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by chewxy 4847 days ago
I personally would advise charging money for it. You're providing a valuable resource. Experiment with different price points.

You said you sold only 6 exercises to 3 people. And yet you have 130 people a day. Assuming very healthy conversion rates (say, 0.5%), you need roughly 2000 visitors before you sell 1 item. In short, you need to ramp up your traffic. You can do this organically, or you can buy ads.

You clearly do have an audience however, given your ability to get up to 4000 visitors per day when an exercise is released.

So what to do? Put what I just said to a test: charge for your next exercise. You should get at least 1 sale. From then on, experiment with your price points.

I think you have everything in place, you just need to test things and ramp up traffic. Calculating backwards, you roughly need about 100k people visiting before you can conclude whether charging money works for you as a business model.

Of course you can start with a much lower expected conv rate, and probably should

TL;DR I think you quit too early