My first customers almost only came out of the newsletter (people who had received a invitation to try out the beta). I sent a 20% discount lifetime offer, with

My first customers almost only came out of the newsletter (people who had received a invitation to try out the beta). I sent a 20% discount lifetime offer, with 2 reminders. Now I'm doing blog posts like this one, growing my newsletter patiently, I speak at conferences on the topic of cash flow/bootstrapping, and my SEO traffic is growing. Glad you liked my story - and yes it was fairly hard :-)