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Hoffman: Paid ads cannot profitably scale SaaS priced under $1,000/month
“If you want to use ads to scale your SaaS, you can't do it with a low ticket offer. And when I say low ticket, I basically mean anything that is below a thousand dollars per month. If your SaaS is 50 dollars a month, a hundred dollars a month, this probably wi…”
Hoffman: Disclosing less about a product directly increases consumer demand
“The less you tell people about your product, the more people want it.”
Hoffman: Monetize viral SaaS tools through ads, not subscriptions
“Because this is an attention play, where you're leveraging attention, you are creating a product that is inherently viral and shareable, what's going to happen is that the amount of attention that you get for this tool is going to far outweigh the people who a…”
Hoffman: Non-English SEO is like early 2000s English SEO
“SEO, as I'm sure you know, in any other language instead of, besides English, is kind of like marketing on easy mode, or like SEO on easy mode. Ok, so let me show you why this works so well. When you're doing SEO in another language, it's kind of like doing SE…”
Hoffman: Long-running Meta ads in Ad Library are reliably profitable
“The longer an ad has been running, you can guess that that ad is performing well for them. So go to company's meta ad library, take a look at what they're doing, copy it, and specifically look for the ads that have been running for a long period of time. The o…”