Qobra · B2B · sales commission software
Announce your launch on LinkedIn before there is much to demo
A stranger asked for a demo and signed quickly; one early customer
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What they did
Around the same time as the first customer, the company announced its launch publicly on LinkedIn. A prospect reached out asking for a demo; there was almost nothing to show beyond the promise, but the deal closed quickly.
What happened
Landed the second early customer
- Stage
- Pre-launch (Pre-launch, 2020)
“we just launched publicly on on on LinkedIn, and someone reached out to me saying, "Hey, it's interesting what you do. Um, can I get a demo?"”
“So there was almost nothing to demo at that time, uh, just a promise, uh, but in the end, we landed this customer very quickly.”
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