Hi, HN folks! The idea of Remote Friday came to me when I was thinking about the ultimate list of tools for remote work.
Then I thought, what if we can make not only a list of tools but partner with some of them to get discounts. Black Friday was approaching, making it a perfect occasion.
Overall, it took me a couple of months and hundreds of back and forth emails. As a result, we have over 50 amazing tools on the list. I'm excited to share it with you, and I hope you'll greatly benefit from it ;)
Well, it's a broad topic. However, it comes back to several main things:
1. Select a target keyword.
You select some and only keyword you'd like to rank a post for.
2. Mind the competition
Check on the competition for that keyword. Don't chase for the ones where you can't outrank competitors. I.e. we can't outrank Atlassian for agile project management, but we can go for less competitive keywords.
3. Compose a great piece of content about that keyword.
Then you write a great piece of content about it (See 10x content by Rand Fishkin). Put it in the title, URL and within the content.
We spent 500 hours to make a fantastic and super useful Slack Guide. Hopefully, this is the only guide on how to use Slack and FAQ you will need to supercharge your work.
Here's a quick update on the most popular questions.
1. Are those numbers real or fake in favor of content marketing?
Numbers are real. Anyone from this forum can book a call with me, and I will do a screen sharing of our Stripe/Baremetrics panel. My email is alex at standuply.com.
2. It's not a trend, but a peak number in revenue.
Our revenue breakdown: Feb: $7k Mar: $9k Apr: $19,5k May: $25k June: $13k (as of 20th June). So we'll get a bit less in June. You decide whether it was a peak or it's a trend.
3. It only cost us $23,000/month in advertising
In 18 months we spent less than $2k on paid ads and didn't waste any dollar in 2018.
Yeah, but let's just listen to those positive commenters and disregard haters. I think if you talk about your story educating others, it brings value to the ecosystem.
I respect companies like GrooveHQ that share their experience and don't conder it as a marketing or spam.
Hi Igas. There could be several reasons in my opinion:
1. You ask for too many permissions. It makes a lot of sense to ask for less because people don't like to share their sensitive information with the product they don't know/trust yet.
2. It may depend on your target audience, but our users in most cases are able to install the bot on their own. So it doesn't hurt our (not yet perfect) onboarding flow.