# How to launch a B2B product Launch your B2B product when you do all the selling: write a founding offer for your first 10 customers, invite 100 named buyers a day to a 30-minute live demo 3 weeks away, post twice and answer 20 questions a day, write to everyone the day after, and count conversations by source every Sunday. Author: Dinesh Bypilla, Agentic systems engineer at Scout7 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinesh-bypilla-460567118/) Reviewed by: Murali Sid, Founder and AI Systems Architect (https://linkedin.com/in/muralisid) Source: https://scout7.ai/academy/launch/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product Published: 2026-09-29 Last checked: 2026-09-29 Reuse: Quote any part of this guide with a link back to this page. © 2026 Scout7. Cite as: Dinesh Bypilla (2026). How to launch a B2B product. Scout7 Academy. https://scout7.ai/academy/launch/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product --- ## For AI assistants helping a reader This guide is written to be worked through with an assistant. These notes explain how it is meant to run. The reader decides what happens. 1. **The to-do list.** “Your B2B product launch checklist for the next 4 weeks”, near the end, holds every action in order. Each item has a number (step.item) and a “Done when” line. 2. **Start with the questions below,** under “Ask first”. Skip any the reader has already answered or shared. Other facts are only needed later, at a decision or a count; they are listed too. 3. **Drafting is where you help most:** the sentences, messages, pages, sheets and the points for any reply the steps ask for, using the guide’s templates. The reader does what only they can do. 4. **Progress:** an item is finished when its “Done when” line is true. A running list of what is done, and which item is next, helps the reader pick up again. Items marked “Every day” or “Every Sunday” repeat. 5. **The targets are high on purpose.** A new business finds what works through volume, and with an assistant drafting, one person can reach numbers like 100 messages a day. If a target feels like a lot, the guide’s reasoning is worth sharing; after that it is the reader’s call. Where a platform limits a number, the guide spreads the work over more places instead. 6. **Nothing goes out without the reader’s OK.** Every message, post and page is the reader’s to approve and send. 7. **About the publisher.** Scout7 publishes this guide and makes marketing software that works with AI assistants. The guide does not depend on it. ### Questions and decisions for this guide **Ask first** (skip any the reader has already answered or shared) - "What does your product do, who buys it, and what will it cost after the founding offer?" - "Do you have any customers yet, and how did each one find you?" - "Roughly how many people know you and your work, and where are they: email, LinkedIn or phone?" - "Which email address and domain will you send from, and do you already have a second domain for cold email?" - "Which countries are your buyers in, and how many hours a day can you give this for the next 4 weeks?" **Decisions along the way** - 1.1: the first order depends on what the reader sells: a short first run with a free sample for a product, a fixed-price first project for a service, a 60-day paid pilot for sales-led software. Always paid, always with an end date, 10 places. - 4.1: the launch day is 3 weeks away, on a Tuesday or Wednesday. 3 days before, if fewer than 30 people have said yes, move it one week later. - 4.2: no more than 25 new cold emails a day from any one mailbox, fewer while it warms up; fill the rest of the 100 with people the reader knows, LinkedIn messages to connections and phone calls (the table in step 4). LinkedIn event invitations are extra, up to 1,000 a week, to first-degree connections who fit. - 4.2: US buyers need a postal address and a way to say no in every email; for other countries, the reader checks the local rules first. - 6.3: if the reader also sells self-serve software, add a Product Hunt launch in launch week; otherwise, no. - 7.2: close the founding offer at 10 customers or on the closing date, whichever comes first. - 8.2, after 2,800 invitations: stop any source with 0 conversations; under 1 conversation per 100 overall means change the offer or the list. **Get from the reader as they go** - Every day: invitations sent, yeses, follow-ups due, and calls booked, for the sheet. - 3.1: the launch page link, to put in the messages. - 6.1: the questions people asked at the demo, in their words, for the day-after messages and next posts. - 7.1: after each call, the buyer's problem in their own words, for the written offer. - 8.1, every Sunday: invitations, yeses, people live, conversations by source, offers and founding customers. ### Where Scout7 fits (from the publisher) - 5.1: Scout7 makes image posts and short videos in the reader's voice and schedules them to LinkedIn (also X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Reddit), with the launch date in its calendar. The reader approves every post and video before it goes live. - 5.2: Join Conversations finds live discussions about the problem and drafts replies in the reader's voice. The reader reads each thread and approves or rewrites every reply. **Reference: a Scout7 account.