How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details)

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 534: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) answer the question, “How did you get your first 100 customers?” In this episode, they'll share you 11 methods. No more small boy spreadsheets, build your business on the free HubSpot CRM: https://mfmpod.link/hrd — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Throw an event method (6:00) The floor-to-floor method (12:30) Magnet method (14:00) "Made to Stick" method (19:00) The no risk offer (25:00) Viral content (30:00) Use the personal story (35:00) Pissing in the pond (37:00) Booth babes method (44:30) Launchpad method (48:30) The David Blaine method — Links: • The Anti-MBA - https://www.theantimba.com/ • Neville Medhora’s blog on Hustle Con - https://www.nevblog.com/hustlecon-2014/ • Ryan Hoover in Fast Company - http://tinyurl.com/muva968r — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	And then we were like, all right, fine, deals, like that's, you know, this business was so
0:03.2	freaking hard, like let's try this. And in the end, I don't think it ever ended up working.
0:06.8	But you got the customers, and that's the point of the episode.
0:09.2	Yeah, we got.
0:10.4	Exactly. The subsequent failure is irrelevant, okay?
0:13.7	Yeah.
0:14.7	I feel like I can rude the world.
0:16.7	I know I could be what I want to.
0:18.9	I put my all in it like no days off on the road. All right, we're live.
0:24.0	Sean, we're going to do a Q&A session today.
0:25.8	We got a bunch of questions.
0:26.9	I have a feeling we're going to spend most of the time on one question.
0:29.5	But the question is, how did you get your first 100 customers
0:32.2	in your businesses and what are the best
0:33.5	ways that you've heard of?
0:34.8	So I'll ask you, Sean, but I personally have grown, I think five things to a million to 10 million in revenue. I've grown one thing to well north of 10 million in revenue
0:46.3	multi million dollars per month. I've grown a bunch of stuff to thousands of users. I've grown a bunch of stuff to
0:52.3	hundreds of thousands and I've grown one thing to millions and we'll go through examples and you've done the same. How many did Bibo have or Blab?
1:01.0	Blab had like 4 million users. Yeah, basically we've done this a bunch of different times and a bunch of different ways and so when we get this question, you know, how did you get your first hundred customers? I actually really like this question. This is a very different question than like you know what's your advice? It's like forget the advice. Let me tell you literally what I did when it comes to how we grew our businesses at the very, very start.
1:23.4	Because if you're at the start, it doesn't matter what somebody did
1:27.0	to go to get to 10 million in revenue.
1:28.9	What matters is how they got to $10 in revenue?
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