Hey Product Hunters!
Here's the story about how we increased our revenue X2 by launching a free product.
We've been collecting emails through free content products for 6 months (
https://www.makerbox.club/free-r...). The funnel worked well enough (Get an email with a freebie -> send upselling emails about paid products). We collected 5469 emails this way.
Then we launched User Persona Generator (
https://founderpal.ai/user-perso...) - a free digital product. Users can generate a persona for their business (no email needed) and get 9 marketing ideas in exchange for the email.
The result: 4058 emails in just 2 weeks.
With our content freebies, it would take 135 days to get these emails. Our 1 digital product collects emails 10X faster than 8 content freebies.
Why it worked?
Content freebies have 0 potential to go viral. You give an email → you get a product. There's nothing to share.
But our digital product went viral. Users got the result instantly and shared it.
- At first, we launched it on Product Hunt & got featured in AI newsletters (free)
- Then people started sharing the results on socials (free)
- Now we see viral TikToks and Reels from creators, and SEO already gives some traffic (free)
IN JUST 2 WEEKS 🤯
TL;DR: Experiments >>> Doing the same thing over and over again. Even if it works well enough.
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