What has worked for you in landing your first few customers? We've just launched a public beta with a couple of initial customers and looking to onboard more. I'm curious what worked for others, especially in b2b saas space.
P.S. Apologies if this topic has already been explored but I haven't found anything relevant.
💡 Early partnerships with other startups or top niche companies for testing and validating our approach worked incredibly well for us. Especially if your product has free plans or trials that you can extend for some time in favor of getting actionable insights.
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Landed first customers via: Leveraged LinkedIn outreach to target niche industry leaders, offered free 14-day trials with personalized onboarding. Secured 20+ clients in 3 months through this mix, with a 15% conversion rate from demo requests. Focused on solving specific pain points in SaaS onboarding workflows.
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I asked a couple of my friends running their own startups for feedback of our product ( https://roiculture.com ). Eventually, they liked it and subscribed!
We're a tutoring platform, Think Tutor, so we came in with some existing clients and began to transition them over. It's difficult to develop your first new customers through your platform though!
I got my first client through a Social Media launch. Posted https://nichewebsitebuilder.com/ on PH today and got two additional users.
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@dmitry_kalinchenko We have created community in Facebook and created some heads-up about the product we going to launch which helped us to get users when we launch the product. https://creptel.com/musicians
You raised a good question, we started testing our service with our friends and acquaintances, then moved on to social networks and today we opened the hunt https://www.producthunt.com/post... In six months, we have increased our community to 1,500 users. Social networks give us more growth than just advertising. I hope you will also succeed
Got our first customers through word of mouth, and try to link on Medium articles too. After that, just using product hunt and twitter accounts for the first real beta testers before full scale marketing. https://www.producthunt.com/post...
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Landed first customers via: Leveraged LinkedIn outreach to target niche industry leaders, offered free 14-day trials with personalized onboarding. Secured 20+ clients in 3 months through this mix, with a 15% conversion rate from demo requests. Focused on solving specific pain points in SaaS onboarding workflows.
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