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Leadmonk converted just 10 paying customers from its 500-person waitlist

Naveen SG · He spent $30k to build a text based version of Calendly, here's how he got first 50 customers · Sep 1, 2022 · at 5:07

Leadmonk founder Naveen SG explains why most of his first 50 paying customers came from recent signups rather than his early waitlist.

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“To be honest, from that find at least, we could convert only like, you know, or hardly 10 customers, but remaining forty-plus customers we got in the last two months who are the new customers who came on board.”

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