Growth ideas for SaaS
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I'll add my own, since I've spent the last year building a little SaaS product (Dependabot): in the early days, nothing beats one-on-one sales. It's not glamorous, but early on you learn so much more from each attempted sale than each time you try a marketing strategy. If you buy facebook ads, blog, etc., then it's hard to tell why customers are engaging with you or not. Don't get me wrong, it's possible, but the feedback you get is so much stronger when it's a sale and you can ask the other person straight up.
I did the above (after failing at every other marketing strategy) with Dependabot when we were literally giving it away and it made a huge difference to the product and our user numbers.
* Create a Crunchbase page
* Share your website on Startupli.st or Erlibird.com
* Share your pre-launched website on Betalist.com
* Respond to unanswered questions in your niche on Quora. Look for questions with a lot of people waiting for an answer.
* Submit a free press release using a service like PRlog
* Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events
* Film your speaking gigs and share videos of your talks on your blog
* Send personalized E-mails to your existing users, ask for referrals or their help promoting your company
* Create an infographic, share on free distribution sites like Visual.ly and Pinterest.
* Write a post called "Our competitor vs Our Company" - This will attract search engine traffic looking for reviews of your competitor
* Submit a presentation or slidedeck to Slideshare
* Giveaway a free ebook, and let users download it in exchange for their email address
* Write a "how-to" guide on Medium for something that is difficult in your industry
* Promote your product in your email signature
* Sponsor a newsletter on Upstart.me & promote your product to other people's lists
* Submit your product to Producthunt.com
* Create a free online course on a topic related to your product
* Reach out to relevant bloggers and ask to write a guest post on their blog (don't forget to include a link to your project)
* Update your Linkedin status and link back to your website
* Grow your social media follower base by following the followers of your competitors
* Create relevant Youtube videos and add relevant keywords in the title and description
* Run Facebook Ads
* Run Google Ads
* Run Twitter Ads
* Run Linkedin Ads
* Subscribe to Helpareporter.com and provide quotes to journalists
* Reach out to podcasts to get interviewed
* Start your own podcast
* Let your first 100 users pay with a tweet, to sign up in exchange for a share
* Create a Facebook page
* Make your UI remarkable and shareworthy
* Run Stumbleupon ads
* Get an Instagram influencer in your niche to promote your product
* Get a Youtube influencer in your niche to promote your product
* Get a popular Facebook page in your niche to promote your product
* Add screenshots of your product to a Pinterest board
* Create a profile on Angel.co
* Ask your friends to share it with their friends
* Sponsor a hackathon
* Sponsor an event by offering a service (instead of money) in exchange for promoting your product
* Go live on Periscope and talk about your product
* Engage in online forums where your target audience is hanging out
* Write on-topic comments on Reddit.com where your product seems to be a solution to the discussion
* Start a Facebook group
* Post articles to Reddit.com in relevant subreddits
* Submit your project to ShowHN on Hackernews
* Comment on industry blogs
* Host giveaway contests on social media
* Offer discounts in exchange for sharing your website
* Create a free Slack community for your target audience
* Host a webinar
* Start a daily email newsletter where you link to relevant news that your audience might be interested in
* Giveaway t-shirts with your logo & website on them
* Create different landing pages with different messages, that all link to your main website
* Attend conferences and talk to as many people as you can
* Be the bonus in someone else's product. Let a different company promote you to their audience in exchange for a commission
* Got a beautifully designed product? Apply for design awards.
* Create a course on Udemy.com
* Advertise at conferences
What about a way to crowdsource this so other people can add their own ideas. That would blow this away.
Cheers!
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Create a Crunchbase page
Share your website on Startupli.st or Erlibird.com
Share your pre-launched website on Betalist.com
Respond to unanswered questions in your niche on Quora. Look for questions with a lot of people waiting for an answer.
Submit a free press release using a service like PRlog
Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events
Film your speaking gigs and share videos of your talks on your blog
Send personalized E-mails to your existing users, ask for referrals or their help promoting your company
Create an infographic, share on free distribution sites like Visual.ly and Pinterest.
