Handwrytten · robot-written handwritten notes
Start paid social ads after lots of organic posting
What they did
In their words
Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M
… there's been talks about expanding into Europe, but the problem is there's so much opportunity here. I just don't need the distraction of dealing with Europe, you know? Well, go deeper on your inbound for a second, because, I mean, you have a very strong CO footprint. I mean, you've put this article out, best wishes, good luck messages. It brings in almost 14,000 clicks to the website on a monthly basis. Your overall domain rating is above a 70,
which is very strong, getting 40,000 organic clicks a month. Was this sort of SEO strategy? Was this tactical and specific? An agency runs this for you or you do it? We do it all internally. Yeah, I have a woman that writes articles. Because SEM doesn't work, We've gone the SEO route. Now we're going to start with social media advertising. We're doing a lot of social media posting, obviously, but now we're going to be doing social media advertising. So what have you done? This is your top performing post. 14,000 people hit this a month.
What have you done to optimize this, both to stay high in the rankings, but also to convert more people into a paid account? That's a great question that I don't have an answer to. Probably not enough. We do a lot on content marketing. We haven't done a great job converting it. If you go down to the bottom of that article, scroll up just a wee bit. I mean, there's a sign up here to get started today thing. I mean, it's really pretty minor. We …
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- Hire one in-house writer to blog on searches like 'good luck messages'~40K search clicks a month, but few become paid accounts
- Run Google search ads when most customers are worth very little$5 per click vs ~$0.20 margin from a typical small sender
- Let customers trigger notes from their CRM, Shopify or ClaudeMost volume comes through automations; apps send only ~30-40 notes/day
- Lease your robots to shipping partners for ~$1,000-1,250 a month each~30 robots leased; good margin but small revenue so far
- Let customers add gift cards or cookies to each note
- Stay bootstrapped and US-only instead of raising money to expandProfitable (~$350K in 2025) but growth hampered; revenue dipped
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