Audio, Write, Convert 🔈
👋 Welcome!
Social audio apps are the talk of the town. Whether that be the much-discussed startup Clubhouse or the new Twitter audio feature. In her latest newsletter, Marie Dollé has done a deep dive into this booming industry and mapped out the current landscape. She classifies them into four categories. 1) Audio extensions for traditional social networks like Facebook's and Twitter. 2) Audio chat apps focused on gaming like Discord. 3) Social audio apps focused on B2C or B2B customers like Cappucino.fm 4) Social audio apps that drive “social discovery” like Clubhouse. The rise of the audio format can be in part attributed to the popularity in podcasts, which 75% of Americans are now familiar with. Read the full newsletter.
Source: Marie Dollé, The rise of Social Audio Apps
😺 Products of the Day
June 29, 2020
🥇 Headlime: Create headlines like copywriting experts.
🥈 Stripe Billing Customer Portal: Stripe-hosted page for customers to manage subscriptions.
🥉 Waydev 3.0: Create an alias for your bank details
🚀 Maker News
Zero to Sold
Arvid Kahl released his book Zero to Sold yesterday on Gumroad and Amazon. It contains his learnings from the past 10 years on how to start, run and sell a bootstrapped business. The book aims to help you explore and validate your idea and grow a sustainable business that you can sell at a later stage. Remember the words of Tim O’Reilly yesterday. Learn more.
SaaS Launch: Headlime
Danny Postma, Maker of Landingfolio, launched his next SaaS business yesterday called Headlime. It’s a headline generator with hundreds of headline formulas, tested on millions of visitors. He made #1 Product of Day (see above) and his last update, 18 hours after launch, announced $10k of sales, 245 customers and a 4.5% conversion rate. Congrats! Read his thread or visit site.
Tim Ferriss Podcast Library
Tim Ferriss has shared the transcripts for all episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show, from episode #1 with entrepreneur Kevin Rose to #443 with David Yarrow. He is also allowing others to use segments (up to 500 words) of the released transcripts for non-commercial purposes, provided attribution to “The Tim Ferriss Show” is included and it links back to the tim.blog/podcast URL. See conditions of use and learn more.
Email Conversions
Indie Hackers has released another helpful Growth Bite, this time on using interactive forms in email campaigns to increase conversions. They help you collect reviews, run surveys, and generate leads from within the email. They work in Apple Mail, Gmail (desktop web), and Yahoo (desktop web). For others use a fallback option. And if you can’t, GetFeedback and Salesforce's Content Builder can help. Learn more.
Passion to Expertise
Leandro shared a great thread, on people who are passionate about certain topics and are viewed by others as experts in their field. His curated list covers people with expertise in product development, user experience, NoCode, design, bootstrapping, positive hustle, entrepreneurship and more. Read more.
Finding Your Niche
Substack is hosting another writer workshop tomorrow, July 1st at 11 am PT. When writing a newsletter, having a narrowly-defined audience can be a good thing. Jarrett Carter Sr of HBCU Digest will talk about how he grew his subscriber audience, including paid subscriptions, by finding his niche. Register here.
Stripe Customer Portal
Stripe has introduced the Stripe Billing customer portal. This new feature will let customers upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a subscription, update their payment methods and view their billing history. It reached #2 Product of the Day. Learn more.
🖥️ NoCode & Automate
Integromat Tutorial
Last week I shared Kieran’s post on how he used Integromat to automate content publishing for his Growth Lessons newsletter to Wordpress, Twitter and MailerLite. As promised he’s created a video tutorial on how it’s done. See below or view here.
Landing Page Guide
Matt Varughese shares an insightful post by Julian Shapiro on how to write and design advanced landing pages that grow conversions. Julian walks you through a template explaining how to structure your page, write copy, incorporate design, and maximize conversions. Remember, approximately 75% of your traffic will leave after only seeing your homepage, so make your “first impression” count. Learn more.
💭 Afterthought
The following Tweet by Harry Stebbings reminds me of Bill Gurley’s words at McCombs School of Business about embracing peers in your field. “It's about connecting with the people that you have the most overlap with because you'll be able to help each other along the way, along the journey.” Take care and see you tomorrow.
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