[reflect]

For us ( http://www.startupdaybook.com ) a few things have been very effective -- but it did take a lot of trial and error to find those few things.

BetaList and Reddit have been a big driver of signups as they have the exact audience we are looking to help (startups) and a wide audience.

Blogging has also been a big part of getting signups. Creating helpful posts on Medium with a small product mention at the bottom brings in a good amount of the right people.

Twitter is great for driving traffic to the blog posts which then in turn gets people interested in us and our product. Buffer is awesome, and Quuu is a great service that has a community retweeting your tweet for a nominal fee.

Overall our landing page conversion rate is 29.8% right now, so driving the right traffic really matters.

[pandemicsyn]

Can confirm, BetaList is entirely worth it. We were just on it not too long ago. Our conversion rate from BetaList traffic was in the mid 30's. My coworker ended up writing about it on /r/Entrepreneur, and then our blog ( http://blog.twist.io/our-launch-on-beta-list-what-we-learned... ).

Keep in mind though that Reddit's hard to predict and quality of feedback varies. If you post something to Reddit, it's worth taking your time to write something useful with hard numbers. Even then, there's a chance the random question about drop shipping submitted just ahead of you will get a ton of responses and you might get nothing but crickets.

[benjaminfox]

Thanks for sharing. Which subreddits helped you?

[reflect]

/Startups has a "Share Your Startup" each month which is great