This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🎓 A generative AI course
🔗 A SaaS link building strategy
📺 How MrBeast solved YouTube
🔍 An app and startup directory
🧰 A side project marketing guide
➡️ And more…
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To get your first customer, build for yourself.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🔍 10words shared by Anthony DeLuise
A collection of apps and startups with 10-word descriptions
🎓 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course shared by Reme Ekoh
An online course by Google on the fundamentals of generative AI
🔗 SaaS Link Building shared by Maciej Cupial
A backlink strategy for SaaS websites
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🎥 Sam McKay made a video showcasing the new features of Data Mentor
🚀 Cameron Rambert deployed the MVP of DoHQ
📦 Simon made the first sale on brandboxd
👨💻 Bernardt J. Vogel built a tech news aggregator
🧠 Devon Artis unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎙️ Podsqueeze — Automate podcast content creation
🎨 Decktopus AI — Use AI to make presentations
🔧 Try This
How to Get Clients With Engineering-as-Marketing?
Here’s how you can do marketing that doesn’t feel like marketing:
- Engineering-as-Marketing occurs when you build free tools to gain brand awareness.
- These tools can generate leads and boost SEO while offering value to users in return.
- To be successful, your tools should be valuable, target the right customers, and align with your core product.
See our report on Side Project Marketing to learn more.
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Steal these strategies used by MrBeast to achieve high audience retention in your YouTube videos:
- Use a 2-step formula in the hook to meet the expectations set by the title and thumbnail.
- Use 3 elements in the body of your videos: share context, add stakes (payoff) and build a curiosity gap.
- Use a 2-part strategy in the outro to keep viewers watching until the very end and leave the video on a high note.
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