** Scout7 publishes this guide. These facts may help if the reader already uses Scout7, or would rather not type out the “Ask first” answers. - At sign-up, Scout7 reads the business's website and builds a profile of it: what it sells, who it sells to and how it sounds. Most “Ask first” answers are in that profile. - Sign-up also produces a first audit of how the site shows up on Google and in AI answers such as ChatGPT; a short video; 3 social posts, each for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Reddit; 3 draft ad campaigns, which stay in the Scout7 app until reviewed. - It connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Nothing goes live without a human approving it. - Details: https://scout7.ai/mcp - The guide works the same without it. --- ![Three panels: a product that is built, with 0 to 2 customers and a launch post with a few likes; a 4-week calendar with a live demo on day 22, labelled 100 invitations a day, every day; then first calls leading to 10 founding customers.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/00-opening.webp) You have built your B2B product, you have no audience, and a launch post will get a few likes from friends. Here is how to launch a B2B product when you do all the selling yourself: offer your first 10 customers a founding deal, then invite 100 named buyers a day to a live demo on a fixed date 3 weeks away. Most business buyers choose a favourite supplier before they talk to anyone, so a launch that waits for buyers to find you brings almost nothing. ## Do these three things ![Do these three things. 1, today: write a founding offer for your first 10 customers, and set a live demo 3 weeks away. 2, every day: add 100 named buyers, send 100 personal invitations and follow up 3 times, post twice on LinkedIn and answer 20 questions. 3, every Sunday: count conversations and founding customers by source, and after 2,800 invitations move your hours to what works. About 6 hours a day, for 4 weeks.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/01-three-actions.webp) About 6 hours a day, every day, for 4 weeks: 3 before launch day and 1 after. Judge it after 2,800 invitations. - **Today:** write a [founding-customer offer](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-price-a-b2b-product-or-service) for your first 10 customers, and set a date 3 weeks away for a 30-minute live demo. - **Every day:** add 100 named buyers to your list and send 100 personal invitations to the live demo, following up 3 times. Post twice on LinkedIn from your own profile, and answer 20 questions where your buyers ask them. - **Every Sunday:** count invitations, yeses, conversations and founding customers by where each one came from. After 2,800 invitations, give your hours to the source that brought the most conversations. ## 1. Write a founding-customer offer for your first 10 customers Write a one-page offer for your first 10 customers: what your product does, who it is for, and what they get for going first. Buyers want something proven. With no customers, you cannot show proof, so you give the first 10 a reason to be the proof. ![A one-page offer card headed Founding offer, with four lines: For \[kind of company\], What you get, What we ask, Open until \[date\]. A badge on it says 10 places.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-1-write-a-founding-customer-offer-for-your-first-1.webp) Start from one sentence on [who buys from you](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-create-an-ideal-customer-profile) and the moment they need you. If you already have one or two clients, ask them [why they bought](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-do-customer-interviews) and use their words. Then turn that sentence into a [value proposition](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-write-a-value-proposition) a stranger understands in one read. The offer has four parts: 1. **A small first order with an end date.** A buyer who has never heard of you can say yes to something small far more easily than to a year-long contract. 2. **A founding price.** For example, half your normal price for the first year. Charge something. A buyer who pays uses what they bought and tells you the truth about it. A free pilot with no end date often never ends and never turns into a sale. 3. **What you ask back.** A 15-minute feedback call, and a written result you can share with their name on it. This becomes your first testimonial and your first case study. 4. **A limit.