🚀 How to Kickstart Your Startup with Essential Tools for the First 5 Days...
5 Days to Launch: Kickstart Your Startup with These Essential Steps. Embarking on your startup journey? Before diving into coding, take these crucial business-building steps to ensure your idea has staying power.
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Ok, so you’ve validated your Startup idea (using the handy tips from a previous Builders Corner) and looks like you’re onto something promising. And so it starts…
This is where most techies jump in and start building, setting off a months-long rabbit-hole adventure of pizza, caffeine and blinking away the sleep.
We say no, build on the business side of your idea a little first.
See, startups are such an investment, you need to be 1’000’000% sure it has legs and you’re still gonna want to be “climbing that hill” in 10 months’ time.
Here’s how to spend your first 5 days
- Nail the name
It’s more important and powerful than you think. Needs to convey what you do but also be memorable, adaptable, distinct and super easy to spell and pronounce – without being cheezy. Plus: Some say you need to be able to use it as a verb – like Google – and keep in mind that you might want to expand one day, so it should be able to grow with you.
Check out Namelix AI name generator.
- Get the a logo
Logos go everywhere. From your business, right the way through to your product. It makes a powerful first impression of your company – and if it’s super memorable or recognisable, it serves as a bat signal high in the night sky – golden arches anyone?
Plus, in the tech space, did you even attend a conference if you don't get a company’s logo as a sticker?
Give Looka AI logo maker a try.
- Build a one-pager website
We’ve said before that you don’t even need a product to start building a client list and testing your idea on the market. Starting a sales funnel-powered website is an awesome way to do just that. You can always expand on it later.
Check out 10Web AI builder for a quick site and then start building a funnel by offering some value-adds for download in exchange for emails – test ideas with PageGenie’s landing page builder.
- Do some Content for the Socials
Build a community around your product, showcase your wares, and educate potential customers in your network about the benefits of your product. With so many social channels to choose from, it might be worth your while to focus in on one – where your specific target audience might be and grow from there.
Ask ChatGPT or Bard to help you generate some posts based on known problems your target market is facing that your solution can help solve (just trawl relevant subreddits on Reddit for ideas or search AnswerThePublic), then use Buffer to easily share and schedule posts on up to 3 social networks for free.
- Learn What’s Working
Iterate. Iterate. Iterate. If you find that certain types of content perform better to grow your audience, drive traffic to your site and make sales, double down your efforts.
Do a bit of social listening and deep analytics with Socialbaker, or optimise your ads (if you’re running any) with Wordstream’s machine learning or AdCopy, otherwise just rework, recycle and repost your top-performing content with Feedhive.
Next up, you’ll want to refine your funnel, start building some pitches and get some trial users – but that’s for day 6 onwards.
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