With 101 marketing channels to focus on, which one should you start with?
All of them! Iām joking. Donāt do that. And donāt listen to what the gurus are saying: especially agencies who specialize in one specific channel (when youāre a nail gun, everything looks like a roof shingle). Obviously it depends on your stageā¦ But if youāre under $1MM ARR, I would start with the lowest hanging fruit: People who are UNHAPPY with their current tool. Why? Because: You donāt need to sell them on why they need your app - theyāre already sold on it. You know they have money ( theyāre already paying for it) They have the problem you solve. They are in PAIN. The big difference is that the pain they have is around what they DONāT like about their current provider. NOT about whatever pain your tool solves. Does that make sense? So the best place to be is where people are looking for an ALTERNATIVE to their current solution. All you need to do is put your solution IN this flow of traffic. (Itās helluvalot easier to find an EXISTING flow of traffic and get in front of it then it is to CREATE your own traffic flow). A real world example: Natalie and I were trying to find a parking space at a restaurant in so Cal. The parking meters there ONLY took coins. Weāre not 87 years old, so we donāt carry a bunch of coins with us, so we had to go to all the restaurants around us and see if we could withdraw money and have them convert it into coins for us. It was such a hassle. These were nicer restaurants, so itās not like they had buckets of coins in their registers. We spend 30 minutes walking from gift shop to restaurant hoping weād find someone with change. Now, if I needed to make some quick cash, you know what I would do? Thereās a constant flow of traffic, trying to get to make their expensive restaurant reservationā¦ And a BIG pain (people donāt have coins). All I would need to do is walk around with a sign that says: GET COINS HERE And have a backpack full of coins. Iād charge a small fee, and take whatever cash they had and convert it for them.