Oh I am not doing any SEO either. I am still writing emails and making calls, just not the kind that start a 6-month long sales process ending with cigars :-)

Would you mind if we have a short chat about your sales approach? This is something I am still struggling with a little bit!

Same. :) Wish there was a venue/forum/platform to share tips and advice on this type of stuff!

This is the typical stuff we discuss at https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

I have a question: at a previous startup we emailed and called small and micro businesses in NY-SF-LA to sell an SMS marketing service. Kinda like messagebird but not for developers. Basically a web app to be able to send a list of numbers an sms with one tap, in an automated fashion.

Out of 4000emails/calls, which were not pushy at all and focused on understanding their needs, no one ended up paying ($3.6k/y).

What do you do differently?

You too are welcome to send me an email. [email protected]

Not at all. You can send me an email: [email protected]

That sounds like blog post material ;)

I guess it does! :-) I'm not blogging very consistently at the moment but I do seem to have a lot of ideas lately so maybe I should try and get back into the groove.

If you are comfortable with this approach you should have a great future ahead. Most engineers would hate that approach although that’s where the money is.