How/Where did you find your first 1, 10 and 100 customer?

Copying it from a similar conversation. 1. Word of Mouth: Ask your friends and family to spread the word about your business and refer potential customers to you. 2. Networking: Attend conferences and events related to your industry to meet potential customers and build relationships with them. 3. Social Media: Create social media pages for your business and start engaging with people in your target market. Make sure to post regularly and create content that will engage your followers. 4. Advertising: Invest in digital marketing campaigns on platforms like Google and Facebook. This will help you reach a wider audience and increase visibility for your business. 5. Content Marketing: Create useful content related to your industry and promote it online. This will help you attract more customers who are interested in your products or services. 6. Partnerships: Try to partner with other businesses to cross-promote each other’s products or services. This will help you reach a new and larger audience.

Referral from a friend. Your first 10 customers shouldn't be those that are hardest to reach (aka should come from your network).

Agree with @leolu outreach friends and friends of friends would be my first step and outreach audience on the second step, but you'll need to start some work in advance to collect audience (email waiting list, audience on X and LinkedIn)

For my 10th customer, I utilized social media platforms and targeted advertising to reach a wider audience. This allowed me to connect with individuals who were already seeking a solution like mine.

My very first customer who was vulnerable to paying for a subscription was from a YouTube channel. I wanna to repeat it but at the international level that's why I started with a new YouTube channel for English English-speaking audiences. Feel free to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Busines... Topics are entrepreneurship, marketing, social media, product making, growth, tech, and VCs. Also would like to conduct interviews with businessmen or businesswomen to share tips and their stories. 🙂 If more people are in, it is better so we can showcase the journey to a broader audience.

The customer found me via OpenAI forum where I posted my product as a way to solve the issues of having multiple custom instructions and he started paying before everyone else. Funny thing is that I've dropped him an email to welcome him and all but he didn't respond to my messages. I'm still on my journey to my 10th customer!

Personal Network: Many businesses start by selling to friends, family, or acquaintances who believe in the product or service.

Social Media: Utilize social media platforms to create awareness. Engage with your audience, share your story, and encourage followers to try your product or service.

start with friends and friends of friends, to acquire first 10 customers.

1. Friends for Alpha Test to make sure everything works fine 2. Ads and Social Media 3. Providing free tools on the same site

personal network (family, friends and professional). Make sure they fit your product target persona. achieve product market fit with those early adopters. optimize pricing. provide referral benefits

Reddit tbh

Twitter keyword hunting. So I'd find a list of people who mentioned they struggling with X or need X and I added them to my list to engage and then finally mentioned it in the DM's after engaging for a while

I think 10 customer

Partnerships: Try to partner with other businesses to cross-promote each other’s products or services. This will help you reach a new and larger audience.

We are currently in the 0-1 stage, and our 1st customer came from LinkedIn.

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