This Update, it is all about you and your voice that we heard. We are glad that you kept your faith in us and sent us your kind suggestions which helped us to shape a more polished product for you. In this version, we kept our focus on your requests and suggestions.
1. Dark Theme:
The Most asked feature till date. Without any doubt, it is a must have for a nice reading app like Basket and now you can enjoy eye soothing reading experience at night.
2. Full control in Offline:
Now add items from other apps, change labels, add categories, add notes and delete an item after reading if required while offline. Once you are online we will sync your changes across all devices.
3. Messages:
Very often we all need to look back to the links which we shared with our friends or they sent to us. With new Messages section easily track all the links you shared or have been shared with you in a single place.
4. Multilingual:
We took the first step to making Basket available in your native language. Basket is now also available in Russian, French and Chinese(simplified).
There is always room for improvement, so we've opened the translation process up to you because you know best how Basket should be translated into your language.
Help us to translate Basket in your language: http://translate.basketapp.net/
4. Intuitive save:
We saw most of you love to organize your items while saving and we worked hard to make it easier and friendly to you. Do some action in desired section (e.g. Select a Label) and you will be automatically moved to the Category section, No tap required. Press Update from any section or Cancel to get back to them later.
When you’re in college, staying productive is pretty much the most important thing. You have to keep up with your courses and exams beside making new friends, adventure, working on your hobbies, parties...list goes on.
It becomes hard to properly manage contents you come across internet while working on a project or gathering articles for your next lecture or presentation. Sometimes you also need to save your inspirations related to your hobby or articles on new coding techniques you are learning.
Basket helps you to quickly save and organize stories you find interesting on web. Put articles, videos and any kind of useful links in Basket and access from devices you use daily.
Today we are going to discuss how you can deal with challenges you face to properly manage your useful links.
1. Organize items in proper category
Keeping items in proper categories will always help you to find them quickly. Your findings related to Alimentary Design course can reside under ‘STU 0130300′ category and your research findings for next presentation can reside under ‘swarm robotics’. The key is to have clarity.
2. Easily identify items which need quick attention with labels
Labels gives you immense power to organize contents according to your workflow. You may need to check some recently saved contents spanning various categories or topics or courses, assigning label ‘Have to check’ will help you to quickly identify the items requires your action.
In very same way may be you need to share an item with your project guide or friend, but not immediately but after a little inspection from your end. Mark them as ‘Have to share’.
3. Mark the reason to save an item by keeping notes
Any area you want to do differently for you project paper and saved a related article? Just put those things in notes against that link. Want to save a quick fix or workaround you did to the coding solution found online? Save it in the notes.
4. Take your Basket with you everywhere
Traveling to a new place with friends? Read articles saved on people, cultures of the new place while travelling in train or by air. Saved a funny Youtube video to watch later? View with your friends while returning in Bus.
Read articles OFFLINE at home on your any favorite topic over coffee on your couch.
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We’d love to hear your tips and tricks for what works best for you. Let us know in the comments, or on Facebook and Twitter.
A new button for your twitter. Build for persons who care about #productivity
We are running a campaign on social media about the utility of twitter buttons.
So if you have been here from twitter then you must be wondering what does this button do. Actually twitter doesn't give this button by default.
But installing this chrome extension will add this to your news feed and every twitter profiles you visit. When a tweet gets your attention or somehow
it seems important for you to keep somewhere simply click this button.
This tweet will be saved. And NOONE will be notified for this. Neither your follower Nor the person who tweeted this ever will come to know that you saved the tweet. It will be preserved in a private space. Not only that, when any tweet contains any link. Like the image displayed below-
You can use this button either to keep the tweet or to keep the link inside the tweet. Just by one click. So when you are scrolling to your newsfeed and randomly twitter feeds showing you new tweets by persons or pages you are following, you can simply keep tweets or links inside tweets for watching later.
The best part is if the link inside the tweet is an article, you can read it offline, it will be synced among other devices. If you are concerened over privacy over this, please read our privacy policy
Now the most important part is how to get this button. Actually we built a chrome extension which does this thing. It does some incredible jobs for a productive person along with this.
