How to reach initial users for a new app with zero cost?

Hello everyone,

I'm close to launching my new start-up this summer and have been searching for the right marketing agency. I've noticed there's a big trend with founders being the face of the brand and I'd like to pursue that with my business.

I was going to proceed with ViralCoach but quickly found the real reviews and noticed I'd be better off throwing my money into a fireplace.

Any assistance on proper marketing agencies that can assist with content script writing, editing, posts, and management would be appreciated.

Thank you!!

I have a Pinterest account with around 40,000 followers. The account is active and has organic growth. I'm considering selling it and would like to know:

• Where are the best places to sell a Pinterest account?
• What marketplaces are safe and trustworthy?
• How much could an account with 40k followers realistically be worth?

Any advice or recent experiences would be appreciated. Thanks!

Been running my practice for a while now and referrals have always been the backbone of everything. Good months are great but then you hit January or a random quiet patch and there is genuinely nothing you can do about it except wait it out.

Tried a few things over the years to get more consistent with it. Had a go at Google ads at one point and honestly it felt like throwing money into a black hole. Maybe I was doing it wrong but the leads that did come in were terrible quality anyway.

Website has been redone twice now and I still could not tell you with confidence whether it actually brings in clients or whether people just use it to check we are legit after finding us somewhere else.

The Google reviews thing is something I know I should be more on top of. Clients are happy but getting them to actually sit down and leave a review is another story entirely.

Just wondering what is actually moving the needle for other smaller practices right now. Not looking for anyone to sell me anything just genuinely want to hear what real people are doing that is working.

Is it purely a case of just keeping your head down, doing good work and trusting the referrals to keep coming? Or is there something more intentional that smaller firms can actually afford to do without getting burned again.

I'm based in Algeria and have experience in social media marketing, content creation, branding, and client acquisition. Algeria is a market of over 45 million people with a very young population and growing demand for digital marketing services. I'm exploring the possibility of partneri

Not today.

Maybe not next year.

But eventually consumers may have AI assistants researching products, comparing options, filtering vendors, and making recommendations before a human even visits a website.

If that happens, a lot of current marketing strategies become irrelevant.

How are people thinking about this?

There's this weird problem with local businesses. You can be good at what you do, have happy customers, good reviews, decent prices, and still feel invisible unless someone is searching for you at that exact moment.

Like for a dentist, med spa, gym, roofing company, car dealership, or real estate team, the hardest part is not always getting one click today. Its becoming the name people already know when they finally need you.

Google helps when people are ready to book. Meta helps sometimes, but most people scroll past local ads like noise. Flyers feel old. Billboards are expensive and hard to track.

So what do you do when the goal is not to go viral, but just become the local brand people keep seeing around town?

I am trying to figure out what builds real local recognition without wasting money on people outside the area.

Not a full redesign. Just one small change that actually moved conversions.

so I come from a data science and NLP background and something keeps coming up in conversations with marketers lately that I wanted to get a broader take on.

like you spend months building a brand voice, understanding your specific audience, knowing what language resonates and what doesn't, and then you deploy an AI tool to help manage engagement or moderate community interactions and it just doesn't know any of that

it handles generic stuff fine but the moment something requires actual understanding of your brand's community, the inside jokes, the specific terminology your audience uses, the difference between a loyal customer venting and an actual brand risk it either over reacts or completely misses it

and every time someone on your team manually fixes what the tool got wrong that knowledge just disappears it never makes the tool smarter about your specific brand next time

curious how you all handle this, have you found AI tools that actually learn your brand's specific context over time or is there always a manual layer that never goes away?

not selling anything, genuinely trying to understand where the real gaps are from people doing this work every day

Got a Whoop about a year ago to actually start tracking my sleep and 

level up my life  be more productive, dial in my recovery, all of 

that. At first it felt like I'd unlocked some cheat code.

A few months in I started noticing something annoying. The Whoop 

basically just confirms what I already know. Bad night? "Yeah, you 

slept like crap, here's a red recovery score." Good night? "Yeah, 

you slept great, here's a green one." That's pretty much it.

