Early on, you won’t have an audience. There are simply not enough eyeballs to spread the word. These programs initiate 2-5% of your audience to take the leap of faith and tell someone else about your product. If you have only 100 visitors a day, what 2 people will spread the word? It is not worth your engineering effort at this point. And if you disagree with me you are scared shi... less of real marketing. Some engineers spend time coding because of their real fear of marketing.
But I've seen people share one of my products in forums because they liked it, would be nice to incentivize the sharing.
I also wonder if I should send out periodic "coupons" / deals to users who signed up but did not convert. Unfortunately stripe checkout doesn't make it a one liner to add coupons, I think will need to build out my own flow.
I've never used but Voucherify is API for refarral programs.
Building features does not drive sales. Aggressive marketing does. Referral programs are for mature business with big audiences.
interested to hear why you think that's the case
Early on, you won’t have an audience. There are simply not enough eyeballs to spread the word. These programs initiate 2-5% of your audience to take the leap of faith and tell someone else about your product. If you have only 100 visitors a day, what 2 people will spread the word? It is not worth your engineering effort at this point. And if you disagree with me you are scared shi... less of real marketing. Some engineers spend time coding because of their real fear of marketing.
I think coupons idea is the best to promote the product. I'm doing testing on my website of coupons providing, you can see the page here https://hackaday.io/project/174120-first-coding-eobi-project
I have yet to see referral programs work. The exception is hotjar. It seems they had a massive audience pre launch. Do you have a massive audience?
no I don't
But I've seen people share one of my products in forums because they liked it, would be nice to incentivize the sharing.
I also wonder if I should send out periodic "coupons" / deals to users who signed up but did not convert. Unfortunately stripe checkout doesn't make it a one liner to add coupons, I think will need to build out my own flow.