Promote Your Next Startup
Free web-resources you may want to use to promote your next startup.
The main advertisement channel is of course people who are in love with your product. Their sharing activities is the best advertisement. Thus, the main idea is to create the product that is useful, usable and attractive to the end users. And only after that it does make sense to spread the word about something you've done.
Post News
Create a Product Page
Post an Article
Niche Platforms
Here are some niche blogs which you may use to find your target audience.
Write for News Blog
Answer Questions
| Link | About |
|---|---|
| stackoverflow.com | Where developers learn, share and build careers |
| quora.com | A place to share knowledge and better understand the world |
Write on Forums
Write to Dev-Chats
Don't spam!
If you think your project is useful for some specific group of people then find targeted channel, read about channel rules and only then post information to channel.
| Link | About |
|---|---|
| gitter.im | Where developers come to talk |
Record a video
Record a demo video of your product, or some learning content and upload it to your YouTube channel. Put the link to the product or to the content to the video description.
Become Awesome
If you find your project to be related to one of the awesome partitions then just go ahead and create pull request to add your product to the list.
Use Advanced Google Search Techniques
Google supports powerful search techniques that may help you to promote your resource.
Find sites linking to competitors
Find sites linking to your competitors and try to add your link to that web-sites as well.
Google’s link: operator was officially deprecated in 2017. But it does still return some results.
It might be a good idea to exclude competitor web-site itself from the search results by using the site: operator to avoid displaying of internal links
Do the following Google search but with you competitor's URL:
link:https://competitor-domain.com/blog -site:competitor-domain.com
Find guest post opportunities
This allows you to find web-sites where you might submit the article about your new project/product/startup.
Pick your niche keyword (i.e. programming) and Google search for guest post related phrases like so:
programming intitle:"write for us" inurl:"write-for-us"
You can also use other phrases like:
contribute tobecome a contributorguest post guidelinesinurl:guest-post- etc.
You can also search for many of these at once:
programming ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines" | inurl:"guest-post")
Or even:
(programming | machine learning) AND ("write for us" | inurl:"guest-post-guidelines")
Find resource page opportunities
Resource pages contains the links to best resources on specific topic.
It might be a good idea to pitch your resource for inclusion.
To find resource pages you might do the following Google search:
programming (intitle:"resources" | inurl:resources)
Or you might narrow it down to:
intitle:programming AND intitle:resources AND inurl:resources
Find more related resource
Once you found a good web-site to place a link to you might want to find similar relevant resources.
To do so just do the following Google search but with the resource you're interested in:
related:https://news.ycombinator.com
Register in Startup Directories
Other suggestions
Depending on the subject of your post you may use the targeted subreddits:
from Hacker News https://ift.tt/2Jrpu97
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