Betalist is a startups dream. In less than 24 hours we went from having a handful of subscribers to an amazing community of photographers. I firmly believe that BetaList is one of the key reasons why Adaptalux ran a successful Kickstarter campaign! • Sam Granger, Adaptalux
This article explains what I did to do this, so you can achieve the same result. It is broken into 4 sections: * Update Your Website: What to do to update your web site to prepare to submit to BetaList * Develop Your Process: How to prepare for people asking for access to your product or service * Plan Your Announcements: How to plan a promotion strategy to get upvotes, comments & tweets * Do Your Followup: What to do after you’ve launched
We decided to focus on BetaList first, as it was the apt community for a private beta product like ours. (Product Hunt wouldn’t accept private betas, so we kept it for later.)
BetaList is a vibrant community where the audience is hungry to try new stuff everyday. Getting on BetaList however, is close to impossible if you go the organic way — like Product Hunt. We realized that their wait periods can go indefinitely long after a submission. So we decided to go the paid route and spent $199 on a one day approval process.