How 100 Clients Is Better than 1000

18 May 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Feras Alhlou. This content was uploaded by Feras Alhlou. This is a YouTube video titled "How 100 Clients Is Better than 1000" (created 2024-05-18). It contains a short talk/presentation (single speaker labeled SPEAKER A) about startup/business growth strategy: prioritize 100 devoted clients by doing unscalable, hands-on work early. The speaker shares anecdotes including fixing a client's fax machine while selling website design in 2003 and Airbnb founders visiting hosts and offering photographers in 2008 to illustrate the point.

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It's better to have 100 clients who love you than 1,000 who just like you. So if you want 100 clients who love you, you need to do unscalable things for them early on. Back when we were selling website designs in 2003, one of our clients called us to fix their fax machine. It wasn't our job and it was ridiculous, but we did. So do unscalable things early on This way, you get to a place where you can scale your business. For example, back in 2008, Brian Chesky and his Airbnb co-founders would visit every host and offer to bring in a photographer to take pictures of their house.