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Jonathan Courtney

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

Oh, you're welcome, man. I'm trying to think, is there anything else? So dream 100 going to where people are just, you know, getting together and talking about the topic, just going to where your audience already is, um, thinking about things like lower, you know, high effort, low quality content options. Is there anything else?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

Like it's, if it's about how are we spending this first month generating a couple of new clients without building a big personal brand and you don't have a list, Those work really well. Those, for me, are the things that I recommend or the things that I do with people.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

Like it's, if it's about how are we spending this first month generating a couple of new clients without building a big personal brand and you don't have a list, Those work really well. Those, for me, are the things that I recommend or the things that I do with people.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

Like it's, if it's about how are we spending this first month generating a couple of new clients without building a big personal brand and you don't have a list, Those work really well. Those, for me, are the things that I recommend or the things that I do with people.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I think the Dream 100 thing... You know what I'm annoyed about? At AJ and Smart, we talk about this Dream 100 thing all the time, but it only comes back to me once every two years when somehow we've stagnated, like our revenue has stagnated, our profits are going down, and I'm like, yeah, but we're doing this and we're doing that, and I'm tweaking all these little things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I think the Dream 100 thing... You know what I'm annoyed about? At AJ and Smart, we talk about this Dream 100 thing all the time, but it only comes back to me once every two years when somehow we've stagnated, like our revenue has stagnated, our profits are going down, and I'm like, yeah, but we're doing this and we're doing that, and I'm tweaking all these little things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I think the Dream 100 thing... You know what I'm annoyed about? At AJ and Smart, we talk about this Dream 100 thing all the time, but it only comes back to me once every two years when somehow we've stagnated, like our revenue has stagnated, our profits are going down, and I'm like, yeah, but we're doing this and we're doing that, and I'm tweaking all these little things.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And you've probably heard this quote where it's like, don't be the lion that chases the rabbits or something about lions and rabbits and get the antelope instead of the rabbits. Great quote, right? But I end up looking at all the small things and trying to optimize the crap out of them. And it brings up our revenue by 1% or 2%. And then it just clicks with me. And I'm like, wait a minute.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And you've probably heard this quote where it's like, don't be the lion that chases the rabbits or something about lions and rabbits and get the antelope instead of the rabbits. Great quote, right? But I end up looking at all the small things and trying to optimize the crap out of them. And it brings up our revenue by 1% or 2%. And then it just clicks with me. And I'm like, wait a minute.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And you've probably heard this quote where it's like, don't be the lion that chases the rabbits or something about lions and rabbits and get the antelope instead of the rabbits. Great quote, right? But I end up looking at all the small things and trying to optimize the crap out of them. And it brings up our revenue by 1% or 2%. And then it just clicks with me. And I'm like, wait a minute.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

What if I just reached out to this person and we did something together? And usually that's the step function explosive growth thing that happens when I go back to the goddamn dream 100 list and just look at it again and remind myself, oh, yeah. Like, for example, I give you a clear example of this. We were thinking about, OK, we're doing our Facebook ads.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

What if I just reached out to this person and we did something together? And usually that's the step function explosive growth thing that happens when I go back to the goddamn dream 100 list and just look at it again and remind myself, oh, yeah. Like, for example, I give you a clear example of this. We were thinking about, OK, we're doing our Facebook ads.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

What if I just reached out to this person and we did something together? And usually that's the step function explosive growth thing that happens when I go back to the goddamn dream 100 list and just look at it again and remind myself, oh, yeah. Like, for example, I give you a clear example of this. We were thinking about, OK, we're doing our Facebook ads.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

We're doing all this other stuff where, you know, we're tweaking the funnel in all these little ways. And we're like, but how... Looking at the email list, where did this huge bump come from? Like, that's basically 80% of the whole year. And then we were like, oh, we did a webinar with this partner. Like, we did a webinar for this person's list. Why the...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

We're doing all this other stuff where, you know, we're tweaking the funnel in all these little ways. And we're like, but how... Looking at the email list, where did this huge bump come from? Like, that's basically 80% of the whole year. And then we were like, oh, we did a webinar with this partner. Like, we did a webinar for this person's list. Why the...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

We're doing all this other stuff where, you know, we're tweaking the funnel in all these little ways. And we're like, but how... Looking at the email list, where did this huge bump come from? Like, that's basically 80% of the whole year. And then we were like, oh, we did a webinar with this partner. Like, we did a webinar for this person's list. Why the...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

fuck, am I not doing a webinar with this person again then? It's because we forget how it's just still high. The hardest thing about running a business is trying to discern what's high leverage and what's just like menial tasks that feel good but do nothing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

fuck, am I not doing a webinar with this person again then? It's because we forget how it's just still high. The hardest thing about running a business is trying to discern what's high leverage and what's just like menial tasks that feel good but do nothing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

fuck, am I not doing a webinar with this person again then? It's because we forget how it's just still high. The hardest thing about running a business is trying to discern what's high leverage and what's just like menial tasks that feel good but do nothing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And honestly, just starting a business and focusing on something like Dream 100, focusing on something like being in the place where your customers are, these are like hyper high leverage things to do and to be good at.