Undaunted Golf · B2C · meditation app for golfers
Try a few Twitter ads
Didn't work; founder calls it a weak effort
Failedpaid-social
What they did
Ran some small Twitter ads for the meditation app.
What happened
No traction.
- Stage
- Launch (post-launch)
- Effort
- Weak effort by the founder's own account
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · Turning a Side Project into a Six-Figure Subscription Business – Eric Duffett, Shot Pattern“And beyond that, I tried some really weak efforts at Twitter ads, and that was really it.”
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