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Where do you find your first paying customer?

A lot of side hustle stall at the phase where it's like, I've got this idea.

I've talked to my friends about it.

My friends love it.

But how do you go from free samples or just showing off a website to your

friends to the first strangers dollars? It's not about social reach. It's about putting the product

where the buying already happens. We have this whole series first $1,000 where we're like,

how does somebody go from idea to income? But for many of our side hustlers, many of our listeners out

there,

they really struggle with finding their first paying customer. And if you haven't had this

experience of selling something to a stranger or finding your first customer that's not one

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