I Tested Dozens of Marketing Channels. These 10 Actually Worked.
Launching a product is easy. Getting people to discover it is the hard part. After spending two years building startups and testing dozens of marketing channels, I realized that distribution matters more than shipping another feature.
In this article, I'll share the 10 platforms that consistently brought me users, traffic, backlinks, and customers. You don't need to be everywhere. You just need to show up where your audience already is.
best one is https://www.scrolllaunch.com/
“Show up where the audience already is” lands. Which of the 10 actually drove paying customers vs traffic — and was Reddit in the set?
yeah, traffic is just a vanity metric if it doesn't convert.
for paying customers, twitter/x has been #1 by far, followed by seo. directories have been surprisingly good too because people are already looking for products.
reddit drove a lot of traffic and some customers, but it's hard to scale. i burned through 13 accounts before figuring out what works 😭
13 accounts is brutal, thanks for the honest number.
The part I'm chewing on: you said reddit drove traffic and some customers but doesn't scale. Was the bottleneck finding the right threads, or the account/ban side once you started replying at any volume?
Asking because I built a tool for the first half, and if the real wall is the second half, that's a pretty important thing for me to know before I sell anyone a subscription.