Post a 'Free Audit' Offer Thread to Attract Founders and Funnel to Your Paid Product
Post a 'Free Audit' Offer Thread to Attract Founders and Funnel to Your Paid Product is a communities tactic for getting your first users: Start a thread offering free marketing/growth advice and ask founders to drop their startup in the comments; you build authority answering them while quietly funneling readers toward your paid resource.
It's a strong fit for Agencies / services and Info products / courses teams, and works especially well for Consultants, course/book sellers, agencies. As a communities play, plan for low effort and expect results to show up quickly, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Communities
- Best for: Consultants, course/book sellers, agencies
- Effort: Low
- Speed: Fast
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does communities work for this?
Publicly giving away tailored help proves your competence to everyone reading, making the soft plug to your paid offer credible.
The exact steps (5)
The full step-by-step this founder ran, what they posted, where, and in what order, plus the watch-outs, is part of the library.
Sources
- Source — IndieHackers · indiehackers.com