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  1. zander1983

    First LinkedIn message after connecting with prospect

    MARKETING 
    This is a follow up to the thread MARKETING - Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers, which details my long and painful journey to getting just ONE sale. In the end my email campaign, sent to roughly 2,000 people, got no replies. However, I did have success through LinkedIn and am...
  2. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Thanks, i'll check out this book. In the end, one of the companies i'd been approaching reached out to me, and Ive a meeting in a week about exclusive licensing or acquiring (their words). I'll keep this thread updated.
  3. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Thanks Andy, this is savage advice again. Im going to take a few days off this but post here again with what I did, and what results i got.
  4. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Yeah thats the plan, Im going to take a few days off this project - trying to buy a home at the mo - and come back and post here with what I did and the results.
  5. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Thanks Andy, you've been a great help. I slowly realised this, that pharma companies want everything proprietary. In fact, I spend a long time working on "standardisation" across machines so that experiments are reproducable. This seemed like a great idea to me. Turns out, pharma companies dont...
  6. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Thanks, very thorough. You know what would give me the motivation? Making a sale. This has been live since 2018 with 5,000 or so signed up users. Guess how many upgraded? 0. Thats why Ive pivoted to B to B via a library integration. But this isnt a case of me giving up at the first hurdle, this...
  7. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Heres a screenshot. Now you mention it, I dont post anything on LinkedIn. An issue I have is I work fulltime and my CEO in the past commented negatively when I changed my title to CEO of [my app] Below this is just my resume with the various different places Ive worked.
  8. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Oh the product is definitely a major problem - it simply doesnt solve a big enough problem. I built it whilst turning a blind eye to sales/what the problem was.
  9. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Thanks for all the replies. If I told ye how much time I've spent on this project (years), I'd be laughed out of the room. Its time for me to can this and move on to something new. If its this hard to make a sale, the product simply doesnt solve a big enough problem.
  10. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    I agree with your summary, what I have is a vitamin - I know that and now just want to get something - anything - for it and not have it being a complete waste of time.
  11. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Fair enough but these are large pharma companies. Who would I call?
  12. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    You call what I've done barely trying?
  13. zander1983

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Hi I posted before about software I developed that allows people to analyse flow cytometry experiments in their browser. Its extremely niche and at this point Im trying to just make something from it, I'd be happy with 500 euro a month. I've tried different business models for the software...
  14. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Hey I just saw this reply, really nice advice here. Problem for me is I have a partner and we're expecting our first child. So renting the spare room isnt an option. Other issue Im having is I pay myself 55k out of the 92k (I got sick of handing the Irish government nearly 40k in income tax...
  15. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Im took old to be living with strangers! Renting a room in Dublin is insane. You can easily charge 1,000 euro per room. The interest rate would be 3%
  16. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    I look at it in 10 years chunks. At that lens, up. Even year on year I think they will keep going up - theres mountains of regulations and bureaucracy to go through to build something in Ireland, so demand will continue outstrip supply. My parents wanted to put a Veelux window in - they had to...
  17. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Is it that much better elsewhere? Where did you go?
  18. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Difficult for me to leave Dublin, have a gf here, a good job (After 2 years of remote working I'd hate to go back to it). I understand that houses are overpriced. So isn't it an opportunity? If you can afford 2 (which I can), you can rent 1. Regarding passive income and starting a business...
  19. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Yes houses here are overpriced, and they will become more and more overpriced, for many decades to come - so its still a great investment. Ireland is so mired in bureaucracy thats theres simply no way to build new houses and get through all the insane regulation) to meet demand. Isn't it an...
  20. zander1983

    Correct real estate strategy for someone like me (Ireland)?

    REAL ESTATE 
    Hi I know little about real estate investment but want to get into it asap because of inflation. Here are my circumstances. I have savings of 165k (79k was inherited). Im an IT Consultant and my earn 92k per year. I pay myself 60k and keep the rest in my company account. The top rate of income...
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