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NWEN Founder Institute Week 3 Daniel Rossi Finding Customers
1. HOW To Use Keywords –
To Find Potential Customers
And Get Them To OPT IN To Your Plans & Give You Their Emails
2. What You Know -
• We know the WHY behind customer
validation – let that sink in…and don’t EVER
forget it.
• We understand the Risky Assumption
Paradigm – and have a prioritized list that
needs to be vetted before moving forward.
• You’re ready to begin the research that could
make you fall out of love with your idea – be a
cold lover – with cruel eyes if you must.
3. What’s the Point?
• Hate your idea…and quit!
• Or – PROVE– with a problem
hypothesis, solution hypothesis and
a series of assumptions (core to the
success of your business model) that
customers truly feel the pain that
you suggest they feel and will pay
you money to make it go away.
4. Tools
• You’ve taken stock of the dozens of experiments you
can do to prove out your assumptions
List of tools to use to validate risky assumptions
• mTurk
• In-person interviews
• Kickstarter
• Surveys
• Keywords
• Landing Page
• Etc…
5. Goals
• To gain currency (monetary or non-monetary)
– $$$$, dough, cash, shamoolians, clams
– Non-monetary currency: a behavior that
demonstrates intent to get a benefit or use
a product.
• Time
• Email submission
• Signed letter of intent
• Etc…
6. Three Things You Can Do
• Find out if people are ACTUALLY looking
to solve YOUR problem – Keyword
research
• Build a landing page to capture emails
• Create content – blog about the painful
topic (using keyword research) to
optimize traffic and establish yourself as
a thought leader
13. SEO Tools
• Ad Contrarian - Grumpy old ad guy with great insights
• SEO Digest – helpful articles
• SEOBook Tools - Free SEO tools
• SEO Digger - Find the top ten keywords ranking to your
websites
• SEMRush - SEO and campaign management tool
• Clickable - Pay per click management
• Spyfu - tells you how much adwords cost
• Market Samurai - SEO Keyword Analysis Tool
• WooRank – SEO optimization tool
• Ahrefs – SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis
• MoonSearch - SEO tool, backlinks and keyword analysis