Favorite growth hack?
Youri Nelson
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What is your favorite growth hack or the one that worked best for you recently?
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Mike Cardona@mikecardona_
DM’s and adding value. Not asking for anything in return.
But i don’t treat it as a “growth hack”. It’s just fun.
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@mikecardona_ I guess instead of the word hack I should have said strategies. We've tried to DM and it works well, some misses where people don't like it but for the most part, it works well.
@mikecardona_ I agree. I've met some of the most interesting people by cold dm-ing them.
Actually building something rather than just dreaming about it....
@maxwellcdavis Like Nike says, "If you want to create a revolution..." Everything is going to will be all right; "Just Do It".
@maxwellcdavis @s_nakamoto That's fair. I think the building part is implied (or should have been). But I agree it's easy to get sidetracked and be hyper focused on growth and not enough on building the product. Maybe the real question, how do you best determine market fit?
Cold DMs on Twitter. I can't stress how underrated it is and how effective at the same time.
@rucha_joshi8 subreddits that pertain to our space or pages dedicated to our competitors. So privacy, own your data, protonmail, tutonota, p2p, etc...
@hassanshaikh it actually was very successful for us, we try to narrow it down to subreddits that were pertinent to our product, so we didn’t reach out to people outside of our target audience and we tried to keep it grounded, avoiding the sell pitches that may resemble a bot posting type thing and then simply having a conversation around pain point or issues these reditors may have expressed on the sub, and talking about out solution. The majority of people received it well, a few called it creepy and spammy but that i guess that was to be expected. Overall it was definitely a win for us. @pierre_kraus (Telios team member) drove a couple hundred people to our platform which for us this early one is huge.
You need to clarify the specific context of your question. For example: Eating 5 times a day caused my stomach expansive growth. That's how to hack being skinny!
@s_nakamoto ahaha That's funny. Growth Strategies for your startup?
I found this tool right here on PH https://awario.com/ it is amazing to say the least, for creating leads from people online already asking about what you are doing. It gathers leads from all over the internet, including twitter and reddit.
Then you combine with with clear goals, and objectives - create a sales funnel starting with these leads and work towards converting them.
Its not free, been using the trial version which is about to expire now.
@berthakgokong interesting. Thanks for sharing.. Just posted in an AMA on IndieHackers about using social listening tools.
@berthakgokong Never heard of awario but I'll check it out. Thank you.
Social media communication
@antonovna Do you mean straight DMs or mass audience communication?
Communicate your product's and YOUR values to a positive community :)