A month ago I made a post in this sub about my first $10k month. It went viral.
And guess what - I didn’t make another dollar since.
Honestly, I shouldn’t have made any money that first month also.
Because I didn’t have an offer. If you’re familiar with Alex Hormozi you know that the offer is what makes or breaks a business. And I simply didn’t have it.
I managed to close my first clients just because I rode the AI hype train and managed to capture a couple of CEOs who were riding it too. Took whatever I could get for installment without thinking about the future.
(It also helped that I wasn’t bullshitting and had a legit enterprise-grade custom GPT framework ready).
But that’s not a business strategy at all. You can’t base your business solely off hype.
So the last month was dedicated to crafting a proper offer. No selling involved. Purely discovery chats with as many people as possible.
The viral post helped because I connected with some badass people I wouldn’t have reached otherwise.
Even managed to add a new team member from Reddit.
But most importantly, we now have the offer:
Enterprise-grade AI assistant trained on your data for a fraction of the market cost.
Basically a custom GPT for companies that want a secure assistant “trained” on their data but are not willing to spend millions on OpenAI’s Custom Models or hundreds of thousands on Enterprise ChatGPT.
(OpenAI’s introduction of exclusive business GPTs for $2-3M is an incredibly good leverage for this offer).
Also got rid of the big installment fee and switched to a $1k/month starting price for attractiveness and simplicity for companies (that covers their Azure fees also).
The key offer points here are:
- Data security (as there are cheap, but not enterprise-grade tools like PDF.ai)
- Good price (as not all businesses can afford to pay 6 figure premiums for their data security)
So the lesson here (I suppose) is that it’s okay to take a step back sometimes. Reevaluate your direction. It’s not worth sprinting when you’re running in circles.
P.S. finally made a website https://jongri.tech
I just left my job last week, and one of the last projects we started was the exact thing you built for our internal tools. My recomendations are as follows.
Make it look more unique rather than exactly like a chatGPT site. Give more examples of the data display and work on some samples for displaying data in an easy to use ui for example. Running a custom function for a call center employee. Another function for management on running reports for new customers, sales, etc. Display this data on a table, etc.