# Get Customers for any Business Idea in Under 15 Minutes

Channel: Noah Kagan
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIqpPbP4uhU
Duration: 12 min
Language: English
Words: 3264
Transcript page: https://viewrankai.com/tools/youtube-transcript/GIqpPbP4uhU

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[0:00] in this video i'm going to show you live how to get your first customer no matter what business idea you have so i asked the audience aka you on instagram to say give me all the business ideas you have and i'm going to show you live how to get a customer for them number one work from home office consultant number two fresh smash for dogs number three air pod wind covers number four keto taco shells and number five a spice racks mix a keurig let's go make some sales so the first problem that you guys are saying is work from home office consultant so first off that is a way too broad of

[0:35] an offering what does a work from home office consultant actually mean so be specific in what you're actually offering people i'm going to set up your desk environment i'm going to teach you new apps like notion and coda or rome whatever that is but let's just say you were looking for people working from home where is a place online that tells people where they work linkedin so let's go over to linkedin and what i would try to think about is who are the people that would really need help and then what can i pitch these these specific people so first off i would think about my aunt

[1:02] she's a therapist who's not super tech savvy sorry aunt ronda but she probably wants to go online she's probably using zoom maybe wants to get her home office set up a little bit more effectively and so on linkedin you can literally go and look a list of like maybe i'll look up therapists think about people who are actually doing sales things doing meetings or doing things online that would actually need your help and so from here you can literally see all the people that you are connected to first connection that are actually probably needing your service and then all you have to do is send them a message saying

[1:28] hey i'd like to be doing work from home consulting for you it's a hundred dollars and i'm going to be offering you a death setup or i'm going to be recommending tools for you i'll help you get your practice online this would be the first place i would start considering you can go on linkedin search your first connections as you can see on the screen and make a list of all these people here and then just start going reaching out to them one thing that's really important as you're reaching out and getting customers is that i don't like just sending one message on linkedin i like going into the people

[1:51] specifically looking up their contact info and sending a text message or phone call or an email the more that you can do something that's direct in real time the better you're gonna get results right away so you're not waiting around for things while you're in linkedin or while you're on any of these places get referrals because if you start doing this and they're like hey i don't need your help then you could say one what do you need my help on or two who is someone else that you know that i should be talking with the other thing that you can do as a work from home

[2:15] office consultant let's say you're just doing desk stuff the best people to ask money for are people you've also given money to your current service providers so if you have like for me we use bkd that's uh our accounting firm so i'm gonna go on bkda and up hi stephanie hi kim so that's something that you can really be thinking about is that do you have a lawyer do you have an accountant do you have a dentist do you have bookkeepers or book men and women whatever you want to call them so look up your current service providers number three look up your previous employers so i

[2:45] worked at intel i don't know how many people are still there uh but they have over a hundred thousand employees i'm not sure if people are still working there that i know um let me see if there's anyone still on linkedin that i know oh actually abby and a few of these other guys are still there so i would be hitting up these people i'm sure they have some ergonomic budgets i know when i was at intel they actually gave us like a full ergonomic optimization once we got the job because they're like oh you're going to die here so we want to make it feel

[3:09] good hey abby oh [ __ ] oh i sent it i'm just going to send it so you'll see i hope you're awesome special [Music] all right i just sent it so you can see that i just set the message live i hope abby doesn't mind me sending a referral request all right next up what is the next business video that you guys were asking me for face masks for dogs so again i think what you're going to start noticing as i'm doing all showing you how to get customers no matter what business idea you have is work backwards with the customer first mindset that is the most important thing

[3:48] and so if i was looking about face mask for dogs i would say friends who own dogs so i'm making a google spreadsheet this is all free and i still haven't spent any money yet so maybe name email dog name and just start creating a list of the people you know so who do i know that has a dog anton has a dog i think my friend brian cutler has a dog i'll put him in here and i put their emails in so anton brian and now let me actually show you i'm gonna message them uh normally what i like to do on messaging is that i like to do it as

