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Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? b2b

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Re: Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? b2b

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For us, we did the following (in-order) and just recently hit 100. 1. Meet face-to-face with prospects in our area, either by cold-calling, cold-emailing, or walking-in 2. After #1, we asked for referrals for to other prospects 3. Next we started with cold-emailing across prospects in the US 4. Conferences 5. Local Meet-ups 6. Mailers / post cards 7. Facebook Ads So far Facebook ads has been our top performing channe…

Whats your average deal size like?

Re: Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users? b2b

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For us, we did the following (in-order) and just recently hit 100. 1. Meet face-to-face with prospects in our area, either by cold-calling, cold-emailing, or walking-in 2. After #1, we asked for referrals for to other prospects 3. Next we started with cold-emailing across prospects in the US 4. Conferences 5. Local Meet-ups 6. Mailers / post cards 7. Facebook Ads So far Facebook ads has been our top performing channe…

Very interesting that Facebook ads are working for you - I have avoided them so far due to their cost but maybe I shall reconsider. So far I’ve been cold emailing my target market, but being new to all of this I am still tweaking my efforts - nailing down my initial email and the correct targets within a business (VP? Engineers? etc.) Seems I may need to reconsider Facebook Ads...

How are you building a List of potential leads ?
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