I work at Long Island University in NY. You should start by reaching out to local universities and requesting their criteria for providing credit for continuing education courses. The incentive for most colleges is to offer the course on their campus, collect tuition for each class, and gain camp...
Stop trying to "convince" people. You know, there is power in the testimony. A lot of startup companies use friends and family to test out the product and service and to help spread the word. If there is any way to offer a trial of your service, you might give that a go as well. Work to build...
Personally, I think you should be focusing heavily on your current users that are loyal to your brand currently and worry less on trying to buy users and get more brand awareness. To be frank you should be letting your strongest customers do all the promotion for you organically. "K-factor" This ...
You need to think about the user experience for the first 50 people, as you are doing. If you're not solving a problem for them, then there is no value, so the user base will not grow. It's always easy to envision a product or service which if you have e.g 1m users is valuable; but the hard part...
It sounds like you have their email address, so I recommend using it to target them on Facebook and Twitter through their custom audiences program. You can upload the lists there and specifically reach these users ( and lookalikes). Twitter even has an ad format that send a targeted email subsc...
There's a lot that can go wrong. Often times issues are due to either trust or ego. If you are savvy enough in your topic trust issues and even ego issues on behalf of the mentee can be 'rectified'.
The trial period is your courtship period, and the best opportunity to convert the user into a paying customer. Areas of focus - on boarding communication that includes welcome email, on boarding education of the platform, links to additional material on product/service - timely communication th...
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This is difficult to answer because you haven't given us much to go on. What type of hardware are they building, and how big and fast do they plan to grow? It really doesn't sound like they have a growth strategy in place yet, so my guess is you would need to create that for them, right? If that...
It's great that you have a ton of experience in sales and business growth, and this will likely boost your credibility in many ways. However, startups are often looking to hire folks who can be extremely agile and switch to a new strategy as soon as they learn that the current one isn't working. ...