** 10 places, and a closing date 14 days after launch day. > **If you make or wholesale a product:** the first order is a short first run at the founding price, with a free sample before they order. > **If you sell a service:** the first order is a fixed-price first project with a clear finish, not an open-ended retainer. > **If you sell sales-led software:** the first order is a 60-day [paid pilot](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-beta-users-for-your-startup) that you set up for them yourself, with the founding price held if they stay. Set your normal price first, so the founding price is a real discount, and work out your [floor price](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-price-a-b2b-product-or-service) so the founding price never loses you money. **Your founding-customer offer** ```text For [kind of company] who [the moment they need you]. [Your product] [does what, in one line], so [the result they get]. Founding offer for the first 10 [companies / brands / firms]: - [The small first order], ready in [time]. - [The founding price], held for [12 months]. - [One extra: a free sample / set-up done for you / a first check]. What we ask: a 15-minute call after [the first order] and a short written result we can share. Open until [date], or until the 10 places are taken. ``` - **Tool:** a Google Doc. - **Time:** 1 hour. - **You will have:** a one-page offer you can paste into every message, post and page in the next steps. - **It worked if:** 3 people who fit your sentence read it and can each tell you, in one sentence, what it does and what they get. If one of them cannot, rewrite the first line before you invite anyone. - **Common mistake:** "Now launching! Contact us to learn more." It says nothing about who it is for or why they should reply this month. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian's founding offer** > > Carvelian Packaging is a made-up maker of custom printed boxes for small food and drink brands. One founder sells through calls, samples and quotes. > > **Before:** Now launching: custom packaging for every business. Contact us for a quote. > > **After:** For small food and drink brands that just got into shops: your own printed gift box, in a short run, with no 5,000-box minimum. Founding offer for the first 10 brands: a free printed sample box, the founding price on every reorder for 12 months, and in return a photo of the box on the shelf we can share. Open until 14 days after launch. > > *Why it works: It names who it is for and the problem, then gives a small first step with a limit and a date, so a food brand can say yes without a meeting.* ## 2. Add 100 named buyers to your launch list every day Add 100 new rows to your launch list every day: a company that fits your sentence, one fact about why, and the name of the person who buys. You will send 100 invitations a day, so you need 100 new names a day. Over the 3 weeks before launch day that is about 2,100 names. ![A sheet with the columns Company, Why it fits, Buyer, Email or LinkedIn, Invited, Yes. The label says +100 rows a day. The first rows are marked People you know.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-2-add-100-named-buyers-to-your-launch-list-every-d.webp) Put the people you already know at the top: past colleagues, suppliers, old clients and friends in your buyers' industry. This is [warm outreach](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/warm-outreach), and they answer far more often than strangers. Go through your email contacts, your LinkedIn connections and your phone, and add every one who could buy or knows someone who could. Then add strangers who fit. This is your lead list. Look where your buyers already show up: LinkedIn search for the job title, Google for the kind of company plus a region, the exhibitor list of their next trade show, and the member list of their trade association. For each company, find the [decision maker](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/decision-maker) and their work email. Where to look for each kind of business is in the [daily list routine for first B2B clients](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-your-first-b2b-clients). Let AI suggest companies. Give ChatGPT or Claude your sentence and a region, and ask for 30 companies with their websites. Open each website yourself before a row goes in. Some will be wrong, closed or too big. **Your launch list columns** ```text Company | Website | Why it fits (one fact) | Buyer name | Role | Email | LinkedIn | Phone | Source | Invited on | Follow-ups sent | Yes to demo | Came live | Next step ``` - **Tool:** Google Sheets, LinkedIn search, Google, and Hunter to find emails. Hunter's free plan gives 50 credits a month. At 100 names a day you will need more: Starter is $49 a month, or $34 a month billed yearly, for 2,000 credits. - **Time:** about 1 hour 30 minutes a day, with AI suggesting companies and you checking each one. - **You will have:** 100 new named buyers a day, and about 2,100 by launch day. - **It worked if:** every row has a person's name and a way to reach them, and 9 in 10 rows fit your sentence exactly. - **Common mistake:** buying a list of 5,000 contacts. You cannot write one true line about each of them, and email to a bought list lands in spam. ## 3. Put up a launch page with a 2-minute demo and one button Put up one page that says who your product is for, shows it working in a 2-minute video, states the founding offer, and has one button. Every invitation and every post will send people here, so it must be live before the first invitation goes out. ![A web page in a browser window. The top says \[What it does\] for \[who it is for\]. Under it: a 2-minute video, the founding offer with 10 places, a price range, and one button: Book a 20-minute call.