StageTimer · B2B · countdown timer for stage speakers
Look into print magazine ads in trade publications
Too expensive; dropped
What they did
What happened
In their words
Over $10k a month from a timer app
PeteAnd has there been any Have there been any marketing experiments, or any channels that you've done that have just like, just not been worth it?
LukasMost To be frank, most of them didn't work. Yeah, we have tried YouTube, and it didn't work, but I'm suspecting maybe our video wasn't kind of hitting the the the tooth. We have tried Facebook. We're trying Facebook right now, but seems not to work. We're not getting purchases from it. Instagram, we've tried. Same thing. We have tried like reaching out to podcasts and stuff, and we have found that nobody wants to get sponsored. Maybe that's a bit specific for my industry, they go they really somehow appreciate not being sponsored, like really having their own show and and ownership of it, or maybe we just didn't approach them the right way, I don't know. We have tried print magazines, which are ridiculously expensive, so we left that. We have tried like physical trade shows. We went to We went to one, we didn't have a booth. We just said, "Let's try it out, and see if, you know, let's just go there and see what happens if people do something." And we found out that on trade shows you don't really do business. It's more like a tool to announce stuff if you're already known in the industry or like or or if you do sales, you invite people for the sales talk to the to the trade show. But it's not really a good tool for marketing. Yeah. It's very expensive.
PeteYeah.
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- Run Google search adsFounder says Google works right now; no numbers
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- Run Facebook and Instagram ads for a B2B toolNo purchases from either so far
- Offer to sponsor niche industry podcastsPodcasts didn't want sponsors, or the pitch was wrong
- Visit an industry trade show without a boothNo business done; very expensive
- Launch a cheaper version of a $6,000/year tool for the same customersGrowing alongside the main product; founder notes more stress
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