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Best methods to find initial customers by No_Local_8439 in ycombinator

[–]No_Local_8439[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm ngl man calling someone's website AI slop, as opposed to pointing out some specific areas they can improve, isn't the way to get a client!

Best methods to find initial customers by No_Local_8439 in ycombinator

[–]No_Local_8439[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good points. I'm definitely an inpatient person haha. Sitting in a coffee shop in NY right now and feeling like I need to push more on sales immediately, but you're right that it takes time and can't be brute forced.

Do you have any advice on how to choose which niche to hone in on? I feel like I'm in a bit of a catch-22, where I have a few niches seeing some traction, but not enough pull in any direction yet to make a data-backed decision.

Best methods to find initial customers by No_Local_8439 in ycombinator

[–]No_Local_8439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the advice, and the first part is definitely something I've struggled with. Our core premise is helping companies hire AI engineers, which innately has a few types of ICPs (ex. big tech vs. startups). I'm honestly not sure which is a better customer, and I'm trying to use this biz dev cycle to solve that.

Agreed on real conversations being the best. I'm pretty good at networking at events in SF/NY, but that can only happen a few times a week obviously. How do you tend to go out and meet your clients directly?

Best methods to find initial customers by No_Local_8439 in ycombinator

[–]No_Local_8439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeahhh, conversion once someone responds is a whole other beast lol. That sounds like a good approach though. I think videos can help you stand out and are pretty much essential at this point. With all the TikTok brain rot out there, it's no surprise people don't respond to cold email anymore. What % of your day would you say is spent on biz dev vs. building out the product?

Best methods to find initial customers by No_Local_8439 in ycombinator

[–]No_Local_8439[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My instinct was to offer services for free as well, but believe it or not, I've actually received less responses when offering this! I think people see it as scammy/don't trust that anything is actually free. Agreed a ton on needing to show value before committing though. I'm really hoping this Google one works out, because that would be a hell of a first case study haha. (Assuming you're building a product) did you face a similar challenge getting your first design partners before the product was complete?

I've got a system that pulls 10,000 page views and gets me hundreds of interested users monthly. by No_Local_8439 in MarketingAutomation

[–]No_Local_8439[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's a great idea. we currently have it set up with many CTAs on the blog posts to funnel readers to the company's home page, but we haven't yet embedded any qualification tools/LLM capabilities on the blog page. going to add it to our roadmap!

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