Delta Sales App

I'm a big fan of Statamic

That all depends on what you want to achieve with your personal website.

I created mine in HTML with Bootstrap templates (from https://startbootstrap.com/themes/portfolio-resume/) as this route was less of a learning curve for me than Wordpress PHP and also I didn't need the advanced functionality Wordpress offered.

WordPress definitely wins with ease-of-use. Plain HTML is simple and straightforward, but getting started on WordPress is trivial. The only downside of WordPress is that you need to pay for a server, whereas plain HTML could be stored statically on a server like Netlify for free.

Been hosting on Github and Gitlab pages as well as stand-alone Jekyll for something like 5+ years now. It works really well for me since it allows me to write posts in my favorite editor (Vim) and easily make updates to the blog via the developer workflows I'm already used to.

Thank you for your advice. Really appreciate it.

I'm normally a big fan of making custom sites (due to my programming background). However, i would also go for something fast to set up like wordpress or a gatsby site with a themeforest template of some sort to get a business idea up and running. I would look for a custom site when needed after it's running and validated.

Have a look at static websites . You can build them with toold like GatsbyJS or Hugo. They do require some programming knowledge though.
I found static website to be incredibly performant, secure and very good for SEO.

Thank you for you view .

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Yes most certainly. However it could depend on how well you execute the sales and marketing strategy, and how well developed your product is in comparison to your competition.

Take any SaaS product today. Whether it be website analytics, CRMs, etc... Several of them, if not most, will offer a free version or trial version of the software in order for you test it out.

Two of the top of the market analytics software for example, that I really am quite mad about are Clicky, and Databox.com. Clicky for example, provides a free trial (I believe for 30 days) that gave me a taste of the amazing premium version. Once 30 days were up, it switched to the free version. Which is still good.

So offering a free version, will help you to retain an interested, and prospective user base, while helping you very easily up-sell other products and services.

In short, without a doubt, free versions I'd say, should be the foundation of an SaaS business' marketing strategy.

On a side note, *smiles, yes I know Google Analytics exists, I run Clicky.com and GA parallel.

I signed up for WaveApps.com ->accounting (free service) and later on used their Paid payroll service.

I use Zoho expenses section (free service) which made me aware of their paid services and i will pay for them future as need arises.

If you can impress the client with your free service there is a possibility that they will subscribe to your paid services.

Most discussions by experienced startup founders that I've listened to (I remember one on "Startups for the rest of us") tend to favour not doing a free version. In general the arguments seem to be:

• It's one more thing to develop and maintain, using up resources.
• Most people using the free version would not pay for a paid version.
• Free users often feel they're entitled to all the things we expect should be paid, e.g. prompt fixes and updates, good support.
• If you ever decide to start charging for the free version, you lose a lot of goodwill.

But there are exceptions, e.g. DropBox and many others, so it depends on your situation and strategy to an extent.

I usually start by looking at what my competitors are doing and how they are doing it.

Indie hackers, product hunt and reddit are the best places to start looking/asking for suggestions. Social media communities help a lot.

Connect with brilliant minds in the industry, grow your network and build your profile with time. People are always willing to help you if they see that there is some potential.

👋Happy to help and always eager to network.

Currently @ https://paddle.com/ so have plenty of advice to share if you wanted to talk further 🚀

People seem uninterested in responding to new members and helping to solve their problem.

My own experience on IH doesn't bear that out. I actually find the reverse to be true.

I hope startup like us will get necessary suggestions and updates.

Something I've noticed (on IH and elsewhere) is that the quality of advice/comments depends to a large degree on the 'quality' of the question.

Clarity, sufficient background information and clear scope are super important. Spend some time on getting those parts right for your questions, and I've no doubt you'll receive excellent responses on IH.

Good luck!

Can you tell us a bit more about Delta Sales App (this is the company you're referring to, right?)

In short, you have a couple of options to reach new customers:

Organic SEO: Takes at least 6 months and continous effort in building attractive & valuable content that answers questions of your well-defined target audience.

Part of this could also be guest blogging. Are you on HARO (Help a reporter out)? It provides stories form journalists looking to find content creators and you can apply to get some media coverage.

You could also try to find sites where your audience hangs out (sales managers etc.) - Do you know Saleshacker.com? Maybe you can collaborate with them on some content for their blog.

Retargeting: More affordable than Paid Search Results on Google, but you need to have already a good amount of traffic.

And last, but not least: Direct Sales :)