Buying email list to get first 10 users?
Getting those initial 10 customers has been quite challenging. In fact it's been over a year and have only has sporadic users for my app, in various stages. I need user feedback. So I am considering buying a Shopify/Amazon seller email list.
Have other people here tried this, how'd it work? I totally get this is not organic and email s have a low success rate, but one thing I've learned over the last 2.5 years is this group is a bit fickle. They tend to be "B2B" customers that are more like B2C.
Any experiences with buying an email list would be appreciated.
There are much better and more straightforward ways to get user feedback. Post your idea on online forums (even consistent lack of response would also be an important signal). Buy $100-$500 worth of Facebook ads. Pitch your idea on startup meetups.
A random email list sounds doesn't sound like a good idea.
Hey @sbichenko thanks for the feedback.
So a couple issues there. The app is aimed at small e-commerce sellers. When you got forums there and post, even asking for feedback and free usage you get booted quickly (I was booted from 2 FB groups). They don't want to be sold to even if it just to ask some questions. I have seen posts looking for simple inventory management though. So I feel the desire it there. I made/solved it for myself.
Buying FB ads is a possibility, but not sure it if can be target rich enough. Maybe if you can target a specific groups.
Startup meetups is too generic for this app. It's geared for small e-commerce sellers, where its a side hustle second job. Not App devs, it's not quite customer in that way.
The last list I saw was ~6000 emails for ~$600 not the worst, but who knows how many times its beed sold and they are already jaded.
So yeah, it's been tough
I think, in the end, your value proposition should be good enough to get interest. If it's not, then change the value proposition.
You want your product tagline to be so good, that they'd overcome their aversion to being sold something. You'll have to solve this anyway — when you'll be selling them this product!
The lack of response to your current offering is a signal on its own, I think. Try different pitches and positioning. Find something people would love to hear about.