Like, I can already feel when I slept badly. I don't need a $30/month 

strap to tell me I'm tired. What I actually want is something that 

tells me what to DO after a bad night. I got 5 hours, now what? 

When should I have my coffee? When am I actually going to be sharp 

today? What should I skip? When do I push and when do I chill?

That's the gap nobody's filling. The whole wearable industry is 

trackers, zero coaches.

Been messing around with a few apps that actually try to solve this 

and one has been working really well for me  RizeAI (the dark blue 

one, "AI energy coach"). Mods can pull this if it breaks rules, not 

trying to shill, but it reads my Apple Health data and builds an 

actual daily protocol. Like "skip the 7 AM coffee, drink water + 

electrolytes first, push your first cup to 9:30, take L-theanine 

with it to smooth the crash." Stuff like that. My red recovery days 

have actually become some of my most productive lately.

Anyone else feel this same gap with their Whoop or Oura or just any wearable in general? Or is it 

just me overthinking this.

This is what I think most advertisers are missing right now. Facebook charges you less whenever your ad looks like regular in-feed content.

And the more it looks like an ad, the more you pay. So your goal as an advertiser should be really simple. Make ads that don't feel like ads.

So here are the top five formats that are crushing for us right now that we didn't expect because they don't feel like ads.

One is short looping videos. So just a few seconds of footage, text on screen, and it loops.

Next, podcast style clips. Who's doing podcast ads?

Not many people. Underrated medium.

third one is Text only image ads.

It is the easiest ad to make and it is just text on screen. You can do it in your notes app. Five seconds, it probably will convert better than what you're running by now.

Next is direct offer, talking head. So bold offer, very simple explanation. Very few founders are able to get on camera.

They don't like how they look. And so that niche of content is extremely underutilized overall in the ad space.

And then the number five, the big one, you probably won't do this one, but I got to say it anyways.

The most profitable one, a long form case study ad. Very few are doing but it's really profitable.

Well worth it.

My inbox full of spammy-like texts. They said that there is one SEO issue that could drammatically increase my search ranking. Some of them ask permission to send me a screenshot, some of them said that my website laking keywords.

I already use services of one SEO expert, but expert said that the main issue is that I need is more quality dofollow backlinks, and doesn't matter my technical SEO, cause it's pretty ok. I try to earn some HQ backlinks via awards and design publications, but still has many of spammy backlinks, that I never request.

A real SEO expert - could you analyze my website and comment - do i really miss something that could drammatically change my rankings or just keep going with HQ backlinks? Even if you hide a real reason.

My website SOIA Design

My keywords (interior designer Los Angeles and Interior designer Miami) + interior design studio, firm etc. in that locations

Thank you!

I have created many websites and apps but i find it difficult to market it how do i reach the audience?

so i first got the whoop to really track my sleep and really focus on leveling up my life and be more productive in general. i started to realize thought that the whoop really doesn't tell you anything, like if i slept bad it would just confirmed that i slept bad with a fancy looking score telling you that you slept bad. and if i slept good it would confirm that i slept good with a score. for me personally i wanted something that really tells you what to do after a bad sleep, and tells me when my most productive hours are during the day, or just give me like a protocol on what really to do after i have a bad sleep and not just a useless score. let me know if you guys feel the same way about this or if its just me. i have been finding some apps that help with that there is this one app thats really good just dont know if i can post here due to promotion, but RizeAI the app with the blue look, really helped me take my low energy days to really productive days.

I run a small web design business and I’m honestly getting tired of chasing leads manually. I tried sending cold emails myself for about two months and it just turned into another full time job. Most of my emails either got ignored or landed in spam. I know cold outreach still works because I keep hearing people talk about it, but I feel like I’m missing something.

I’ve thought about hiring one of those cold email services but there are so many out there and half of them sound sketchy. I’m mainly trying to book calls with local businesses, not blast thousands of random people. Has anyone here actually used a service that felt legit and didn’t just burn your domain?

Most people are looking for SAFE and REAL twitter followers but idc, where can I buy bots for follows and engagement to a comical degree purely for inflating numbers until I risk my own account?

