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Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by MikeFez »

geekingfrog wrote: post #39
HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop thinking of it as spam and start thinking of it as customer outreach? I mean you have to let people know about this magical thing you've built somehow .

Why do people need to know about this magical thing? Isn't that enough if you solve a problem? Interested people will look for solution and find your magical thing, no need to add to the general cancerous spam of "hey, I'm sure you're going to find that thing awesome, even if you don't need it"

Of course someone with an existing problem is most likely seeking a solution, but not everyone realizes there is a problem (especially if the existing solution works) until a better solution is shown to them.

How about how we conduct business: Face to face meetings -> phone/mail -> email -> online meetings, for instance. I'm sure people thought during their time periods that there could be better ways to do this, but they need to see the solution before they jump on board.

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by alexxtomsk »

icebraining wrote: post #37
alexxtomsk wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would a company that relies heavily on bots shut us (or another valuable) bot off?

Maybe they want to start writing their own instead?

I'm sure they have core features to work on compared to a narrow bot use-case.

Moreover, they will have to invest heavily in a bot that serves only a part of Slack's user base.

It's not a logical move from a product standpoint.

I don't see any chance of that happening unless it would be on Hooli platform under Gavin's control =)

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by flamtap »

geekingfrog wrote: post #39
HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop thinking of it as spam and start thinking of it as customer outreach? I mean you have to let people know about this magical thing you've built somehow .

Why do people need to know about this magical thing? Isn't that enough if you solve a problem? Interested people will look for solution and find your magical thing, no need to add to the general cancerous spam of "hey, I'm sure you're going to find that thing awesome, even if you don't need it"

>I put out several long reads. It helped us to improve our SEO and led decent traffic to our blog on Medium. Overall, my posts received 150k views in 2017.

My takeaway is that it helps people find the "magical thing" in the first place, especially the people who didn't know they were looking for the magical thing.

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by blihp »

alexxtomsk wrote: post #34
sschueller wrote: post #27

Congratulations! What steps are you taking to protect yourself from slack shutting you off? Not that they would but you have all your eggs in someone else's basket?

Why would a company that relies heavily on bots shut us (or another valuable) bot off?

They decide they want to provide the features you provide directly? See Twitter, Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. It's a very old game at this point and you really should be aware of your risk in being so dependent on what is effectively a closed platform. (i.e. an API does not make a closed platform open) They're providing APIs right now to help fuel their own growth but once that growth levels off, or worse reverses, watch out... they may decide that they want your business and then there will be very little you can do to protect yourself from that.

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by alexxtomsk »

VectorLock wrote: post #47

Sometimes I wonder how much of these "we started making $X/mo and heres how" are true and how much are really just more content marketing spam?

Want me to do a screen sharing of our Baremetrics dashboard? Reach out to me at alex at standuply.com to book a call.

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by hluska »

geekingfrog wrote: post #39
HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop thinking of it as spam and start thinking of it as customer outreach? I mean you have to let people know about this magical thing you've built somehow .

Why do people need to know about this magical thing? Isn't that enough if you solve a problem? Interested people will look for solution and find your magical thing, no need to add to the general cancerous spam of "hey, I'm sure you're going to find that thing awesome, even if you don't need it"

If this is true, why is it so easy to name genuinely good products that failed because of lack of visibility? How do you differentiate your product from that of competitors? How do you get seen in the first place unless you own a very good domain/have a massive sales force?

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by everdev »

VectorLock wrote: post #47

Sometimes I wonder how much of these "we started making $X/mo and heres how" are true and how much are really just more content marketing spam?

It's probably true and a marketing effort. Keep in mind that it's rarely averaging X/month, but they made X/month at their peak.

I had a great month in my previous business that was 2x all other months. If I wrote an article about that month, I'd probably seem way more profitable than I was.

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