Get this extension here - Click here
and also by our android app and web app you can do so many things like this and access your saved items. Visit www.basketapp.net for more details
We were getting requests from you to have your Basket in Android and guess it is here. With Read later and lot more facility Basket is now available for your Android.
Let’s Get it from Google Play and see how you can make more out of your Basket.
Add an item : From browser or from any app like Flipboard, feedly you can add any article by going from Share. Look for the Share button against the item you want to save, normally can be found in menu or toolbar.
When you tap Share, you will see a list of share options, and you will find “Add to Basket” option, usually at the top of the list, you just need to tap “Add to Basket” to save the item.
Organize after adding:
Sometimes it is necessary to organize an item while adding. To do that, after adding an item you can add the just added item in existing or a new category and also can assign a color label depending on your purpose. If you don't want to organize at that point simply press 'back' or 'cancel' or touch outside the pop-up.
Edit and item and add Notes :
While in any list swipe the row of which you want to edit to left. A list of icons will come to assist you with 'edit', 'delete' or 'share'. Tap on the 'edit' icon to proceed.
you can add/ edit Note, Category, Label, Tags, Title against the item.
View Notes: Double tap on any item to see the assigned notes against it.
Control when you like to download articles: You may be in limited data plan to utilize it we gave you control to tell Basket when to download offline contents.
Go to ‘Settings’ and tap ‘Article download policy’ to suit your need. Basket by default will download articles on wi-Fi only.
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We are working hard to make Basket more beautiful for you. Let us know your thoughts in comments.
For past few months we were working hard to improve your productivity with Basket and we wanted to bring it to Google Chrome which you use daily to browse internet.
We started working on Basket for Chrome keeping in mind, that while you are researching over web then you must access your Basket as fast as you can and with all the right elements to keep things organized from any opened tab.
Here is what we prepared for you-
Save any link from the article you are reading in seconds
Now you can save any link from any webpage just by right clicking on it and clicking ‘Put in basket’.
Introducing Shortcuts
You can press Ctrl+D (Windows) or Command+D (Mac) to save your current page in Basket.
Press Ctrl+shift+L ( Windows ) or Command +shift+L ( Mac ) to open your list.
Save any tab opened in your browser
If you are willing to save multiple opened tabs in one go, click on the ‘add another link’ option in bottom of the popup. You will able to see all the tabs listed there. Click on the ‘tick’ icon beside the link you wish to save.
Introducing Labels
Want to share some videos later? or want to add some content to your favorite? or want to mark something as essential? or just want to keep some link secret?
Now against any link you can add your desired label to provide a purpose or quick check of saved items as per your working style.
Keep Notes
To keep in mind why you saved it or to keep some more information against the item you saved note can be very handy.
Suppose you tweaked the recipe saved and want to save that small change or may be you want to keep some details against a link you saved for your upcoming trip, notes can be very handy in that cases.
Find in Google
Sometimes though something is saved earlier we forgot and search for the very similar thing. To minimize that now if you already saved something in your basket and try to search for something similar in Google, Basket chrome extension will automatically show your already saved links at top. And yes if you will you can also control it from Options section.
Read Offline
Basket chrome extension allows you to read articles offline. Just keep the article you want to read in offline and it will be available to you without internet.
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We’d love to hear what you think of the latest updates. Please share your feedback with us in the comments below, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook.
Yes, you can save notes against your saved items in Basket. We think you will love this feature.
We all know how taking notes help us a lot. While organizing an item it is best many times to keep notes associated with them.
Why you are saving it, may be you were doing some research on some tools and you thought it can be useful in certain way. You can note some changes on top of a saved recipe to do it in your own manner. You may write down ISO information of a photo you saved to use it later while taking photograph.
We made it easy to see glimpse of your notes against your favorites just by hovering the triangle box at the top right side of the bookmark block.
If you want to edit it just click it and you are there. Get more organized down the years with your saved items.
Feel free to send us your thoughts in the comments below or via email to [email protected]
- Team Basket
We have pushed a new version of Basketapp web with better look and feel . Always we keep working hard to bring changes which will enhance your basketing experience. We are really excited to see you using it.
Here’s a quick overview of what’s new:
With new look and feel we have simplified Basket user experience to put priority on thing that matters most. We gave priority on Title of a item, so that you can find your saved items at a glance.
