Engineers Insight Newsletter #58

I'm in your DM's

If you've not had a DM from me this week, you're probably already an Engineers Insight super fan. If you're not and you haven't had a DM, expect one soon! 😅

You've followed us for a while (and thank you), but do you actually know what Engineers Insight is?

Here's a quick walkthrough of the app 👇

To Download (it's free) you can click this link if you're reading on mobile, or scan this QR code with your phone, if you're reading on desktop. We're even giving away an iPad to an app user!

🎙️Episode 14 - "Someone knew me and stayed".

Ariel Wynn is the marketing manager at SCHUBERT UK LIMITED and the author of the romance novel - "Now, Never or at the very last second"

This is the most open, personal and emotional episode we've filmed to date. Ariel let's us in to her life, how she's dealt with trauma, recreated a version of herself and has used her love of writing to become a published author.

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What have we been up to?

Much quieter week this one!

Only the 4 meetings but some late nights and early mornings, chasing user base growth.

On Monday I met with Callum Barnes from SQCDP.co.uk to look at how we can help them get their brand more eyes, and more engineers understanding what it is they do. (Click the link, it's pretty cool).

Tuesday was a follow on from meeting Jim Walters at EMCON Engineering & Manufacturing Show last month. Jim introduced me to Mark East from Valuechain Technology Ltd. who gave up his evening in Japan to give me some brilliant advice on scaling the business, markets we should exploit and how to keep all of my plates spinning. We had to stop chatting eventually, so he could go eat his dinner at 9pm! 😅

I caught up with Peter Jones and Ryan Moon who gave me some great feedback, and plenty to work on. Including making sure the thousands of people that watch and read my content actually understand what Engineers Insight is. Hence the walkthrough video making it into this weeks newsletter...

Last meeting of the week was this morning, with Gash Bhullar and Rae Davies from Control 2K Limited . Lot's to talk about, but mainly that they'll be joining the EI app! Their "IndustreWeb" platform that interfaces with anything on your shopfloor, to provide a toolkit to solve production problems and improve manufacturing efficiency. Click the name to find out more info!

I'm putting this one out to you 1000+ readers... How do I convince people to download the app?

It's free after all.

Is it a case of seeing something so many times before acting on it?

Or, am I missing a trick?

My (slightly) best conversion (so far) has come from Direct Messaging engineers on LinkedIn. I've sent nearly 1000 individual messages this week, for 50 downloads. 5% conversion.

Second to that is Meta Ads, running multiple versions of the same walkthrough video - different music, subtitles, colours etc. Just under 5% conversion and a 20p CPC. Not bad, but difficult to scale as one person.

Saying that, I'm at a college on Monday meeting a media T-Level class to look at building an inexperienced, marketing team, who aren't used to the boring content we all create in industry. Which, I'm hoping becomes a stroke of genius. After all, Manufacturing needs a spark of creativity to cut through the noise of LinkedIn. I've got so much content for them to re-purpose and post across socials. And then a load of ideas for new content that I've not had the head space to pursue.

But again that just fills the funnel of potential app users.

How do we push those followers through the funnel to press the download button in the app stores?

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