Marketing your startup doesn't have to be expensive!

My startup makes $2 million in revenue without spending $$$ on paid ads.

If you're on a $0 marketing budget, here are 8 things you can do with links to my threads on how exactly to do it 👇
1/ Focus on writing

If you want to be good at marketing, you have to be great at writing.

Writing consistently is hard. You need to build powerful habits & routines for both reading & writing.

2/ Start a newsletter

A newsletter helps you build loyal audience over time.

Email newsletters are evergreen. You interact with your audience on a channel they can never do away with.

3/ Build an audience

"If you build it, they will come" is the biggest startup fallacy.

Instead, you should focus on building an audience across channels even before you think of building a product.

4/ Focus on SEO

SEO gives you the most consistent & reliable traffic.

It will take time to show results, but your efforts will be worth it.

5/ Publish keyword focused blogs

Keywords are the key to success in SEO.

But keywords don't rank themselves, so there's no alternative to publishing high quality content.

6/ Launch your startup

Product or startup launches are great to give you an initial traffic spike and early feedback & users.

7/ Use online channels effectively to market your product

Social media, community websites & launch platforms are all great to market your startup, product or blog.

But you need to crack every channel individually and develop a good strategy for each.

8/ Write guest posts

When you contribute content as a guest author:
• You can link back to your website from high authority domains
• Drive relevant traffic to your website
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