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Crossed $1K ARR

First revenue milestone since the first paying customer!

With the current number of paid subscribers, Curate has reached an ARR of over $1,000.

What's great is that I only feel like this is the beginning. Hopefully, the $10K ARR milestone comes even quicker.

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    Congrats! There are definitely not too many quality hashtag apps on Instagram. What have been your advertising channels?

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      Thank you!

      Everything has been organic so far, nothing paid or any advertising. The blog, Instagram, Medium, word of mouth and Google are the main channels at the moment.

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    Hey Justin, this is awesome! Strongly considering becoming a customer. Congrats on the milestone.

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      Thank you and that would be amazing John!

      Please let me know if you have any feedback. 🙏

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        I do have feedback! Sending you an email :)

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          I got your email!

          All I can say is WOW 💪

          I really appreciate the insightful feedback and commentary. I will definitely be taking action on some of the items you brought up in the near term.

          Thanks again!

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            hey, of course! figured it might be a little long for a comment :)

            ping me whenever! excited about what you're building.

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    Congrats! I was looking into calling my project Curate a few months ago. Glad I didn't!

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      Ha! Hopefully, you found something even better 😅

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    Good job Justin! Just curious, what caused you to host your blog on blog.curate-app.com and not curate-app.com/blog? Because I think the latter gives you lots of SEO benefits considering your niche. Thoughts?

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      Thanks!

      Curious to what evidence you have to back up that claim in 2020? Using a subdomain vs the /blog approach still has the same root domain which gives me SEO benefits across both.

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        Well, I think that if you are sure about it then no worries. Otherwise let me just point you to these two articles for more information if you would like to look into it more:
        https://www.searchenginejournal.com/subdomains-vs-subfolders-seo/239795/#close
        https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders

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          Good look 💪 Perhaps the subfolder is the best way to go for Curate.

          Technically it is harder since the blog is a Ghost app and my main site is React. I could always work on figuring it out though.

          I appreciate you looking out!

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            I'm not very conversant in the coding field. However, usually people just create a new folder in the host called /blog/ and then link from the site's menu to that URL. Of course, you won't need to code the blog from scratch, just install a CMS and you are good to go.

            I stumbled on this post today where the founder of Slidebean actually details out that part. Check the subtopic "Let's get to it; what do you need:" (https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/6miakj/last_year_we_invested_70k_in_content_marketing/)

            I think it will be of help. Cheers!

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