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Launching a new website/service/tool

by fablau
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Hello here,
I launched the following website a few weeks ago, without any marketing effort, I just created it and put it on the web:

Log your task, easy and fast! | Time logger, time tracker | logyourtask.com

And so far it has been used just by 2 people (!!). What do you think about it? Do you think it deserves more energy from my part in order to promote it, marketing it and hopefully having more people using it?

My idea was to put it out there without spending a dime until I see some real interest from people. So, if I want to approach some sort of marketing/promotion campaign, will be the minimum that I can afford.

The tool is for now free, but eventually (if I see many people using it), it can be easily monetized.

I am eager to know your thoughts about it.

Thanks!

Fab.
#launching #marketing #new website #promotion #tool
  • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
    Looks like a stripped down version of (PR5) http://www.toggl.com

    Not sure if it has much market potential.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Sommers
    Originally Posted by fablau View Post

    Hello here,
    I launched the following website a few weeks ago, without any marketing effort, I just created it and put it on the web:

    Log your task, easy and fast! | Time logger, time tracker | logyourtask.com

    And so far it has been used just by 2 people (!!). What do you think about it? Do you think it deserves more energy from my part in order to promote it, marketing it and hopefully having more people using it?

    My idea was to put it out there without spending a dime until I see some real interest from people. So, if I want to approach some sort of marketing/promotion campaign, will be the minimum that I can afford.

    The tool is for now free, but eventually (if I see many people using it), it can be easily monetized.

    I am eager to know your thoughts about it.

    Thanks!

    Fab.
    This is like setting up a store in a backstreet with no signage and saying I will only put in some stock when people ask for it.
    Any site you set up must have traffic to be successful. You need to have keywords fuuly optimised on your site. You also need to get backlinks. The easiest way is from comments on relevant forums. You either pay someone to do this or spend some time doing it yourself
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    • Profile picture of the author fablau
      Thank you for your replies, and yes, I do understand what you are both saying, but I was just asking opinion from a "user perspective". I have been working on the web since 1996, so I know very well how it works, and I can state without doubts that a website is quite different from a regular brick and mortar store. I own several successful websites, and I launched several mini websites in the same way in the past years. Some of the ones were I put a lot of marketing efforts (money, a big deal of time, etc) failed miserably because the "concept/product/service" wasn't right. Wasn't what people wanted. So, I started creating a new kind of mini-websites based on a single concept/product/service/idea, without any marketing effort, putting them out there, by just announcing them on social networks to see people's reaction and interest.

      And to surprise of everybody, sites that I thought would have had very low chance of success, picked up traffic by themselves after just a few weeks.

      Look at this particular website that I built just 3 months ago and that I though just a few people would be interested in it for having such a generic feature:

      Store and zip files online! - ZipMeNow.com


      Now there are dozens of people using it everyday and I am already planning how to monetize it! Can you believe it? Zipping files online? That's a common feature anyone can have on their own desktop computer! That prove that if you get the right idea (and you don't know it until you put it out there), people come, with just the minimum effort (have you forgotten the famous "million dollar page"? What a crazy idea was that? I would have never spent a minute making and launching such a website!).

      So... back to my original question: what are your thoughts about this new website of mine from a "user perspective"?

      Thank you again!
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