How did you get your first paying customers?

Had a 50% discount on my very first product and after promoting this ( by writing an article on Medium ) , I got my first customer quickly. So a discount worked for me

Twitter DMs Cold emails Brand partnerships are our biggest source

Founder led cold email to prospects

Well, I guess most get first-paying customers from networks. I would say it's better to go hard sell to people you do not know, this is a skill that every startup needs to learn. Here 3 simple ways you find them * Go to startup networking events/marketing meetups to find those early adopters * Write cold emails and LinkedIn messages asking people to try and buy * Keep listing on sites and keep improving your SEO. Keep writing FAQs till you get discovered for something unique your early customers want to solve. It's simple to write but super hard to execute. Once you overcome to the initial hurdles the flywheel moves and as you iterate it starts spinning faster Don't sell to people whose problems you cannot solve it will kill your energy and ability to move faster.

I started a whole podcast about this exact topic! It's called the First Customers podcast. I've learned that some of the most successful companies take time to connect with their target audience and build trust within the community they aim to serve with their product or service. After learning from the community, they launch with their messaging, product features, or service structure right on target. To learn about the stories, sales strategies, and tactics of other founders and entrepreneurs listen to the show: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@firstcu... Podcast Platforms: https://anchor.fm/first-customers

He found Twinr organically and setup a demo with us. After the demo he was convinced and purchased a subscription.

I literally walked door to door to speak with business owners.

We read the book TRACTION and started taking notes from there. So far we've... - Launched our own website - Launched our own blog - Worked on SEO - Got our social accounts setup (DMs) - Cold emails 6 months after launching, we got our first paying customer.

I'm impressed how no one wrote ProductHunt 😂 Well, for Collabwriting we've got our first 10 paying customers by launching on ProductHunt. ➜ We were #3 product of the day ➜ We've made an irresistible short-lived Lifetime Deal Offer ➜ We've tested a lot beforehand our pricing, messaging & value proposition ➜ We've only launched our MVP Product launching platforms give you a spike in visitors. So for us the main goal was to test if anyone would be interested in paying for our MVP and the bigger vision. Don't hesitate to create a great offer for your early adopters. For us the interviews alone with our first paying customers, were one of the best things that happened since we started 😄

I would like to tell not about my first paying customer, but about first payments I got from my pet-projects. I started my tech career with creating custom add-ons to Minecraft. After completing the first version of one of them, I started to publish it through author-content-delivery systems. But the launch is not only about writing code and publishing release. It is also about marketing and support. So I started to write on different forums, chats, groups... And after the first month of hard-working, I got my first payment.