Fan: Slack App Directory Provides Free Marketing for Bootstrapped Startups
Andrew Fan · Learn from Organice: How to get free customers from the Slack App Exchange · Oct 11, 2023 · at 4:12
Andrew Fan, founder of Organize.app, explains to Nathan Latka how his company acquired its first customers organically by listing on the Slack App Directory.
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“Slack is a perfect place to start your, like, first, I would say, bootstrap small business, because once you release something for Slack, you can get into the marketplace. And basically this is a free marketing tool for you, and this is how we got our first client.”
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