Now filter your saved items on different type of useful ways. Filter your Articles, Videos, Embed Items, Document in one click.
We made room for your notes/details against a saved item. It is now easy to access just by hovering the triangle box at the top right side of the bookmark block. If you want to edit it just click it and you are there.
We hope you’ll find Basket more beautiful, a bit more intuitive and as clean and useful as always.
Let us know your take on the new Basket experience by commenting below or by mailing at: [email protected] . Happy Basketing :)
Basket let you save links of your favorite items and organize them. Today we are going to discuss that how Basket can be a photo enthusiastic's best tool when surfing the web world.
We came across Photography Tips, Tricks and photography locations.
We do need to save them or keep note. Basket makes it lot way easier. The question we get from many users is how to organize the links they bring into Basket effectively.
You have the option to organize by keeping them in a Category, putting Tags against them or to keep Notes against those saved items. It is remarkable how powerful Basket becomes when you find the right system that works for you.
Simplified Category Structure
It is easy to maintain your bookmarks easily with Categories. You can keep categories like : Travel Destinations, Photography Tips, Gears. And your saved items will be stacked inside a category.
By Default Categories remain in Alphabetical order. You can put symbols such as hashtags, periods, and numbers to force them into an order that works for you. Such as - #tools , .Projects
Organized with tags and color
While saving a webpage you can add tags against it to further organize the element. Like While adding 'Travel Destinations' category you can add further tags like: Autumn or Wildlife or northern lights.
You can further filter the elements by adding a color against it. Premium destinations a separate color or may be trekking locations a different color.
Add Notes against your saved items
It becomes more easy when you keep starting adding notes against your saved items. You can save Phone number, email or any additional information about a location in Details section against a webpage.
Here is how you can quickly add category and tags in Basket.
In a company for a product we had to take various growth hack methods. This methods keep varying depending on Product stage, product type, Market segment.
Here the methods are divided into the famous AARRR wise, i.e. the Pirate Metrics as stated by Dave McClure.
Acquisition
Activation
Retention
Referral
Revenue
Most of the growth hacks listed here are in the “Acquisition” stage.
ACQUISITION GROWTH HACKS
1. Launch on a Tuesday
Almost ALL websites see a dip in traffic on the weekend. Friday’s get lost in the weekend excitement as well. Monday’s are catch-up days for most. Tuesdays allow you to capture most of the week.
2. SlideShare Commenting
Commenting on slideshare presentations helps you to get noticed. It works like a charm!
3. Sign-up Functionality that Stays at the Top
Use a hello bar style fixed position sign-up form.
4. Submit the App to Award Sites
Maybe your app looks great. Maybe you had a cool explainer/teaser video done. Submitting them to award sites can give you recognition, awareness, and links!
5. Use the Thank You Page
When someone does sign up to your blog, take them to a killer “Thank You” page that references the app with screenshots to highlight the benefits.
6. Wavelength by MailChimp
This handy tool lets you find similar email blasts to yours.
This could be fodder for potential customers, or you could try building partnerships this way.
7. Startup App Directories
Here is a list of over 100 startup directory websites in this blog post.
8. Pay for Triberr Influencers
If there is a little room in the budget, paying for influencers to push your app through Triberr can help.
9. Viral Content Buzz and Just Retweet
Share other content and earn credits on Viral Content Buzz and JustRetweet. Then offer those credits for others to retweet your Twitter posts.
10. Virtual Assistants
Use oDesk and hire a low-cost virtual assistant to go to the websites of your ideal customers and fill out web forms and collect/send emails. Elance and Freelancer work as well.
Note: This is a little spammy, so make sure the messages are targeted and personalized.
11. Put “>>” at the End of Your Call-to-Action Buttons
A really great breakdown of some CTA tests can be found here.
12. Tweet Embeds of Social Proof
HubSpot put together a great walk through of this technique.
13. Require Shares for Your Best Content
If you have a piece of high quality content that has proven to be popular and frequently read, use Pay With A Tweet (or something similar) to require people to share it in order to access it.
I did this with great success on the web app directories link in #9. Because of the shares, the articles ended up getting posted to Hacker News and I received thousands of visitors.
14. SellHack for LinkedIn
Find hidden email addresses on LinkedIn with the SellHack browser extension prospecting tool.
