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I consider myself to be 1-part software engineer, 1-part entrepreneur, 2-part philanthropist, 2-part soccer fan, and 1-part dancer.
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Grow Your SaaS to up to $20k in 6 Months
I often see people struggling to reach this figure, or it takes two years. I have generated around $10m selling SaaS in the last 4 years and bootstrapped everything under my SaaS marketplace PitchGround & my own SaaS FirstSales.io Today, I will share simple strategies for hitting your first $10,000 to $20,000 in MRR in less than six months. This can be applied for most online niches but works best for SaaS. 1) Build in Public on Twitter, LinkedIn & Reddit. Refrain from building your startup in stealth mode; you are wasting so many marketing opportunities. 2) Create 5-type of content frameworks: - Do a weekly giveaway post for your product. - Create content behind the sign-up wall; you can only access the content if you share your email. - Create 1x Reel per day, 2x Tweet per day, 1x Twitter Thread per week, 1x LinkedIn post per day & 1x YouTube Long form video per week. You can repurpose the reel on YouTube. - Create Value content around product categories. For example, if you're selling a growth-hacking product, talk about different growth-hacking strategies, even if your product doesn't offer those features. Awareness is a critical part of reaching more audiences. - Do one collaboration post each week. 3) Create a community You can start building your community at least six months before you launch your product. As a benchmark, wait to launch your product until you hit 2k members in your community. This strategy alone can help you cross $10k in MRR within weeks of launching your product because you have already built the trust factor with your audience. 4) Narrow down your use cases & outreach. For the first 6-12 months, narrow your use case to focusing on just 1-2 ICPs at the most, and ensure all your copy revolves around that niche. Now you can start outreaching out. Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to narrow your ICP and scrape that data is easy. Put that data in your favorite email enrichment tool to get the email. Now is the fun part, use FirstSales.io to launch an outreach campaign. Please do not sell them your product; instead, invite them to your community; this will increase your reply rate & future conversion rate without burning leads. 5) Collaborate with a few Micro-Influencers This is a highly underrated strategy because everyone wants that GIANT big launch. Wait to launch big. Launch your product/services MULTIPLE times with multiple micro-influencers, even if it generates as low as 5-10 customers. This adds up in no time. If you do all the above-mentioned strategies, I can guarantee you will build a $10,000 MRR to $20,000 MRR business in no time. Remember, there is no shortcut in life to hard work and producing results if you wish to choose the path of entrepreneurship. If you have any questions, then please let me know in the comments below
13 Sub-Reddits to launch your Product 🚀
Hey Indie Hackers, Do you want to promote your startup/product on Reddit and get more startups? Then here are some subreddits for you to launch your product and boost your customers 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepr... A community of like-minded individuals that are looking to talk about the growth of your business (Ride Along), high points and collab on projects together. Size: 260k Members 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/advance... A community for established entrepreneurs to share tips, tricks, and fundamentals on growing your business to the next level. Size: 28.3k Members 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/ Discussions and useful links for SaaS owners, online business owners, and more. Size: 44.9k Members 4. https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup... Subreddit is for sharing innovative startup ideas. Links and discussion about startups and descriptions of startups are welcome Size: 56.6k Members 5. https://www.reddit.com/r/Interne... A subreddit based around sharing awesome, usually minimal and single-purpose websites and webtools Size: 16.5M Members 6. https://www.reddit.com/r/Product... Discussions about products launched on Product Hunt Size: 3.6K Members 7. https://www.reddit.com/r/SidePro... SideProject is a subreddit for sharing and receiving constructive feedback on side projects. Size: 104k Members 8. https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthH... A place for Growth Hacking practitioners and professionals to discuss and debate Growth Marketing questions, experiments & startup stories. Size: 32.5k Members 9. https://www.reddit.com/r/ladybus... A place to discuss, celebrate and encourage folks who identify as women, trans and non-binary etc in the business world. Size: 12.7k Members 10. https://www.reddit.com/r/NicheWe... Information and discussions related to building and monetising niche websites/blogs. Size: 906 Members 11. https://www.reddit.com/r/alphaan... Recruit the critical early users that they need to tell them how to make their products better. Size: 11.6k Members 12. https://www.reddit.com/r/nocode/ A Community dedicated to building cool things without needing to be a developer. Size: 16.6k Members 13. https://www.reddit.com/r/microsaas/ A place to change your life with micro SaaS apps Size: 1.2K Members And did you know what? In addition to subreddits, there are a dozen other platforms for you to launch and promote your startup I've done some research and compiled a comprehensive list of 40+ places to promote your startup. Take a look at the list https://launchpedia.co/places-to... I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on it.
Have you used Podcasts as a lead generation tool?
Is this something you have done or had success with? Building out our case studies of clients who have been building targeted leads through being a guest on podcasts but also researching target customers who have appeared as guests to find more information on their interests and how they think to support a cold outreach campaign. Have you developed a strategy as a guest on podcasts that works for you/your business? Lets discuss :-)