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Imed Radhouani
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What's the worst advice you've ever gotten about marketing your product?
... post. A few comments from friends. Zero customers. One day I got tired. I posted something messy. No structure. Just a story about a deal we lost because ChatGPT had wrong info about our SOC2 status. It was
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. It was specific. It had nothing to do with "consistency." That post got 40,000 views. Seven people DM'd me asking to try the product. One of them became our biggest customer. The "consistency" advice was safe. It was easy ... ... with people who could have helped shape it. The "don't show until it's polished" advice comes from a good place don't ship broken stuff. But it gets interpreted as "hide until perfect." And perfect never comes.
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