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As someone who has a lot of experience in social media marketing both through apps- and other areas: If you're asking for help you're wasting your time. Rather
by zoltar92 14y ago
As someone who has a lot of experience in social media marketing both through apps- and other areas:
If you're asking for help you're wasting your time. Rather focus on making a product or structuring the product so that others WANT to share it. Which results in viral-ity. If you're marketing plan even slightly focuses on "asking others to help" you're doomed from the start.
-obviously this doesn't apply if you allow for an intrinsic benefit of others (example: Tor encourages users to share in order to better mask secrecy).
- gilli 14y agoWell the problem is my project isn't exactly something super hot that people go crazy over. It is something that would be useful to a lot of people with health problems though, especially when a lot of people are contributing to it. So it seems terribly difficult to get people to actually contribute and spread the word, especially with 0 budget.
- zoltar92 14y agoYou therefore have a very specific niche market which is awesome! Focus on different ways of aggregating data that would avoid the necessity of crowd-sourcing. If your product is useful, which it sounds like it is, focus on search engine optimization and you will see traction is natural.