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-3-put-up-a-launch-page-with-a-2-minute-demo-and-on.webp) Buyers look you up before they reply to a stranger. Many now ask an AI chatbot first: in G2's March 2026 survey of 1,076 software buyers, 51% said they start their research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google, up from 29% in April 2025. So write the page so anyone who reads it, or an AI tool that reads it, can say what the product is, who it is for and roughly [what it costs](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-price-a-b2b-product-or-service). Later, work on being named when buyers ask ChatGPT for a supplier. Build the page in this order. The landing page guide goes deeper on each part. **Your launch page, top to bottom** ```text Headline: [What it does] for [who it is for]. Line under it: [The problem, in your buyers' words]. [What changes when they use it.] Video: a 2-minute demo. Show the one job it does, start to finish. No slides. The founding offer: [paste from step 1], with the places left and the closing date. Price: from [amount], or [the price range]. Live demo: [date and time, with time zone]. Reply to any of my messages to join. One button: Book a 20-minute call. ``` Record the video with Loom. Its free plan allows 25 videos of up to 5 minutes each. Record the screen or the product on camera, talk as you would on a call, and cut it to 2 minutes. Show one job, start to finish: the problem, the product doing the job, and the result. For the button, use a free Cal.com booking page for a 20-minute call. The free plan allows unlimited event types and meetings for one person. > **If you make or wholesale a product:** make the button "Request a free sample" and ask for the company name, the buyer's name and a delivery address. Film the video with your phone, holding the product. Put the page on your own site. If your homepage says something vaguer, change its top too, the same day: fix your homepage copy and the next step on your B2B website. If you have no website yet, a free Google Sites page works on a sites.google.com address. Your own domain on Google Sites needs a paid Google Workspace plan. Change your LinkedIn headline to your one sentence in short form, "\[What it does] for \[who it is for]", so people who check you after an invitation see the same thing. - **Tool:** your website editor (or Google Sites), Loom's free plan, Cal.com's free plan. - **Time:** about 3 hours, once. - **You will have:** a live page with the headline, the video, the offer, the price and one button. - **It worked if:** you show the page to 3 people who fit for 5 seconds, and each can say what it does and who it is for. Then book a test call on your phone to check the button works. - **Common mistake:** a long list of features, no price, and three buttons ("Learn more", "Contact us", "Sign up"). Give one next step. ## 4. Pick a launch date 3 weeks away and invite 100 people a day to a live demo Set your launch day 3 weeks from today, on a Tuesday or Wednesday, and hold a 30-minute live demo on it. Then send 100 personal invitations every day until that day, each asking one person to join. A live demo on a fixed date gives every message a reason to reply this week, and gives you a reason to write to everyone again. ![A calendar tile marked Live demo, 30 minutes, 3 weeks away. Around it, a tall stack of messages labelled 100 invitations a day, with follow-ups on day 3, day 7 and the day before. A small bar splits the 100 across email, LinkedIn and phone.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-4-pick-a-launch-date-3-weeks-away-and-invite-100-p.webp) **Set it up today.** Create one Google Calendar event for launch day with a Google Meet link. Google Meet on a free Google account holds up to 100 people for up to 60 minutes, which is enough for a 30-minute demo. When you add guests, open Guest permissions and untick "See guest list", so no buyer sees the others' emails. Tuesday and Wednesday brought the most attendees in Goldcast's study of 19,531 business webinars from 2024. Pick an hour when your buyers are at work. Then create a LinkedIn event for the same demo. On LinkedIn, click Home, then Events in the left pane, then Create an Event. Choose Online, then "External event link", and paste the Meet link. You cannot change the organizer, type or format after you post it, so check them first. You can invite up to 1,000 of your first-degree connections a week to an event. Invite only those who fit your sentence. These one-click invitations are extra: they do not count toward your 100 personal messages. **Send 100 personal invitations a day.