good luck with your journey, what Instagram method do you use?
Thank you, I am using Follow/Unfollow along with some automated likes and comments.
Good luck with your journey brother, wishing you the best. Grinding when everybody else is lacking is the way!
It's so easy to get discouraged I just have to stay consistent.
Since I posted this thread I have been working non stop on my project but hadn't really made any MEASURABLE progress until this week. You just have to keep working. Sometimes I will have a bad day where I wake up and think "This won't work", "No one will get this" but it's all in my head. When you feel like that it's a sign you need to work even harder to overcome it. My goal right now is to soft launch it on January 2nd and start driving traffic.
Progress made:
My main Instagram account is slowly growing to 10.5k and I created a brand new Instagram with 0 followers and was able to get that to 700 right now.
Each picture on my new account gets about 60 likes, it's not a lot but the past couple of days I've started to see a lot of potential clients start following me back and accounts are following me without me following them first
The exciting part where I've made tons of progress is the website and the product I'll be offering.
For my website I looked at dozens of big SaaS websites and used them as inspiration. The end result is a very professional website with a great name, a great logo, very informative landing page, and overall a good funnel.
It took a few days longer than I expected to get it perfect on mobile but I 1000% have to have the site look amazing on mobile devices as that's how a lot of my clients will first see it. I am going with the mentality of "Fake it until you make it" so I dedicated a TON of time making the website look as professional and as clean as possible. As of today I am confident that my website looks like that of a million dollar Silicon Valley tech startup.
What I'm working on now:
- Improving the copy
(Dotting my i's and crossing my t's so any visitors who read the selling points will understand the value of what I offer) This one is tough because I always feel like it can be better so there are a lot of revisions.)
- Improving the funnel
(This one is confusing and takes a lot of time for me to think and theorize but I'm working on generating the best impact. Getting email addresses, giving a free trial, making the process as easy as possible, as to increase the odds in my favor as much as possible that a visitor will start a free trial and be interested enough to use my service. I've been studying a lot of other SaaS sites and drawing out their funnel's flow to try to copy.
- Building a list of prospective clients
(My service is for a specific subset of Instagram users so I am doing a lot of research and building a list of Instagram accounts to contact and offer a free trial of my service. I'm doing this by looking up a few hashtags periodically every day and entering usernames into a spreadsheet. Right now my spreadsheet is at about 200 names, but I am hoping to get it to at least 500-750 by the time I launch this.)
- Developing a high converting cold outreach script
(When the time comes I'll be doing cold outreach to my prospective client list and I am writing up and revising the perfect initial offering. My goal here is to make it as risk free as possible to the client, demonstrate the value my service can provide them, and show them how it can help them and why they need it. Easier said then done, but this is an important step.)
- Building a list of blogs and YouTube channels in this niche
(I plan on doing an affiliate program for my service so I am compiling a list of every decent sized blog and channel I can find. I will contact them down the road and offer a generous commission for sharing my service to their subscribers.)
- KW research and article spinning.
(This niche has a lot of related questions people google that aren't hard to rank for. Each one might have maybe 300 searches/month but I have identified 40+ article topics I believe I can rank for without much work. I am also working on creating an effective blog funnel, so if someone lands on my blog page they are more likely to check out my service and see what it can do.
Goals for the next 7 days
I'm taking this one week at a time as to not get overwhelmed so I've set some goals that should be achievable in the next week. (While everyone is celebrating Christmas and New Years I'm grinding my ass off
- Finalize the copy on my landing page
- Finalize the funnel
- Get my prospective client list to 500
- Finalize my cold outreach script and what I will offer
- Keep finding more blogs, channels, and groups share my service in
Important notes
I keep reminding myself to make it as simple as possible for visitors to understand. From previous IM projects and the current websites I run it always amazes me at how dumb some visitors can be. For example you can put a BUY NOW right in front of their face and they might contact you and ask you where the buy button is. I've been working with my mentor on his websites and just in general lately and he's really stressed that you need to make it so simple that a 12 year old can understand what you do, what it costs, and how it helps. Before I launch I will check, double check, and triple check to make sure it's as simple as can be. As the creator of this service it makes perfect sense to me because I've been thinking about it non stop for weeks, but for a random person who decides to click your link and visit your site it might not make sense the same way.
I'll probably post another update before I launch and for sure after I launch but until then it's back to work.
Merry Christmas!
