Quick feedback: if you want more early reviewers, perhaps put up an example post. That would answer a few things for someone like me: is the writing good, what level is the material (beginner or intermediate), can I walk about with at least one non-obvious insight.
I’ll put something up.
A bit of context: I set up the landing page with some basic copy two days ago (February 1). I saw this Ask HN on the front page yesterday (February 2) when it was about 7 hours old, so I made several edits to the copy to make the message clearer, before sharing the link here.
So, I was plenty surprised by the number of subscribers‡ I got from this comment alone. Thank you to everyone who subscribed to be a reviewer!
‡If anyone is curious about my numbers, yesterday, I got 17 subscribers, currently at 20 subscribers!
In the spirit of transparency, these are my current numbers for https://guide.ayewo.com/:
- 164 Visitors
- 20 Subscribers
- 12.2% Conversion RateThe same way you can't become a programmer, if all you have is knowledge gained from reading a book on the topic; you have to put in the work by learning from your mistakes in a programming environment.
My goal with the guide is to help a technical audience gain a basic, but clear understanding of the concepts that constitute sales & marketing that they can build upon. The guide is not promising readers that they'll become a highly-sought after sales person or marketer, overnight.
> Good luck regardless.
Thanks
I'm currently learning about sales and marketing and think I can share my modest knowledge on the topic in a way that is fairly systematic.
One of the draws of programming for me—and I believe this is true for a lot of developers—is that software development is fairly a systematic discipline to get into, unlike sales or marketing, for instance.
The path to learning how to program is fairly systematic i.e. learning follows a well-defined path where you learn your first "hello, world", then learn about constants, variables, expressions, conditionals, loops, functions etc. Making recursion the first lesson is a recipe for confusion for most beginners to programming.
My goal with the guide is to explain sales and marketing—in a well-defined way similar to how programming is learnt—using plain language, while avoiding jargon, as much as possible.
Learning this way has been helpful to me and I think a guide like this would be helpful to developers out there that struggle with answering questions like whether to do sales or marketing first, build an audience before building a product etc.
I'm on the free tier of ConvertKit so I'm trying to figure the easiest way to automatically email subscribers a copy of the current draft of the guide.
Here's the current landing page: https://guide.ayewo.com/