Posts tagged "startups".
I burned $1,500 on Facebook ads and got three email signups. One was my mum. After six years of trying every channel as a bootstrapped founder, I can finally tell you which ones are worth your time.
My first SaaS hit 5,000 monthly visitors and I celebrated. Then I checked the numbers. Eleven signups. Three trials. Zero paying customers. I had a traffic problem disguised as a success story.
You shipped an app with Claude Code or Lovable in a weekend. Now what? Most vibe-coded apps die in obscurity. Here's how to actually get users.
I spent three months tracking 47 different metrics before realizing most of them were garbage. Here's what I actually look at now - the five to seven numbers that connect to revenue instead of making me feel busy.
Google cracked down hard on link schemes in 2024. Old tactics like PBNs and scaled guest posting are dead. Here's what actually works for startups building authority on a budget.
I bootstrapped my way through content marketing with zero budget and learned what the playbooks don't tell you. This is the system that finally worked.
I ran my first business's SEO entirely on free tools. Made some mistakes, learned what actually matters. Here's the stack I'd recommend.
I built 2,000 pages programmatically last year. Half got indexed. A quarter actually ranked. Here's what I learned about doing this without getting slapped.
I've watched too many SaaS founders burn money on agency retainers. Here's what I learned about building authority when you can't afford a content team.
I watched my first site flatline for four months before anything happened. Almost quit twice. Here's the timeline nobody shows you, plus what I learned about why most people bail too early.
We didn't have budget for sales reps. So I spent six months figuring out how to get B2B leads without cold calling anyone. Here's the system that finally worked.
Got three quotes for SEO last year. $800/month, $3,500/month, and $12,000/month. For roughly the same work. Here's what I learned about SEO pricing.
I spent a week going down a rabbit hole of founder interviews and case studies. Stripe, Airbnb, Buffer, Slack. The patterns surprised me. Here's what actually worked when they had zero customers.
I bootstrapped my first startup on $3k. Blew half of it on Facebook ads in two weeks. Here's what I wish I knew about marketing when you can't afford mistakes.
