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How I Hacked My Startup

15 points by jibly 12y ago

How ProductHunt helped me go from “No-idea” to “Profitable” in 15 hours (including 6 hours of sleep). https://medium.com/@jibly/how-producthunt-helped-me-go-from-no-idea-to-profitable-in-15-hours-including-6-hours-of-sleep-9398ff0bc55d --- How A 4-Step-Amazon-Hack Helped Me Convert Visitors Into Paying Customers Insanely Fast. https://medium.com/@jibly/how-a-4-step-amazon-hack-helped-me-convert-visitors-into-paying-customers-faster-698eb5b95a3d --- These 5 user comments boosted my conversion rate from 0,8% to 6% https://medium.com/@jibly/these-5-user-comments-boosted-my-conversion-rate-from-0-8-to-6-65d4fd2198d9 ---

jibly 12y ago
clickable links: How ProductHunt helped me go from “No-idea” to “Profitable” in 15 hours (including 6 hours of sleep). https://medium.com/@jibly/how-producthunt-helped-me-go-from-no-idea-to-profitable-in-15-hours-including-6-hours-of-sleep-9398ff0bc55d https://medium.com/@jibly/how-producthunt-helped-me-go-from-... --- How A 4-Step-Amazon-Hack Helped Me Convert Visitors Into Paying Customers Insanely Fast. https://medium.com/@jibly/how-a-4-step-amazon-hack-helped-me-convert-visitors-into-paying-customers-faster-698eb5b95a3d https://medium.com/@jibly/how-a-4-step-amazon-hack-helped-me... --- These 5 user comments boosted my conversion rate from 0,8% to 6% https://medium.com/@jibly/these-5-user-comments-boosted-my-conversion-rate-from-0-8-to-6-65d4fd2198d9 https://medium.com/@jibly/these-5-user-comments-boosted-my-c... ---
enigami 12y ago
It is amazing that you managed to pull this great venture off by spending 15 hours (including 6 hours of sleep). And congrats that you already got customers signing in for your services, but I just wanted to understand (out of curiosity) how will you manage to provide the 'million-dollar' information to your customers every week as you promised? May be you are an expert in this, but eventually you will drain out rite? If this piece of information is the secret recipe than you need not answer ;-)
- jibly 12y ago
  Very good question. A couple of ways to answer this: - Luckily you will never run out of tactics. Reason for this is because their are constantly new things being launched that you can use for your business. Twitter, FB, Pinterest, Didn't exist 10 years ago, yet now are extremely useful in helping your business grow. So one of the things we do is constantly stay up to date on new emerging technologies that you can use to your advantage. - Second is I'm currently working on a 'growth dashboard'. This will be rolled out to all TractionVC users. It's a place where you can organise tactics and in a better way collect the ones that seem to work for you. This way you will get a better understanding of what's working and what not. - Some (most) tactics are repeatable. Meaning: Guestblogging, increasing your traffic in different ways, it will keep staying important. With the dashboard, it'll be easier to build your marketing strategy, without having to hire someone else to do it for you. Eventually, when you go big, you don't need TractionVC. It's really to help you get you going. Pro products are also in the pipeline to keep users even when they grow, part of the community.
kylex 12y ago
Thats amazing! Job well done.
- jibly 12y ago
  tnx

15 points by jibly 12y ago

jibly 12y ago

clickable links: How ProductHunt helped me go from “No-idea” to “Profitable” in 15 hours (including 6 hours of sleep). https://medium.com/@jibly/how-producthunt-helped-me-go-from-no-idea-to-profitable-in-15-hours-including-6-hours-of-sleep-9398ff0bc55d https://medium.com/@jibly/how-producthunt-helped-me-go-from-... --- How A 4-Step-Amazon-Hack Helped Me Convert Visitors Into Paying Customers Insanely Fast. https://medium.com/@jibly/how-a-4-step-amazon-hack-helped-me-convert-visitors-into-paying-customers-faster-698eb5b95a3d https://medium.com/@jibly/how-a-4-step-amazon-hack-helped-me... --- These 5 user comments boosted my conversion rate from 0,8% to 6% https://medium.com/@jibly/these-5-user-comments-boosted-my-conversion-rate-from-0-8-to-6-65d4fd2198d9 https://medium.com/@jibly/these-5-user-comments-boosted-my-c... ---

enigami 12y ago

It is amazing that you managed to pull this great venture off by spending 15 hours (including 6 hours of sleep). And congrats that you already got customers signing in for your services, but I just wanted to understand (out of curiosity) how will you manage to provide the 'million-dollar' information to your customers every week as you promised? May be you are an expert in this, but eventually you will drain out rite? If this piece of information is the secret recipe than you need not answer ;-)

jibly 12y ago
Very good question. A couple of ways to answer this: - Luckily you will never run out of tactics. Reason for this is because their are constantly new things being launched that you can use for your business. Twitter, FB, Pinterest, Didn't exist 10 years ago, yet now are extremely useful in helping your business grow. So one of the things we do is constantly stay up to date on new emerging technologies that you can use to your advantage. - Second is I'm currently working on a 'growth dashboard'. This will be rolled out to all TractionVC users. It's a place where you can organise tactics and in a better way collect the ones that seem to work for you. This way you will get a better understanding of what's working and what not. - Some (most) tactics are repeatable. Meaning: Guestblogging, increasing your traffic in different ways, it will keep staying important. With the dashboard, it'll be easier to build your marketing strategy, without having to hire someone else to do it for you. Eventually, when you go big, you don't need TractionVC. It's really to help you get you going. Pro products are also in the pipeline to keep users even when they grow, part of the community.

kylex 12y ago

Thats amazing! Job well done.

jibly 12y ago
tnx