I bought Explee for email. I am less keen on the meeting.

What I tried

I have already paid for Explee. I came with my own way of finding email addresses and mainly wanted to use it for sending: taking care of email warm-up was the attraction. As I used it, I found its own contact discovery very good too. That gave me a reason to use more of the product than I had originally intended.

Where I got stuck

The part I have not worked out is what happens at the end. The flow points toward booking a meeting. I can see why that would suit a product with a high enough price to justify a sales call, but I have not yet found how to make it work for a small SaaS like mine. There is a personal mismatch too: I am very introverted and really dislike meetings. Writing in English is fine. Speaking it is much harder for me, and I have a strong accent. A booked call is not automatically the outcome I want.

One thing I'd change

I would like a clearer path for small SaaS products that does not end in a meeting. Let me choose a self-serve signup, a trial, or a conversation by email as the goal, and shape the outreach and follow-up around that. If some of this is already possible, show me how to set it up. I want to put the prospecting and sending to work without having to become a different kind of salesperson.

Would I pay

Yes. I have already paid. The sending setup was what brought me in, and the contact discovery added value I had not expected. What I still need to figure out is how to turn that value into customers for my small SaaS without making meetings the finish line.

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Roger HE is building PersonWise — The presentation presents itself.

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