Reached $100 MRR
by Elad ShahamThis milestone was much more difficult than I anticipated.
But it really makes me happy that there are so many people who decided to pay for https://SyncThemCalendars.com. I need to find ways to get to the next revenue milestone faster.
Funny thing is that existing users love the product and convert to paying users really well. But I seem to be having a problem getting more traffic to the website. Most of the traffic comes from Quora, from relevant questions I've answered.
Tried PPC and it was awful. Planning to give it another try after the current round of features I'm adding to the product. Also, the homepage needs some love, waiting for a designer friend to help me with that task.
I also have some thoughts around content marketing and collaboration with relevant productivity blogs, but so far I've done very little to promote this.
Would love to get more ideas from this wonderful community.
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This came by a few times here: https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
(Also, the link of your product has a space in the url, making it invalid.)
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That's great starter boost pack for launch product! Thanks
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@almarklein interesting.
I believe I visited that list in the past, probably time for trying it again...
Thanks for reporting the issue with the space in the URL, fixed.-
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NP. And congrats on the milestone! I hope to be able to announce the same milestone too someday :)
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I would like a simple service that sync a specific calendar event between iCal and Android Google Calendar which can be shared by numerous people.
Is this what your service does?
If it is it's great! I've been searching for a service like this!!
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Congrats man! keep it up! As other have mention, maybe a video or gif can go a long way on your home page.
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I like the simplicity of the home page, but a demo would be much better. A simple gif/video before any text, simply showing syncing two calendar accounts would be neat
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Congrats!
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Elad,
Congrats on your success.
I was able to go over your landing page. It's simple and nice but I feel it doesn't pass enough
details about what it does.How about adding product images and demos?
My opinion though.
- Jamiu
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@jamiuoloyede I agree. Already working on a new homepage.
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I have problems to understand what's the USP of your service while looking at your website. What can I achieve that's not possible by using the share feature of, for example, Google calendars for free? So users that come to your site without having learnt about it in Quora, will have trouble to understand what the benefits are. This could explain your bad experiences with PPC.
The other problem you've mentioned is low overall traffic. Your website is built JS-only (react I think), without server side rendering as far as I can tell. Google has problems indexing your site properly. Do a query in Google for [site:syncthemcalendars.com "Multiple Google accounts"]. Google doesn't find a result, but that phrase is on your pricing page! You should fix this problem to have a chance to get traffic from Google.
After having fixed this, you'll need more content on your website. Start a blog or tutorial or FAQ section where you present some use cases. Every such post can bring in new visitors having a problem you're going to solve. To find such use cases think of the type of customers you're addressing. Is it families that want to sync some events? Or SMBs? Freelancers? Depending on these target groups you can write a lot of posts and tutorials that should bring in new traffic and at the same time explain what your service offers.-
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hey @Stefan22, thanks so much for your feedback.
I have problems to understand what's the USP of your service while looking at your website. What can I achieve that's not possible by using the share feature of, for example, Google calendars for free? So users that come to your site without having learnt about it in Quora, will have trouble to understand what the benefits are. This could explain your bad experiences with PPC.
I totally agree, working on a new homepage.
The other problem you've mentioned is low overall traffic. Your website is built JS-only (react I think), without server side rendering as far as I can tell. Google has problems indexing your site properly. Do a query in Google for [site:syncthemcalendars.com "Multiple Google accounts"]. Google doesn't find a result, but that phrase is on your pricing page! You should fix this problem to have a chance to get traffic from Google.
From what I read it should work with Google's indexing engine. I think that they didn't index the pricing page, but notice you can get results from other pages - site:syncthemcalendars.com "is this a free service".
Your ideas for content marketing are really good, thanks!
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Yes, Google indexing client side rendered pages is rather unreproducible.
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Kudos!