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New Milestone: 300 paying customers

We now have 300 paying customers of conveythis.com

It's great considering that we passed 100 customers in December of 2019
It means a 200% growth in 8 months

We are gonna do $100,000 in revenue this year, my goal for 2021 is to do $1M (+1000%)

Let's keep rocking!

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    Congrats!! I'd love to hear more about your launch strategy! How much traction did you build before launching?

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      SMM didn't work for us. Or at least, being a veteran SEO specialist, I missed the social media train and never learnt how to exectute it well. So, we have stuck with slower growth: content marketing. Our blog gets lots of pageviews from Google and Bing. In addition, our own translation widget bring us lots of free traffic from Spanish, Russian, Arabic visitors. We proudly use what we've developed unlike other competitors.

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    Congrats! It's a nice clean website.

    Hopefully the snowball effect is happening now, in theory it should be easier to get to 1000 customers. :)

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      Yes, hopefully it will snow ball. The problem with promoting SaaS websites, is that you can't achieve a true virility. The value of the product doesn't increase with the number of users, nor they would refer more traffic or visitors. You need to continue hassle and pour marketing money into high traction activities. The next big thing for us is the engineering tools. I think there is a need to have more free web tools for webmasters and website owners. They would appreciate and share the product with their friends in case they find it useful.

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    All the best. How are you bringing customers right now?

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      The best ways to get customers in 2020 for us are:

      1. Organic SEO
      2. Paid Search
      3. Youtube channel
      4. Content marketing: aka blogging
        We also tried events and networking, but that didn't go well.

      I recommend to read a book "Traction" that goes about 19 traction venues one SaaS can engage to. I am up to chapter 9, lol.

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    That's great Alex. I'm curious, is it just you behind all of these achievements?

    Btw, I translated your homepage to Spanish (My native language) and found a few mistakes. I can help with that if you want 😀

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      Yes, that would be nice to proofread the Spanish version. We've focused on English and Russian markets at the moment, but Spanish would come next.
      Yes, I mostly work alone on this project. The MRR doesn't allow to bring more help at the moment, but once we cross a decent number, we will start attracting helpers.

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    Congrats, Alex

    How did you get your first customer?

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    Great! How long did it take you to reach from 0 to 100 customers? What has been your best customer acquisition channel?

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      It took us 2 years to get the first 100 paying customers. The original price was too high. The product was still leaky. We didn't know what we were doing, lol.
      The organic SEO and email outreach was the first 2 channels we used to recruit our first 100 customers. They were so loyal, that the churn ratio of first users far exceed the churn rate of subsequent, I guess, less loyal users.

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        Can you share your current churn rate (or estimate?)?

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        Nice. I see a lot of hardwork & determination there. Best of luck for your 2021 goal.

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          Thanks! Glad to be of any help!

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    Congrats! that's impressive
    I used Weglot in the past. how do you compare conveythis to them?

    btw the Arabic translation is soo bad

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      ConveyThis is 50% more cost effective than Weglot.
      Here you can compare: https://www.conveythis.com/compare/weglot-alternative/

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