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Weekly growth notes - what have you been doing this past week?

by Rosie Sherry

I enjoyed the #30daysofgrowth challenge we did recently. I think it was a nice push in the right direction, but a daily commitment seemed too hard. What I loved seeing was people sharing what they were doing and updating us on their progress.

Now that we have a Growth channel I thought it would be useful to do this on a weekly basis (when there is something of value to report).

Also, because I want to ensure I participate every week I've decided to post updates on what I'm doing for the IH Community. I don't always make progress on my personal projects, but I'm definitely always up to fun things within this community!

Rosie Sherry's avatarRosie Sherry
on August 12, 2019
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    Great idea. Back from vacation this week with plenty of fresh growth ideas to try! Will have a good update for next week.

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    That's awesome - great idea!

    Some growth highlights from last week for the Sales for Founders course...

    • I appeared as a guest on two podcasts
    • I recorded and edited a podcast episode of my own (will be available here, hopefully tonight!
    • I updated the landing page to reflect the new course format
    • I edited and uploaded a new testimonial video to the landing page
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    Some of the highlights for this week for the IH community work I've been doing are:

    • I wrote an article for IH, one last review from me today before submitting to the team. I'm trying to write one article a week, but I'm not quite there yet. Encourage me with ideas and comments on the ones that I do publish! :)
    • I've been working on the IH LinkedIn page, we're almost at 500 followers! Help me push it over the edge? Mostly I've been posting things about interviews, Instagram Stories and articles.
    • I've been slowly putting quotes into images and posting them to Twitter and LinkedIn, the one with @bentossell did well! He's a popular man atm!
    • I'm tasked with keeping the community active, last week we hit 631 comments in one day, that's our highest number to date.
    • I recently started posting things to Twitter, I'm experimenting with different types of Tweets atm. I waved and got 184 responses, lol. And this Tweet getting people to pitch their products got 141 comments!
    Rosie Sherry's avatar Rosie Sherry
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    Yay this has returned! For me:

    Growing markd.co - relationship manager

    • Finalising our marketing team. I talked to a few candidates, read their writings, and now we've added two people to the team to help with growth!
    • Answering Quora questions as usual
    • Wrote about our failure on ProductHunt for talentsearch.cc on my personal blog (which has links back to markd)
    • Sought and gathered feedback on homepage from StartupSchool and on IndieHackers. Made adjustments (WIP)
    • A lot of discussions and re-design for our next big product milestone (Google Contacts import). I don't necessarily think it'll help us growth but I am hopeful that this makes the product more useful and people will come back to it more often.
    theBrandonWu's avatar theBrandonWu
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    I shipped multiplayer! I've been starting to focus on getting the word out. Some growth notes:

    • 200 site views for danger.world in the last 2 days.
    • Up to 154 user accounts! This is 50% growth in the last 3 weeks.
    • Did some initial Facebook advertising, followed by a larger boost. About to start with the Google Play Store/Apple App Store/Reddit advertisements.
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      Enjoying see this steadily growing :)

      Rosie Sherry's avatar Rosie Sherry
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    Here's my list:

    • Sent email to our blog subscribers
    • Sent emails to our users
    • Posted on our Twitter somewhat consistently
    • Updated our extension 5x to fix UX bugs and code bugs after the influx of new users from our ProductHunt launch --> greater retention = better growth.

    Focusing more on making sure our users don't install our extension and never use it / use it only once.

    vitabenes's avatar vitabenes
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      Curious to know what kind of things you are improving to improve retention.

      Rosie Sherry's avatar Rosie Sherry
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        • Emailed most users asking for feedback (the response rate was low, however, not sure about the efficiency of it)
        • Added new screens that show up when browser starts if certain conditions are met (haven't set up the extension --> here's a reminder to set it up, haven't used it in 3 days --> hey, you haven't used it in 3 days, here's how it can help you focus.
        • Posted on Twitter about our newest updates.

        Also importantly: analyzed anonymous usage data to actually see what the retention numbers are (will continue to analyze more).

        vitabenes's avatar vitabenes
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