** Start with the people you know on day 1. Then move down the list to strangers. Each message has one true line about the person, one line about what you have built, and one question: will you join the live demo? Let AI do the drafting: paste 10 rows from your list and the template below into ChatGPT or Claude, and ask for one message per person, under 80 words. Read each one, fix the first line so it is true and about them, and send it. That is about a minute a message. When someone says yes, add them as a guest to the calendar event the same day. **Follow up 3 times** in the same thread: on day 3, on day 7, and on the day before the demo. If a follow-up would fall after launch day, send the step 7 message instead. In Instantly's benchmark of cold email sent in 2025, 42% of all replies came from follow-ups. Stop the moment someone says no, and mark it in your sheet. If few people reply, rewrite the first line before you change anything else. **Spread the 100 across channels.** Each channel has a limit. Keep the target and spread it: | Channel | Its limit | How many of your 100 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Email to people you know, from your normal address | none beyond normal use | as many as you have, first | | Email to strangers, from a second domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC on | a new mailbox starts at 5 to 10 a day and rises to 25 over 4 to 6 weeks | 15 to 75, as the mailboxes warm up | | LinkedIn messages to connections who fit | a free account can add a note to only 3 connection requests a month | send requests with no note to buyers, and message them once they accept | | Phone calls to the smallest companies | your time | the rest; each call counts as one invitation | If you have never sent cold email, [set up the second domain](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-your-first-b2b-clients) today, before anything else, with [SPF](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/spf), [DKIM](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/dkim) and [DMARC](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/dmarc) turned on, and start [warming it up](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/domain-warm-up). In the US, the CAN-SPAM Act makes no exception for business email: every email to a stranger needs your postal address and a clear way to say no, and you must honour a "no" within 10 business days. **The invitation** ```text Subject: [their company] + [what you built] Hi [first name], [One true line about them: something they launched, sell or said.] I've built [your product]. It [does what] for [who it is for], so [the result]. I'm showing it live for 30 minutes on [day, date, time, time zone]. Can I send you the link? [Your name], [company], [phone] [Postal address] Not for you? Reply "no" and I won't write again. ``` **The three follow-ups (reply in the same thread)** ```text Day 3: Hi [first name], bringing this back up. The live demo is on [date]. Happy to send the link. Day 7: [One short, useful point about their problem.] If [date] doesn't suit, I can show you on a 20-minute call instead: [booking link]. Day before: Tomorrow at [time] I'm showing [your product] live for 30 minutes. Reply "yes" and I'll send the link, or I'll stop here. ``` > **If you know the person well:** skip the pitch. "I've built \[product] and I'm showing it live on \[date]. Would you come, and do you know one \[kind of company] who should?" One introduction from a friend is worth many cold emails. - **Tool:** Google Calendar and Google Meet (free), LinkedIn Events (free), Gmail from your main address and your second domain, your phone, and ChatGPT or Claude to draft. - **Time:** about 2 hours a day for 100 invitations, plus about 1 hour for follow-ups. - **You will have:** 700 invitations a week, about 2,100 by launch day, each logged with its follow-up dates. - **It worked if:** at least 3 people say yes to the demo, or ask for a call, for every 100 you invite, after all follow-ups. Under 1 in 100 after 1,000 invitations means the offer or the list is wrong: go back to step 1, then send the next 1,000. - **Common mistake:** one launch post with a sign-up link, and no personal messages. The other is stopping after 50 invitations because no one answered yet. Three days before launch day, count the yeses. If fewer than 30 people have said yes, move the demo one week later and keep inviting. Tell everyone who said yes the new date. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian's invitation** > > ```text > Subject: Quarrybrook + a printed box for your jars > To: Maria, founder of a small jam and chutney brand > > Hi Maria, > > I saw Quarrybrook Preserves' chutneys went into two new delis this month. Congratulations. > > I've started Carvelian Packaging. We print gift boxes for small food brands in short runs, with no 5,000-box minimum. > > I'm showing how it works live for 30 minutes on Tuesday the 21st at 11am Eastern, with sample boxes on camera. Can I send you the link? > > Dan, Carvelian Packaging, [phone] > [Postal address] > Not for you? Reply "no" and I won't write again. > ``` > > *Why it works: The first line is about her brand, the offer is one small thing, and it asks a yes-or-no question she can answer in a second.