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[u/achuthan89 → u/[deleted]]

Hey buddy

Months back I saw a similar one in ProductHunt named Mugshotbot. It seems similar to your concept. If it helps, have a look.
Your concept has a great potential to become popular. The first & foremost place you need to aim is none else but content marketers, blog owners, bloggers, guest posting sites etc..

1. Push the offer you mentioned here to as many startup groups.

2. Slack groups - there are many slack groups out there which you can reach out with the offer. Let me know if you would like to, I can introduce you to some of them.

3. Fb groups - There are many fb groups (public & private) focus into blogging especially the ones which teaches blogging.

4. Giveaways - Plan a giveaway in twitter & in selected groups (any platform). Make it meaningful, your offer is a perfect one for that & get ready to get some cool traffic.

5. Twitter - Get tweeted by those are having some good followers. Try this twitter hashtags #blogging and related keywords and reach out as many handles with your offer. In another way you can target #thumbnails as well which will get you into some eyeballs who are in the niche.

6. First time bloggers/newbies - I think these might be the guys which might become your first set of customers, those who doesn't have designing skills or feel it like a hassle to find-edit-upload images.

7. Listicles - There are many listicles in the niche that you can get featured even more than you think!!!

8. Tie up with theme builders - This might be something that you can try after building a good user base. So that it would be mutually beneficial.

There are many other places or strategies as well, you can get the word out.
Happy to help 🙂
Good luck. 🙂

[u/joemasilotti → u/achuthan89]

Hey, I built Mugshot Bot!

This is an awesome list, I'm definitely going to start exploring these. Thanks for the insight.

Would it be possible to introduce me to some of the Slack/FB groups you mentioned? I'd love to share a Mugshot Bot offer/deal with more people.

[u/achuthan89 → u/joemasilotti]

Definitely. I have sent you a mail. Please check your inbox.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Who is your target audience? Right now I'm seeing FB and Instagram only.