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355 points rasulkireev | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.201s | source

Hey HN,

I am a solo founder that just finished writing code for my project (MVP) and am ready to find clients.

- for the sake of the question, my clients will be small physical businesses. Think, Family Doctor's Office, Local Cafe, Small barber, etc.

I will be developing a blog for SEO purposes and doing other things to promote my business online. However, I believe the key to success here will be "Cold Sales". I have never done that before. So, if you could recommend a book, a blog post, other online resources, or you just have a random advice that I could learn from, I would be very thankful.

Suffice it to say I will be starting out ASAP, even though I don't know anything. I believe practice is the best teacher. However, if there are any resources that could help me get up and running quicker that would be awesome. Thanks a ton in advance.

1. streetcat1 ◴[] No.33225093[source]
So I faced/facing the same issue.

In general before you do any sale you need leads. I.e. you problem is not selling, but prospecting. I.e. you need prospects at the top of the funnel.

There is very good book - "fanatical prospecting" :

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fanatical+prospecting

So your first step is to raise awareness of your product.

To do that there are two way - inbound (blogs,etc) and outbound(cold call / cold email). For inbound, you need to provide value to customers which are not related to your product. I.e. first earn trust and give value.

For outbound, the key is lead filtering, I.e. looks for signals that would qualify your leads (e.g. sector, traffic). But in general outbound is a numbers game.