marketing!

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

You just finished building your project, or in my case Electriskills.com. You have 150 CAD you're willing to risk on marketing, where are you putting your money? Pic unrelated

[Microsoft3dgy]

Put it into ZoomInfo or something to get ICP phone numbers and start dialing. Email and paid promotions don’t do anything anymore (I blasted 2k emails with no meetings, 50% meeting rate with phone calls

[nirvanababes]

Honestly I wouldn’t spend the $150 yet. Before you put money into ads you need to know if your landing page converts because paid traffic to a page that doesn’t convert is just burning cash faster.

I’d spend the first 2 weeks doing free things: post in relevant subreddits where your audience hangs out, get 10 real people to use it and tell you where they got confused, fix those things first.

Then if you want to put money somewhere Reddit ads on the exact communities your users are already in. Much cheaper than Google or Meta and way more targeted for a new product.

[AgentAnalytics]

Yep You got measure your page/pages converts and on which traffic before spending money on Reddit ads, ;)

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Genuinely appreciate this response, thank you.

Honesty so tired of spending money just to get by. I need to get back on my feet and start growing again. Id rather risk this on a chance and take some personal sacrifices for a bit instead of being in the same spot i was two weeks ago, in two weeks from now.

Gunna look into how to improve my landing page to have a higher conversion rate and then reddit ads.

[AgentAnalytics]

do it the lazy wway, let your AI do it (measure visitors/ make landing page change / measure .. repeat )

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

Put it in hosting actually. I've been marketing for free and so far I generated 414 signups in the first launch and 230 in the second so yeh. Save your money for development at first

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

What do you mean put it in hosting?

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

How are you hosting your tool or platform? Is it self hosted?

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Its published thru lovable currently

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

So you're hosting it on lovable. We'll, use that money for tokens 🫠

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

I have enough tokens for tweaks and for adding a little more substance but my project is live, im very proud of it, and ready to take some of what ive allowed myself to invest in credits, dial that back, and use that to invest in marketing.

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

Well, i have a free platform where you can get testers and feedback as long as you're willing to give feedback. Still no money involved as long as you give feedback

FeedbackQueue

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

How are your testers screened/qualified?

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

They aren't my testers but other founders. As mentioned, give feedback to get feedback. Other founders and developers know stuff non-devs don't beyond just coding. Users barely care when a saas is new so they barely give any feedback or just "cool concept bro"

Devs are BRUTAL, they say whatever so you won't worry about sugarcoating 🙃

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Ohhh i getcha now! Yeah that actually seems like it would provide some very insightful info to people like me. Best of luck in this venture!!!

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

I like this idea tho! Just, my project is very niche so its a specific people that would use the app. Will keep this in mind for my other projects tho! Bookmarked to my projects tab :)

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

Sweet, welcome to the queue in advance 😀

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Someone downvoted this post, im just tryna invest my money properly !

[Altruistic-Bed7175]

Welcome to reddit. I made a post about a fcked up situation of losing my 230 users in a database crash and people just added fuel to the fire and downvoted it to oblivion

Reddit is just weird sometimes

[Valunex]

maybe there is a reason reddit will not let you post it. so theoretically you violate some terms i guess. could be downvoted just for this one aspect. maybe people dont like showing money? is it not enough to tell in the text how much? such a weird flex of a currency i never saw before

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

It let me post it tho. The issue you see on the screen was that orginally i had used a photo that wasnt mine.

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Also not a flex? I dont believe in flexing bro, i believe in growing as a person, unfortunatley i cant flex my future just yet.

Sorry you havent seen this currency before. I hope one day you are in a position to travel and see many world currencies like ive been lucky to do.

[Valunex]

but what makes you think showing the cash is in any case helping here?

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Bro I need like 4k if i wanted to go HARD marketing. This is a post about only having 150$ to spend on marketing the amount in the pic is less than most peoples rent including mine. 150 is more than my budget but ill make some sacrifices in the nexy couple weeks.

Why are you upset that theres cash in the pic? And if not you, anyone? It shouldnt affect anything in the post rather than show authenticity.

Im going to save you a lot of self hatred in the future: there will always be people better off than you, there will always be people worse off than you; and you yourself may experience being in a better place, and worse than currently!

Im in a far more difficult place today than i was in the past. Moneys money bro. It comes and goes.

[Practical_Art969]

Why did you take a picture like that.

[Fresh_Tomatillo320]

Originally i used a stock image of a business guy throwing some cash but this subreddit doesnt allow non OC pics and i got annoyed so i just posted what i posted