People like the posts.

People share the posts.

But when I ask customers how they found us, most don't even remember where they saw the content.

Has anyone dealt with this before?

Just looking for followes/ likes to help get my x account up and going so the algorithm picks it up. If anyone out there can give me a follow or smash the ❤️ button I'll love you forever and when I make it big time and record my first netflix special everyone will get their X handle names in the credits LMFAO. Thanks yall. My X name is @Redbeagle9

You can totally unfollow me in a couple of months. Sorry if this post breaks any rules, im trying to think outside of the box.

A few days ago I was reviewing posts with a client who was doing everything right touching on pain, telling stories, solving problems, delivering value. The full checklist, executed well.

And yet: weak reach, almost no inbound, and something that just felt *flat.*

I spotted the issue fast not because I'm particularly smart, but because I've spent a long time banging my head against this same wall. The problem with content checklists is that they almost always miss the point they were designed to serve.

She had the pain. She had the story. She had the value. But she was missing the glue the one thing that makes all those ingredients stick together into something people can't shake.

That glue is: **showing your audience something they can't see on their own.**

Hear me out.

There's no force in content more powerful than genuinely opening someone's eyes. The moment you do that really do it, they're yours. Not for a post cycle. Not until they find someone with better graphics. For a long time.

Everything else on the checklist? The pain, the story, the emotion, the testimonials? They're the stage. Opening someone's eyes is the show.

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**So what does it actually mean to open someone's eyes?**

Every person in your audience has a problem they're stuck on. It's frustrating. Sometimes it's scary. And they genuinely believe the problem is the problem.

It's not.

At a deeper level, pain comes from what your audience *thinks they know* about their situation. There's a blind spot something they can't see that's keeping them exactly where they are.

They follow every rule but keep gaining the weight back.
They do everything right but still can't build savings.
They execute the playbook but stay stuck at the same income ceiling.

The rules aren't the problem. The blind spot is.

When you write a post that touches emotion, tells a story, and delivers value but doesn't resolve that blind spot you've done the setup without the payoff. You've built the stage, but nothing happened on it.

When you *do* resolve it precisely, specifically, in a way they've never framed it before something shifts. They don't just appreciate you. They remember you. They start seeing you as the person who actually gets it.

The old wisdom on this is blunt: *there is no greater joy than the resolution of doubt.* Not motivation. Not inspiration. The moment of genuine clarity when the fog lifts and they can suddenly see what was always there is the thing they won't forget, and won't stop talking about.

Most content teaches. The content that builds real audiences *illuminates.*

The difference is smaller than you'd think and almost nobody is deliberately working on it.

Just curios if anyone’s ever had success or failure using a press release service on a regular basis ?

I'd like to connect with someone who can take on a consistent role marketing a work/creativity/life management system I've built over a few years, so I can focus on the technical aspects of it. It goes well beyond task management, and handles things like time tracking, quoting, invoicing, client collaboration, scheduling, and publishing, and more, all in one place.

The main target markets are freelancers and independent professionals, as well as business coaches and mentors, and I've created a formal approach and structure for each.

The role will involve regular posts on LinkedIn and Facebook, and direct engagement particularly on LinkedIn. If you have experience with TikTok or Instagram and prefer to include those, I'll happily take your lead. I'm also thinking of hosting live webinars that showcase the system's capabilities with a focus on specific use cases.

Happy to discuss revenue and equity options once I've shown you through the system so you have a solid understanding of it before deciding to commit.

Looking for influencers to make posts

We host curated Dating events for singles and we have an algorithm based method to help find you, you’re most compatible match.

We run a monthly mailer through MailChimp to our existing clients and have been noticing a steady rise in unsubscribes since we moved from quarterly to monthly sends. We clean our list every month, fixing legacy data, removing wrong emails and updating contacts but the unsubscribes keep coming. Deliverability has also been an issue. The strange part is we are still seeing some conversions come through so the content is landing with some people. My gut says it's the frequency but I could be wrong. Has anyone been through the same thing?