a single source, nothing corroborates it
Over-serve the first ten into evangelists
Set out to leave the earliest customers surprised by how responsive you are, acting on input from a group small enough to answer personally. The explicit goal is not retention but conversion into people who recommend you, which is the only distribution available before there is a brand.
The method
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Over-serve your first handful of customers to the point of surprising them, with the explicit goal of converting each one into an evangelist.
What it returned
Zue set out to make the first ten Pegasus buyers overwhelmed by how responsive he was, listening to and acting on input from his single early customer.
Sources
- The Horse Finally Learns to FlyCory Zue · coryzue.com · This Month’s Goals · 2019-07-01
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
More in word of mouth
- Check word of mouth exists before you build8 unconnected · contested
- Turn buyers into fans instead of buying ads6 unconnected
- Show up in person where your readers are5 unconnected
- Make the second user arrive with the first5 unconnected
- Answer support as if it were the sales channel4 unconnected
- Give the hardest customers your hours4 unconnected