Ask HN: Have a product, not very good at being a sales person
My wife and I have been working away on a app / tool for certain businesses and we finally are at a point where we want to approach some businesses to get them to help us beta test, it's stable but we want to get feedback for improvements and build a user base.
However neither of us are good at or even like the idea of approaching people to try selling them something, so I thought about reaching out here for some tips and suggestions. Do we just have to suck it up if we want to have a shot at this?
cheers.
Edit:
- We are wanting to replace an existing process that we have identified certain businesses go through when interacting with their clients with a more 'modern' way and want them to join our platform to help them with that. There is an initial set up which for now we are happy to do for them and a bit of change in their process but we feel that it broadens their reach and makes them appear more 'modern'.
- re cost: we are thinking of going with a monthly subscription cost at a price we feel will be easily covered by their first transaction through the new system. we want to make the barrier as low as possible and are thinking of offering the first group their first year free as a way of saying thanks for joining us and helping us build up.