Mailroom Month has now ended. Due to demand, we are now working on the brand new Mailroom app to help people manage their own outreach without hiring a PR company using the power of AI to contact thousands of relevant journalists interested in your startup. Launching soon. 📬 Any questions feel free to drop me an email at hi@mailroom.press 👋
There’s nothing worse than spending months building something, only to have no-one see it on launch day. 🗓
Designers and developers are notorious for creating awesome things and then becoming frustrated when they don’t get the reach or traction they expected on when they launch. 😤
Of course, sometimes this is because of a lack of product market fit — but a lot of the time it comes down to one thing: 📰 press and outreach.
Many people opt to pay to have PR agencies handle their press and often see good results, but at a huge 💵 cost 💵 with very unstable results and little transparency.
Others try to go it alone and get bogged down in all the hit and miss efforts they used to try and “growth hack” their way to virality.
And the worst ones just don't bother and expect people to find their product by sheer magic 🎩 (I admit to have been in this boat before ⛵).
So over the past few months we’ve put together Mailroom Month - a daily email over a period of 31 days that takes you through the steps of how to pitch journalists and get your project, business, or startup written about in the media. 🙌
Instead of some bullshit 💩 about hypothetical approaches, we send you real information on real journalists from real publications every day and show you the best ways to reach out to them. 💯
So at the end of Mailroom Month — you'll feel comfortable taking complete control of your PR, reaching out to the press and completely crushing your next launch — and by getting your product in front of all the millions who want it! 👌
Oh, and it’s free for Product Hunters! 🎉
Let me know if you have any questions 💬
@suparchie looks great - not sure what the "rating" field was for in sign up form, or why i'm seeing a company in china in the mailchimp end stage, but eager to see the content
@passingnotes Thanks so much David!
I'm also confused as to what you're getting in terms of a rating field. I've just followed you on Twitter - any chance could you DM me a screenshot?
We're based out in Shenzhen in the south of China so don't worry that's not an error! 🇨🇳
@suparchie sure - it happens after i click to join with just email on the site - using the in-app product hunt browser on iphone - then takes me to this screen: http://imgur.com/a/DduLk
@passingnotes How bizarre! 😂 I know each Mailchimp subscriber is given a contact rating so I'm presuming it's that. http://imgur.com/nvGppty How it's in the sign-up field is a little confusing for me though. Did you manage to sign-up OK in the end? If any issues - send me a DM and I'll get you added. 🙏
Thanks for pointing this out!
@suparchie so in one of the screenshots it shows a reporter, their background info, and recent articles. Is this a part of the emails we will get or is this different software?
Also mailchimp asked for a rating during sign up, I left it blank, should something be entered in that box?
Great idea and nice landing page. I guess the reason to start on a particular date is because you will be manually sending those emails for a month instead of scheduling them as 'automated drips'
@tahaqadri Thanks so much Taha! Pleased you like the page too 😻
Precisely!
This was a debate early on - having it all contained inside a month (July) means not only can we personally send each email out -- but also follow-up and help with any questions anyone has about the emails or outreach in general.
We thought early on about doing an automated drip campaign and just having it running continuously but it seemed lame and would mean juggling it with our other work which sucks for everyone.
This way we can hopefully give people the most fulfilling experience possible 🎉
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