How to get your first 10 customers
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How to get your first 10 customers
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Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#2Great post. I wanted to pass along the tool rapportive, which is a built-in email address validator for Gmail with social feeds. It's a killer free tool that no sales team should omit.
Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rapportive/hihakjf...
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#3There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. What is the point of the telecommunication tech YOU created? Did you not do a good job?
There's a better approach than what the blog outlines - imagine that you have infinite wealth and begin to build what you personally want.
In most cases you will not be able to create the whole thing, but you can tackle a piece of the problem.
Example - you want a flying car. Imagine that you have 1 trillion dollars at your disposal. What would you do? Hire engineers. How would you hire them? What software is required. Look around, if it does not exist already, that's your first product. If it the hiring problem is already adequately solved, look for the next thing. How do those engineers communicate? etc.
These series of questions will lead to finding niches of opportunity, and it is always a software problem (organizing workflows).
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#4Great post. I wanted to pass along the tool rapportive, which is a built-in email address validator for Gmail with social feeds. It's a killer free tool that no sales team should omit. Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rapportive/hihakjf...
Here's a better link to Rapportive's website. They have addons for other browsers as well.
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#5I'd also recommend looking at local resources such as chambers of commerce. Join them (or just attend some of the events), meet their members (businesses), establish yourself as an expert (and trust) by giving free talks at events, and then proceed up the sales chain.
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#6There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. What is the point of the telecommunication tech YOU created? Did you not do a good job? There's a better approach than what the blog outlines - imagine that you have infinite wealth and begin to build what you personally want. In most cases you will not be able to create the whole thing, but you can tackle a piece of the problem. Example…
I think technical founders would gladly do all customer development by email (if it worked). The problem is, often your customers aren't "tech people".
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#7regarding email address guessing, rapportive turned out to be quite useful at this (xobni's smartr perhaps as well).
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#8Certainly agree, but depending upon your market it can be very difficult to...
"Find companies that fit the bill"
...especially when you're more going for B2C or B2SmallerWebsites. Really for me that's the challenge that brings out the need for advertising and such - to even find these customers.
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#9There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. What is the point of the telecommunication tech YOU created? Did you not do a good job? There's a better approach than what the blog outlines - imagine that you have infinite wealth and begin to build what you personally want. In most cases you will not be able to create the whole thing, but you can tackle a piece of the problem. Example…
There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face.
Boy do I disagree. Face to face communication is richer, more contactful, and more satisfying. There's nothing wrong with any human being wanting that.
Re: How to get your first 10 customers
#10Am wondering if it is okay to cold email potential clients? Isnt that considered as spam?