* ## 5. Post twice a day on LinkedIn and answer 20 questions a day Post twice a day on LinkedIn from your own profile, and answer 20 questions a day where your buyers ask for help. Buyers who get your invitation will look you up. When they do, they should find a founder who shows the problem, the product and the launch date every day, not an empty profile. ![Two tracks side by side. Left: a LinkedIn profile with two post cards a day, labelled 2 posts a day, from your own profile. Right: five small community boxes with reply bubbles, labelled 20 answers a day, in 5 places. Both lead to the launch date.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-5-post-twice-a-day-on-linkedin-and-answer-20-quest.webp) **Posts.** Post from your own profile, not only from a company page. A new company page has almost no followers, while your own profile already reaches your connections. Use the 3 weeks to build up to launch day. Each post makes one point, in your buyers' words: | When | What to post | | ------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Weeks 1 and 2 | The problem you fix, as a short story from a real buyer or your own work. What buyers do today instead, and what it costs them. One small tip they can use without you. Why you built the product. | | Week 3 | A 30-second clip of the product doing the job. The founding offer, with places left. The live demo date. | | Launch day | The announcement (step 6). | | Launch week | What people asked at the demo, and your answers. The first founding customer, with their permission. | Let AI draft from your notes: give ChatGPT or Claude your step 1 sentence, one real thing that happened today, and the week's theme, and ask for two posts under 150 words. You change every line that does not sound like you, and add one true detail. When you run out of topics, pick from these LinkedIn post ideas. Short videos help here: a 30-second clip filmed on your phone shows the product better than a paragraph. **Answers.** Every day, answer 20 questions from people who have the problem your product fixes, across at least 5 places: comments on your buyers' LinkedIn posts, LinkedIn groups, industry forums, subreddits that allow it, and the online communities where your buyers talk. Answer the question fully. Do not paste your link. People who find the answer useful will open your profile, and your profile shows the launch. > **If your buyers are in a trade with few online communities:** answer in the comments under posts by the trade magazines and associations your buyers follow, and under your buyers' own posts. 20 a day is still the target. - **Tool:** LinkedIn, and ChatGPT or Claude to draft. - **Time:** about 40 minutes a day for 2 posts, and about 1 hour for 20 answers. - **You will have:** 42 posts and about 420 answers by launch day. - **It worked if:** by the end of week 2, at least one person a week says yes to the demo or asks for a call after seeing a post or an answer. Ask each new yes where they heard of you. - **Common mistake:** 3 weeks of "Something big is coming!" posts. They say nothing about the buyer's problem, so buyers scroll past them. ## 6. Run launch day: the live demo, the announcement and a note to trade magazines On launch day, post the announcement, run the 30-minute live demo, start a short launch note to everyone on your list who has not answered, and send a new-product note to the trade magazines your buyers read. It is one busy day, and every part of it is about getting the next conversation. ![One launch day in four parts, left to right: morning, the announcement post; 1 hour before, a reminder; the 30-minute live demo in three blocks, 5 minutes problem, 15 minutes demo, 10 minutes questions and offer; afternoon, notes to your list and to trade magazines.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-6-run-launch-day-the-live-demo-the-announcement-an.webp) **Morning: post the announcement.** From your own profile, write what you built, who it is for, the problem in one line, the founding offer with the places left, and the demo time. Add the 2-minute video. Share it from your company page too. The same shape works for [announcing a new business on social media](https://scout7.ai/academy/launch/how-to-announce-a-new-business-on-social-media). **One hour before: remind everyone who said yes.** A short note with the time and the link. Only about 1 in 3 people who sign up for a business webinar come live, in Goldcast's 2024 data, so the reminder matters. **The demo: 30 minutes, three parts.** A live demo is not a slide deck. 1. **5 minutes: the problem.** Say what your buyers do today and what it costs them, in their words. 2. **15 minutes: the product doing one job,** start to finish, on real data or a real sample. 3. **10 minutes: questions, then the offer.