Start of Week 4!
We're closing in on a month, and things are starting to get pretty real. We’ve learned a lot so far, but one tough lesson is that habits have to change when you don’t have a stable income (how did I ever think spending $7 on an iced coffee was okay?). Because of this, we’re making a big push to sell Whowasat this week.
We created a Telegram bot that scrapes every member of public groups into a CSV and then blasts them a message. For the various TOKEN2049 groups, this resulted in a mailing list of 17K. We’re hopeful that those will convert into at least 100-200 customers. But we will be celebrating with some In-and-Out (somehow our favorite restaurant in all of Texas) if we get 5.
Staying honest, we're still building out a new product this week. The idea is called Flare, a platform that simplifies the process of sending out gift cards in return for connecting on calls. The background behind this is a call I had with a potential vendor pitching us a marketing service a few months ago. When I pushed back on the pricing, they countered with a simple fact: the average company spends over $1000 to get on a single call with a prospective customer. This got me thinking—what if we could condense all that spend? Instead of spending all this money to connect on a call, you can send a link to your calendar. They book a time, and automatically after the call, you issue them an Amazon gift card. This would be applicable for both B2B sales, market research, and voice-of-the-customer calls.
So far, we aren’t too far into it yet, but we made a quick landing page. As always, looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Happy Monday, and let’s have ourselves a week!
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