I believe that it's important to remember that we only have 24 hours in a day, and essential to use this time wisely by planning and organizing our activities. What are you doing to plan your day? Do you use any tool or follow specific methodologies?
Mine are: * Exceed 100 paid users for https://intribe.co
* Exceed 1000 users in total for intribe
* Execute a successful launch campaign and move out of soft launch mode
* Close out my pre-seed round
Honestly, the distractions around the house are my biggest nightmare while working from home. Even though I am a remote worker, I try to go out and work in coffee shops, and libraries as much as possible so that I am much more disciplined. What about you?
It is the thing I struggle with the most. I usually get up grab a cup of coffee and get back to work but it doesn't always do the trick for me. So what are your tactics?
I asked people what the last presentation they prepared using PowerPoint and they all said "Do you still use PowerPoint? What a shame!" :D Let me correct it this way: "What was the last presentation you prepared (eg. keynote speech, progress report, sales deck, etc.), and which presentation tool did you use?"
I often see people struggling to reach this figure, or it takes two years. I have generated around $10m selling SaaS in the last 4 years and bootstrapped everything under my SaaS marketplace PitchGround & my own SaaS FirstSales.io Today, I will share simple strategies for hitting your first $10,000 to $20,000 in MRR in less than six months. This can be applied for most online niches but works best for SaaS. 1) Build in Public on Twitter, LinkedIn & Reddit.
Refrain from building your startup in stealth mode; you are wasting so many marketing opportunities. 2) Create 5-type of content frameworks:
- Do a weekly giveaway post for your product.
- Create content behind the sign-up wall; you can only access the content if you share your email.
- Create 1x Reel per day, 2x Tweet per day, 1x Twitter Thread per week, 1x LinkedIn post per day & 1x YouTube Long form video per week. You can repurpose the reel on YouTube.
- Create Value content around product categories. For example, if you're selling a growth-hacking product, talk about different growth-hacking strategies, even if your product doesn't offer those features. Awareness is a critical part of reaching more audiences.
- Do one collaboration post each week. 3) Create a community
You can start building your community at least six months before you launch your product. As a benchmark, wait to launch your product until you hit 2k members in your community. This strategy alone can help you cross $10k in MRR within weeks of launching your product because you have already built the trust factor with your audience. 4) Narrow down your use cases & outreach.
For the first 6-12 months, narrow your use case to focusing on just 1-2 ICPs at the most, and ensure all your copy revolves around that niche. Now you can start outreaching out. Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator to narrow your ICP and scrape that data is easy. Put that data in your favorite email enrichment tool to get the email. Now is the fun part, use FirstSales.io to launch an outreach campaign. Please do not sell them your product; instead, invite them to your community; this will increase your reply rate & future conversion rate without burning leads. 5) Collaborate with a few Micro-Influencers
This is a highly underrated strategy because everyone wants that GIANT big launch. Wait to launch big. Launch your product/services MULTIPLE times with multiple micro-influencers, even if it generates as low as 5-10 customers. This adds up in no time. If you do all the above-mentioned strategies, I can guarantee you will build a $10,000 MRR to $20,000 MRR business in no time. Remember, there is no shortcut in life to hard work and producing results if you wish to choose the path of entrepreneurship. If you have any questions, then please let me know in the comments below
Why am I talking about it? Because Twitter is our Top-2 traffic source for www.makerbox.club, requiring a $0 budget. Consistency and personal brand pay off. Here're the learnings: 1. Niche down
2. Treat your Twitter profile like a product
3. Create a content matrix
4. Mix professional and personal
5. Don't spam with your product
6. Focus on your experience, not on the theory
7. Don't be a copycat
8. Connect with people
9. Be kind
10. Experiment a lot What would you add?
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I wish someone had told me how much time it would take. I was so naive when I started my company, thinking that it would be easy to get off the ground and make a name for myself. What I didn't realize until later is that there's so much work involved in building a business and so many things that can go wrong. I'm grateful for my experience now, but if I could go back and tell myself something about starting a company, it would be: "Don't expect things to go smoothly. And if you had to pivot... PIVOT!"
I've heard varying opinions on this and have my own thoughts but I'd love to hear multiple sides of the argument from the community! While you're here, you can find me on twitter here: https://twitter.com/benlkatz
Hi PH I would like to share experiences on how to get early feedback and validation when launching a new product Let's start with mine... 1. In January I created a landing page about my new product with the goal of collecting early adopters e-mails 2. I searched on LinkedIn for professionals that can benefit from my new product. In my case I looked for "conversational designers" and I obtained a list of 6 hundreds people approx.
3. I created a sequence (thanks to an automation tool) to engage with those people on LinkedIn: view profile, follow, send an invite, endorse skills and a couple of follow-up messages to request if they were interested to get early access to the new product.
4. Once they land on the landing page, I started engaging with them directly on the landing page through a widget and a conversational application that I built with my brand new no-code design studio in a few minutes. In this way I obtained the first 100 early adopters. This helped me a lot to gather feedback and improve the product before the launch scheduled on Thursday, Feb 9th. What about your experience to look for early adopters?