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I think you may try a concierge approach (google it). I mean, found a potential user, one that loved your solution. Meet him in person, not just someone who came through ads. Someone in your broader social circle. Then, offer to help him by pursuing another users. As you say the location is important, let me create a scenario and you say if this makes sense. Go, you and your known early adopter, to a particularly cro…
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Thanks, it's a pretty nice idea indeed, i'm not 100% sure I can spend all my time talking to potential customers with my busy day time work but it's worth giving a try when traveling in subway etc
Actually you are saying "I'm not 100% sure I want to dedicate myself to this startup" so I kinda feel frustrated right now, like I have spent some minutes trying to help someone who is just fooling around here.
1. Zero out your target location,
2. Go to fiverr.com -> Advertising -> Flyers and Handouts.
3. Choose a person providing a gig at your target location at some school, university or a public place.
4. Make a nice flyer using GIMP or photoshop with your app details and a QR code to download the app.
5. Have him/her use this flyer for distribution.
I have used it for my app and it has worked to acquire location based app users.
One more approach that you can follow: 1. Zero out your target location, 2. Go to fiverr.com -> Advertising -> Flyers and Handouts. 3. Choose a person providing a gig at your target location at some school, university or a public place. 4. Make a nice flyer using GIMP or photoshop with your app details and a QR code to download the app. 5. Have him/her use this flyer for distribution. I have used it for my app and it…
For your type of service, I would initially limit the locations available to your users (and build your base from these users) and have a signup form for other locations (and open them up as soon as you have enough ‘seed users’). How are you going to build up from a base of users? Get all your friends & family to use the service & leverage existing platforms.
Yes that sounds a good idea, but the hardest part is that i'm facing is to get the initial users. It's like launching a messenger, like what's the use of whats app/ snapchat if there you are the only one using it? this is a similar kind of a problem to solve how to get the initial few people using what you make if it need a network effect Thanks for that answer
For your initial users you want your friends & family to use it ideally and then encourage them and the users they acquire to import their “graphs” to it & then contacting them to join your service. If you can’t get your friends or family to use the service – go to a local university etc and hand out flyers (if you don’t want to do that, post a job listing on the universities website and get a student to hand them out) Once you’ve done that, ask the local universities when the next “fair” is for freshers and attend it with your ‘service’ giving out flyers, having a stall there etc and acquiring users.
One more approach that you can follow: 1. Zero out your target location, 2. Go to fiverr.com -> Advertising -> Flyers and Handouts. 3. Choose a person providing a gig at your target location at some school, university or a public place. 4. Make a nice flyer using GIMP or photoshop with your app details and a QR code to download the app. 5. Have him/her use this flyer for distribution. I have used it for my app and it…
One more approach that you can follow: 1. Zero out your target location, 2. Go to fiverr.com -> Advertising -> Flyers and Handouts. 3. Choose a person providing a gig at your target location at some school, university or a public place. 4. Make a nice flyer using GIMP or photoshop with your app details and a QR code to download the app. 5. Have him/her use this flyer for distribution. I have used it for my app and it…
I've tried this with 6 different Fiverr people using a unique signup code. Not a single user from it. There is no way they are posting these flyers in 50 locations per the ad on Fiverr. They threw up a couple on bulletin boards flooded with flyers.