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Started off looking good, got our first paying customers, lot's of traffic/signups and that basically turned to nothing.
I've been stressing about how to get more customers to pay but, recently i've realized the harsh reality of were just not there yet and need to improve our product. It's nice to actually be improving the product instead of building it, really liking this stage and the next features we add should be pretty awesome to the end user.
Recently did a survey with clickinsights.io - which is an awesome survey tool for getting more feedback from your customers. On average they won't respond very well to surveys but, because this one is done through their email it generally gets higher response rate than other sources (although it does have it's limitations).
The survey was asking what features we should work on next - Shortly after I realized it doesn't matter. I didn't start making this product to compete with anyone on features, or to let customer feedback tell me what to build. I created it to innovate this industry with the vision I had for the product, not the customers who have no idea where I want to take this. Yes - We should use their feedback to cleanup the product bugs/ui mistakes but, not features. unless we somehow missed some glaring features that are majorly important to the customer.
With that being said, we need to accomplish the features that align with our vision and not worry about the small things (like our metrics that have been bugging me for the past few days). They will all get done in due time and ultimately get fixed by having a great product. Just like my signature says - Be so good they can't ignore you. That's the plan and that's the only thing we should be focused on.
So for now were just focused on improving product while also increasing traffic but, not necessarily growth in terms of revenue because our product just isn't there yet. Were about 2 months out from being where I would like to think is product market fit.
Also wrote this post on out reach which has been a huge source of traffic for us. https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/out-reach-is-hugely-important-for-your-marketing.55529/
Started off looking good, got our first paying customers, lot's of traffic/signups and that basically turned to nothing.
I've been stressing about how to get more customers to pay but, recently i've realized the harsh reality of were just not there yet and need to improve our product. It's nice to actually be improving the product instead of building it, really liking this stage and the next features we add should be pretty awesome to the end user.
Recently did a survey with clickinsights.io - which is an awesome survey tool for getting more feedback from your customers. On average they won't respond very well to surveys but, because this one is done through their email it generally gets higher response rate than other sources (although it does have it's limitations).
The survey was asking what features we should work on next - Shortly after I realized it doesn't matter. I didn't start making this product to compete with anyone on features, or to let customer feedback tell me what to build. I created it to innovate this industry with the vision I had for the product, not the customers who have no idea where I want to take this. Yes - We should use their feedback to cleanup the product bugs/ui mistakes but, not features. unless we somehow missed some glaring features that are majorly important to the customer.
With that being said, we need to accomplish the features that align with our vision and not worry about the small things (like our metrics that have been bugging me for the past few days). They will all get done in due time and ultimately get fixed by having a great product. Just like my signature says - Be so good they can't ignore you. That's the plan and that's the only thing we should be focused on.
So for now were just focused on improving product while also increasing traffic but, not necessarily growth in terms of revenue because our product just isn't there yet. Were about 2 months out from being where I would like to think is product market fit.
Also wrote this post on out reach which has been a huge source of traffic for us. https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/out-reach-is-hugely-important-for-your-marketing.55529/
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