Doyle

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

Anybody sell a product you built?

I went from selling enterprise software at $30k - $50k a pop... to selling $50/month licenses of my own software.

Got fed up with sales in 2020, had been learning to code, and started building the software I wish I had when I was a BDR. Now I'm back into a real sales mode after crossing about 20 customers (mostly people I was already connected with), and damn is it hard to put your baby out into the world.

If you've built your own product, how have you succeeded at selling it?

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CuriousFox

WR Officer

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Damn dude I cannot begin to imagine the stress and the excitement you must be feeling.

Doyle

Fire Starter

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

haha pressure makes diamonds right?

SirCloseAlot23

Politicker

Business Development

That is awesome, Nice job

Doyle

Fire Starter

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

thank you!

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

I love the idea of doing something like this. I'm not a super techy guy but have often thought about learning to code and doing something similar. I like the idea of building something myself and selling it. However, building a company isn't my thing. I've done it and realized I hate putting my trust in someone other than myself. I don't trust anyone, so having employees doesn't appeal to me. Got burned once and decided it was best not to play with fire.

Don't hire your friends.

Doyle

Fire Starter

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

am trying to go the solopreneur route... maybe I'll hire some support people if MRR allows it someday. But I like coding, I like selling, and those seem to be the two biggest pieces rn

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

Love it! Less messy when flying solo.

The fact that you love doing it, you can do it with minimal support, and you don't have to deal with difficult leadership sounds like you've got an awesome thing going on. Bliss

Doyle

Fire Starter

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

thanks man! will continue to be better as I get more sales teams on board :)

hocktony

Big Shot

smileNdial

Impressed. LFG

ScotchNonsense

Contributor

Director of Partnerships

Finding the right people to sell to is always the toughest.

The decision maker isn't the end-user, and the budget-holder isn't the implementer.

Once you find who you need to say what to, then success iterates. That's how we found it worked best...after failing...a lot...a lot a lot.

Doyle

Fire Starter

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

iterate iterate iterate... gotta get out there and fail a few times!

ultraman

Tycoon

Shepherd

I have not designed software, but was self-employed for 17 years and if not for the pandemic would still be. In the beginning of my career I co-founded, designed and published an interview based art publication.

We established a channel for online sales very quickly but once we got distribution for it via Tower Records and a book distributor in SF, that made the biggest impact. Not only were we shipping way more units but it was also giving us more exposure at the retail level, which led to more direct retail accounts as well.

Is there someone you could partner with by folding your product into their current offering?

Boutdamtime

Politicker

Client Executive

I am finishing a coding bootcamp now and am staying in sales for the time being. Cool to hear other people went a similar route. Best of luck to you.

Doyle

Fire Starter

Owner, Magic Sales Bot

thank you, good luck to you too!

SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

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