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Generate 10 marketing ideas for your product in 1 minute

We made a Free tool to help Indie Founders with marketing.

It solves any marketing problem in 1 minute, and it's Free.

How it works: describe your product and your marketing problem. Get 10 ideas to solve this problem. Easy as it is.

Also, we're live on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/virtual-cmo

Would love to get your support & feedback!

posted to Icon for group Building in Public
Building in Public
on June 19, 2023
  1. 3

    Nice Idea! Much Appreciated to you.

  2. 3

    Hi, this is super cool! How did you come up with the idea? Did you do any user research with marketers or people in the space, or did you assume the idea is good and launch it?

    1. 1

      Thank you!

      All our products are focused on Marketing for Solopreneurs (https://makerbox.club/) . We have a marketing background + always talk with our target audience. Does it count as constant research? 😄

  3. 2

    Really simple and useful product.

  4. 2

    Thanks for sharing this helpful idea!

  5. 2

    Congratualtions!! Add your product to https://saasbaba.com . It is a free AI tools & Microsaas directory.

  6. 2

    nice concept and good advice

  7. 2

    Nice concept and good broad advice, it's just missing some of the marketing / execution nuances for each category so would be good to be able to really drill down into an idea. I also ran what I'm guessing are very similar prompts in Bing and the answers had a lot of crossover. Would be good to tighten your prompts so that they provide specific niched advice quicker than I can get elsewhere. For example you could have your AI run the prompt but before delivering it, re-run it back through the AI to niche it and then render it out. I like the idea though.

  8. 2

    It took a bit longer than I was expecting but it's alright! In my case the advice is pretty generic, though, amd in true chat gpt style it missed some details in my question. Maybe it would be beneficial to focus on less- obvious solutions

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      What are the "less-obvious solutions"? Can you give any examples?

      The problem is that Solopreneurs don't do even simple marketing activities. There's no reason to give them too complex advice or costly solutions.

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        Hi there! No problem.

        So, I don't remember exactly what I asked, but I tried to be a bit more specific about my problem which is basically "I have problems motivating myself to use social media". For context: I already have a lot of social media stuff ongoing but I'm an introvert so it's hard for me to push myself to really use it to its full potential and I know it's hurting me.

        What I expected:
        So I was expecting maybe advice about, for example, time-blocking techniques or automation tools, that sort of thing - those techniques to, you know, motivate myself to do it, or set systems in place to automate some of the processes.

        What I got instead:
        Instead I just received a list of things on social media I can do (a lot of which I already do). Furthermore, as someone who already uses SM, I just felt was really generic and not specific-enough to really help someone create an effective social media strategy.

        It was like "Make a YouTube channel" which, okay, yeah but what kind of content should you post? how often? how do you find your audience and grow your channel - it's not like people just magically find you. You need to create and schedule content consistently and then find ways to promote that channel .

        It also told me to "Make a Facebook group" but, again, how do you find people, how do you engage with them in a meaningful way, what kind of things can you post to engage them? Half the battle with marketing is setting yourself apart from the crowd since there's millions of others doing the exact same thing.

        I just felt the ideas were the same ones anyone with half a brain would come up with. I think anyone who's been struggling to fix a marketing problem for a while would have already considered the solutions it suggested.

        Maybe you can tweak the prompt somehow to suggest little example plans about how to carry-out the suggestions to help people or something, although I don't know that may not be relevant for all "problems".

        It's cute though!

        I hope this helps.

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          So just another thought about this:

          Maybe the answer isn't changing your app in any way, but just changing what YOU say it does, since right now you're saying the app will "solve any marketing problem in 1 minute".

          Maybe you need to re-work your tagline about what the app actually does:

          You have your project, now brainstorm / find some ways to get that product noticed in the world.

          You yourself mentioned in your reply that "Solopreneurs don't do even simple marketing activities" so if the goal of this app is to just give people basic ideas about how to market their product and reach their target audience, maybe say that it does that.

