Hope all is well in your Startup world this week. What's your biggest challenge right now? Hit reply
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July 29 · Issue #30 · View online
Get the latest tools and resources that will really help your startup.
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Hope all is well in your Startup world this week. What’s your biggest challenge right now? Hit reply and let me know how I can help. Some articles and tools for you guys, as usual. I decided to make a section for the tools that I’m actually using myself this week, with the reason why I’m using them.
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Get Worm
Discover new startups and get exclusive early bird offers for joining them. I love this idea and am trying it out myself for userinput.io. Offer a discount to their audience (a “worm”), or something else enticing, and people will claim the reward, then you connect and give it to them. It’s sort of like a Groupon for startups. Feels promising because I had someone claim a “worm” within minutes of the discount going up today. Of course, just because they get a special coupon doesn’t mean they’ll actually buy, but they are at least interested, AND you have their email address, so you can start a one-on-one conversation. It could be good for initial traction as well as customer discovery.
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Digital Ocean - I’m moving a startup from Amazon Web Services to Digital Ocean, because it’s a lot cheaper to host it there. And their interface is nice. And they don’t charge extra to ask support questions like AWS does! (you can get a free $10 credit through this link and that may sound paltry but you can actually run an instance there for $5 a month, cheep!)
Crowdfire - I need to write about it, but an easy (and surprisingly still effective) growth hack is to do the “copy followers of” technique on Twitter, in which you copy the followers of a similar twitter, and organically 5% to 15% of those people will follow you back. Crowdfire makes it really easy to do it. This is the technique I use to grow my twitter accounts, and it got me some of my first userinput.io customers.
Pixelarity - I just love these themes when I want to build a non-Wordpress site or build the front end for a new project. They look beautiful, and they’re easy to hack apart to build a whole site off of.
LastPass - My memory sucks so knowing which of my weird passwords I used where is annoying, but LastPass manages them now, and even better it’s easy to share access for a specific service to someone temporarily or long term. I’m using it to give my technical co-founder access to some stuff, so I thought I’d include it again.
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KlientBoost - PPC Management & Google AdWords Specialists
KlientBoost provides PPC management services along with landing page design to help clients generate new leads, reach their goals and grow their business. It’s really for companies with larger PPC campaigns, but if that is what you have and you’d like help making them more effective, check them out. Reply and let me know if you want an email intro to my friend there.
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Norbert — Find anyone email address
He can help you find anyone’s corporate contact information for your lead research, talent acquisition, PR or HR.
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Outreachr | Outreach campaign | Link Building Software
Outreachr is the social outreach tool that will streamline your link building and public relations campaigns. Sign up for free today.
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YesInsights - Get Customer feedback with simple one-click surveys
Get Customer feedback with simple one-click surveys. Because people are lazy and more likely to reply to a one question survey!
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Api - Maître
Maitre, which is a very nicely executed waiting list system, is introducing an API upon which you can build your own system. Build something awesome.
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Nugget - Startup Incubator & Community
Nugget emails you a new business idea every single day. Real business ideas, from real people willing to pay to have their problem solved.
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Recordit: Record screencasts fast & free! with GIF Support!
Make a screencast into a GIF super easily (this could be awesome for your next Product Hunt launch, eh?)
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Userbrain: Fix your website's usability problems
The easiest way to fix your website’s usability problems. Weekly videos of people using your website on desktop and mobile devices while thinking aloud.
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MastermindJam - Join a Mastermind Group
MastermindJam helps driven entrepreneurs join online mastermind groups that provide accountability and advice to help grow their web-based businesses. Note: I’ve gotten a lot out of various mastermind groups in the past and recommend them for both support in your entrepreneurial journey and for advice on what to do.
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petithacks - small hacks, faster growth
A human-curated (really!) collection of marketing tricks that companies do to get more of your attention, of your time, and your money. This newsletter is awesome for inspiration for your own growth efforts.
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What is Growth Marketing? Building a Framework for Rapid Growth | Growth Marketing Conference
Is you company spending too much on customer acquisition when there are cheaper alternatives for growth? Optimize your funnel & get your priorities straight now
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How to Get More Followers on Instagram: 10k in 2 Weeks
Learn How to Get More Followers on Instagram Using The Same Strategic Step By Step Tactics We Used to Build a Huge Following of 10,000 in Just 2 weeks.
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I'm having trouble choosing a startup idea to work on - Clarity Answers
A clarity post with advice on choosing which of your many startup ideas to work on (HINT: What would you want to still be working on in five years?)
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Dan Grover | Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps.
Why conversational UI fails in practice and what the West can really learn from Asian messaging apps.
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What are the essential opportunities to gain significant SEO page rank without manually posting ongoing content via blog and social media outlets? - Clarity Answers
Most SEO content strategies require maintenance. What if there are a few that permanently boost SEO? (I.e. Meta tags for images)
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Thanks for reading. If you’re interested in my upcoming newsletter that is focused solely on conversion related tools and articles, visit conversionlist.com
-Stuart
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