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🖐️5 Ways to Market Your Business for $0

Hey friend 👋 Today I want to talk about the marketing strategies I've found to work where you don't need to spend any money. I think these are useful to people who are just starting out. Before we get started, a quick question for you - Which stage of revenue are

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📢 Audience, offers, channels..

Today I want to talk about the 3 fundamental elements of every business - Audience, Offers and Channels. This framework applies to every business model - SaaS, Content, Services, anything. And is much simpler than the complex Product Market Fit framework. I think you will find it really cool. Let's

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✋5 Big Mistakes early stage founders make (and how you can avoid)

I've been running private mastermind groups for 3 months now. 2000+ minutes of conversations around building a solo business. With Indie Hackers as well as Content entrepreneurs. The conversations have revealed some very interesting blind spots in our thinking. These are common to all solopreneurs, especially when they start out.

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5 Build In Public Myths Busted

Hey there 👋 Today’s post is about the myths around the build in public trend. But before that I have an important announcement for you. Indie MBA Event with Jakob Greenfeld You are invited to the next Indie MBA event, it's with Jakob Greenfeld. Jakob is a serial entrepreneur who

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🔦 4 Examples of Side Project Led Growth

Side Project Led growth is a developer’s way of doing marketing! Jokes aside, side projects are a solid growth strategies deployed by small indie hackers to large companies. The idea is to build small, free and useful products that solve a specific problem in your user’s journey. There

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📈 How Founder’s Book reached $34000 revenue in 7 months

“Go from Idea to MVP, and beyond. Now!” That’s the tagline of Founder’s Book - A platform of tools and resources for first-time founders and early stage startups. Goutham is the founder of Founder’s Book and is a first time founder himself. He recently crossed $34000 in

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🚀 New video out: Community Validated - Identify business opportunities by leveraging online communities

Hey there 👋 A quick announcement before we get started 📢 I’m launching something new today - mastermind groups for indie hackers. If you’re looking for focused support, accountability and feedback from like minded founders then you will find value. I’m structuring these as groups of 4 so everyone

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🧑‍🏫 Learn from Arvid Kahl - The Embedded Entrepreneur

A Quick update: Today’s post is about Arvid Kahl, he’s the founder of the Edtech SaaS startup Feedback Panda, and author of best selling books like Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur. Tomorrow I will be hosting Arvid at a virtual event where he will share his

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🎧 Top 10 Best Episodes of the IndieHackers Podcast

Important announcement: The next Indie MBA even is on June 16th. It’s with one of the most successful indie hackers ever - Arvid Kahl. He will be sharing his wisdom around how to be an embedded entrepreneur. It’s a free but private event, with limited seats, so book

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The First 100 Users Playbook

You are not the hero of your startup (Your user is!) Getting paying customers for a product is tough. Building something worth paying for comes down to solving burning problems for users. And going out and spreading word about the solution you built. This playbook is about the various strategies

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I raised prices for my course, but revenue increased as well.

Hey friends 👋 So it's been almost 2 months since I started pre-sales for my writing course. [https://ayushchat.gumroad.com/l/make-money-writing] And 1 month since I substantially raised prices. So price went from $15 to $29 And guess what, my revenue actually increased since the price rise. Some stats:

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🗣️3 Examples of how Indie Hackers spoke to their users and built the right product

Your startup is not about you, it’s about your users. Yet, many Indie Hackers avoid speaking to their target customers as much as possible. You can not build the right product without talking to your users. Customer conversations will help you recognize the right problems to solve, the right

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💸 3 Examples of how indie hackers raised their prices and found success

Price is one of the most important aspects of any business. Most indie hackers are terrified of increasing their prices. They worry that they'll scare away customers or that they won't be able to "get away" with charging more. But the truth is, pricing too low can actually be more

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How I used Twitter to validate my course idea and make $512 in 35 days

So my writing course crossed $500 in sales today morning. I thought it would be useful to share how I used Twitter to validate the idea and pre-sell the course. It might help someone looking to build and sell knowledge products. Let's start 👇 The biggest challenge with launching anything on

Key Lessons from the success of Closet tools

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Key Lessons from the success of Closet tools

Hello 👋 This is a “key lessons” report for Listen Up Pro subscribers. (You can get the current best deal on a pro subscription on the pro page) We are diving deep into how the micro SaaS app Closet Tools found success. To read the story of how founder Jordan O’

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How to presell a product on Gumroad and launch via Twitter (Raw numbers!)

Writing has been at the base of my solo business for almost a year now. I use it in different ways as: * Product consultant * Freelance writer * Info product maker * Copywriter * Ghost Tweeter It’s my fundamental skill. I wanted to capture my knowledge of writing in a course or an

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The Solo Founder Playbook

Most startups fail, but all founders succeed(in the long run!) Building a startup is hard. 90% of them don’t find success, but the lessons that founders learn in the process of starting up are valuable. These lessons often lead them to start other profitable businesses and do high-impact

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3 examples of How Founders leveraged their network to build profitable businesses 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦

A powerful network or an engaged audience is vital for success as an Indie Hacker. Otherwise, it can be hard to get eyeballs and feedback on your project. Especially in the early days. A network helps you understand the problems of the users and build the right product from the

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7 Best Business Newsletters to read in 2022 [For Free!]

If you're like most founders, indie hackers, solopreneurs you're always on the lookout for new resources to help you grow your business. And what better way to stay ahead of the curve than by reading newsletters? In this blog post, I'll share 7 business newsletters that I think are essential

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Indie Hackers

There's no one-size-fits-all answer for success as an indie hacker, everyone is on their unique journey. Yet some common patterns emerge that help founders succeed with their startups. Over the last 11 months, I’ve deeply analyzed 30+ indie hackers and their startups. This is the documentation of traits that

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Key Lessons from Podia’s Success 🧑‍🏫

Hello 👋 This is a “key lessons” report for Listen Up Pro subscribers. We are diving deep into how the course platform "Podia" has achieved success in the crowded space of the creator economy. To read the story of how founder Spencer Fry built Podia, you can read it here -