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Jonathan Courtney

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

Product Hunt is a website which you could do a partnership with. So yes, Product Hunt.

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

Theoretically, it can be people or companies. It's only worth putting a company there if you think that there's something you could potentially do with that company. For example, if that company has a podcast, which would also have that audience. So I would say it's worth it at least for this first pass to put Product Hunt on there.

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

Theoretically, it can be people or companies. It's only worth putting a company there if you think that there's something you could potentially do with that company. For example, if that company has a podcast, which would also have that audience. So I would say it's worth it at least for this first pass to put Product Hunt on there.

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

Theoretically, it can be people or companies. It's only worth putting a company there if you think that there's something you could potentially do with that company. For example, if that company has a podcast, which would also have that audience. So I would say it's worth it at least for this first pass to put Product Hunt on there.

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

I would also put like, okay, thinking about my city, looking at different meetups, finding, oh, there's an entrepreneur's organization meetup happening every Thursday in the city. And so I'm going to figure out who runs that. And I would put them in the list as well. How can they put me in front of those people? That would be something I'm thinking about.

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

I would also put like, okay, thinking about my city, looking at different meetups, finding, oh, there's an entrepreneur's organization meetup happening every Thursday in the city. And so I'm going to figure out who runs that. And I would put them in the list as well. How can they put me in front of those people? That would be something I'm thinking about.

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

I would also put like, okay, thinking about my city, looking at different meetups, finding, oh, there's an entrepreneur's organization meetup happening every Thursday in the city. And so I'm going to figure out who runs that. And I would put them in the list as well. How can they put me in front of those people? That would be something I'm thinking about.

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

So step one is just making a list of people or organizations or meetups or like containers where the people you want to work with are already being talked to or already being interacted with and are already gathering essentially.

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

So step one is just making a list of people or organizations or meetups or like containers where the people you want to work with are already being talked to or already being interacted with and are already gathering essentially.

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

So step one is just making a list of people or organizations or meetups or like containers where the people you want to work with are already being talked to or already being interacted with and are already gathering essentially.

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

So this is like step one. Now you have a list of people that might be able to like massively... It might be that contacting one of these people gets you more leads or gets you more traffic than doing all of the other stuff, like doing all the social media stuff and doing all the other things you could be doing.

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

So this is like step one. Now you have a list of people that might be able to like massively... It might be that contacting one of these people gets you more leads or gets you more traffic than doing all of the other stuff, like doing all the social media stuff and doing all the other things you could be doing.

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

So this is like step one. Now you have a list of people that might be able to like massively... It might be that contacting one of these people gets you more leads or gets you more traffic than doing all of the other stuff, like doing all the social media stuff and doing all the other things you could be doing.

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

So for example, let's say someone is thinking, okay, out of this list, I've made a list of 100. By the way, a lot of people just do 10. A lot of people just do 20. Now your next step is figuring out what could I do or what could I offer this person or organization

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

So for example, let's say someone is thinking, okay, out of this list, I've made a list of 100. By the way, a lot of people just do 10. A lot of people just do 20. Now your next step is figuring out what could I do or what could I offer this person or organization

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

So for example, let's say someone is thinking, okay, out of this list, I've made a list of 100. By the way, a lot of people just do 10. A lot of people just do 20. Now your next step is figuring out what could I do or what could I offer this person or organization

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

That would put me in front of their audience or that would somehow expose me to their audience, but would also give them a lot of value. Like very simple question in your mind, like what can I do to either have a partnership with them or give them value? So they put me in front of the audience. One option is paying them. So I'll give you an example.

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

That would put me in front of their audience or that would somehow expose me to their audience, but would also give them a lot of value. Like very simple question in your mind, like what can I do to either have a partnership with them or give them value? So they put me in front of the audience. One option is paying them. So I'll give you an example.

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

That would put me in front of their audience or that would somehow expose me to their audience, but would also give them a lot of value. Like very simple question in your mind, like what can I do to either have a partnership with them or give them value? So they put me in front of the audience. One option is paying them. So I'll give you an example.

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

Early on in my company's history, I realized a lot of our audience is reading Daring Fireball, John Gruber's website. And so I just straight up paid for an ad on his blog and it got us a crap ton of traffic. So that was just like a paid way of doing it. A second example is...