15. LinkedIn Group Owners
Send exclusive offers to LinkedIn Group owners (active/engaged ones only).
16. LinkedIn Group Blog Promotion
Join groups on LinkedIn (you can join up to 50) in your niche. When you write blog posts on your website, be sure to use a social sharing plugin to promote to your groups.
17. Old Tools That No Longer Exist
Search for blogs about products in your space. If there are products listed that don’t exist anymore, email the author telling them that X product no longer exists. Suggest replacing X product with your product and provide a brief description and link, or at least try getting your product added to the list.
18. Discounts to Influencers
Find influencers in your niche and offer them heavy discounts (or even a free account) in exchange for some promotion.
19. Submit to Social Bookmarking Type Sites
Submit your blogs to StumbleUpon, Reddit, Growthhackers, HackerNews, Inbound.org, BizSugar, etc.
Just make sure your content is relevant to whatever community you submit your content to.
20. SnapGuide and Guides.co
Post How-To’s to SnapGuides and Guides.co
21. Email News Publishers for Your Industry
Use this handy little tool to scrap Google News API.
Then, find a virtual assistant (through Mechanical Turk or oDesk) to find the author name and email for all the authors who have covered your niche. You now have a solid list of publishers to contact about covering your business.
22. Ad Placement/Sponsorships
Get banner ads placed on key blogs or websites where your users visit. Especially helpful if there aren’t other competing ads.
23. Upload Training Videos to Lynda
Upload your training videos to Lynda, an online collections of training videos.
24. Reach Out to Other Guest Bloggers
Find people who contribute guest blogs and ask them to contribute a piece to your blog. You may have to pay them if you are starting out as there isn’t anything in it for them if you have a small audience.
Start by finding people who already contribute to other websites in your niche.
25. Leverage Your Existing Providers
If you use tools and they also service your target market, try getting a guest blog on their website. Since you are a paying customer, this will help increase your chances.
26. LaunchBit
You need a $1,000 per month budget to use this, but you can get your app featured in other company’s email blasts with LaunchBit
27. HARO
Use HARO for press opportunities.
You can respond to any press inquiries in your industry.
You can get ad placement and be talked about before the list of press inquiries.
Use a tool like Bitesize PR to automate this process for you!
28. Sponsored Content
Use Izea to get links in content or sponsor posts
29. Fiverr Promotion
For $5 you can get someone with thousands of followers to tweet your content or do other forms of promotion. Just make sure their audience is who you are trying to appeal to. There are lots of fake and crap accounts on here so choose wisely.
30. Pay for Reviews
You can use SponsoredReviews to get paid reviews of your app. Be sure you check the quality of the websites who try to bid on your opportunity. I’ve found that most are rather spammy. Be sure all reviews follow FTC guidelines for disclosure as well.
31. Showoff Your PR or Customers
If you get a write-up or mentioned from key news sources, be sure to feature their logo on your website. I’ll be featuring Search Engine Journal now!
32. Pop-ups
Use OptinMonster, or other pop-up solutions, to provide attention getting calls to action for your app or your email newsletter. (disclosure: SEJ uses OptinMonster and loves it)
33. Get PR
Use a service like PRserve or Publicize or PRLeads to try and get PR. DIY options likePressFriendly or JustReachOut can help as well.
34. Discounts for Beta Testers
Give half off or some other deep lifetime discount to beta testers who helped you validate your model.
35. Social Listening
Use Colibri.io to monitor conversations about your industry/product and jump into the conversation.
36. Create Templates
Use free templates (like BidSketch does here) in exchange for an email. Then use autoresponders and email marketing to upsell them.
37. Chrome Webstore
Create a Chrome extension to open your web app when opening the browser. Costs just $5.
BaseCRM did this and got over 30,000 downloads!
38. Daily Deal Sites
If you have an app, you can use sites like:
AppSumo
Rewardli
MightyDeals
39. Roundups
If people put together roundups (whether in blogs or email newsletters) in your industry, reach out to them to try and get your app, blog, etc featured in the roundup.
40. Highlight User Onboarding
Assuming you have a killer onboarding process (which is part of the activation growth hacks) then you can submit it to UserOnboarding to try and get it featured there.
