Marco Rivas
Founder & Editor
10 tips and 8 guides
Marco founded Marketing Ideas after a decade running scrappy, low-budget growth for bootstrapped DTC brands and early-stage SaaS. He writes about growth experiments, SEO, and turning tiny budgets into compounding traffic — the tactics he wished someone had handed him on day one.
Tips by Marco Rivas
Marketing 101: The 5-Step Framework Every Business Runs On
A clear 5-step marketing framework for solo founders: find a market, research the problem, build a solution, drive traffic, and sell benefits.
How to Find Clients Using Browser Extensions
The best browser extensions to find clients fast: Hunter, Apollo, Lusha, and Wappalyzer — explained for solo founders doing cold outreach at scale.
Add more testimonials to your website and sales deck today
Learn how to use customer testimonials to increase conversions on your website and sales deck. Includes what makes a testimonial work and where to place...
Run marketing like a company: multi-agent AI teams explained
Learn how multi-agent AI setups can improve marketing output for small teams by assigning specialized roles instead of relying on one generalist AI tool.
From $0 to $700 MRR: The 3-Phase Growth Sequence for Early Founders
Learn the 3-phase MRR growth sequence solo founders use to go from $0 to $700 MRR — without content marketing or paid ads in the early stages.
How to Get Sales from Reddit Without Getting Banned
Learn how to generate sales from Reddit without getting banned. A step-by-step approach to building credibility, finding buyers, and converting via DMs.
The only Twitter/X marketing system you need as a solo founder
A simple Twitter/X marketing system for solo founders with no marketing background. Post daily, write weekly threads, and build trust in 6 months.
Rank on Google in 48 Hours Using Medium (No Website Needed)
Use Medium's domain authority to rank on Google in 48 hours without a website. Here's how to find buying-intent keywords and drive product traffic fast.
Stop posting into the void — DM your ideal users on X instead
Daily posting on X got one founder just 3 signups in 6 weeks. Switching to targeted DMs changed everything — here's the exact process to copy.
Stop building and start marketing: the AI vibe marketing stack
Learn how solo founders can use AI tools to build a vibe marketing system — from playbook design to 24/7 execution — and stop relying on shipping alone.
Guides by Marco Rivas
Google Business Profile for Restaurants: Complete Setup Guide
Set up and optimize your Google Business Profile restaurant listing to win the local map pack: claim, verify, photos, menu, hours, reviews that convert.
How to Get Your Business Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity
Learn how to get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity. A GEO playbook of answer-first content, cited stats, schema, and brand mentions that win AI citations.
Top 5 Reddit Marketing Tips That Actually Work
Five Reddit marketing tips that drive real traffic and customers without getting banned: give value first, pick the right subreddits, answer questions.
Guerrilla Marketing Ideas That Get Your Brand Noticed in 2026
Guerrilla marketing tactics with 2025-2026 data: QR codes, meme marketing, street art, and experiential campaigns delivering 4.5-5x ROI on small budgets.
Why Cold Email Link Building Fails (And What Works Instead)
Cold outreach gets an 8.5% reply rate and ~0.2% link conversion. Build a relationship-based system that earns 50-100 links a year in 3-4 hours a week.
How to Get Your First 100 Users Without a Marketing Budget
Get your first 100 startup users free. Personal outreach nets 20-30, cold email lands 10-15, Product Hunt pulls 500-2K visitors. 43% fail from poor fit.
Organic User Growth for Founders Who Hate Marketing
Hate marketing but need users? 70% of buyers prefer self-service. Grow organically as a solo founder without ads, personal branding, or fake enthusiasm.
7 Ways to Promote Your Startup With Zero Followers and Zero Budget
7 free tactics to promote a startup with zero followers: Reddit (121M users), Pinterest boards (619M users), Giphy, and internal linking. No ad budget.