Chef Pun
Food Pun gear
After 3-4 days from launch last Sunday, I realized that despite getting my 1st sale, I need to ramp up designs and overall content and brand.
I have 3 targets over the next few weeks:
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Gain traction and SEO to increase site visits. Currently referrals are a crutch for lack of SEO, shout out to the IH community for supporting and looking at my work.
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Build a new design per week: the aim here is to make it a "thing" in which people can vote for the next design, propose puns and upvote eachother (which feeds into the next point)
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Increase traction on site: currently social referrals only stay on the site for less than 30s. I need to build more engaging content both aesthetically and in terms of actual text.
Any suggestions?
My facebook media post, Indie Hackers posts, and Hacker News posts led to some pretty decent traction today, launch day.
1 customer, and 4 close checkouts in that 1st day too. I am worried about conversion rate though for sure.
I want to get a bit more interaction with all the potential pun people out there and have some new ideas in terms of engagement.
One of them is trying out social participation like a massdrop-like suggestions box and voting system.
I have put in comment boxes on my shopify site, but I think i may need to do something a bit more customized for this.
Any tips for a quick and dirty way of getting this done on a simple shopify site?
I posted to Friends and Family on Social media.
I hadn't realized how great it would feel to sell my 1st product through my website, putting my conversion rate at 2,17% for the moment :)
I hope the Printful integration works well, it seems pretty seamless to make happen
Inspiration comes from everywhere.
I posted today in IH for the 1st time and got a bit of traction and some great tips
The IH milestone tool from creating the IH product led me to creating a Hacker news post, I have yet to see if it will be taken seriously, but it feels great to get it out there so quickly. What a great community.
I had been writing cooking puns for a while in a notebook, and so I figured why not make a t-shirt.
The niche I chose was one that I love, the intersection of food and humour. The kitchen is a very funny place, the pun game tends to be pretty strong, so why not, I thought to myself, create some products around it.
Welcome to my new project: Chefpun.com
I set it as a challenge to build a t-shirt brand in less than 4 hours including graphic design. I had been thinking about it for a while so when I found this:
https://www.abetterlemonadestand.com/how-to-start-an-online-tshirt-business-24-hour-guide-challenge/
I found my domain name, my niche, and went for it, using Shopify, Goddady and Printful as my dropshipping solution.
It went live 5 minutes ago...
I would love some feedback if any of you have a sec to check it out!!!
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I don't know how much SEO can be effective starting from scratch in 2019...I recently studied the competition. Even for low traffic long tail keywords (<1k per month), the first page results are always big websites.
Yeah was just checking out what goes into DA it’s an interesting phenomenon ! Thanks for the advice
Hmm that is interesting, I would love to hear more about this
I am not an SEO expert but I thought that all bloggers who tell you can have something (usually expensive) to sell to you.
Try it yourself with a tool like ubersuggest (it's free). Put some long keywords that you're interested in. It will say to you the domain authority and the number of backlinks that the websites that rank on page one have.
They usually have 50+ DA and hundreds of backlinks.
If you want to produce content to get email subscribers, that's another story but you should share it manually on relevant communities, forums, facebook group and so on because nobody is going to find it on google (at least until you've built some DA and backlinks)
That seems to be the best way to generate traffic at this stage indeed
You are not working on product market fit. You are working on the product.
What is the market? WHO exactly should use your product? What pain does it solve? You should do some direct sales until you nail that down. Good luck.
Thanks, I agree that the title might be a bit misleading.
I think there are two issues I am trying to tackle:
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Thanks, for the key questions
I agree, I think these axes of research are key to move forwards