Recruit High-Follower Investors and Early Users to Amplify
Recruit High-Follower Investors and Early Users to Amplify is a partnerships & affiliates tactic for getting your first users: Mobilized everyone with a stake (early-access users and especially investors with large followings) to share the launch; their lead VC's huge LinkedIn audience drove outsized reach.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for Startups with investors or an engaged early-user base. As a partnerships & affiliates play, plan for low effort and expect results to show up quickly, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Partnerships & affiliates
- Best for: Startups with investors or an engaged early-user base
- Effort: Low
- Speed: Fast
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does partnerships & affiliates work for this?
One share from a high-follower, credible backer reaches far more relevant people than the founder's own network ever could.
The exact steps (4)
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