Grant Hunt

Easiest way to hunt down that grant for your social impact project, using a chat bot.

Spoke about the indie hacker way at a tech for good conference today

Carl Poppa πŸ›Έ

wow! you look different on stage Jason πŸ˜„

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Jason Leow Author

Game face on mah haha. Got meh how different

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πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬ Got featured by gov.sg on LinkedIn, Facebook about my work in tech for good

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/govsg_doyouknow-techforgood-sgperspectives-activity-6880018104311775232-hVce

https://www.facebook.com/100064718678925/posts/288317296668891/?d=n

Restarted Facebook ad for my social impact project and updated the ad

Updated the ad:

β€’ show faces in photo
β€’ shorter copy, ending before β€œRead more..”
β€’ snappier copy β€œ...in 60s”

Previous v1 to v2 campaign managed to get cost per click from $0.67 to $0.43. And that's just a 2week campaign for v2 versus many months on v1!

Fingers crossed on performance for v3. Will find out in 2 weeks.

Restarted Facebook ad for 2 weeks

With updated image and copy. Let's see if this works better:

* photo image
* shorter, concise text
* used familiar terms that social sector professionals know, eg "social service", "one-stop", "SG"
* more ref to local SG context πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¬

Re-started Facebook ads 15-28 Feb for

Reviewed cost per click for ads promoting website vs send message to bot: S$0.64 vs $12.29 ! Crazy! Good learning. Now to optimize on the former. And WOW, with the Ads app, it's so easy to create/re-start ads. Impressed but also slightly concerned.

Started 2nd round of Facebook ads for for 2 weeks till 17 Nov, this time to get more website visitors (instead of chatbot engagement) and reduced the number of params for detailed targeting

Bought my first ad on Facebook! Came as part of the grant, I got $900 to spend on getting 1000 people to use my chat bot for the next 3 years. Is $900 enough? πŸ€”

Jason Leow Author

I see I see. Sounds complex indeed. What are some key things or gotchas to look out for, based on your experience? Any must-read resources on FB ads you'd recommend?

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Jason Leow Author

Testing is a good tip. I'm starting to realise that too, and keen to experiment with images and copy. Thanks for the validation! :)

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Completed post-launch grant report, time to make claims for remaining $2.5k

πŸš€ LAUNCHED the Grant Hunt bot today in Singapore, on Facebook, Messenger, LinkedIn, emails. More marketing to come in the following days! https://gogranthunt.com

Researched and found the email list of 400+ nonprofits/charities in SG, processed it and extracted all the emails - ready to launch!

Subscribed to Pro plan on Chatfuel for - alright shit gets real now! Next up: Facebook ads!

Switched out DNS records to new one, waiting for it to propagate...Almost ready for launch!

Downloaded Vue Argon Design System (built on Vue and Bootstrap - https://www.creative-tim.com/product/vue-argon-design-system), to build website for Grant Hunt bot

updated inventory of all grants on spreadsheet and blocks, cleaned up data

cleaned up the structure of my 'code' blocks in the Grant Hunt chatbot

After wasting 2 days, abandoned FlowXO (UI too confusing) and Manychat (not sophisticated as Chatfuel), and went back to Chatfuel to rebuild the Grant Hunt chatbot

Onboarding and rebuilding Grant Hunt from ground up, using FlowXO. But with Chatfuel's latest Flow feature, tempting to not switch

Part 3 pf researching and compiling social impact grants in SG - how the grant scene had grown!