[4:14] fast as possible so i'm gonna do it via text message so you can see it on my phone i go into my text message um i'm asking anton and i'm just gonna message him right now hey man uh wild question that's it i know you guys are looking for magic and secrets and stuff like this and what a lot of times what i think people like about my process and what's worked for me and appsumo and our team and what i've recommended to thousands of people is just go for the customer don't worry about the ideas and guess what if they don't want it let's find something they do want so

[4:45] number two let's go find a list of all the friends of ours who have dogs so i'm gonna go on facebook what you could do is you can post on your social media so i will post it here so i'm posting on my social media way that you can actually post in your social medias you can be very direct with some of your requests which is like hey for a hundred dollars i'm making this thing is anyone interested leave a comment below the second way that i've actually found a lot of success from it is kind of doing it a little bit lighter of an ask

[5:08] where you say hey which are you gorgeous people or which you people have dogs or which people are interested in this and then you can actually open up the conversation about dogs and so then you could sell them the face mask for dogs or you can actually find something else that they'd be interested in so i'm gonna post this on my facebook you will actually be able to see this on my facebook that i posted it so what i would do is then go in groups and say hey do any of you friends just posted it in another whatsapp group you can do this in slack

[5:30] and if you're thinking no i don't want to sell face masks i don't do all this stuff i don't know what you want but anyways you could always just start a newsletter and say hey if you're interested in dogs or thinking about dogs if i'm gonna start a newsletter on cinefox.com and each week i'm gonna send one tip about something you can do better with your dog or maybe some of you weird ass cat people you have a newsletter around that a lot of you are probably asking then well no how much do i charge for it what i would simply do is i'd go on

[5:50] aliexpress i'd go on amazon and see what a normal face mask is going for i would create a google spreadsheet so on the spreadsheet here you can see like dog cost so you know it'd basically be like revenue cost profit i mean i know this is really simple but you're looking for something really complicated so what is the cost of a normal face mask it's probably like 25 cents how much i think i could probably get them for or someone for maybe a dollar and then i'd be making 75 cents a lot of you are then saying well no how do i actually find the manufacturer

[6:19] that's the whole juice once you actually get the customers once you actually get the money the resourcefulness of actually being able to build and find these things is really secondary and not as important because you'll be able to do that because now you have the money don't be that person that's like oh i built a website let me find people or i built these face masks now let me go find dogs my father always said to me is that it's so much better to be chased for money than to chase for money uh and i think what that's saying is that he's kind of he was a questionable businessman but i

[6:42] think there's some wisdom in that is that once you have the money and you know that people want something of yours it's so much easier to go deliver it then the other way around don't go and say all right i brought a solution to the problem find people who have problems and money and then you could easily bring them the solutions i hope you follow this advice and start a business if you do and copy this in any of the businesses we go over or businesses that you're thinking about leave a comment below i'd love to hear about it uh airpod wind covers yes i am a cyclist

[7:08] and it is really hard for me to use my earpods when i'm trying to make calls on the bike by the way i probably shouldn't be making calls on the bike anyways so the first thought that comes to mind is who else do i know that's a cyclist because maybe they have that problem so what i would do is i would go on whatsapp i would message some friends who love cycle secondly i would go on strava that's where a lot of cyclists live i would post an update saying hey do any of you have problems making phone calls while you're cycling i look for the customers first and then

[7:33] i really go where are they and then i say what problem do they have that i can actually help with which is the airpod wind covers and it's also a lot more motivating than building it and then praying that you can finally find a customer oh god please bring one number three i would probably be searching instagram to see if there's any friends of mine who likes cycling uh so you can search tags or you can search different things around cycling let's see if any of my friends are also following so when you actually go look up on instagram you can see other friends so my friend

[7:57] george hincapi is like this crazy famous writer i can see people that follow cyclists or cycling topics and i can reach out to them in the same vein so now how to actually create those things or what do you actually show them you could show them a diagram you could tell them the solution that you're offering and say hey it's probably going to be around 50 bucks do you mind pre-ordering it i'm looking for three people to know that i can actually invest and take it seriously if i don't have any results in a week or two i'll just give you your money back and most people if they know you

