Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen
@EbrahimKhalilHassen
Congrats on launching. I think the message and value proposition on your landing page could be simpler and . Something like " right message to the right person" might be a useful starting point.
How did the launch go?
It's still going :) That said I suppose it won't hurt to ask for people here to check it out -- www.producthunt.com/posts/pag…
The traffic is decent, at least compared to #PagerTeam's normal traffic volume: normally I've bneen getting 5-10 users/day, so far today I have 169. Only one signup though. Not sure if that reflects a poor landing page conversion or if it's an indictment of the quality of the ProductHunt traffic. Do you have any thoughts?
Congrats on launching. I think the message and value proposition on your landing page could be simpler and . Something like " right message to the right person" might be a useful starting point.
Difficult question to answer. But, I can say this. If I am on Amazon, around $10-00. If buying from an expert on their own site, more than $10-00 is just fine (even much higher, like $99). I am not certain why, but I think I am happy paying a higher price to an expert that I have been referred to or have read some emails - they just seem more credible.
I have a couple of email lists for projects - between 200 and 800. Best tip for growing it - write regularly and have a subscribe button in the email itself.
My newsletter "Le Courrier du hacker" lecourrierduhacker.com is a weekly digest of the activity of the French-speaking FOSS community.
I reached 2k+ subscribers with already 76 issues. Open rate is around 55%. To offer to access the content to people disliking newsletters, I have public archives outside my email provider (Mailchimp) mostly to have a better control of my content. I also have accounts on social networks Twitter twitter.com/courrierhacker and Mastodon framapiaf.org/@lecourrierduha…
To grow the audience, I tried to publish relevant content in the french-speaking FOSS community - my readers - in order them to join. I also blog about it on a regular basis. The first 1k subscribers were quite easy to get, now it's more difficult to grow and these days I try partnership with other french newsletters or blogs or websites to exchange visibility.
never heard of it before. but, now very interested in the offering -flat fee email hosting
show me your ships ! thanks for the share and the laugh.
The barter option is interesting. Would like to see if that works. I would however suggest reducing the number of plans, and maybe putting the barter option on a separate page. Congrats, on trying something different with this.
Thanks! Yeah, I think the Barter thing could be interesting. Curious to see how many people reach out regarding it.
About the number of plans, I’ve been struggling to figure out what makes sense. I want to display enough lower-priced plans to make it feel accessible, while still showing some higher-tiered plans to reinforce that it can scale with your team or project needs. But, I totally hear you, in this instance less could be more.
I am using three things: 1. "mini-projects" - really small tasks that i can do within 15 minutes. i record this is in Excel - which is strangely efficient. 2. Streaks - WIP, plus I have a paper based system. 3. Weekly review - helps me to prioritize what I need to do, and schedule for each day. That way the big organisation of the week is done, and I pitch up everyday. As I try to work in 15 minute slots, it is kinda like Pomodoro, but not yet doing this in a systematic way. Big Warning - these systems all work till they do not. Hope it continues to work for a long time.
Start with what you want to achieve from the website and work your way backwards. There are three types of personal sites 1. Resume / link site - these provide some background and link to social media and other sites 2. Portfolio - presents your work, services and/or products and resume type stuff 3. Blog - which includes resume, portfolio and regular content. Maybe start with thinking about which of these three types of personal websites would work best in your situation. And add some personality, something different 'cos many of these sites look so much like all the others.
Hey Ibrahim! Thanks for replying! Attached is the rough idea of how I would like the sitemap to be. Would appreciate your thoughts on it! The "Why" / Goals of what I would like to achieve with the website are in red on the top left!
In addition, I meant to ask this question in the sense of: "are there any 'best practices'" for creating a website that is geared towards personal branding? Think Wes Bos, Coding Horror, etc
That looks like an excellent and well thought out start. I have two comments. 1. Maybe start with what the audience gets from the website. Learning or thought leadership are both good reasons for people to visit your site. 2. Build an audience and remember to add in a mailing list, and maybe even an email series using an autoresponder. I like Swizec site swizec.com/ - it is a good example of a personal website done well. Hope this helps.