Day 611 - Plugins For Carrd: Sitting on untapped potential - https://golifelog.com/posts/plugins-for-carrd-sitting-on-untapped-potential-1662162656070
I'm sitting on a goldmine of untapped potential all this time with my project [Plugins For Carrd](https://pluginsforcarrd.com).
Seeing [Components UI](https://componentsui.com/) by @oscaroarevalo made me realise that.
It has all the tricks of the trade that we creators are familiar with:
- beautiful well-designed landing page with ConvertKit CTA
- Affiliates program through Gumroad
- Testimonial from Carrd founder AJ himself
- Selling bundles - 7 components for $59 while I sell 1 for $15/$25
- 10 day email sequence on Carrd tips
- Free guides - simple pricing tables, 10 days of Carrd, set up web analytics, a week of better design, How to: Design Agency, How to: Freelancer
- FAQs
- Templates, UI components, dark mode, Spanish version of UI
- Subdirectory blog for SEO purposes - tutorials, and posts about the journey of building in public (even a dedicated emailing list for this journey)
- Roadmaps, Changelog, License and Affiliate program pages
I look at Components UI and see my future for Plugins. I should really be doubling down on it and executing on all this tricks. I kind of already knew I *should* before seeing Components UI, but seeing something in real life was the kicker.
A few things I might do differently though, or will stick to doing it my way:
- Calling it a "plugin" instead of component because non-technical creators are more familiar with "plugins" (ala Wordpress) than "components" (a more UX designer / frontend developer term)
- Selling individual components *as well as* bundles
- Showing demos for each plugin on a Carrd site for street cred
- Keeping the marketing simple - too much conversion copy can feel too salesy. I like how it's simple and straightforward now for Plugins.
- My giving/helping focus on social media and communities as a way for marketing and reach, plus it's a great way to discover new plugin ideas
Excited!
Seeing [Components UI](https://componentsui.com/) by @oscaroarevalo made me realise that.
It has all the tricks of the trade that we creators are familiar with:
- beautiful well-designed landing page with ConvertKit CTA
- Affiliates program through Gumroad
- Testimonial from Carrd founder AJ himself
- Selling bundles - 7 components for $59 while I sell 1 for $15/$25
- 10 day email sequence on Carrd tips
- Free guides - simple pricing tables, 10 days of Carrd, set up web analytics, a week of better design, How to: Design Agency, How to: Freelancer
- FAQs
- Templates, UI components, dark mode, Spanish version of UI
- Subdirectory blog for SEO purposes - tutorials, and posts about the journey of building in public (even a dedicated emailing list for this journey)
- Roadmaps, Changelog, License and Affiliate program pages
I look at Components UI and see my future for Plugins. I should really be doubling down on it and executing on all this tricks. I kind of already knew I *should* before seeing Components UI, but seeing something in real life was the kicker.
A few things I might do differently though, or will stick to doing it my way:
- Calling it a "plugin" instead of component because non-technical creators are more familiar with "plugins" (ala Wordpress) than "components" (a more UX designer / frontend developer term)
- Selling individual components *as well as* bundles
- Showing demos for each plugin on a Carrd site for street cred
- Keeping the marketing simple - too much conversion copy can feel too salesy. I like how it's simple and straightforward now for Plugins.
- My giving/helping focus on social media and communities as a way for marketing and reach, plus it's a great way to discover new plugin ideas
Excited!