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We crossed $14K MRR and tracked 1M pageviews: Open Startup Report July 2022 for Friendly
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Stefan Vetter
https://friendly.ch/july-2022
Great.
Congrats on the new milestone!
Thank you :)
Congratulations :). That is really impressive.
It would be super interesting to know how do you get clients and traffic?
Mostly affiliates and personal network: https://twitter.com/stefanvetter/status/1556543991436480512
That's super impressive, congratulations!
What is mainly driving all that traffic?
It's not our traffic, it is the traffic we track for our customers with our web analytics software.
Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. But that's super awesome!
Thanks :)
Whats your best source for subscribers?
Can't say for newsletter subscriber, but for customers it's affiliates and personal network: https://twitter.com/stefanvetter/status/1556543991436480512
Can you explain how the affiliate program works?
Affiliates sign up and get paid for referring customers to us: https://friendly.ch/en/partners
So you run your own affiliate program. How many affiliates do you have?
And what percentage of your sales is affiliate driven?
Right now we have 16 active affiliates, meaning that they have referred at least one customer. About the same are inactive, so they never brought in revenue.
31% of our customers come from affiliates: https://twitter.com/stefanvetter/status/1556543991436480512
Stefan, congratulations
would like to ask about how you set up the affiliate programs, as in:
Which communities did you use to find the affiliates
What's the vetting process for the affiliates? What makes a candidate qualify to be an affiliate?
At what stage would you consider taking on an investment?
What does your startup currently require at the time being?
How did you hire other devs? please run us through that process?
Great questions!
So far only my existing personal network of marketing professionals 🙈
I know them or make sure they are legit.
Never: https://friendly.ch/en/no-investors
Endurance, until we become profitable.
We don't have devs at the moment. We had one intern, but it did not work out.