Show up where they already are
Ninety per cent genuinely useful, ten per cent promotional. Break it and you get banned.
Inside this
- Join the five communities your ICP lives in30m
Read the rules page of each first: traffic is not permission. The big ones route every product mention to one weekly thread and remove the rest, so check where promotion is allowed before you pick the five. Then rank by activity, not size — comments per thousand members on last month’s top posts. A five-million-member hobby sub can be quieter than a niche one, and a big group can be one admin posting to nobody.
- Answer ten real questions with no link2h
This buys the standing that makes the eleventh post, with a link, acceptable.
- Give away one genuinely useful resource2h
No signup wall, no email gate. The goodwill is the point.
- Set alerts for the request phrasings and answer them the same day45m
Someone writing “is there an app that…” is a buyer describing the need out loud. Where a platform’s own search is useless, ask Google: site:facebook.com/groups or site:reddit.com plus intitle:"looking for" and your category, filtered to the past week. Answer with the real options including rivals, and disclose that one is yours.