You're a developer and want to start marketing for your startup? Here are 7 advice to make the switch: 👇THREAD 👇

1/ 🛑STOP BUILDING Yes, that's the first step. Stop it. You already started? → Your next feature will wait a bit. You didn't start yet? → Don't! Use #nocode to create a landing page instead. Now that you've stopped, you need to focus on one thing: Talk to people!

2/ 🪓Split building/selling Of course, you won't stop forever. I love the @yongfook approach to this: ✨ Spend 50% building, 50% selling✨ That's a good starting point. Build for a week, and spend the whole next one selling what you built.

3/ 👿Selling isn't evil! As a developer, we see marketers and salesman as people that want to convince by all means. 👉That's 100% FALSE. The best way to sell isn't about convincing, it's about understanding the needs of your customers. ✨It's about HELPING OTHERS.✨

4/ ✍️Start Writing One of the easy ways to start marketing is by writing. Create a Twitter account, start a blog, create a newsletter… Talk about your expertise and help people, give them free value. That's super-efficient, after a few months you'll have great results 📈

5/ 👊Fight your shyness! I know talking with strangers can be super intimidating (even more if English isn't your first language) That's a skill, like any other. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Start with friends, get Twitter friends on the phone for instance…

6/ Learn from the best There is no magic, you'll need to learn and work hard. Here are the best accounts to follow: - @amandanat - @heyBlake - @jmoserr - @amandanat - @theandreboso - @ImSamThompson

7/ 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧Be part of a supportive community. It's always better to learn with others. You will learn faster, that will be way more fun! The best one: - @IndieHackers - @ProductHunt community - The Discord server of /r/startups - Marketing4Makers (unshamed plug 😛 @joinm4m )

That's all for the advice! Don't worry, it's really not that hard. You just need to spend time working on it! Here are a few devs that inspired me to write this thread: - @VittoStack - @VladPasca5 - @arvidkahl - @SimonHoiberg Who are the others that master dev & marketing?

Find more threads on startups and marketing at @AngeZanetti If you're struggling with marketing right now I'm here to help! I created a private community of makers, we're all in this together! 👉 m4m.so