[8:21] will actually say yes to it so that is how i would do airpod wind covers and i hope one of you actually solves it and i can give you money for that i will be one of your beta pre-order customers one thing i want to highlight think about this with tesla.com when they launched the model 3 they had over half a million orders at 500 each 2.5 billion dollars i believe and they didn't even deliver a car for two years so i know you're thinking well no i don't want to pre-sell anything i think we can definitely copy and learn from them the first thing that i thought of in

[8:48] terms of finding customers for this uh was i'm in a facebook group called healthy sexy mofo so it's a bunch of workout people the first thing i would do is post in this group there's only 26 people but i only need to find three customers in 48 hours that's my law for getting million dollar business starting the weekend three customers 48 hours trying to make at least 100 so i would be posting in this group saying hey y'all i'm creating keto taco shells are any of you guys interested probably not that's a weird ass business but maybe they'll be interested um by the way you can see on the screen

[9:16] people are already starting to comment with all their dog pictures so i actually have a good amount of people who are dog owners and i can start asking them directly hey do you guys want these face masks they're going to be really about a dollar per mask and you can use them for a week for your dog uh so number one with keto taco shells a few things that you can do to think about that is you can search keto and facebook and if you're i'm not keto no i'm not on facebook maybe you should try to get in some of these things you can actually see if there's any of

[9:38] your friends who are talking about it so what i would do personally is go look up places on instagram or on facebook or online and see if any of your friends like it so if you go to like the taco deli which is some of the best tacos in austin i can actually see that 12 of my friends like taco deli so paul park and all these people i can just reach out to them directly and say hey i'm creating taco keto taco shells they're ten dollars for a pack is this something that you'd be interested in let me know here's my venmore and my paypal so you're probably asking well

[10:03] how much do i charge for these tacos how much should they send me in another video i'm going to show you how appsumo makes money and how i use a spreadsheet to help figure out our business in your spreadsheet you should do some basic economics of how much is water how much is the keto flower how much is it going to be annoying because you're going to talk about keto and then what that cost looks like and what you need to charge to make a little bit of profit you should make a profit it's a business not a non-profit uh and lastly this is one that my team

[10:26] actually did not want me to do which is the spice rack meets keurig so if you guys know what kerg it's where you take the coffee pod and you put it in you hit the thing and it outputs coffee so i think what it's helping is figuring out what spices someone needs when they're getting it and this is a machine so you're like oh no there's no way you can get customers without building it yes we can so what i would do recommend for that is draw a diagram you can use this you can use canva.com you can use google slides or google doc those are all free

[10:51] all usable instantly today and then i would reach out to friends who are chefs and say hey here's a diagram of something i'm building and prototyping it'll basically help you pick your spices a lot easier the other thing that you might want to consider to find customers about any other business idea around the kitchen is look for someone who bought a comparable item so did they buy a sous vide machine have you had any friends that have talked to you about sous vide machines or knives or any type of kitchen equipment that they've talked about in the past or you can see items that they've liked maybe i can go reach out

[11:17] to them and actually see if there's something else in the kitchen that i can build for these people key things on million dollar weekends and getting customers no matter what business idea you have is that you should be aiming for three customers why one and two is kind of easy and three if it's hard it's only going to get harder but i found three is kind of the sweet spot and getting a business started number two you should not be spending any single money on getting a business started you don't need more courses you don't need more books you don't need no domains and number three i really

[11:43] found for myself and for a lot of other people is do it in the weekend the 48 hour span monday tuesday saturday sunday is perfect the more time you give yourself is the more time you're gonna take on getting these businesses started if you've liked this video and it's been interesting for you about how to get customers no matter what business idea and this really can apply to any technical business any dog business any food business website business you can do the exact same things that i've taught in this video check out the million dollar weekend if you want to have even more examples of getting business started which you don't

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