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    Very cool idea! Great interface, very understandable and simple.

    Although, from a web design perspective, there are some minor tweaks you can do! UX is probably the second most important thing after having a useful product. There's a few things I can say about the color choice. The background (bright purple) should be a little less eye catching, due to its lack of content, so I would change it to #4353ff (or something similar). Same remark I can say about the banner with "get access now" button. Black is a color that doesn't bother the eye, so I would replace the banner background color (because you want to draw attention to it) by a white color instead, something like #f7f3f6. As for the text, make it black. For the section where you have the 10 ideas, basically give it a black-grey background and give its text a color that I mentioned previously (#f7f3f6). As for the contour of each idea, you can use the same color as for the background (#4353ff).

    Hope this helps draw more clients. By the way, congratulations on the launch) Keep it going!

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      Thank you for the advice!

  10. 2

    Nice solution! It is just beginning...

  11. 2

    Nice post! If cool tools interest you, microsaasdb.com has 1700+ money making new saas tools including lots of marketing tools with generic free tiers. Worth a try!

  12. 2

    Great little tool and brilliant way to gather insight into what marketing challenges people need help with :-).

  13. 2

    Tried it. Love how simple and easy it is to use and I must say, the ideas were quite good!

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      Thank you, glad you liked it!

  14. 2

    Hey, @sveta_bay. Thank you for sharing. It is very sleek and straightforward, and I love how you connected it with the MakerBox.

    I want to provide a small piece of feedback: after the submission, show the user's inputs on the results page.

    Congratulations on launching another great tool. I'll be a MakerBox customer soon.

    Cheers.

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      Good idea, thank you!

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    We'll have to try it, we're having a webinar tomorrow and not so many registrations)

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      Hope it will help 😎

  16. 1

    Very nice and inspiring!

  17. 1

    I tried it, some suggestions were good. It would be nice to have a bit more details/tips for each suggestion, as "use LinkedIn" is a bit broad and hard to get started with.

  18. 1

    Damn good product! CMO

  19. 1

    I was skeptical, but it actually worked like a champ! Great tool.

  20. 1

    I just tried it, looks fun to use

  21. 1

    Looks nice! I am also on Phunt today! Exciting day!!!

  22. 1

    Tried it out and it actually gave some good advices. Very nice!

  23. 1

    Great idea! Thanks for sharing

  24. 1

    That's fantastic! I really appreciate the fact that you offer the opportunity to generate a few ideas before being directed to a CTA page. It's refreshing to have the chance to try it out first, rather than being immediately prompted to make a purchase. Additionally, I took the time to explore Maker Box, and I think that's an awesome selection of highly useful digital products. Virtual CMO is truly an effective strategy to get to know all of the other products. Love it!

  25. 1

    What's the ultimate goal with this? Right now, you aren't capturing revenue or even emails - so how will you build upon it?

  26. 1

    Thank you so much @sveta Kindly Suggest a free tool for creating authentic reviews.
    Example: AuthReviews

  27. 1

    Exactly what I'm looking for. Quick question though, your post drives traffic to Foundrpal, and then the upsell offer in that page goes to Makerbox. Was wondering what the connection b/n the two is, is it both owned by your company and what is the advantage of having 2 different domains?

  28. 1

    Looks simple and is an amazing tool! Supported your launch on PH.

  29. 1

    Better than real marketer 🙂

  30. 1

    Looks awesome. I was in search of it.

  31. 1

    Excellent idea! I tried it, approved it, and upvoted it.

  32. 1

    Man, this is so good! I love it. Thank you :)

  33. 1

    Very nice! What it didn’t suggest to me is—create a free tool that is relevant to your market ;-)

  34. 1

    Nifty idea, I love this - well done.

  35. 1

    Very cool idea! Great interface, very understandable and simple.

  36. 0

    Quire generic advice.

    1. 1

      Can you give an example of non-generic advice?

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