What was the customer acquisition method you have used to acquire your first 10 customers?
Cold calling, cold emailing, SEO, content marketing, advertising or anything else?
Cold calling, cold emailing, SEO, content marketing, advertising or anything else?
Methods we have used to acquire our first 10 customers for each one of our product is listed below:
Octeth: Listing on Hotscripts (1999!)
Sendloop: Outreaching our Octeth customers (2008)
Sendloop Studio: Cold emailing (2018)
PreviewMyEmail: Outreaching our Octeth custoemrs (2009)
ReferralMagic: Organic / SEO(we haven't focused on SEO) (2018)
IPMonitor: Outreaching / Cold emailing (2018)
CodeCanyon
Thanks Mattijs... So you are selling on-premise solutions? That's cool because we are also selling on-premise email marketing solution on Octeth.
Yes, we do. Our main product is Pagestead, a self-hosted, white label DIY web site builder.
Very cool to see others doing self-hosted/on-premise products! It often feels like everyone is doing SaaS/subscription products these days.
Octeth looks very interesting! And it's been around since 1999. Would love to connect with you sometime and swap war stories if you're interested ;)
Sure! And yes, I'm a big believer in on-prem solutions... We have started our business selling on-prem softwares back in 1999... Then SaaS popped up and everyone focused on SaaS, but there's GREAT opportunity in on-prem solutions, especially after GDPR ;)
Happy to connect. Feel free to reach me out via cem@sendloop.com
Cold email.
Instagram Automation & content on twitter
One of my friend has grown his SaaS business from $2k/m to $150k/m with instagram automation in just 9 months... His only growth channel is instagram automation and cold emailing to them... Still growing through this channel :)
That is amazing!
Hey Cem! This is a great question and last week I published a new article on how I acquired my first 10 customers for Cronhub. I shared my journey and all the steps I have taken so hopefully this will be useful for you. Also, if you have questions I'm happy to answer. https://blog.cronhub.io/how-i-acquired-my-first-10-customers-for-cronhub/
Hey Tigran, yes! I 've read it last week :) good post!
In Customerly.io we started sharing the platform with 5 of our entrepreneur friends.
We started acquiring users thanks to the referral link on the bottom of the live chat widget that those friends have on their websites.
After this, we were featured in some journals, growth marketing books and by internet marketers in their blog.
Everything happened frictionless because I guess the quality of the product itself made the difference.
That's cool Luca... I agree, if your product is perfect for the target customer, marketing needs less effort... Product sells itself.