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Looking for advise for a marketing strategy to grow my business

I am currently running https://inferrd.com which is profitable but not growing fast. All sales come from AdWord and some random google searches.

I can't figure out to bring more people to our website. I've realized that I suck at marketing.

Looking for advise on marketing strategies that would work with my business.

on May 12, 2021
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    Long Term :
    SEO -- Figure out what your ideal customers are typing into Google and write blogs posts specifically answering those question, in depth, better than the 10 answers that Google currently shows for those questions. Do this on company blog first, the pages that do well, make videos for them and put on Youtube.

    Short Term:
    Go where your customers hangout. It can subreddtis, or FB groups, Indie Hackers, or Twitter. Find them out, talk to them about their problems, help them out, then talk about your product.

    Evergreen : this works both short and long term
    Guest post on prominent blogs and publications . Do podcast interviews, newsletter mentions.

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    Random ideas off the top of my hat:

    • Write tech tutorials on ML topics, e.g. TensorFlow, and share them on Hacker News, relevant subreddits, Twitter, etc. while slowly building up that SEO juice. Mention your platform in these articles but don't make it the main topic.
    • Build small educational open source projects with a one-click deploy to your platform. Then write about them.
    • YouTube tutorials might also work.
    • In general, tutorial content seems to work pretty well for developer-focused businesses. That's why DigitalOcean pays people to write tutorials.
    • Cold outreach if you want to get some bigger customers
    • Sponsor newsletters, podcasts, etc.
    • Write guest posts for tech blogs
    • Get onto other people's podcasts and talk to them about ML
    • Answer people's ML questions on Indie Hackers / StackOverflow / Reddit

    I'm sure there are more. I've seen multiple people mention the book Traction but I haven't read it myself yet. I will when it's the right moment in the journey of making my own product.

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      Thanks a lot @nikwen I'll try those great ideas!

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        You're welcome. I'd love to hear how it goes. Feel free to keep me updated.

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          Absolutely!

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      Some good ideas! But none of these are strategies - these are tactics.

      Strategy is how you plan to grow your business or solve a business problem by:

      • gaining insights,
      • understanding your target market,
      • identifying what they care about,
      • identifying value props that align with these
      • creating a brand message

      Once you've done this you can look into the tactics and channels that align with it.

      If you jump straight into tactics, you're likely to end up in a similar situation as there is no guiding principle for the business other than "try another tactic or channel and see if it works".

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    theos, what are you building

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      We are building a cloud for ML APIs.

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        i was at google for 20 years