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Marketing on Discord to gain 10-20k new users fast and easy by @doutatsu

Maksim had success with marketing on Discord either by friendship with Discord server owners/admins or sponsoring a giveaway for 30-50$. For his project, he had 10-20% conversion rate by promoting on a dozen servers totaling 100k users. This brought him additional 10-20K users.

My playbook for building $4mil bootstrapped SaaS product by @gaufire

Gaurav of JustCall.io (a cloud phone system) shared these 20 points

1. Pick a multi-billion dollar industry growing double-digit y-o-y. The benefit of this is that you are entering into a market with proven demand and every year a substantial amount of new revenue is coming into the market. Eg. CRMs, Pet Insurance or Pet Care, Digital Signatures etc.
2. Learn to code/get someone to write code for you. This was very important probably 3-4 years back but nowadays, you can also get started without learning to code. There are so many no-code solutions available like Webflow, Zapier that you can build your minimal viable product without knowing to code at all.
3. Build a good product -awesome product takes time so let's start with good MVP (minimum viable product) - a product that does at least one key thing well.
4. Figure out early distribution channels (integrations, co-marketing, podcast, youtube, Reddit, Quora, Linkedin connections, twitter or any industry-specific forum or event)
5. Bring in 10 unknown customers (not friend/family) by becoming a shameless salesperson
6. Offer THE BEST EVER customer experience to your early customers. Impress them with your care and love. To provide 24/7 support from very early on, I hired an experienced chat support rep from Upwork.
7. Give product demos to each & every new customer and learn about their use case during this process
8. Ship new updates & features on a daily basis based on the feedback
9. Write help guides and create videos for every single feature and account setup
10. Create process around sales (email templates, onboarding checklist) and customer support
11. Hire 1 for sales and 1 for support to start following these processes
12. Coach new hires every day and enable them to take decisions on their own. Put together few docs around processes, FAQs, expectations, etc really help with decentralizing decision making
13. Start working on customer success (proactive customer support) - ensure every new customer is getting the most out of the product. In the early days, track all the basic actions you expect customers to take and send emails if the customer is not taking those expected steps. This really helps in customer onboarding, conversion and also, UX improvement.
14. Setup NPS (Net Promoter Score) collection and measure NPS every month. There are 100s of NPS tools available in the market. It is basically asking your customer about how likely on the scale of 0 to 10, he or she will share your product with others.
15. Create a process around handling 0 - 3, 3 - 8 and 9 - 10 ratings eg. send emails, schedule calls or send in-app messages
16. Once some basic process is built, hire someone to handle customer success
17. When someone gives you 9/10 on NPS, it is the best time to ask for a review on G2, etc. Make sure to make most of this time-bound opportunity
18. Starting to get some +ve reviews? Add those on your website
19. Start generating some paid traffic via Google Ads/Facebook. Sales, Support & Customer Success processes will take care of the new traffic
20. Once you start getting some new paid customers via these paid channels, it is time to hire someone for product marketing (you can do this earlier as well). Scale paid marketing & content marketing.

Are you having luck promoting your newsletter with ads? by @cohoist

Your best bet for converting ad clicks into subscribers is to design your ad around a lead magnet that your target audience would find interesting. This works better than designing your ads to directly promote your newsletter.
Good lead magnets help lure people in by giving them something they want in exchange for their email address. You can keep it short and easy to digest - as long as it provides value, it'll be effective.

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• Poker Now - Poker with no download and no registration, just send the room link and start to play with your friends. by @samuelsimoes

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