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🤔 COMMON MISCONCEPTION: "Personal branding is only for influencers and celebrities."

🔥 Build Your Personal Brand and Grow Your SaaS Business Today! 🚀 Don't miss out on this opportunity to take your SaaS business to the next level.

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Friends Of SaaS: As it turns out, this is what VCs really want 🤫 https://t.co/WLbmjngFBb

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Starting a business is like climbing a mountain - the hardest part is reaching the summit, which is creating something people actually want.
Once you're there, the second-hardest part is scaling that mountain of funding.

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Truth or Myth ❓
A bootstrapper
🔅 will probably buy a cheap domain name
🔅 spend a whole year learning SEO and content strategy
🔅And will only be able to scale his business with 1%

While his competitors (with money and resources) will grow exponentially in the field

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What would stop a copycat that has the money and the audience and probably the experience to steal your idea 🙃 ❓ ❓

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How would you do it as a bootstrapper, when ...
you need a UI/UX designer ?
you need a sales team ?
you need to pay for that AWS bill ?
you need to pay for ads ?

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Friends Of SaaS: Don't raise money, is what people have been telling me for years! https://t.co/XYTShC6awv

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Social media and #SEO are like planting a garden - it takes time, #patience, and a whole lot of fertilizer. But trust me, the harvest is worth it! Just don't forget to water your social media accounts and watch them grow 🌱🌞 #SocialMediaGardening #SEOgreenthumb

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Congrats to the top projects of the week! @typestack_ai @fractionalsu @friendsofsaas @joinplayroom. See their pitches on 10words https://t.co/8s84tKSG3v

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🚨Remember:🚨
⚠️You don’t have a #business unless you have a paying client.
⚠️ And you can’t really know if your product is really good, unless someone is willing to #pay for it.
#friendlyreminder #businessowner #saas #business

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Men lie, numbers don’t
🎯 Metrics give you direction at your early stages,
💸 Metrics help you negotiate with investors and raise money in later stages

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Want to boost sales❓
Do inbound marketing to attract leads. Engage & answer their Qs, show how your product meets their needs & address objections. Keep the interaction flowing to close the deal & maintain the relationship post-sale #CustomerRelationships #SalesTips

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#Tools that you can use to #analyze the behavior of the prospects to catch that first qualified #customer:
🔅 Loom: (notifications about your video views as well as who viewed it)
🔅 Hotjar: ( #behavior analytics and #feedback)
🔅 Sendbird: (live chat using a #chatbot)

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Noob vs a Builder ❓

A #noob is more likely to develop a product first and then search for #customers.

whereas a #SaaS #builder would find customers first and then create a #product.

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This is how we got our first customers
And you ❓ How did you get your first 10 customers ❓

It's called starting or making money 💸, and that's when you really can call yourself a "business owner" !

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Friends Of SaaS: How to get your first 10 customers ? https://t.co/v9wFCD2hNj

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How to talk to customers to #validate an Idea
wrong answers only ! 👇

I'll start
❌ Over try to sell or convince them of the idea's worth.

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Your #Idea is only validated when you have real #commitments

Get out there and reach out to your potential customers and people who signed up.
Ask them about their specific needs and their willingness to pay.