Vinicius Vacanti

User Acquisition: The 5 Keys to Acquiring New Users for Free

Awesome man sounds good. I just went to add a comment instead of reply since it only gave me that little box to type in haha.Yea I thought thefuture might been just hour long sets, that's cool you talked to them though good stuff. The roll over on the large featured post is cool, I would just maybe even go as simple as possible and make it look like:Artist/Mixtape NameTeaser: 1. Song 1 2. Song 2 3. Song3Download StreamAnother thing you could do depending on your designer is dont show the download button initially and show a few song names instead, and when you roll over the song names, the download button appears. Really anyway to give the user the easiest picture possible of what they are expecting when they click on that mixtape. As for the logging in, it's not that I was confused really I was just making sure it was something I wouldn't register for. It's all free right? I would maybe just put a title in underneath the Mixtapes just look better here pop-up you have that says "Enjoy all the best newest hip hop mixes for free" or something like that. Then the user will see the link to sign up to add a mixtape, but they should know that the site is just for listening if they are not posting.It also took me a few minutes to notice the red in the upper right hand corner of the top mixtapes, I assume those are the sponsored ones or those by the pro members? I would possibly even put in a break line or some sort of way to make the top recommended mixes even more defined than the ones below.If you have the data, maybe also displaying somewhere the number of listens or downloads.Maybe you can even get some ideas from mine. I focused mainly on the easy and clear display of the music. When you first go to the site, you see all the songs and hopefully its very clear how to play them and you can just dive right into the music.My site is www.beatzwithfriends.com. Imagine Pandora stations for purely electronic dance music, but now you can see the future of what plays with infinite skips and no ads. Your profile is a timeline of all your favorite songs, so it's basically like a Facebook of only EDM posts but very cleaned up. I also started one for country music called www.bootzwithfriends.com. Let me know what you think whenever.Cheers,Kevin

Hey Jesse,My name is Kevin, I also recently launched a music site. I think your site is very cool looking and a good idea, I'll admit I don't know much about the hip hop industry but it seems to me like a soundcloud for mixtapes and the users that go to your site will be interested in either sharing their mixtapes or finding good ones to listen to. Have you heard of thefuture.fm? It's mixtapes and sets for EDM, not sure if it has others on there. They were sending me a bunch of stuff trying to get me to sign up for various pro packages. I would look into their site if you haven't seen it and can maybe get some ideas.As a new user and someone not looking to upload a mixtape, I'm a little unsure of what to do. Do I have a reason to sign-up or do I just check out the songs? I'm also unsure if signing up and going pro is the same thing as just signing up.One idea I have is to maybe include the first few songs of the mixtape when you hover over the mixtape cover on the home page. I see all this artwork and a lot of names or things I don't recognize, when I hover over I see the artist and mix name and option to stream or download. I probably would never download without knowing what songs are on the mix. By giving a few or all of the songs of the max on that pop-up, it would make it easier for me to know if I want to check it out or not, rather than clicking and scrolling down to see the songs.If you'd like to talk more about it, just let me know, and if you wouldn't mind checking out my project I would greatly appreciate, it's a brand new website I spent the last 7 months building and just launched.Cheers,Kevin

Kevin,Thank you for the comments! I'd love to check out your project. Can you link me?I have heard of TheFuture and actually had a meeting with them to see if there was a way to work together. Not currently as they don't really handle playlists. Only 1 long mp3 mix. They have a cool site though, but focus on charging the listener to go pro.I'm trying to charge the artist to go pro. I like your idea on having a brief description on the roll overs on the homepage. Sort of how the large featured mixtape at the top of the homepage is? As a user just looking to listen and download mixtapes, there is no reason to sign up. Going Pro is really just for the artists/djs. Was that confusing for you? That may be something I should make clearer then.Thanks Kevin. Looking forward to checking out your site.

My project and current website is <a href="http://www.GetRightMusic.com">GetRightMusic.com</a>. Get Right Music is a hip hop music platform that allows artists to upload and distribute their free mixtape. Think Bandcamp for hip hop mixtapes. Taking this class, I am hoping to increase user acquisitions and conversions for our Pro Membership. Here is the current landing page: <a href="http://www.GetRightMusic.com/GoPro">GetRightMusic.com/GoPro</a>
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/PIbO6yQ.jpg?1" alt="Get Right Music - image 1 - student project" width="1808" height="2152" srcset="http://i.imgur.com/PIbO6yQ.jpg?1 600w, http://i.imgur.com/PIbO6yQ.jpg?1 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
Any help or ideas would be great! Thanks!
I think the best strategies for my site would be SEO and A/B Testing of landing pages.
I would love to figure out a way to make use of invites. We currently allow the audio player for the mixtapes to be embedded with our logo and link on the player.&nbsp;
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