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这是我关于Postiz在一个月内实现收入翻倍的故事。请随时问我任何问题。我看到了一个机会 Postiz传统上是一个开源的社交媒体排程工具。八月份，我开始看到一些有趣的事情：关于人们如何使用n8n自动化社交媒体的新YouTube视频。起初，我觉得这很酷，后来我发现了一个模式。许多人在“Skool”上开设了关于如何使用n8n的群组。成千上万的模板，其中包括如何创建病毒式的AI帖子。我喜欢这个的几个原因： - 努力少，人们下载模板后就可以直接使用（流失率低）。 - 结果导向而非工具导向——人们购买的是他们想要的结果，而不是一个需要摸索使用的工具，或许能给他们带来结果。 - 这是一个快速增长且是今年最大的趋势之一。 - 我可以轻松地针对他们。 - 技术人员更倾向于使用我的开源工具来自动化社交媒体，而不是闭源的工具。实施所以我做的第一件事就是创建一个官方的n8n节点。老实说，这非常简单；我只是告诉Cursor：“你看到我的公共API了吗？”只需将其制作成n8n节点——一个小时的工作（当然，我是以他们的起始模板为基础进行克隆的）。我将其提交给n8n，花了一段时间。与此同时，我在Upwork上发布了一个新工作：“去Skool上的n8n群组，找到创始人及其电子邮件。”一些聪明的人可以自动化这个过程，也许使用ChatGPT Atlas，但这太便宜了，我并不太在意。我想要主动联系他们，所以我首先购买了一个新域名，并对我的电子邮件进行了预热（你可以使用像Lemwarm这样的软件）。这很重要，以防你被标记为垃圾邮件，这样就不会是你的主要域名。然后你可以使用像Lemlist这样的软件进行自动化。（这些是最贵的软件，你可以找到更便宜的。）现在，最重要的是，你该写些什么？写什么每次我收到冷邮件时，我通常会将其标记为垃圾邮件。这很烦人——是的，是的，给我推销你的服务。人们希望快速获得价值，如果你在推销自己的东西，你就会被标记为垃圾邮件，声誉也会受损。我没有收到任何负面回复，这一切都围绕着Alex Hormozi的观点——“这对我有什么好处？”这个提议必须好到让你觉得不接受就是傻瓜。亮点： - 标题使用小写字母以吸引注意。 - 我能回报你什么（这使得提议如此吸引人）。我开始看到大量的新模板。所以我进一步扩展，并抓取了： - 竞争对手的YouTube视频 - 竞争对手在n8n上的模板然后发生了一件疯狂的事情。收入我被“TRW”——Andrew Tate的群组推荐。虽然我对这个人并不太感兴趣，周围有很多传闻，但他显然没有参与，这只是他群组中的一个管理员。所以这个管理员创建了一个使用Postiz的模板，并且还使用了Postiz的联盟链接（太棒了！）。从那时起，我将注意力转向了自动化（创建了MCPs，增加了更多的AI自动化功能，等等）。总结我没有改变我的产品，而是改变了焦点和受众。这： - 带来了更多的人。 - 降低了我的流失率——因为自动化是自动的，所以你不需要一直去操作。 - 让我置身于社交媒体排程工具的蓝海，因为它们都在做同样的事情。

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This is my story of Postiz doubling its revenue in one month. Feel free to ask me anything.I saw an opening Postiz is traditionally an open-source social media scheduling tool. In August, I started seeing something interesting: new YouTube videos about how people are automating their social media with n8n.First, I thought it was cool, then I saw a pattern. Many people opened "Skool" groups on how to use n8n. Thousands of templates, but among them, how to create viral AI posts.I liked it for a few reasons:Low effort, people download the template and use it to post (low churn)Outcome instead of a tool - people buy the result they want, not a tool that they will need to figure out how to use, and maybe will get them results.It's a super-growing and one of the biggest trends of this year.I could target them easilyTechnical people would be drawn more to automate social media with my tool as it's open-source rather than a closed-source one.Implementation So the first thing I did was to create an official n8n node. Honestly, it was super easy; I just told Cursor, "Do you see my public API?" Just make an n8n node out of it - an hour of work (of course, I cloned their starter template as a base)I submitted it to n8n, and it took a while.Meanwhile, I opened a new job on Upwork: "go to n8n groups on Skool, find the founder, and their email."Some smart people can automate the process, maybe with ChatGPT Atlas, but it's so cheap that I didn't care much.I wanted to cold outreach all of them, so first I bought a new domain and warmed up my email (You can use software like Lemwarm). It's important, in case you are marked as spam, it won't be your primary domain.Then you can automate with software like Lemlist.(Those are the most expensive software; you can find cheaper.)Now, the most important thing is, what do you write?What to write Every time I get a cold outreach email, I usually mark it as spam. It's annoying - yes, yes, offer me your service.People want to get value fast, and if you sell your stuff, you will be marked as spam and get a bad rep.I got zero bad replies, and it's all around Alex Hormozi - "What's in it for me?"The offer must be so good that you should be a sucker not to take it.https://share.cleanshot.com/5sRfTByDHighlights:Lower case letters in the title to grab attentionWhen I can give you in return (that's what makes it so attractive)I started to see tons of new templates. So I scaled it more and scraped also:- Competitors' YouTube videos - Competitors' templates on n8nAnd then something crazy happened.Revenue I was featured on "TRW" - Andrew Tate group. Not a big fan of the guy with all the rumors around him, but he was obviously not involved; it was just a mod in his group.So the mod created the template with Postiz and also used Postiz's affiliate link (great!)Since then, I shifted my attention to automation (Created MCPs, more AI features for automation, and so on)Bottom line I did not change my product, I changed the focus and the audience.That:Brought me more people- Decreased my churn - because automation is automated, so you don't need to touch it all the time.- Put myself in the blue ocean of social media schedulers as they all do the same.

我的SaaS从每月6,523美元跃升至12,648美元，以下是我的方法。