{"id":313,"date":"2020-11-20T04:28:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=313"},"modified":"2021-04-14T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T03:50:25","slug":"your-first-ten-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/your-first-ten-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Your First Ten Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"313\" class=\"elementor elementor-313\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6ae78c7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6ae78c7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d3ca84f\" data-id=\"3d3ca84f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70cfa80f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"70cfa80f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Things usually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/blog\/where-should-we-begin\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">start at the beginning<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That includes billion-dollar businesses.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">While it\u2019s exciting to think about all the people you could help with your product, offering, or service, you\u2019ve got to start with your <a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2009\/04\/first-ten\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">first ten customers<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you\u2019ve already reached your first ten customers, congrats! It\u2019s a big accomplishment.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Your first ten customers are crucial to your business: they\u2019re the start of it. They help you test, question, and clarify your own vision so you can better find, reach, and earn the trust of the right people.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Every wildly successful business had its humble beginnings with its first ten customers.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Your first ten customers are key to reaching your next ten customers and then some. <\/p><hr \/><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">P.S. If you\u2019re interested in diving into this topic further, my friend Conor McCarthy\u2019s new podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.first10podcast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">The First Ten Podcast<\/span><\/a>, is essential listening. A super-skilled business coach and builder himself, Conor also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conormccarthy.me\/about-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">helps other business builders<\/span><\/a> with a step-by-step process to validate their business idea and find their first-ten customers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every wildly successful business had its humble beginnings with its first ten customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,8,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communication","category-empathy","category-innovation","category-problem-solving","category-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/first-ten-customers.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}