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Started to announce it

First, I know there are a lot of comments about how difficult is to get your app into the App Store, but my story is different. Mine got approved the same day!, I had to deal with some "digital paperwork", but my experience so far with the Mac App Store has been nice, and the support team has been very kind also.

So here is the thing now, having the development work been done, it's time for marketing. I've started to announce the app in some of my social networks, LinkedIn and Twitter. I will also publish some messages here in Indie Hackers as well so hopefully the app will start having some traction.

Feedback so far has been good, even people that just bought the app to help me is actually happy using it. So I can't be more happier now 🥲

To whoever needs to read this: If you're actually building a product and you're somewhat stuck or with doubts... you can do it! continue! 💪🏻

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    Ricardo, this is inspiring. I'm about to launch a product myself and I'm after some help to build the promotional text, material and digital presence. Do you have any recommendation?

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      Thank you @rpn ☺️!

      At the moment, I'm doing everything as a one-man-army, but I cannot recommend it. The energy you have to put into the projects probably overweights the results. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy most of the time doing it this way, but you have to be motivated, and be patient.

      So if you want to go for the paid way, I haven't tried personally, but I've heard there is people happy by doing this:

      • Promotional text: There is a lot of brilliant self-employed copywriters over Internet. But you can also find them through SEO agencies, as they are getting paid for writing articles for inbound marketing and to improve long-tail search rankings. As an example, it could cost around $20 per article (plus whatever the agency wants to add).

      • Design-wise: More or less the same. If you're on budget, probably Fiverr can do the trick, but you can also find a lot of nice people on LinkedIn willing to collaborate. I have ex-colleagues taking contract jobs over there.

      • Not sure about digital presence, I'm honestly have no idea about what this is 🤷🏻‍♂️. In order to get metrics, I use what it comes with the platform I'm using. For example, LinkedIn has its own metrics, Twitter as well, Apple will give you tons of metrics also for your sells. For my websites metrics, I'm starting to replace Google Analytics with AWStats, which is "just" an open source web server log parser, privacy friendly (as a nice side-effect, you have to waste less time with your Privacy Policy).

      Good luck and tons of good wishes with the launch!, when are you planning to ship it?

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        Thanks @rcruz, I have the app "ready" from a coding perspective and now I'm really looking into how to "give birth" to it. From the description on the app store to the landing page of the app, I'd like to count on some native English writers that could help me with the right "mood".

        There are indeed some agencies that create this digital presence... twitter, linkedin, instagram... and make sure your feed is always updated with the latest and greatest features you ship...

        I've been doing this as an one man show while keeping a full time job (so mostly at night and weekends) and I'm thinking about getting some help for the promotional part.

        Thanks for the help and feedback, good luck with Today! :-)

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          Shout me if you need anything. Good luck!!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻

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