This is the kind of writing I love to see from founders. It's first-hand experience, and any advice is accompanied by narrative that explains the line of thought. It doesn't just seem as though it came down on stone tablets from gods of startups. In a word, it's practical.
From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
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Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#32Anyone who's used both Aweber and Mailchimp? Which is better for a mid-level website?
I prefer to use self hosted autoresponders using a 3rd parties SMTP service (like Sendgrid or Amazon SES). Much cheaper and just as reliable (you pay 1 cent per 1000 emails sent, no pay-per-user-per-month).
You'll need to spend $XXX on a self hosted autoresponder first though, Interspire or arpReach are good.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#33thanks for the insight, very helpful
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#34thanks for the insight, very helpful
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#35thanks for the insight, very helpful
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#36A classic pivot: "This gold mining thing isn't working out, perhaps we should just sell goods to the other miners".
But it's still so much about marketing.
After the invention of cinema, radio, of TV, of billboards, neon tubes and who knows what else, everyone from the hustler to the careful Mom n Pop store had to learn this new medium, otherwise they would potentially, probably lose customers.
I don't want to replicate their business model (what I kind of understood of it) but I do want to use mailchimp better (15 total signups - woohoo) I do want to know how not to be a complete idiot in online marketing.
Just as xx years ago I would have wanted to learn why a newspaper ad did or did not bring in more business.
As a kid I tried selling a photoshop service through newspapers - and I paid for some course - all I remember was the guy hammering on about how each ad in every newspaper must have a campaign code and you must ask for that code on each inbound call.
Nothing much has changed since the 1980s really. We are still tracking our inbound lead generators.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#37Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#38It's a great story. Mind if I ask how did you get the first programmers to sign up?
From what is in the post, it seemed too me that it was through personal connections
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy crap does the site's landing page look like Simple.
I don't think these are the only two sites using a big hero image overlaid with white Gotham/Lato/Proxima Nova headers...
It instantly reminded me of simple as well. Both top fixed headers with orange buttons and large BG image with a white background. There are more for sure. The basic app/tool website layout.
Re: From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
#40Funny, this is exactly how I started Folyo (http://folyo.me) as well (which is the same thing but for freelance designers).
The only difference is that I used Posterous as well to get an online archive of each project (you could post directly form Wufoo to Posterous if I remember correctly).
Edit: from reading the post I thought they catered only to app developers. After taking a look at the site, it seems that they do designers, so they're a direct competitor.
Others include: