Some thoughts... - Free users are more like followers than paid users. Need to learn what paid users want. It is a very important distinction. - When you say you chose best performing freebies, is that defined from use, your perspective, customer discovery??? - What pain are you solving with the free? - What pain you solving with the premium version? - Have you created a vitamin or a pain killer? Let me know if you want to learn how to do great customer discovery and scale.

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There is no one best way to land your first 100 clients out the gate. I recommend running small experiments with prospective target markets in order to sculpt the right message and identify the correct market/vertical. An example, I hypothesized that LinkedIn would be the best channel to reach family law attorneys. I proved out that Twitter was a much more successful channel.