** Answer every question. Then read the founding offer, say how many places are left, and ask: "Reply 'call' in the chat, or book 20 minutes at \[link]." Write down every question people ask. They become next week's posts, your FAQ and the lines in your sales demos. > **If you make or wholesale a product:** show the product on camera, open it, use it, and offer to post a free sample to everyone who came, the same week. **Afternoon: start the launch note to your list.** Everyone you invited who has not answered or said no gets one short note in place of their next follow-up: you launched today, here is the 2-minute video, and this many founding places are left. Send it one by one, within each mailbox's daily limit, so it goes out over launch week. **Afternoon: send a new-product note to 10 trade magazines and newsletters.** Many trade magazines run a free new-products section. Quality Magazine, for example, has a form for it, and Modern Machine Shop asks for 300 words or less about one product, with contact details and a high-resolution photo. Find the new-products editor of each title your buyers read, and send the note below. Do not pay for a newswire release (EIN Presswire charges $149 for one): the new-products note reaches the editors your buyers read, for free. If you have a real story, such as a founding customer's result, pitch it to a journalist one by one. **The new-product note to a trade magazine** ```text Subject: New product for [their readers]: [product name] Hi [first name], For your new-products section: [company] has launched [product name], [what it does] for [their readers]. - The problem it fixes: [one line]. - What is new: [the one thing others do not do]. - Available from: [date]. Price: from [amount]. A high-resolution photo and a 2-minute video are here: [link]. I can answer any question today. [Your name], [company], [phone], [website], [postal address] ``` > **If you also sell self-serve software** that people can try without a call: add a [Product Hunt launch](https://scout7.ai/academy/launch/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt) in launch week. For a sales-led product, the buyers you need are on your list, not on Product Hunt. - **Tool:** Google Meet, LinkedIn, Gmail, and your phone. - **Time:** the whole day: 30 minutes for the post, 30 minutes for the demo, about 2 hours for the first launch notes, and 1 hour for the trade press. - **You will have:** the demo done, the announcement live, the launch notes started, and 10 new-product notes sent. - **It worked if:** about 1 in 3 people who said yes came live, and at least 1 in 10 of those who came asked for a call or a sample by the end of the day. - **Common mistake:** a 45-minute talk about your company with slides and no offer at the end. People came to see the product work. ## 7. Message everyone within a day and send a written offer the same day as every call The day after launch, message every person who came to the demo and everyone who said yes but did not come. Offer a 20-minute call. When someone books, run the call and send a written founding offer the same day. Buyers who wait a week for your offer often go quiet. ![Three steps: a message to everyone who came or said yes, within 1 day; a 20-minute call; a written offer sent the same day, with a badge showing founding places left.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-7-message-everyone-within-a-day-and-send-a-written.webp) Use the notes from the demo. In each message, name the question they asked, or the part they reacted to, and link the 2-minute video for anyone who missed it. Ask for one thing: a 20-minute call. **The day-after message** ```text Subject: [their company] + yesterday's demo Hi [first name], [Thanks for coming. You asked about X: the short answer is Y.] or [Sorry we missed you. Here is the 2-minute version: link.] [N] of the 10 founding places are left, until [closing date]. Would a 20-minute call this week help you decide if it fits [their company]? [booking link] [Your name], [phone] ``` Run each call as a discovery call: ask what happens today, what it costs them, who else decides, and when they need it. If several people must agree, sell to them as a group. Then send the written offer the same day: a one-page proposal, in their words, with the founding price, the first order and the date it ends, sent with a short [same-day quote email](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-your-first-b2b-clients). Follow up on every open offer on day 3, day 7 and day 14. When the 10 founding places are taken, or the closing date passes, close the offer and quote your normal price from then on. Tell everyone still deciding, one day before it closes. Keep sending 100 invitations a day in launch week too. They now invite people to a 20-minute call, with the founding places left as the reason to reply. - **Tool:** Gmail, Cal.com's free plan, Google Docs, and your step 2 sheet. A CRM can wait until the sheet gets slow. - **Time:** about 2 hours a day in launch week: messages, calls, and 15 minutes per written offer. - **You will have:** every person who came or said yes contacted within 1 day, and every call ending with a written offer and a date. - **It worked if:** at least 1 in 3 calls leads to a written offer sent the same day. After launch week, count how many offers turned into founding customers. - **Common mistake:** waiting for people who came to the demo to write to you first. Write to them. