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  • Check ABtesting.ai that AI automatically generates titles, copies, and CTA's using AI so you can test it
  • Everyone can build. The real problem is to sell what you've built. So learn the art of selling. (ClickToTweet)
  • Always make sure each link has a preview thumbnail for social sharing
  • Market your marketing material. Just posting on Product Hunt is not enough.  (ClickToTweet)
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5 tips to post successfully on Hacker News

Tip#1: Title should always be as unique as possible.
Tip#2: Best time to post is on weekends.
Tip#3: Its good to get few upvotes immediately after posting.
Tip#4: Keep engaging with the audience.
Tip#5: Keep posting every week till you make it to the top and keep experimenting with the title.

Link building hack - five lines of JS that brought us a lot of backlinks

Pyre.gg, a social network for gamers, noticed that many people took part in our content and copied it on their websites or platforms. So they did a little experiment, and it has yielded a good amount of backlink.

How you should (probably) rewrite your cold email
  • You should say "you" 10 times more than "I"
  • Your email shouldn't be more than 5 sentences
  • Your copy shouldn't contain more than 70 words
  • Don't add a "booking link" at the end and ask for them to select a time before they actually expressed an interest to talk
  • Use interest-based CTAs instead of saying "how does Friday 10am works for you?"
  • Personalize your reach out by finding something relevant about them that would be difficult for a robot to automate and tie it back to the reason why you reach out
  • Don't talk about your company in a direct way, but talk about the problems your prospects face
  • Don't mention your company's name in the copy, but mention the firms that are clients oaf yours or competitors of theirs
  • Use "pattern interruption" methods
  • Alternate short and longer sentences to keep your reader engaged
  • Don't use any formating
  • Consider at least 8 touchpoints before moving on to the next person
  • Never say that you're "the best" at anything. "Show, don't tell".
  • Add personal touch to the outreach effort by making a personalized short (1-2 min) video using Loom etc.
Newsletter Crew
Tired of writing my newsletter, what should I do?

Nobody is forcing you to send it out. If you haven't sent out a newsletter in a month. No worries mate. We all have ebbs and flows.

There are 100 other things you can spend your time on.

Here are a few suggestions that might ease the "workload"

  1. If you're monetizing it at all, hire someone. They work 5 hours a week. Produce 5 newsletters for you.
  2. Batch Write 10. Just sit down and write a series.
  3. Resend your archives. Copy-paste and send. Write at the top: "I'm on break for a month, here are some past greatest hits". You can produce 10 in an hour. Add at the bottom "any readers want to try writing this newsletter yourself? email me"
  4. Change the format. Try something else.

Self-Improvement
Most underrated piece of advice

1. Consistency is key. Being consistent with how you show up every day and move the needle is half the battle. Whether you are marketing your business or you are iterating on your product/service offering, keep showing up each day and push to improve 1% from the day before. It all adds up and compounds over time. (ClickToTweet)

2. When things feel like you're pushing a boulder up a hill all the time, I think it's fair to assume something fundamental needs to be changed. (ClickToTweet)

3. If you want a chat feature on your product. Don’t build it. Just pay for a service that lets you add that feature to your product. This is especially good advice when you are still trying to get product-market fit. (ClickToTweet)

4. Fall in love with the problem, not the solution. (ClickToTweet)

5. Just launch. So simple, so true. And relaunch often by reiterating based on customer feedback. (ClickToTweet)

6. Delegate. When businesses grow and mature, you can't handle everything, and more importantly: you can't do it as well as an expert. Then think of all the tasks you really don't like doing or aren't the best at, and start hiring to meet those needs. (ClickToTweet)

7. Learn to enjoy the process, not the outcome. (ClickToTweet)

8. Delayed gratification vs instant gratification. It is quite easy to do things for there's an instant reward/impact, but to do anything worthwhile, it will require focus and belief in delayed gratification (ex. icecream vs exercise). And things compounds - both bad and good. (ClickToTweet)

9. We always tend to overestimate what we can do in a day or a week, but combined with delayed gratification, the power of compounding can be really used to gain big wins. (ClickToTweet)

10. Do the right thing always when you have to choose between right & easy. (ClickToTweet)

Worth Reading
1. How to launch again and again (Source: Y Combinator Youtube)
2. Make your marketing realer (53 upvotes)
3. Ten growth mistakes that first time SaaS founders make (good)
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