{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bootstrapper's Paradise","title":"How To React To Discovering New Competition","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":290,"description":"You've worked so hard to launch and were excited to be the only product on the market, right?\nWrong.  You will find competition all over the place.  More will come and go.  Finding competition is a GOOD thing.  You just need to know how to react to use it to your advantage.\nFree product-market fit course - https://nxtstep.io/fit\nEpisode Transcript\nHey folks, Sean here, and today what I want to talk about is basically the, the time when you ultimately launch your B2B SaaS and all the emotions that you might going through while managing that. So I've launched a B2B SaaS product this week and podcasting, and it, you know, was going well so far. I had a bunch of people that had originally signed up from my landing page that was communicating to my target market, my value proposition.\nAnd confirming supposedly what they would pay once the product became available. So one of the first things I did once we launched V1 was to send a blast email to all them, Hey, heads up, we launched. You can get access to the product. Then I've watched, as people have attempted to onboard themselves, I've understood where the activation points, or I'm getting a better idea for where the activation points are, which essentially.\nPeople moving from one stage to the next isn't a prospect to a paying customer or, uh, you know, an interested party to a user to get a better understanding in which levers I might move in order to move people along in the process and try to convert them into a paying customer. Ideally, a happy paying customer, one that's receiving value.\nLong story short, these are always exciting weeks. I enjoy them very much, but there's a lot that goes through your head emotionally, and that's kind of what I wanna talk about because at the same time this week as I launched and as I am sharing my product with my network as well too, which is another great way to get feedback by the way, especially for an early stage product, is someone shared with me feedback on my product...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/B0rBF_s0upJdRqXoy4_4rHlfSlZONOaHnrUmmpOi708/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYmIx/MTMxNTExY2VjZjIz/NjEzNWFhNmI4OGZl/ZDliMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}