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I run a small but fairly successful "embed chatGPT on your site" widget https://rispose.com I'm acquiring customers by: - Offer a 100% free unlimited solution (with branding) I get a lot of daily clicks from people coming from my customer's website - Offer a really good price. My competitors are about 5X more expensive. I'll eventually maybe raise my price, but for now I have a lot of people switching to my tool - Af…
Get their honest take on what sucks about their current solution/process. Ask for their expertise.
Build the thing that emerges from the 20 interviews. Not the thing they ask for, but the thing they truly need.
Craft a solid pitch from the common themes of the 20 interviews, focused on being a painkiller, not a vitamin.
Go to the place where you found those initial 20, except this time, talk about the thing you made. Not in a salesy way.
If people 1. Aren't interested; 2. Aren't converting to customers, then the thing that was built didn't properly address the pain
For my SaaS, the first 100 users were almost too easy. I partnered with a company sitting on thousands of clients and offered my tool—free—to just 10% of their list. But I didn’t sell features. I asked what their clients hated most, then built a fix for that. One well-placed feature, and the doors swung open. Real users, real feedback—and we’re still building on that foundation. Then there’s my blog. A creative sandb…
Forget the usual SEO and focus on high-quality, in-depth textual and video content. Build your list for email marketing. Paid ads (FB, Google) to drive targeted traffic. PS - I do that.
How do you do that? This is where I struggle.
For my SaaS, the first 100 users were almost too easy. I partnered with a company sitting on thousands of clients and offered my tool—free—to just 10% of their list. But I didn’t sell features. I asked what their clients hated most, then built a fix for that. One well-placed feature, and the doors swung open. Real users, real feedback—and we’re still building on that foundation. Then there’s my blog. A creative sandb…
an idea might be providing a link to the blog
I'm 40% through getting my first 100 users for https://www.kruh.ltd . So far, I've only added a "banner" announcement on two of my products and mentioned it at the bottom of newsletters to their subscribers. It's taken a couple of months to get this far. I will probably launch in two phases of cohorts. I.e. in blocks of 50.
I run a small but fairly successful "embed chatGPT on your site" widget https://rispose.com I'm acquiring customers by: - Offer a 100% free unlimited solution (with branding) I get a lot of daily clicks from people coming from my customer's website - Offer a really good price. My competitors are about 5X more expensive. I'll eventually maybe raise my price, but for now I have a lot of people switching to my tool - Af…
Well done, an offer impossible to refuse.
For my SaaS, the first 100 users were almost too easy. I partnered with a company sitting on thousands of clients and offered my tool—free—to just 10% of their list. But I didn’t sell features. I asked what their clients hated most, then built a fix for that. One well-placed feature, and the doors swung open. Real users, real feedback—and we’re still building on that foundation. Then there’s my blog. A creative sandb…
an idea might be providing a link to the blog
Find a way to make it free to start. This is how Firebase, Supabase and friends work. Getting 100 people to sign up for a free service is still work, but significantly less.
Making it 100X harder to get them to pay for it subsequently. "If you’re good at something, never do it for free" - Joseph Joker MBA JD. If not, then you are in the ad business.
Ideally you want your tools to be so easy to use, clients just switch onto a paid plan when they want to get serious.