How do you recruit early adopters for your product?
Michele Pomposo
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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? 💡
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Haley Ranae' Currie@haley_ranae_currie
Awesome very smart
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@haley_ranae_currie thank you! 🙏🏼
what is the part you liked the most?
@haley_ranae_currie Hey Haley, I'm Michele's co-maker - do you mind checking out what we've launched today and let us know your thoughts? cheers https://www.producthunt.com/post...
I like it! what about the follow up?
@matteoaliotta1 with the first message I briefly introduce myself and my startup.
Second message I offered them a sneak peek of the design studio.
Only when they showed interest after the second message, I shared with them the landing page URL
@matteoaliotta1 @michelepomposo How did you measure "showed interest"? Was it those who opened or clicked some link or were you asking them to reply back?
Your sharing is so helpful for me and my snake game project!
@littlepunch brilliant!
could you please share a little bit more about your project?
@littlepunch hey Colton, Jovana here. I'm Michele's co-maker. Do you mind checking out what we've launched today - open-source no-code Chatbot Building platform - and letting us know your thoughts? cheers
@littlepunch Hey, your game looks amazing! How might we be able to help you? What sort of advice are you looking for?
We have our own database of emails that we use. But, in general, your steps are correct. We are also looking for potential customers at Linkedin and ask them to give feedback about our beta version.
@andrii_osce any tip to share on how to build a good db of mails?
@michelepomposo There are too many tips, too long to describe :) The simplest thing is to use third-party CRMs.
Great content! I just finished the development of EmbedQuiz.com and trying to get my first users.
This sounds like great solution, I'm going to try something similar!
@aghhelmut cool! could you please share with me a link of your product?
@michelepomposo Of course! Unfortunately ProductHunt doesn't let me share links in the comments so I DM you on Twitter!
Awesome! Over what period did you send your initial outreach over LinkedIn? I've been experimenting with it a lil lately, but don't want to get my profile flagged for spam! I read that it's one risk of this method (but it could also just be tales from low-quality untargeted mass outreach campaigns).
Thanks for sharing!!
@barneelloyd in a couple of weeks!
i was already quite active on the platform in terms of engagement and direct messages
if you start from scratch it's better to go slower ;-)
@barneelloyd hey Barnee, Jovana here. I'm Michele's co-maker. Do you mind checking out what we've launched today - open-source no-code Chatbot Building platform - and letting us know your thoughts? cheers
Your launching it's going to help Creator s and marketeers to gather feed back and improve the product
@mosh_malcom for sure! have you already had the opportunity to try out the new chatbot design studio?
nice and impressive 👌
@naveed_rehman thank you Naveed 🙏🏼 what's the part you liked the most?
@naveed_rehman absolutely! I also personally like the Building in Public section of Indie Hackers 😍 BTW would you like to try the Chatbot Design Studio?
It's hards to predict 💯how a landing site helps in engaging them directly to the page though a widget and a conversational application which brings as to 100 early adopters. Which helps to garther feed back and improves products..
@mosh_malcom it always a matter to experiment and perform some A/B testing. Ping me if you need some help with the setup 😉
So smart! Good Work!
@aimanftri thx! welcome to PH 😎 what has motivated you to join this wonderful community?
Interesting workflow. Constant engagement is key. There is a fine line between contacting potential early adopters introducing an opportunity and spamming.
Thus your process seems to take care most of these.
The numbers you quoted are solid as well- 100 early adopters was a great start.
If I may suggest an improvement; You can use tools to augment/enhance your search on media (I am referring to step 2 on your list), such as Audiosense for twitter, to easily identify and curate potential adopters (thus expanding your search group on twitter as well).
The more aligned to your interests the target group is, the better chances of converting those who land on your page to early adopters.
Naturally the engagement stage (step 4 on your list) is equally important and judging by the numbers, it seems that you have done a good job there.
@apollon440 thank you so much for your tips! i was actually looking for an automation tool on twitter 🤩
Sounds amazing! What tool did you use to automate engagement with people on LinkedIn, if you don't mind me asking?
@yulia_mamonova dripify. There is a 7 days free trial. I also asked for an extension and, in my case, it worked
My early adopter method is an upcoming page for my next app https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
@nitin_p cool! I also though to this, but it was too late in my case since Ship was not available anymore. II just did a teaser page here on PH and it is working pretty well. I just passed 100+ followers a few minutes ago. You can check it here: https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
ps: are you also using whatsapp for your newsletter? i just subscribed to your upcoming page
@michelepomposo Thanks for subscribing. No I am not using WhatsApp in newsletters. I am building a marketplace that basically brings newsletter creators and advertisers together.
I usually create brief introduction to the product and try to get response from customer if he needed it
It can be presentation in the conference or ONLINE
Thanks @michelepomposo for sharing. We took a bit more networking approach to it by inviting 10 friends/colleagues to review and critique an early wire frame for the design of www.Levelfields.ai, an investment research application that uses AI to break down the barriers to investment research.
I asked every person initially interested to name and invite 5 other people and did one on one interviews with all of them to gather feedback.
I asked each of them to also name 3 people who might be interested and I carried out individual discussions with each.
When we were done with the interviews, we had a decent list to keep informed of our product.
When we launched the beta product, we asked them to signup and buy a subscription. Those who didn't we just gave free access to.
In this way we gathered a lot of feedback prior to building the actual product which saved time on UX studies.
Hi Michele, great content! Thanks. Could you share the messages you sent to the prospects?
I am trying cold email atm to reach CEO's but maybe your linkedin approach would be better.
Let me know.
We also have created a landing page for early adopters and promoted it via tons of resources: from Betalist to ProductHunt. https://senseapp.ai
But one thing we took at risk to add was an after-submit survey. But it worked well! Using Typeform we achieved almost 75% of completion, which we couldn't expect! Of course we received tons of valuable information for our future customer development.
Curious to hear what B2C products have done on this very topic.
Hi Michele, great share! I have follow up questions
1. Did you find 600 people manually yourself? Without paying for emails or anything?
2. What automation tool did you use to create a sequence? That would be really useful.
We have launched a marketplace for people to rent and lend items from each other. We leverage platforms like Facebook Marketplace.
I was reading the book TRACTION and started taking notes from there. 6 months after launching, we got our first paying customer.
good strategy,worth following.