How I got my first paying customers

Getting the first customer and more importantly, the first paying customer is always a hot topic. Frankly, it's not something I'm good at, but at least for TeamCal, I managed to come up with a good solution.

Twelve customers of my previous side project wrote me that they are looking for something else and GANTTplanner is not what they need. I wrote them about my idea of TeamCal and that I will contact them once I have the initial product ready. I didn't do anything for one and a half years, so I didn't expect any positive results when I finally built TeamCal and wrote them. To my surprise, eight of those people tried TeamCal and some even signed-up for a paid subscription. What I like to add is that I wrote each of them an individual email referencing their previous email - no boilerplate text.

Even if you don't have a previous product, service or mailing list, I think this approach is still valuable. Search for forum posts, tweets, and other places and write those people that you are working on a solution and if you can contact them once ready.

My next update will be about my experience with Google Ads. I received a $150 voucher from Google and decided to spent in on ads for TeamCal :)