41. Guest Blog
Find blogs that your target customer visits and ask them if you can submit a blog post. Make sure it’s your best and don’t self promote. You’ll get a link to your app in your byline at the end of the post.
For every one blog you post on your own blog, try and write another one as a guest a blog. Some sites like Business2Community and Social Media Today also syndicate content from other bloggers. Submit your blog’s RSS feed to apply.
42. Use Paid Ads to Promote Your Press
If you are able to land coverage in news outlets, or get a sweet review of your tool posted somewhere…use paid ads to promote THOSE pieces of content. Having a third party promote your app is much better than you trying to self promote.
43. Conversion and A/B Testing
You should always be testing. Using tools like Optimizely or Visual Website Optimizer can help you perform split tests.
Use a tool like CrazyEgg or hotjar to see where visitors are clicking (or not clicking).
44. Ask for Beta Users on Social
Use your social profiles to ask for beta users. Post in LinkedIn groups, Google+ communities, Facebook groups, etc. Don’t advertise…ask for help.
45. Handwritten Notes
Send handwritten letters to key accounts / influencers. Actual handwritten letters are extremely rare these days so you will stand out.
46. Blog Commenting
If you spend time reading blogs in your niche (you should!), leave thoughtful/relevant blog comments.
Use the website/url field to link to your app.
Bonus tip: In the “Name” field use ‘your name @ company’ for more brand awareness for those that don’t click the link.
47. Utilize an FAQ Page
Create a separate page on your website specifically for FAQ’s.
Position questions around your key selling points.
Monitor search queries to your site and build content specific to those queries.
Make note of actual issues or questions your customers are having and address them to lessen support requests.
48. Ask Users to Take Pics with Your Product
If you have some enthusiastic customers, ask them to take pictures with your product and have them share it on their social feeds.
You can then use this social proof on your website!
49. More Engaging Signup/Login Page
Show a picture of your app in the background. Make sure it is faded so it doesn’t interfere, but show off the product.
50. Downsell at Signup
Maybe you have potential users who aren’t ready to commit just yet. Try to offer them something else. Maybe an ebook or training course? A very limited version of your product? You can then try upselling to them later.
51. Host Your Videos on Wistia
By hosting your videos on Wistia when someone embeds your videos on their site, you get the link and SEO juice (versus YouTube). For this reason, you should also put a link at the beginning of your video descriptions.
52. Converse with Authors not Publishers
Find the authors of blogs or news articles and converse with them directly. This greatly improves your chances of getting coverage with the publisher or potentially being introduced to key third parties.
53. Communicate
Communicate as much and as early as possible (live chat, personal emails, etc). By communicating directly with new users, you greatly increase your odds of them converting to a paid user. This is especially true when it comes to free trial users.
54. Repurpose Content
Convert blog posts into presentations, infographics, etc. Transcribe video and audio. Take sections of blog posts and spin them off on their own.
55. Feature Key Figures in Your Niche
This could be a joint webinar, or maybe just advice that is applicable to your user base that you are sharing.
56. Training Courses
Put up training courses within your niche on sites like Udemy or SkillShare. You can choose to charge for the course to add a new revenue channel or give it away to have more people learn about your product.
57. Third Party Partnerships
Look for products in your industry that do not compete and try to integrate with them.
Joint ventures
Joint webinars
Exchange guest blogs
58. Interview Influencers
Interview influencers and then do a write-up. Link to them within the write-up and let them know when it’s published. They like to demonstrate their expertise and they’ll be promoting you while doing so.
59. Cold Emailing
Send 10 to 20 emails per day to your targeted prospects with a personal email. It isn’t scalable, but that’s ok early on. Spend the time to find their name, reference their business/website, etc.
60. Case Studies for Different User Types
If you have multiple user types or subsets of users then try showcasing each of them with their own case studies.
61. Siphon Competitor Links
If you feel you have a better product and you have some courage – reach out and ask them to link to you instead! This is especially helpful if the competing product is no longer being sold or looked after.
62. Marketplace Integrations with Other Apps
Integrate with well known products that will expand your reach to their userbase. Integrate with CRM’s, billing systems, popular tools like Evernote, etc.
Sometimes you can get featured in their marketplace, so ask them what you need to do to make that happen.
