I finally sat myself down with the hard truths about where I need to strengthen up for this business, and in this business, I rolled up my sleeves and started to put a plan together. I need to get 100 users. Let’s say in less than a week, starting today. How am I going to do that? Where do I start? I’ve realized all these blogs and search engine results are telling me the same things:
- get active on social media, comment, repost, etc
- join the communities where your users are
- an unconventional way a start-up did it but it probably won’t work again
I don’t have time to monitor social media 24/7. I have other work to do. I know it’s important but I only have so much time in a day, No excuses though right? I remembered seeing something about virtual assistants so I think now is the time to offload some heavy lifting. That’s going to open up my time to focus on the big-ticket goals. So I went on Upwork.
Here’s my ad.
I need help with SEO, not just advice, but actual steps to get more hits and more sign-ups on my website. Signups require email verification so no fake stuff.
I also have an app in Testflight that I would love for people to download and test, and gather feedback.
I would also like to understand how to increase my social media presence for organic growth, so research Twitter for the top hashtags and posters would be ideal.
If all of this sounds easy to you and you feel confident about these areas, please reach out, tell me about your sucesseses and failures, and I will respond within one day.
Thank you.
Some quick searches here and there show that quite a few people have shown early success using Twitter to gain their first users. I’m going to start with Twitter first, and obviously the website. If the person I hire is a marketing generalist, then I’m sure they know have entire strategies using tools to automate and implement everything needed. They are the true hustlers. I love it. We’ll see what happens there.
Aside from that, I spent a lot of time planning and diagramming, mind mapping, and trying to crack the code of each box I drew. I would keep breaking down each box until I got to the core of it, so I truly understood what that box meant, before moving on to the next one. Constantly rewriting the next box. Sometimes working backward from my goals, and then having to figure out how it all ties together. I think the shortcuts created in your process are what growth hacking is all about. Sidestepping the nonsense and getting results immediately. I think I’ve found some. It’s time I started hustling again.
