🤞 Ep3: Validating an Idea with $0

Let's get started Name the idea (prefer a generic name) Define the idea and what it is meant to solve (keep it a simple one-liner) Design a logo (bring in some visual identity) Book a domain (or you can get free domains from Netlify or Mailchimp landing pages) Build a simple landing page for your idea (give minimum effort keep it simple but attracts people who could be your potential customers) Start getting visitors to the landing page. Here's how you can do so 👇 But what I want to focus on in this episode is ways to get traffic for free. To help you make use of the resources that you own at the best. If you don't have enough money, you definitely have some online real estate. By online real estate I mean - Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, the Twitter account's with 'x' number of followers. Try to leverage these direct followers or connections of yours. Here are 19 other channels to make use of: From Vaibhav Nambur who is my mentor 1. Cold emailing - subject line (mails.wtf, Lemlist's Cold email subject line blog post with 56 cold email subject lines) and storytelling is much or else people won't read and take actions - you can use other systems like Hubspot to send personalized emails to people and try to create real value for them. - You can use SalesQl to find emails on Linkedin - Please don't spam your effort will go waste 2. Facebook groups. - Again don't spam - Firstly engage with the community - Build constructive content and help people - Remember Givers get back more - Educate them and whoever seems interested in your services introduce them to your services/products 3. Build in Public - avoid stealth mode What this means is : Twitter is a great place to build and so is LinkedIn. Some great examples are Domm Holland and Kunal Shah. The beauty of this is that you get to take your audience on a journey and also get immediate feedback on what you’re working on. Shortens the feedback cycle as your potential customers are building it for you 4. Hacker news 5. Product Hunt 6. Also launching in appropriate channels in Slack communities 7. Friends and family 8. SEO inbound to website 9. Beta email list generated using beta landing page earlier (email these people who supported you when you started- offer them special discounts or benefits) 10. Get yourself interviewed on Youtube channels, podcasts in your industry and share your story & how and what it took to build the product that you are working on 11. Use review sites and Directories 12. Whatsapp communities 13. Partner up with companies having a good follower base in your industry (provide affiliate commissions + extra offers when their offer coupon code is applied during checkout) 14. Reachout to relevant blogs to get yourself placed in the sponsored sections of their blogs or email newsletters 15. Create short-form video, text content and float it around on all social platforms 16. Use Viral marketing (referrals) 17. Use Quora to answer relevant questions and problems that your product solves and leave your link at the end of the answers. (Quora has a huge inflow of readers, find the right questions with a high volume of readers - check which questions get listed when the keyword is searched on google) 18. Reddit Subreddits (I haven't tried using this much but I heard it works well from a lot of people) 19. Offline meetups and events (share about your product, war branded merchandise, give talks, share goodies, etc) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ideasworthsharing/message