ACTIVATION GROWTH HACKS
63. Make Signing Up Easy
Just require an email (that will be their username) and one password input initially. Don’t have them confirm the password, don’t ask for an email AND a username (email can be the username). Make it as quick and painless as possible.
64. Auto Login After Signup
Don’t require a confirmation and instead just get them right into your product.
65. Send Personal Email
Within 24 hours (or even right away), send them a personalized email asking them specifically why they signed up. What made them pull the trigger? This is extremely important data as you want to make sure that your product is delivering what your marketing messages are promising.
Ideally, with your analytics software you can save the note to their user profile. This is important so you can ask them why they canceled or chose not to continue and compare those answers.
Early on you can do this manually, and look to automate this (so long as it shows from you) later.
66. Send Gifts
Send new users real gifts. Even better if the gift helps them to get more out of your product. I like to give ecards.
67. Engage Influencers Who Signup
Track influencers using IFTTT. Have a script check their email address, track their Klout score. Then go and follow them, tweet and comment where possible.
You always want to be connected with the influencers who are using your app or product.
68. Tweet or Mention New Users
Tag new users (or one’s with the biggest following if there are lots) in tweets and on Google+ after they sign up and thank them for the signup.
69. Map Out Your Email Sequence
Have your drip campaign in place before you launch. You need to walk users through your product when they are free trial customers.
Add a win back sequence after 60 days (and/or 6 months) after a user cancels. Let them know you’ve added new features.
70. Extended Free Trials
If a free trial user doesn’t convert, send them an email and let them know you’ve added X number of days to their free trial. Be sure you use this email to guide through getting the most out of your product.
71. Personal Outreach as a Followup
Beyond your initial personal email asking why they signed up, continue the conversation (or try and start it again) by asking them to help spread the word and to give you feedback.
Give them your cell phone #. They will feel special and will be willing to help you out if you show this personalized effort, while simultaneously being more engaged with your product.
72. Find Your “Aha” Moment
This will take months of evaluating your analytics to find that one element that leads to the highest activation rate. Once you have found what it is, focus on guiding your free trial users to that point as quickly as possible.
For example:
For Facebook, it’s having 10 friends in 7 days
For Twitter, it’s following 30 people.
73. Automated Webinars
Use StealthSeminar to record a webinar once, but have it replay at designated times to give the feeling of a live webinar.
74. Great Onboarding Experience
Don’t leave any questions or doubts about how to use your product. Provide a rich onboarding experience, then follow that up with an email drip that walks them through using your app to its fullest capabilities.
75. Spruce Up the Boring Pages
Use log in pages, log out pages, forgot password pages, etc to expand on in-app features, testimonials, and maybe even little easter eggs.
RETENTION GROWTH HACKS
76. Report on Positive Statistics
You don’t want users to have a negative feeling when they seen an email from you, so report on positive statistics first and foremost, then the negative things can be after/below that and not stand out as much.
77. Email, Email, Email
Don’t be worried about “spamming” your users. If you are able to provide value to them they will want more of it. Here are some examples of companies using email to the max:
You’ve been outbid (eBay)
Year in Review, or Group Discussions, or Connection Requests (LinkedIn)
New friend/follower (Facebook/Twitter/Google+)
78. Customer Thank You Cards
Send hand written notes to customers thanking them for being a valued customer.
You could set this up where you get an alert once they hit a certain revenue earning and then you send it to them.
79. User Exclusives
Send users exclusive content that no one else gets. Provide a member forum, tools, webinars, hangouts, gifts, etc.
80. Credit Card Expiration Notices
Don’t let credit cards expire. Send email reminders about the value they get and what they risk losing if they don’t update their credit card details. You can use a service like Churn Buster.
81. Leaderboards
Think of ways to showcase your users in a leaderboard format. Give awards to most active users.
82. Gamify
Gamify elements within your product/app for discovery. For example, as users use certain features it may unlock a badge. They can then show off the badges to other users.
83. Inform Users What They Missed
When users log back in, have a message that informs them of new things going on with the app or suggest things they should do.
84. Use Google Hangouts/Skype for Support
Use software your customers are familiar with to provide support. This builds a stronger relationship with your customers and free trial users and allows you to collect live feedback.
You can also use these technologies for a more streamlined onboarding of new users early on.