Write a post called “Our competitor vs Our Company†- This will attract search engine traffic looking for reviews of your competitor
Submit a presentation or slidedeck to Slideshare
Giveaway a free ebook, and let users download it in exchange for their email address
Write a “how-to†guide on Medium for something that is difficult in your industry
Promote your product in your email signature
Sponsor a newsletter on Upstart.me & promote your product to other people's lists
Submit your product to Producthunt.com
Create a free online course on a topic related to your product
Reach out to relevant bloggers and ask to write a guest post on their blog (don't forget to include a link to your project)
Update your Linkedin status and link back to your website
Grow your social media follower base by following the followers of your competitors
Create relevant Youtube videos and add relevant keywords in the title and description
Run Facebook Ads
Run Google Ads
Run Twitter Ads
Run Linkedin Ads
Subscribe to Helpareporter.com and provide quotes to journalists
Reach out to podcasts to get interviewed
Start your own podcast
Let your first 100 users pay with a tweet, to sign up in exchange for a share
Create a Facebook page
Make your UI remarkable and shareworthy
Run Stumbleupon ads
Get an Instagram influencer in your niche to promote your product
Get a Youtube influencer in your niche to promote your product
Get a popular Facebook page in your niche to promote your product
Add screenshots of your product to a Pinterest board
Create a profile on Angel.co
Ask your friends to share it with their friends
Sponsor a hackathon
Sponsor an event by offering a service (instead of money) in exchange for promoting your product
Go live on Periscope and talk about your product
Engage in online forums where your target audience is hanging out
Write on-topic comments on Reddit.com where your product seems to be a solution to the discussion
Start a Facebook group
Post articles to Reddit.com in relevant subreddits
Submit your project to ShowHN on Hackernews
Comment on industry blogs
Host giveaway contests on social media
Offer discounts in exchange for sharing your website
Create a free Slack community for your target audience
Host a webinar
Start a daily email newsletter where you link to relevant news that your audience might be interested in
Giveaway t-shirts with your logo & website on them
Create different landing pages with different messages, that all link to your main website
Attend conferences and talk to as many people as you can
Be the bonus in someone else's product. Let a different company promote you to their audience in exchange for a commission
Got a beautifully designed product? Apply for design awards.
Create a course on Udemy.com
Advertise at conferences
"Create a Crunchbase page"
"Share your website on Startupli.st or Erlibird.com"
"Share your pre-launched website on Betalist.com"
"Respond to unanswered questions in your niche on Quora. Look for questions with a lot of people waiting for an answer.",
"Submit a free press release using a service like PRlog"
"Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events"
"Film your speaking gigs and share videos of your talks on your blog"
"Send personalized E-mails to your existing users, ask for referrals or their help promoting your company"
"Create an infographic, share on free distribution sites like Visual.ly and Pinterest."
"Write a post called “Our competitor vs Our Company†- This will attract search engine traffic looking for reviews of your competitor"
"Submit a presentation or slidedeck to Slideshare"
"Giveaway a free ebook, and let users download it in exchange for their email address"
"Write a “how-to†guide on Medium for something that is difficult in your industry"
"Promote your product in your email signature"
"Sponsor a newsletter on Upstart.me & promote your product to other people's lists"
"Submit your product to Producthunt.com"
"Create a free online course on a topic related to your product"
"Reach out to relevant bloggers and ask to write a guest post on their blog (don't forget to include a link to your project)"
"Update your Linkedin status and link back to your website"
"Grow your social media follower base by following the followers of your competitors"
"Create relevant Youtube videos and add relevant keywords in the title and description"
"Run Facebook Ads"
"Run Google Ads"
"Run Twitter Ads"
"Run Linkedin Ads"
"Subscribe to Helpareporter.com and provide quotes to journalists"
"Reach out to podcasts to get interviewed"
"Start your own podcast"
"Let your first 100 users pay with a tweet, to sign up in exchange for a share"
"Create a Facebook page"
"Make your UI remarkable and shareworthy"
"Run Stumbleupon ads"
"Get an Instagram influencer in your niche to promote your product"
"Get a Youtube influencer in your niche to promote your product"
"Get a popular Facebook page in your niche to promote your product"
"Add screenshots of your product to a Pinterest board"
"Create a profile on Angel.co"
"Ask your friends to share it with their friends"
"Sponsor a hackathon"
"Sponsor an event by offering a service (instead of money) in exchange for promoting your product"
"Go live on Periscope and talk about your product"
"Engage in online forums where your target audience is hanging out"
"Write on-topic comments on Reddit.com where your product seems to be a solution to the discussion"
"Start a Facebook group"
"Post articles to Reddit.com in relevant subreddits"
"Submit your project to ShowHN on Hackernews"
"Comment on industry blogs"
"Host giveaway contests on social media"
"Offer discounts in exchange for sharing your website"
"Create a free Slack community for your target audience"
"Host a webinar"
"Start a daily email newsletter where you link to relevant news that your audience might be interested in"
"Giveaway t-shirts with your logo & website on them"
"Create different landing pages with different messages, that all link to your main website"
"Attend conferences and talk to as many people as you can"
"Be the bonus in someone else's product. Let a different company promote you to their audience in exchange for a commission"
"Got a beautifully designed product? Apply for design awards."
"Create a course on Udemy.com"
"Advertise at conferences"