Market
Marketing is the process of getting people interested in the goods and services being sold.
Own your marketing channels, contents, identities; use tools as a means to meet your marketing needs.
Do not rely on Press but treat as just another channel for the occassional burst. Make an 'intrinsically viral' - people should be happy sharing it to their friends.
Growth never last forever, keep tweaking and tuning growth, always.
- Define a larger cause. Start by explaining the cause. e.g. "need to increase farm yields"
- Articulate the problem better than anyone else
- attack the status quo
- define a category. this category is the solution.
- build the right team
- use "grass roots" customer testimoney
- release news in lightning strikes, not dribs and dreabs
- organize events to focus attention
- nurture your community
- pick noble fights
- strive for a large tent
- work with press and inluencers in the right way
- stay grounded
- don't clown yourself. back up your claims and avoid aggrandizing and arrogant language.
References
- Blogging for Business A free video course on how to grow your blog past 100K monthly visitors and turn thousands of your readers into paying customers.
- buffer.com
- Growth Marketing by Julian Shapiro
- Positioning Your Startup is Vital — Here’s How to Nail It
- Renaissance Messaging “We use timeless, truth-based techniques that help your company create ethical and profitable connections with your ideal prospects.”
- Share your startup with the world
- Building an efficient marketing machine: the fuel & the engine, https://mkt1.substack.com/p/fuel-engine
- http://agorapulse.com, Take Control of Your Social Media
- http://coschedule.com, Organize All Of Your Marketing In One Place. From Any Place.
- http://meetedgar.com
- http://sendible.com, Manage social media at scale.
- https://amplifr.com
- https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup ~ https://www.placestopostyourstartup.com
- https://github.com/trekhleb/promote-your-next-startup
- https://nira.com/templates/marketing-templates/ 374 Free Resources for Marketing
- https://sizle.io/how-to-maximise-traffic-to-a-bootstrapped-product-hunt-launch/
- https://sproutsocial.com
- https://vsc.co (PR)
- https://www.instaaa.com
- https://www.jjellyfish.com go-to-market expertise and execution to global founders seeking to win in the U.S.
- https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro
- https://www.startupranking.com/booster
- Jotform on How to Create a Marketing Plan
- Positioning (archive) by April Dunford is a good and detailed article on how you can position your brand or Startup.
- How to Model Total Addressable Market (archive) (Template Included)
- TAM Methodology: An Explanation and Example of Total Addressable Market Analysis (archive)