85. Interview Users
Feature user stories on your blog and in your emails. This works even better if you can tie in how they are utilizing your product successfully.
REFERRAL GROWTH HACKS
86. Double Loop Referral Program
Dropbox made this technique popular by rewarding you with more storage when you refer someone, while at the same time giving that new referred user more storage as well.
The genius in this particular example is that it doesn’t cost them any revenue. Whereas most double loop referral programs offer to give users a discount and then give a discount to the new referred users. This is still a good option, but does your product/app offer something else that users will find of value?
87. In-App Sharing
Allow users to share milestone achievements or something they can be proud of and will want to share.
88. Two Way Sharing
Does your app/product facilitate communication in any way between two parties? If not, is it possible/does it make sense for you to add this functionality?
89. Ask for Shares in Your Application
Add a message to the top of the interface to encourage social shares.
“Help us spread the word by tweeting this message.” If you’ve built up a relationship with your user base and they like and trust you, they will be much more willing to help you.
90. Affiliate / Referral Program
Use systems like HasOffers, GetAmbassador, or ReferralPop to track everything.
Keep affiliates engaged with email drips and regular communication.
You will want to have product/market fit first, and you will want to make sure you have optimized the onboarding experience before rolling out a program like this.
91. Use Links in Your Email Signature
I use WiseStamp and include social media links, as well as a call out to the latest blog post from our RSS feed.
92. Ask for Shares in ALL Emails
On ALL email correspondence, ask for tweets/shares. This includes your email drips and onboarding type emails as well as transactional emails (receipts, forgotten passwords, etc).
REVENUE GROWTH HACKS
93. Downsell at Cancelation
When a user goes to cancel, offer to keep/store data or push them toward a lower tier instead.
If a user has been a customer for X number of months, offer a big discount (50% or so) to stay on their current plan. Make sure it’s understood this is a one-time offer and only because they met certain criteria.
94. Verified Program
Adwords offers a verified program for agencies who pass their test/budget spending requirement.
This sort of verified program works really well if you work with consultants, business coaches, freelancers, marketers, etc.
95. “At Risk” Tagging
Within your analytics (KISSmetrics, MixPanel, Trak.io), you will be able to find obvious patterns from users who cancel. It could be something as simple as “have’t logged in for 2 weeks.” These should get an “At Risk” designation and be flagged in your system for immediate follow-up. You need to re-engage them.
96. Exit Survey
Make money from website visitors who leave by knowing why they left.
Ask why they weren’t interested and what they were looking for.
Use this data to improve your marketing and/or your app with the feedback.
Let them know you can follow up with them in the future as the product evolves to meet their needs.
97. Add Professional or Concierge Services
Offer to provide services such as helping them get setup/integrated, contract work, complimentary services, etc to add revenue.
98. Annual Payments
Give customers the option to pay with annual payments. Reward them with X% off or # of months free. This gives you a large sum of cash upfront which can be put back into marketing.
Twitter open sourced emojis available for Download
Twitter has open sourced it’s emoji set for everybody use. And it’s available for download in Github. Here is what they wrote in their blog – Click here to see
Twitter has tied up with Iconfactory to design icons for it’s web client.
Check their Github page for more information about using the pack.
Few days ago Google revealed their icon sets for material design
Today we are going to discuss on how to write great blogs like a pro. We discussed some points maintaining which can give you loyal readers. You may already follow some, or may not, have a look to ensure you don’t miss a single one and can connect better with your audiences.
1. Write for People:
Who are reading your article? That is one of the main thing you need to understand. Stuffing keywords is for search engine and you cannot write for search engines. So write for people and they will be happy to share and will come to you again.
2. Make articles concise:
3. Serve well:
We all like to get served well. A good plot of a story, a smooth going. So plot your story well. Try to start keeping end in mind.
4. Schedule your Posts:
Pick a time to write, write as long as you love and schedule those posts. Yes post the items in such a manner so that relative targetted posts can reach to a larger audience in proper time.
5. Design Your posts well:
Survey tells that design makes a person stick to the content or site much longer. Use headings, sub headings, underline, color wherever necessary. Using of bullet points, Good images makes the appeal increase.
