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Converting 10% of our visitors to join the waiting list

Before we opened our registrations to the public, we were onboarding customers manually. We demoed our product and explored use cases together. This gave us a very good idea of the problems our customers needed to be solved and helped us prioritize.

This process was quite streamlined, but it could never scale. Furthermore, many customers nowadays prefer a fully self-serve model, where they can try out the product without having to jump on calls or sit through demos. They were the audience we wanted to reach out to next.

The idea was very simple. We already had a Mailchimp form that we set up when creating our original landing page. We just needed an eye-catching message to direct anyone interested to put in their email.

Using Gist we put together a message and linked the CTA to our Mailchimp form.

This is what we created

Preview

The message was live for around 2 months before launch and converted 10% of our traffic to sign up.

Do you have a product that's going live soon? head over to gist.build and try this out for free!

on January 3, 2022
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    When you say fully self serve, how valuable would it be for your customers to interact with your product before they sign up?

    Sort of a self serve demo if you will?

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      We do have codepen examples for anyone wanting to see Gist in action (without integrating) but having a demo editor inside our product page would be awesome.

      For now customers can try the product for free and at least the setup takes minutes.

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        Ah gotcha.

        I'm actually working on a demo builder platform that turn a product into a shareable demo in less than 10 mins.

        Don't want to sell you anything but if you're interested in a beta, would look to get your feedback on the product and if we can help solve this for you.

        Let me know and I can follow up!

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          Yes definitely!

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            Dropping a link to the landing page (https://www.getlancey.com/). Would love to get you on our beta and in general share demo tips based on my previous roles at Seed to Series C unicorn startups.

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    Nice product! Bookmarked it ;)

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      Thank you! 😊