Using Fiverr to promote SaaS
Today I browse fiverr and I saw an opportunity to sell SaaS or at least getting early user. Let's say you sell podcast recording software, in fiverr you can create offer "I will give honest feedback & review on your podcast, plus giveaway free 3 month podcast recording software".
Maybe you only charge $5 for quick feedback, but it's amazing opportunity to connect with your targeted audience, and if they love your software, they might extend their subscription.
what do you think ?
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This sounds like a great idea. Infact, there are many advantages to this other than initial customers:
Do for it. Even we are planning to do this for reviewhornet.com :)
Yes 100% agree with you. I already submit my gig on fiverr :) hopefully I can get good result and tell my experience in here.
Good luck with your product.
I think it can be good to validate some ideas, but I don't think it is a scalable method.
Yes, it’s not scalable, but I will try it to get early users. Btw, are you indonesian?
yes i am!
Salam kenal :) Happy to hear more indonesian join to indiehackers. Good luck with your project
I think this will be a failure.
Can you tell me the reason?
Marketing is not something that success is easily managed on a outsource basis with contractors or freelancers. About 99% of SaaS gets early customers by the founders rolling up the sleeves and doing cold outreach. Top Growth Managers discuss the early days and while each has a story that is individual, each used cold outreach. Three exceptions to the rule (1) Organic via content marketing (2) Build a huge audience in a newsletter (3) Use a service like appsumo. Furthermore, most freelancers are copy-cat workers, reading advice somewhere on the internet and charging you to try this. My suggestion, get a marketing coach, this can be sourced at about $500 a month ( https://www.growthmentor.com/ ). Read this book: Traction by Gabriel Weinberg before you start. Everything is a test. You test many ideas all month long, keep data and look for success patterns. Some test more than 30 ideas before they find something. Keep this in mind : Product to channel fit.
Sorry, but I think you don’t get what I mean with using fiverr to get early users. Please read carefully, I don’t say outsource marketing to fiverr freelancer, but becoming freelancer on fiverr to get early user.