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by timothy89 4567 days ago
I really like your advice! Others have actually told me the same and I understand "the concept". But I would like to ask you for some more advice: how can I spend my days only focusing on getting users to use us? We are already emailing every new signup offering them help etc, and some respond with questions, which we help them with. But that usually doesn't take the whole day. I would like to know some activities on how to get more of those. Cold calling?

Otherwise, thank you for your feedback. Appreciate it :)

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Cold calling could work. If I don't miss my guess, though, I bet your social circle and activities already intersect with people who build apps, so I'd use every opportunity possible to ask them about their pains with user management and to tell them that they should use UserApp instead of their homerolled solution. (Be prepared to hear "I don't have any problem with user management" and "There is nothing you could offer me, not even your services as free engineers, which would convince me to let somebody else manage this core a part of our offering." If that was the only thing you heard from the next 100 people you talked to that would still make talking to them the most productive activity you could possibly have been engaged in.)
I will give this a thought and see how I can plan my upcoming weeks. I have considered about canceling my every-day growth hacks to focus more on larger "hacks", and also finding users and helping them getting started. Let's see what happens :)

Thank you for your advice!