Startup Paid Advertising
Discussions focus on the effectiveness, costs, strategies, and ROI of paid ads on platforms like Google and Facebook for promoting startups and products, including debates on targeting, acquisition costs, and alternatives to advertising.
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Why don't you just spend that money on marketing/ads ? Setup campaigns on Google Search/FB, etc.
Sure. Paying $100 for Adsense/FB/Twitter ads to get semi-random users to your website might be a better investment than submitting the URL to various producthunt, betalist or other startup directories. Unless your target audience is other startup folks.
Sure, if they spent the first million on advertising :)
Poll of "fellow FB employees" could be replaced with spending ~$100 on Google Ads and using a certain targeting criteria.
just a mobile app i been working on figured i might try my luck with metawhat is the source for that uphill curve is that because its not clear what your user wants or optimizing ad copies ?im definitely not looking to spend thousands of dollars, figured starting out small hmmmgetting hired by ad agency seems interesting reminds me of trading desks a bit
"We Spent $1,500,000 on Ads Without Getting a Single Customer" but they did get the top #1 spot on Hacker News so maybe that's all they wanted? Just wine about spending all this money (poorly) and make a post about it and get free advertising with a trip to the front page of Hacker News.
Run FB and Google ads if you have a budget for that. Even little goes a long way if you can find the right target audience. I've had some pretty interesting conversions and comments from running FB ads. It's enough to spend $5-10/day on FB to experiment and find the right campaign type and audience. You can analyze how people interact with your landing page with Google Analytics. I had less success with Google Ads, but I know many founders who got good results out of it.
I used Adsense. Only spent $200 or so but could only get a single signup or two. TBH I haven't used ads since and prefer word of mouth.
It's a two step click thru, and effective cost of acquisition can be high! Think $5+. And volume will be low...not enough to "chart" or grow sustainably.
offtopic:you were going to post about spending $1000 for advertising http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420300How is it coming along? :-)