How we tripled user activation rate on our SaaS, Where I can find jobs on Reddit.

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Where I can find jobs on Reddit by @rabbitsfoot8

Browse and join the following subreddits. Post about yourself if possible in subreddits like forhire, webdev, beermoney, digitalnomad, WorkOnline, workathome, RemoteJobr, remotepython, skipthedrive, remotejs, remotephp

• Use Freshworks.com/website-monitoring/ that offers these features for free: Monitor 50 URLs - 1-minute interval - 10 Global locations - 5 Public status pages. by @acheilies
• Use Appzi, a freemium tool, for collecting feedback. You can see it in action here by @primer
• Medium has launched a new feature that let publications launch their own newsletters. Publications can now share a link to the Newsletter sign-up page anywhere to promote and grow new subscribers more easily. And they can insert newsletter box in their medium stories. And users can subscribe in one click. (Official link)

Should I add "buy me a coffee" CTA on my SaaS site

Buy Me A Coffee button sends signals that you don't make enough revenue to sustain development / running the business. And if a buyer is looking for competitors and thinking of upgrading to a paid plan, it will be a huge red flag.
If you have free users, there's your chance to learn more about them and see what's keeping them from going paid. This prompt could be "book an onboarding call" instead, that would be more valuable than a $3 donation.

Churn is a Feature, Not a Bug by @8bit

Churn is an important part of the process in early-stage product development as you walk your way (slowly) toward product-market fit. Churn is absolutely necessary so that you can learn about what resonates with your customers and take that learning into actionable insights and data that will drive you product design process!

How we tripled user activation rate on our SaaS product by @khalidh

Activation rate before email campaign = 20%
FigPii created an email sequence of six different emails each for active and inactive users (that didn't install code). After sending this campaign for the last two weeks, they are seeing a consistent open rate of 83% and 48% open rate for active and inactive users respectively. And their activation rate increased to 62%. (SaaS makers, give it a read)

What's the difference between Facebook Shops vs. the shops they had before? by @jikajika

With the existing technology, 'Page Shops', the products really just appear as if they were another type of posted content within the businesses page. With 'Shops', the merchant can customize a full e-commerce experience, where the customer can browse all products and receive a similar experience to the one they would have on the merchant's website, without having to actually leave Facebook.
The same goes for Instagram. Currently most shopping is done through tagged posts, and most of these involve click outs. With Shops on Instagram, there will be a designated area where followers can explore all of the merchant's products and make a purchase directly within Instagram, with click outs only being a fallback option.

Any recommendations for useful Sketch plugins? by @piotrbartoszek

• Preview-in-browser (GitHub), super helpful for web designers ;)
• Artboard manager - Pretty basic plugin, but helps to keep things organized. Not perfect since it sometimes gets in the way and you cannot disable it per artboard/page.
• Potrace - Turns bitmaps into vectors. It doesn't provide a lot of customization, but the results are generally solid.
• Zeplin, Sketch runner, Rename it, Symbol organizer

How we automated 99% of our newsletter business by @cjezinne

By using various libraries and APIs to extract text from URLs and use NLP to Summarize Text (implement algorithms such as TextRank and LSA) then we use PugJS to create the HTML templates for each section of our newsletter.

"Indie" doesn't mean "bootstrapped" anymore by @csallen (MUST READ)

The 19 channels you can use to get traction written by Duckduckgo founder (Mentioned by @kevcon80 )

Email marketing strategy: The critical difference between strategies and tactics by @email_mastery

7 practical examples of how to improve CTA's by @mratiebatie

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