6. Know Your Audience:
Know who are your audience, for which set of people you are writing and structure in that manner. Using of Analytic tools like Google Analytics help you to understand user demographics. That data will help you to write in that manner and to make your audience delighted.
7. Have a conversation:
Try to have a conversation through your posts. It is beneficial as it makes people comfortable and more like face to face conversation.
8. Draft quickly:
You may forget later, inspiration gets lost quickly sometimes. So, draft a story when it is fresh in your mind. Later you can have another go with the story and and furnish it better before scheduling.
9. Be simple:
Being simple is most hard and we all like simple things. So try to make the post simple, design simple and to convey your message or learning in a simple manner.
10. Use Good tools:
Use proper tools to keep your necessary things in place. Tools like Basket always comes handy to keep track of things, Reading your articles later so that you can do your research in peaceful mind.
As we all know only making a product is not everything, you need to market it well. In today’s tech savvy world most of the users comes from online. Even if your product is not online commodity still people refers to products or services now over internet. So it is always a best practice to submit your startup on some startup directories listed below.
Startup Directories
http://www.crunchbase.com/
https://www.angel.co/
http://www.betali.st/
http://www.killerstartups.com/
http://www.startupbird.com/
http://www.ratemystartup.com/
http://www.erlibird.com/
http://www.venturebeatprofiles.com/
http://geekopedia.me/startupsubmit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
http://www.listio.com/
http://thestartupmag.com/
http://www.new-startups.com
If you know any other website info, share with us we will update list. Cheers. All the best with your startup.
How Really Today’s IT StartUps Are Attracting Users And Here Is What We Found
Each and everyday there lots of company is formed in Valley and also dies they say. Today not only Valley but in many corner of the world the IT companies are getting formed and also many non-IT startups also using internet in heave manner to reach their possible customers. Each and every companies are taking some ways to grab there customers or compelling them in innovative ways to reach out to the more uers.
As we all know the words of mouth is more powerful so people rely on them. Now if we look into how others startups are gathering beta users and also what things you should keep in your mind to get users specially Beta users, you will go amazed.
# A Viral Homepage
At any condition a Viral homepage you always need. Now you can say “Isn’t a home page is required, what is Viral homepage?”, but the thing is what makes a homepage viral is how attractive and informative and offcourse SIMPLE you can make your Homepage. A good homepage prompts a visitor to to actually sign up in your website or subscribe in it.
# Submit Your Startup for Listing
Once you are ready to accept users or even if you already started it is Good to have a look at these checklist to ensure you already enlisted in these areas.
For Beta submission
1. Betalist.
2. Startuplist.
These two are most effective for Beta listing. Though some of new and old listing sites are there but these two will give you most traffic if you are looking for Beta. Keep in mind that Both of them will take around 4 weeks to approve in Free mode. Betalist though have option to make the review earlier with payment.
For listing your startup
1. Angellist
2. Crunchbase
3. F6s
It is good option to keep your Startup listed here. As many people look into the lists to found out what are the new startups in a specific market segment your’s have good chance to get noticed.
# Engaging Users
Engaging Users after coming into your website is another art and you have to keep experimenting with it after a certain interval to check which is really better Once with one you get optimal result you need to stick with it. So you have to keep a check on your visitor statistics to know how much is the Conversion rate.
You can also use some advanced analytics to see the heatmap of the site, so that you can tweak when necessary. Then it will be your main job to somehow prompt the user to share your startup to his known circle as that can shoot your traffic.
# Giving Bloggers and Influncers early entry
Once you got desired amount of users, if possible, try to give early access to the bloggers and influncers. As they are the people if they write about you you may get a good hit of visitors. But again it will depend upon how you are gathering your users and if you show them the queue then it may be a little tough.
# Connections and Controversy
First of all always try to reach out to your peer entrepreneurs and society who can give you suggestions and can really help you out. Try to leverage what you have in first hand.
And yes if you really solved any problem which your contributor is not doing then you can always pitch your voice. Just keep it in mind that how much tough it will be for others to adopt. Don’t fear for controversy as Biggies like Apple, Google does so. If you want to know about Startups then know Freshdesk also did it with Zendesk.
It is good to make mistakes early. Apply things and see which one is working out for you. You may be adopt some other steps with your startup. Please share what did and didn’t work for you in the comments!
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