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First 10 paying customers

Took me way longer than I had hoped. Especially turning interesting leads to paying customers costed me way more time and effort than I expected.

Growing slowly and getting the product market ready has precedence over quick growth. Better start marketing a premium product than a half ass MVP.

Customers were all part of my existing network. My 15 year experience as an affiliate in the review space helped enormously.

, Founder of Icon for ReviewTycoon
ReviewTycoon
on June 19, 2019
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    10 is huge! Congrats. Reminds me of this article from Jason Lemkin https://www.saastr.com/if-you-have-10-unaffiliated-customers-in-saas-you-have-something/

    Which really gave me confidence back then that I was on to something.

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      Great article, @jlogic! I hadn't read that - it's really encouraging.

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      Thanks for the nice comment! I could really use a confidence boost (Y)

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    Congrats! That must be an amazing feeling. Enjoy and celebrate !

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    First 10 is the hardest! Now you've got this experience under your belt the next ten should come in like lightning so long as you don't rest on your laurels!

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    Big milestone. Congrats :)

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      Thanks! Everbody's so nice here!

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        Haha! I dunno, I just emphasise I guess

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    Congrats, thats huge mile stone, first customers are always hard to get

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