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How do we grow from here. Does spending money on paid marketing work for SaaS early stage?
Hello SaaS Founders,
What is your best customer acquisition channel from where you get the most number of leads/customers?
Has paid marketing worked for you initially? If yes, what are some ways to test whether a paid channel is working or not?
What SaaS marketplaces are you listed on (if at all), and which one do you like the most?
Any other advice on best practices or something that...
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@anil_meena21 runs a community for no-code building. He puts out new tutorials every week and also an AMA on Thursdays.
nocode.pensil.in
Did you build anything using no-code tools?
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Awesome product and amazing team. Cannot wait to have our next virtual get together on Thursday....(we usually have it on fridays, but....) okay that was a bad attempt at a bad dad joke.
But Thursday is super awesome!
Thursday
Where remote teams do their socials, no sign up required
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Why decline? I don't see a harm in adding most of the connection requests i get.
You never know when/who might be helpful during our startup journey.
What do you do with new LinkedIn connections?
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We got an inbound query on LinkedIn from the founder of another startup. He wanted to use our platform for something we had not even thought of.
Finalized commercials on the first call.
But this was after months of no paid customers.
How did you acquire your first paid customer and what did you learn from it?
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Rollercoaster
Describe in 1 word how it is to be a startuper.
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Afghanistan.
I like to think of myself as a geopolitics nerd. Would love to see firsthand the historic events unfolding there these days.
What country do you want to visit and why?
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Rejection, failure is difficult to process, but they are not forever. I've been rejected a tonne and I've had more failures than I can recall.
The way i look at it is this - while building a company (or anything for that matter), it is a given that there will be ups and downs - wins and failures.
I imagine the 'feeling' of 'win' or 'failure' to be cars driving on a highway and i imagine...
How do you handle faliure?
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Hello Richard
Suri here from Gurgaon, India. Learning so much from this community. :)
Where is everyone from?
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Looks awesome! Will definitely take the product for a ride! Congrats @jgrenzemann ! 🚀🚀🚀
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Hey Arjun, Found this today - https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/its-showtime-how-live-commerce-is-transforming-the-shopping-experience
E-commerce is definitely going to be live and online in the future.
Do you think live streaming is the new future of E-Commerce?
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We are currently in the process of completely overhauling our website. So facing this these days. Will you review our new design? Might give you some idea about where we are struggling. Also i'll get your feedback.
What's the hardest part about creating a landing page for you? 🤬
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Boiling down our value prop into an attractive copy was a challenge. Finding the right graphics that go along with the copy/message also took time.
What's the hardest part about creating a landing page for you? 🤬
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Good quality firestone and knife.
You're on an uninhabited island with nothing except 2 things that you brought with you. What is it?
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In the same boat. We are going to launch on PH soon. Advise from PH folks would be really appreciated.
What are the 3 things you wish you knew before you launched your product?
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Hi Arvid, my question is - at what point should one monetise SaaS. We are building a product that users seem to love. We have kept it freemium at this point. Should we focus on acquiring more and more users or should we focus on building for the users who are already paying/or willing to pay.
I built and sold a successful SaaS, published two books, and help founders help themselves. AMA 👇
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After a few of them, one develops internal mechanism to cope. The only way to get past rejections is to face them head-on and keep your head high and understand that you are one step closer to a yes. Every successful person has faced rejection at one point or the other. All of us are ducks that look calm on the surface but paddling furiously inside the water. It's a part of the game.
How do you cope with the fear of rejection?
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We started working on pensil.in around July 2020 and registered it in Dec '20 - Delaware C-Corp
When did you register your business?
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