Show notes
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Harry is the founder of Marketing Examples.
We cover a bunch of ground in this episode:
- What it's like being on the Indie Hackers pod
- Harry's first endeavour turning tweets into canvas prints - 140 Canvas
- Doing things that don't scale, sending in handwritten letters to YouTuber mailtime's
- Why you need to market yourself
- Importance of validating your idea
- The story behind Yeezy Dating
- Buying billboards in Times Square
- How Harry hustled his way into Yeezy HQ
- Working for Crowdform. Harry lived like a 'real person' for 8-9 months...
- While writing for Crowdform, Harry took those examples and put them on a marketing examples first page
- How Marketing Examples was born organically
- The importance of providing value natively on the platform
- People don't like self promotion, but if you're giving people value they'll react well
- How Harry got banned on the EntrepreneurRideAlong sub-reddit
- What are the best subreddits to post in?
- How Harry lost 27k of Bitcoin
- Best practices to grow a Twitter following
- Using long Twitter threads and not linking away from Twitter
- @NoContextHearn; @NavalRavikantBot
- Using his website to bring people to Twitter
- Why not having a background in marketing can make you a better marketer
- The attention to detail in Marketing Examples sets it apart from anything else
- Growing a very nice sized email list (13k)
- Utilising Product Hunt effectively
- Using good copy to increase conversions
- Refactoring UI
- Using GIFs for marketing