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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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Vladimir Nikolic
I will just be watching, as I want to know the same :) good luck on launching!
Robert Kowalski
our network
Karol Koronowicz
For me it's always organic traffic from Google, but I think it's not a good idea if you have something different that people are not looking for.
Edward Cederlund
@koronowicz your SEO must be really good!
Zaenal Arifin
My co-worker's friend. She refer me to her.
Karthik Tatikonda
Sharing on Communities and twitter
Edward Cederlund
@karthik_tatikonda what did you share that you think worked best?
Shamnad Sherief
Got 300 for installing an Operating System in a shop. This was my first income.
Brian Hearn
First (and so far only) paying customer was last month. Someone emailed me asking for a feature in my (free/ad supported) app. I had dismissed the feature because it was outside of my expected target market but as it wasn't much work (under a day) I added it. Took me longer to integrate with the Google Play store than add the feature! Emailed him back when it was released and he bought it.
Edward Cederlund
@brian_hearn wow nice! what was the feature?
Brian Hearn
@cederlund Free version saves ogg files (think mp3 but with no licensing issues). The feature request was to save as a midi file (think note data so it can be manipulated in a "proper" music program).
Umar | SaaS Guy
From online communities especially Quora & Reddit.
Edward Cederlund
@heyumarkhan interesting. heard many do Reddit to engage with communities that share similar interests, build trust, and then convert if their product resonates with people. do you mind sharing what exactly you did on both Reddit and Quora to get your first paying customers? thanks
Richart Ruddie
I just shared this on a growth hacker tv interview and it was from Craigslist! Free to advertise still to this day!
Jamie Langskov
Peer recommendation from someone who knew someone who could benefit from my services.
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