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Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

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Post by psycr »

line-zero wrote: post #14
jawns wrote: post #3

Just wanted to say that for a company blog post, this was really great. It's data-rich, it tells a compelling story, the site has a solid visual design, and the multiple calls to action were well placed and didn't detract from the post. I don't know this industry niche well, but I'm guessing Rafflecopter is a chief competitor. I think if they see this blog post, it'll rattle their knees a little :)

I agree. At the end of the day, it breaks through the clutter to bring to the table clear goals of disruptive innovation to empower diversity and grow the brand. It takes a holistic approach to leverage organic growth, helping us think outside the box and shift major paradigms. They're clearly taking a proactive approach to push the envelope -- and I'm going to reach out to them today, because there's a sea change in…

Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

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Post by jawns »

line-zero wrote: post #14
jawns wrote: post #3

Just wanted to say that for a company blog post, this was really great. It's data-rich, it tells a compelling story, the site has a solid visual design, and the multiple calls to action were well placed and didn't detract from the post. I don't know this industry niche well, but I'm guessing Rafflecopter is a chief competitor. I think if they see this blog post, it'll rattle their knees a little :)

I agree. At the end of the day, it breaks through the clutter to bring to the table clear goals of disruptive innovation to empower diversity and grow the brand. It takes a holistic approach to leverage organic growth, helping us think outside the box and shift major paradigms. They're clearly taking a proactive approach to push the envelope -- and I'm going to reach out to them today, because there's a sea change in…

Mea culpa, I used too many buzzwords. Thanks for the reminder. I don't want to become that guy.

Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

#24

Post by brechin »

The Subscribe box near the bottom of the page doesn't work. It tells me that I'm entering an invalid email address (it's a standard gmail.com address, nothing tricky).

If you're interested in trying a different solution, you could try using LeadBoxes - https://blog.leadpages.net/announcing-leadboxes/

FD: I work for LeadPages.

Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

#25

Post by massarog »

brechin wrote: post #24

The Subscribe box near the bottom of the page doesn't work. It tells me that I'm entering an invalid email address (it's a standard gmail.com address, nothing tricky). If you're interested in trying a different solution, you could try using LeadBoxes - https://blog.leadpages.net/announcing-leadboxes/ FD: I work for LeadPages.

Thanks for spotting this. It is done in-house, just had an error in our code. Should be fixed now.

Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

#26

Post by hippich »

(links below are NSFW)

I tried this experiment in the summer of last year. Did not work out well in my case, but may be someone will use this idea to execute better.

It starts with this - http://orgasms.org/promotion where to enter a promotion, you need to enter email address. Once u entered, you get in a queue like this - http://orgasms.org/promotion-status?email=johndoe%40example.... which tells you that you are Nth in the list of applied and current winning entry is 10th. So if you just applied, for you to get closer to 10th position you need to share it with you friends so they get applied too :)

There were no anti-fraud anything implemented, since it was just an experiment, but in real-world situation comprehensive IP/Cookies/etc detection of same user submission will be required obviously.

Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

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Post by mst »

jawns wrote: post #3

Just wanted to say that for a company blog post, this was really great. It's data-rich, it tells a compelling story, the site has a solid visual design, and the multiple calls to action were well placed and didn't detract from the post. I don't know this industry niche well, but I'm guessing Rafflecopter is a chief competitor. I think if they see this blog post, it'll rattle their knees a little :)

I was a little bit annoyed by them calculating the ROI without including the internal costs of writing copy etc. - any ROI calculation that regards staff salaries as a sunk cost is going to be basically useless.

Re: Our SaaS app helped a customer make $18k

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Post by w4 »

line-zero wrote: post #14
jawns wrote: post #3

Just wanted to say that for a company blog post, this was really great. It's data-rich, it tells a compelling story, the site has a solid visual design, and the multiple calls to action were well placed and didn't detract from the post. I don't know this industry niche well, but I'm guessing Rafflecopter is a chief competitor. I think if they see this blog post, it'll rattle their knees a little :)

I agree. At the end of the day, it breaks through the clutter to bring to the table clear goals of disruptive innovation to empower diversity and grow the brand. It takes a holistic approach to leverage organic growth, helping us think outside the box and shift major paradigms. They're clearly taking a proactive approach to push the envelope -- and I'm going to reach out to them today, because there's a sea change in…

I couldn't help but read this in Patrick Bateman's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gQJMMlt_E
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