First major sale was in 2017 and I had already quit my job to work full time on a software that was already failing - and I had heard an old colleague mention he was seeking an intranet product (similar to our product, just needed to tweak it a bit).
Being a developer and obsessing over product features, I had always worked so hard to promote every single feature of our product - but I took time in 2016 to really polish my sales skills and in this sales call, I sold the solution and how it tied into their vision without even demoing the product, and it WORKED and has worked ever since. I have since sold thousands of dollars of products before even putting work into their development.
Anyway - the first sale is always awesome because it was my first $500/month of passive income. As long as I built the service and kept it running, I would keep getting that cheque and my 6 months of runway turned into 14 months. Time to work your stategy is key. I laugh because I used to always calculate how much money I was making and then use it to calculate how long I had until I would have to go back to work, the service has grown to almost $14,000 a month since then.
I do remember jumping up and down, thinking "WOW THIS FASTLANE THING REALLY WORKS I CAN'T BELIEVE IT " lol.
Being a developer and obsessing over product features, I had always worked so hard to promote every single feature of our product - but I took time in 2016 to really polish my sales skills and in this sales call, I sold the solution and how it tied into their vision without even demoing the product, and it WORKED and has worked ever since. I have since sold thousands of dollars of products before even putting work into their development.
Anyway - the first sale is always awesome because it was my first $500/month of passive income. As long as I built the service and kept it running, I would keep getting that cheque and my 6 months of runway turned into 14 months. Time to work your stategy is key. I laugh because I used to always calculate how much money I was making and then use it to calculate how long I had until I would have to go back to work, the service has grown to almost $14,000 a month since then.
I do remember jumping up and down, thinking "WOW THIS FASTLANE THING REALLY WORKS I CAN'T BELIEVE IT " lol.
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