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Edward Cederlund

How did you get your first paying customers?

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Hi everyone 👋 Would love to hear what you did to get your first paying customers outside of your family and friends group. We’re about to roll out our product and I’m curious what has worked for you. Thanks for sharing 🙏
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Aliaksei Saskevich
I would like to tell not about my first paying customer, but about first payments I got from my pet-projects. I started my tech career with creating custom add-ons to Minecraft. After completing the first version of one of them, I started to publish it through author-content-delivery systems. But the launch is not only about writing code and publishing release. It is also about marketing and support. So I started to write on different forums, chats, groups... And after the first month of hard-working, I got my first payment.
Edward Cederlund
@asaskevich boom! 👏
Sreenatha Reddy K R
Hello Ed, I got my first paying customer way back in 2004 through odesk. Later, They renamed the platform to upwork.
Edward Cederlund
@sreenatha i remember the days of odesk! golden times. what exactly did you do on odesk to get your first customer? thanks for sharing
Udit Tehri
It was 1 January. Got my new year present
Edward Cederlund
@udittehri nice. started off the year on the right foot, congrats! you mind sharing how did you get your new year present?
Ashok Singh
through personal network connections
Edward Cederlund
Albin Aronsson
Cold reachout > demo meeting > pilot > paying
Edward Cederlund
@albin_aronsson smooth :)
Nikhil Sharma
I got my first paying client, some one of colleuge refer me for web analytics tracking and data reporting through looker studio by adding sources like MySQL, Google analytics, event tracking through GTM
Daniele Pais
I talked about new web standards and CMS systems (early stages of WP and Joomla) to clients of the wine bar I was working for a few evening a week until a guy asked me if I could convert his HTML sites to Joomla...at that time I said yes....sure....than spent countless time learning the ropes at night after work or school...it was challenging....stackoverflow was not out yet....all learnt by hit and miss and a few websites that gave some basic suggestions...it was great overall...I would do it again!
Edward Cederlund
@daniele_pais1 great side hustle! nice, thanks for sharing.
Artem Holub
It was tough, in general through pain😂
Edward Cederlund
@artem_holub_v hahah. no pain no gain uh
Andrew Apell
Listing on the Google Workspace Marketplace made users find Flookup before I had really started looking for them.
Edward Cederlund
@getflookup that's interesting. did they have to search for something specific for Flookup to pop up?
Andrew Apell
@cederlund Yes! When they searched for words that are related to data cleaning and fuzzy matching, Flookup would appear amongst the first results. All my SEO efforts built up from there.
Vladimir Nikolic
I will just be watching, as I want to know the same :) good luck on launching!
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