marketing.md

Marketing: The Unfair Advantage (Pre)Launch List

This is "The Unfair Advantage (Pre)Launch List" for entrepreneurs and startups. Develop and Launch your product / service the right way with this list of useful links and hopefully create the next unicorn. Now including some fancy growth hacking resources, too!

I hope it will save you some hours of research for your next startup and launch. Feel free to contribute to this list.

Note: The majority (99%) of these resources are free to use. I will mark payed resources (like some books) with this ($) symbol.

Books on Growth Hacking

Read these books before building / while planing your digital product

• ($) "Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising“ is a perfect intruduction to growth hacking for everyone (give this book to your manager if he doesn´t understand what you want to do / what you are talking about / why growth hacking is important / why his marketing strategy is so 2008)
• ($) "Hooked: How to build habit-forming Products“ a great book if you are building a digital product for the consumer market
• Study "growth hacking" with this free book: http://tigertiger.co/blog/ultimate-growth-hacking-sourcebook/

Social Media

• Check if your username for social media is available: https://namechk.com/
• Supercharges your growth by allowing your company to seek help from your core community in exchange for rewards: http://www.rocketclub.co/
• Create, schedule and publish your posts across multiple social media platforms
  • https://kuku.io/
  • https://buffer.com/
• Grow your follower-base on Twitter with: https://toolset.co/
• Design your social media content: https://designfeed.io

Press

• send your press release to the masses: http://pushforpress.com/

Email

• Create email lists / newsletters: mailchimp.com
• Write better emails: http://www.getvero.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-best-practices/

Building an app?

• App landingpage: http://www.applandr.com/
• Create App store screenshots
  • https://launchkit.io/screenshots/
  • https://shotbot.io
  • https://github.com/LaunchKit/SketchToAppStore
• Create App icons for iOS and Android in all sizes: http://makeappicon.com/
• App store optimization: http://growthtower.com/the-ultimate-aso-checklist/

While in BETA

• Create a waiting list for your product
  • https://www.waitlisted.co/
  • incl. website: https://www.launchrock.com
  • incl. contests: https://vyper.io/
• Get beta users
  • http://betalist.com/
  • http://betatestershub.com/
  • http://earlist.co/
  • http://www.betabound.com/
  • http://betapage.co
  • https://beta.techendo.com/
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaAndBetaUsers
  • https://www.openhunt.co/ like Producthunt but more for early-stage products

Launch day: Startup / Product directories

It´s "creating BUZZZ time"! Submit your startup on launch day and get thousands of pageviews. Submit your product / service to

• International
  • http://www.producthunt.com/
    • Feeling lazy? Find your hunter on http://www.hunterhunt.co/
  • http://launchingnext.com/
  • http://www.launchlist.co/
  • http://thestartuppitch.com/
  • https://www.crunchbase.com
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject
  • http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/
  • https://www.sideprojectors.com
  • http://firespotting.com/
  • http://breakpoint.io/
  • http://feedmyapp.com/
  • http://www.bootstrappers.io/
  • http://startuptunes.com/
  • http://www.appvita.com/
  • http://sideprojects.in/
  • http://startupbuffer.com/
  • http://www.startuptabs.com/
  • http://www.cloudli.st/
  • (Pacific Northwest only) http://www.geekwire.com/startup-list/
  • http://www.springwise.com/tipus/
  • http://tools.robingood.com/
  • http://alternativeto.net/
  • http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/
  • http://webdevtwopointzero.com/
  • http://inc42.com/startup-submission/
  • http://startupbook.co/
  • http://www.startupproject.org/submit-your-startup/
  • http://appmit.com/
  • http://killerstartups.com/submit-startup/
  • Additionally submit your product here if it is / has a mobile app
    • http://www.textmeapps.com/
    • http://webapprater.com/
    • http://appadvice.com/appnn/contact-info-developers/
  • Additionally sumbit your product here if its B2B
    • https://www.getapp.com/
    • http://www.appappeal.com/contact/suggest
    • https://maqtoob.com/
    • https://www.discovercloud.com/
    • http://www.cloudshowplace.com/add-your-company/
    • http://cloudbase3.com/it-channel-partner-listing/
  • Got a product video? Submit your video to
    • http://startup-videos.com/
    • http://www.coolstartupbro.com/
    • http://www.founderfox.io/
  • Add your startup to the global startup map: http://startupblink.com/
  • Tell the world how awesome your startup culture is: http://www.insidestartups.org/
  • Add your awesome startup mantra here: https://bourn.typeform.com/to/RM1KZu
  • Share what products you are using at your startup: https://siftery.com/
  • Rank your startup: http://www.startupranking.com/
  • Find relevant journalists: https://www.hey.press/
• For german startups
  • http://www.gruenderszene.de/gruenderszene-datenbank-faq#eintragung
  • http://www.deutsche-startups.de/kontakt/kontakt/
• For french startups
  • http://www.rudebaguette.com/