SEO is key to our marketing strategy, and I recommend the same for others.
But I always get asked, "SEO tools are expensive, are there low-cost options?"
So I'm sharing my list of 25 FREE SEO tools, curated over last 4 years 🧵
25 tools over 5 categories: 1) Keyword Ideas 2) Keyword Research 3) Writing 4) On-page SEO 5) Tracking
Structure: 1) Use for 2) How to use 3) Website
Meanwhile, if you'd like to check out my startup flexiple.com
1/ Google Search Auto-complete
Use for: Keyword Ideas
How to use:
- Type something on Google & you'll see predictions that can be your seed keywords
- To get more results, type in letters sequentially. For ex. "funding a", funding b" etc.
I've done a 2-year MBA from the top business school in India. But I've learnt 10x about marketing while growing my startup to $3 million+ revenue in 4 years.
I regularly share my learnings & experiences in marketing my startup.
Here's a list of my top 13 marketing threads 🧵
Topics covered over 13 threads:
• Launching your Startup
• Building an Audience
• Marketing Lessons
• Online Channels
• $0 Marketing
• Newsletters
• SEO
Bookmark. Grab a coffee. Get reading!
Meanwhile, if you'd like to check my startup: flexiple.com
1/ 21 marketing lessons after 4 years of building my own startup
It has helped in marketing my startup, and growing to $3mn+ revenue.
But when I started in 2018, I had 0 online presence.
I went from 0 to 1259 subscribers. In a week. Without writing a word of content.
Full story of how I did it 🧵
1/ Deciding what to write
I had been writing software for 6 years & building products for my own startup for 3 years. I thought people might be interested to read my take on how to build tech products.
As a first, I wrote down topics for 10-12 issues of this newsletter.
2/ Getting public validation
I had no validation if people would want to read my newsletter. I didn't want to end up writing 5-10k words & not having anyone to read it.
So I put up a public post announcing that I am starting a newsletter & a glimpse of what to expect.
My startup has grown from 0 to $3 million+ revenue without spending $$ on paid ads.
I have done $0 or low budget marketing, using online channels effectively to market my products.
Here's a list of 10 such channels. A mega thread on my learnings over 4 years 🧵
10 channels over next 23 tweets: 1. Newsletter 2. SEO Blog 3. Guest Blog 4. Twitter 5. LinkedIn 6. Product Hunt 7. Hacker News 8. Reddit 9. Communities 10. Social Groups
Bookmark, grab a coffee & get reading!
Meanwhile, if you'd like to check my startup flexiple.com
1/ Newsletter
Email newsletters are evergreen. You interact with your audience on a channel they can never do away with.
‣ Define a clear goal for your newsletter - what value will your subscribers get?