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First 5 Customers For SaaS Product (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by imsurajkadam@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space
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FINALLY! <3

I know for most of you, it is quite normal and something okay, and even for me as well, I have a bigger goal with this SaaS product as well.

I have been building SubtitleO.com since June, and it took a very long time for me because of some initial issues with the developers, new things in the market, etc. But I sorted that out by building a very strong team with people I can trust and who can go a long way with me.

Getting the first 5 customers is a really great validation that tells me that I am on the right track with this project.

I was nervous because we started getting 1000+ free users signed up to our platform but the conversion rate was low.

The reason that I have found is:

not having a clear idea of what they are getting in the paid plan not having added bonuses of features in the pro plan

And we are working on it with a super keen interest now. Hopefully, we are going to see a good amount of conversion rate because all the feedback that we have got till now is not just good, but it is GREAT!

The things that we have done till now with SubtitleO for marketing:

SEO blogs

Email marketing to the free users

Listings on AI websites

Creating shorts for social media

Linkedin outreach

Google Ads

Facebook Ads (turned off because of super high CPC)

We will need to focus more on content marketing and social media content as our target audience is waiting for us there.

Did I miss anything? Please ask me in the comments and I will be happy to talk about it. Have suggestions? Please have a talk.

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[–] TheUncommonOfUncommo@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

AMAZING! Kudos to you and your team!

I am also building a SaaS, almost done MVP dev. but I can totally imagine how good that must feel to get first few customers.

Regarding the blogging, did you create your own article website? Or write for an existing place?

I literally have zero clue about the blogging part of things for marketing the business - feel free to educate me haha.

But I have been hearing a LOT of really good stuff about the SEO blogging being super effective...

[–] imsurajkadam@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! I am into SEO for more than 7 years now and that's what makes it easy for me. It's the most cost effective, long term and BEST way to get traffic.

[–] TheUncommonOfUncommo@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Ok so blogging on your own site? Just pushing out blogs every day yeah?

[–] klijakub@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Great job!

What SEO tricks did you make?

[–] imsurajkadam@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

veed io is the best example of how to do SEO for SaaS

[–] imsurajkadam@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

We are currently making the information content for the target audience. Done with that for now, but the next thing that we will focus on are:

comparison articles review articles and some great programmatic seo

[–] EmploymentDefiant153@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Congrats! Can you expand more on your LinkedIn Outreach strategy and execution? Like who you reached out to/your specific message/ask of the people? Was it pretty manual at first? Thanks so much in advance!

[–] FrenchMajesty@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Congrats ! Which of those five channels have your five paid customers come from ?