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spencerfry | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was your product's biggest marketing win?

Biggest marketing win for https://www.withcoach.com/ has been using our own product to create and promote free content.

Since Coach is an online course platform, we're not only giving people a demo of our product, but we're also providing value through content.

For example, we giveaway a free eBook on selling more online courses & digital products: https://coach.withcoach.com/level-up-your-sales

We also run a free email course on launching your next digital products in 10 days: https://coach.withcoach.com/10-day-product-bootcamp

Both have driven thousands of leads to our product.

spencerfry | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)

We're hiring Engineers and Product Designers at Coach. REMOTE OK

Coach makes tools for tutors to help them promote, build and manage their businesses as well as earn additional income. With Coach, tutors can create their own website, use our scheduling tools to book time with students, create and sell courses with our course-builder and accept online payments.

We’re a fast-growing, New York-based company looking to build our team with passionate, like-minded people who want to help us change the education industry through innovation.

https://www.withcoach.com/jobs

spencerfry | 12 years ago | on: The Domain Market is a Mess

I completely understand how domain name transfers work. I've done plenty of them. Just because you're a big slow company doesn't mean that we as consumers should just shrug it off as "business as usual". The domain market is a mess specifically for the reason that nobody has built a better solution in ten years. When I purchased https://www.uncover.com back in ~2004 it was the same process as it is today. That's just not right ten years later.

spencerfry | 12 years ago | on: The Domain Market is a Mess

Looking to see if the domain is listed with the registrar as well is a really great tip. I didn't check to see if it was in GoDaddy's marketplace before purchasing it through Sedo. Next time I'll do that if I find myself in the same position.

spencerfry | 12 years ago | on: The Domain Market is a Mess

Author here. I think Fred Wilson said it best back in 2011:

"I believe that a good domain name is an important success factor in building and launching consumer web services. It's not in my top ten but it could be. It's certainly something we think about a lot when making investments and working with companies post investment."

Check out his article to read his reasoning.

http://avc.com/2011/04/finding-and-buying-a-domain-name/

spencerfry | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?

I've grown https://www.uncover.com (a simple tool to give employees perks and rewards) in various different ways. A lot of it began with telling my network of friends who run startups. Getting them signed up. Then getting them to tell their friends how much they liked it. Once that source was depleted, I began to do a lot of content marketing. I started writing for a lot of different blogs, websites, etc. That helped get out name out there and brought in about a third of our current customers. I'm now beginning to experiment with buying ads. It's still too early to tell how well that will work out, though.

spencerfry | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you launch your product?

Launching is very overrated. I mainly emailed friends, family, and shared https://www.uncover.com via social media. Luckily, it got picked up by Hacker News and some other outlets. We got some great traffic in the beginning, but a "good launch" alone isn't going to make or break you. It's about the longterm value you can offer your customers.
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