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Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS

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Re: Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS

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Post by saulpw »

touseefbuilds wrote: post #7
fsuts wrote: post #5

I’d suggest getting a job, any job and Especially a part time one Will stop you getting depressed as you will be active and socialising. How long have you been selling the SAAS?

I am really heart broken so I didn't apply to any jobs but I am trying and getting myself together and have started applying to jobs. It has been a month that I am trying to sell my SaaS.

Your expectations are wildly off: a month is not enough time for anything meaningful in any domain. If you can't weather at least a year then you shouldn't even start, and you should be prepared to work with little reward for 3-5 years, maybe 10 years if starting from 0.

Re: Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS

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Post by [deleted] »

touseefbuilds wrote: post #11
reconnecting wrote: post #10

There's an uncomfortable truth about SaaS, especially about B2B. It takes enormous resources and time to lift a SaaS. Unfortunately, the internet is full of all sorts of growth strategies and gurus saying it's feasible, but in reality it's nearly impossible. And when I talk about time, I mean 2-3 years for B2C and easily 5+ for B2B on organic growth. Moreover, the current spread of LLMs is only making things worse, c…

I respect you since you've been in this field for decades but I've seen people make it to hundreds of thousands of dollars starting from zero on X. I've done the same, being consistent on X for 3 months but nothing was clicking, then moved on to different platform to test if another would make it but nothing's working. I am doing something wrong but i don't know what.

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Re: Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS

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Post by touseefbuilds »

Gooblebrai wrote: post #30
touseefbuilds wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I respect you since you've been in this field for decades but I've seen people make it to hundreds of thousands of dollars starting from zero on X. I've done the same, being consistent on X for 3 months but nothing was clicking, then moved on to different platform to test if another would make it but nothing's working. I am doing something wrong but i don't know what.

> consistent on X for 3 months Is the audience of your SaaS on X?

Yes, majority of my audience is on X.

Re: Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS

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Post by magicquestions »

Your list is all channels. Channels are rarely the issue. An unclear target and unclear promise usually is. Pick one role, one painful moment, one outcome they would talk about, then DM 20 people who match that, and ask what they are doing about that problem today. Think of it as learning how they think rather than pitching them. Then ask yourself this magic question: "Who is the one propspect whose problem I can solve this week?"

If you can't answer that, then you know what's wrong. Either you don't know who your prospects are, or you don't know what problem you solve for them.

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