How did you acquire your first paid customer and what did you learn from it?

I was approaching creators to try Airschool.com. I think after 50 cold emails, one creator agreed to try and I made my first dollar too.

My first paid customer was from one of my Reddit DM's. But it takes so much time to find the first paid customer.

I am still working on getting my first paid customer for https://url.cafe [URL Shortener]. Right now I have bing ads and I am planning to get in touch with some digital marketers.

My story is rather simple. Someone liked what I was wearing and I told them I made it. Word of mouth is evergreen.

I began mailing design and consulting services to my friends. I started out sending an email with a questioning, open-ended subject line like "Do you need a logo?" or "How can I help you with designing your website?" Many of them ignored the mail, but others replied and asked what their options were.

Through social media, Facebook and Instagram particularly :)

I made Facebook ads to acquire customer from all over INDIA. I learnt that it takes time to build trusted customer

great

For us, it was through contacts and was close to 'free'. Gained lots of learnings - regarding product needs, use cases etc.

I was like wow, God is in control and about making it for me. This is real OMG