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Should I build more tools or focus on promotion now?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by jamie3000, Jun 28, 2017.

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    I have a website where I build free tools to help people grow their online business. My business model is that they're all free and I'm going to hopefully build a good sized email list.

    However I'm now at a point where I've got a solid set of tools and I'm not sure if I should just keep making tools in a "if you build it they will come" way or focus on promotion which I'm pretty rubbish at to be honest.

    This is my website is anyone wants to offer feedback http://www.supagrowth.com

    How would you guys promote this? Ideally free traffic initially.
     
    jamie3000, Jun 28, 2017 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    The range of tools looks really good

    but

    your means of providing them is way, way out of date. With all the ransomware and viruses that exist I wouldn't let anyone I know download a program from your site. You're unknown, there's no way of knowing what is going on and it's just not worth the risk.

    If you can re-engineer the tools so that they're cloud based you would probably find you have much more success in getting known and having your tools used.
     
    sarahk, Jun 28, 2017 IP
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    Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately the business model doesn't work due to the number of proxies I'd need if they were cloud based. You can always run sandboxie :)
     
    jamie3000, Jun 28, 2017 IP
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    I can, but I won't - and that will be your #1 problem
     
    sarahk, Jun 29, 2017 IP