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Share IH: One successful product, two dead

I’ve built 3 products so far. 2 of them are dead and forgotten. 1 of them is still up and running.

Even though the “successful” product is not the biggest or a well known name, it’s helped a handful of people. Knowning that is humbling and well worth working on.

I wrote an article discussing all 3 products that I’ve built in the last 7 months. I talk about how they came to be and the result after me launching.

https://www.leija.io/post/one-successful-product-two-dead

Let me know if you had any similar experience.

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    did you try partnering with someone in sales to get managely off the ground? It seems like a worthwhile product, but it would require some aggressive sales effort to get into gated communities

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      I honestly haven't. Reason why, it just didn't cross my mind. As I was writing this article, it did hit me that it could be a solid idea still. I do know a couple people that I would try to convince to see if they would like to partner up.

      Do you have any suggestions on how to find an awesome sales person? I will have to try IH. I see folks doing that!

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    How do you measure the success of leija.io? If it's not generating income or has a significant returning community, why would it be more successful than the other two?

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      Those are really good questions.

      Currently I'm measuring success by impact. Can I make people talk about what I'm making or get a reaction.

      Generating income or building a huge community is just a byproduct of how much impact a product has made. And out of all 3 products, my blog site has won that trophy so far. That can always change of course.

      Let me know if that doesn't answer your question.

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        If you want to get better than "successful idea" please contact me by email (on my profile). We'll discuss how to do that.

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          😏 thanks. Will be in touch soon!

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    So ur successful product is a blog? Nothin wrong with that. I thought u said that final idea renerated cash.

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      Nope, never said anything about generating cash :) Maybe one day!

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    The link to leija.io on https://www.leija.io/post/one-successful-product-two-dead gives 404. The link itself is on leija.io but just in case you want to fix it :)

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      That's odd. I'm not getting a 404. I just re-pasted the url. Hope that fixes it.

      Thanks for pointing it out!

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        I'm also getting a 404 when clicking on the link, the issue seems to be the ref parameter, https://www.leija.io/ref=leijaio doesn't work for me but https://www.leija.io/ does (should be https://www.leija.io/?ref=leijaio, I believe, with the '?')

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          Oh okay, I get it. This is within the post. Yea, it's suppose to be:

          https://www.leija.io/?ref=leijaio

          fixing now!