice, find someone to take responsibility/lead, create a nice environment, treat people well, apply common sense and find people that care approach'

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