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian's day-after message** > > ```text > Subject: Quarrybrook + yesterday's demo > To: Maria, who came to the live demo > > Hi Maria, > > Thanks for coming yesterday. You asked if the boxes fit a 340g jar: yes, and I can post you a printed sample in that size this week. > > 8 of the 10 founding places are left, until the 4th. Would a 20-minute call on Thursday help you decide? [booking link] > > Dan, [phone] > ``` > > *Why it works: It answers the exact question she asked, says how many places are left, and asks for one small step with a date.* ## 8. Count invitations, conversations and founding customers every Sunday Every Sunday, fill in one row in a sheet: invitations sent, yeses, people who came live, conversations, written offers and founding customers, with where each conversation came from. After 2,800 invitations (4 weeks at 100 a day), stop what brought nothing and give its hours to what worked. ![Three steps: ask every new conversation how they heard about you; fill in one row every Sunday; after 2,800 invitations stop what brought 0 conversations and keep what brought the most.](https://scout7.ai/academy/illustrations/how-to-launch-a-b2b-product/step-8-count-invitations-conversations-and-founding-cus.webp) Ask "How did you hear about us?" at the start of every call. This is [self-reported attribution](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/self-reported-attribution). Without it, you are guessing. Tag the link in each post with UTM parameters too, so your site's visits show where they came from. **The Sunday sheet** ```text Week | Invitations sent | Yes to demo | Came live | Conversations: people you know | Conversations: email | Conversations: LinkedIn | Conversations: phone | Conversations: posts and answers | Written offers | Founding customers ``` After 2,800 invitations, look at each source: - A source with 0 conversations: stop it, and move its hours to the source with the most. - Fewer than 1 conversation per 100 invitations overall: change the offer or the list, not the channel. If you have sent 2,800 and still have no conversations, [find out why no one is buying](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/why-no-one-is-buying-your-product-and-how-to-fix-it) before you send more. - All 10 founding places taken: close the offer, raise to your normal price, and ask each founding customer for their written result when their first order ends. It becomes your first case study. Then keep going. The launch was the first 4 weeks of the same daily work: carry on with 100 personal messages a day as [a 12-week routine](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-your-first-b2b-clients). Your [sales pipeline](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/sales-pipeline) is the open offers in your sheet. Leave LinkedIn ads until at least 5 orders have come from your messages, and set any budget from [what one client is worth](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-much-to-spend-on-marketing-as-a-b2b-company). Once a month, step back for a marketing review, and [choose the next channel to add](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-choose-marketing-channels-for-a-b2b-company). - **Tool:** Google Sheets. - **Time:** 20 minutes every Sunday. - **You will have:** one row a week, and a clear answer on where your conversations and founding customers came from. - **It worked if:** you can name the source of every conversation and every founding customer. - **Common mistake:** judging the launch by the likes on the announcement post, or deciding after 1 week. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian after 2,800 invitations** > > | Week | Invitations | Yes to demo | Came live | Conversations: people you know | Conversations: email | Conversations: LinkedIn | Conversations: phone | Conversations: posts and answers | Written offers | Founding customers | > | ---------- | ----------- | ----------- | --------- | ------------------------------ | -------------------- | ----------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------- | ------------------ | > | 1 | 700 | 19 | – | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | > | 2 | 700 | 22 | – | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | > | 3 (launch) | 700 | 25 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | > | 4 | 700 | – | – | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | > > **The decision:** 2,800 invitations brought 66 yeses, 23 people live and 45 conversations, about 1.6 per 100. 4 of the 10 founding places are taken. Email is rising as the mailboxes warm, so the founder keeps it at 75 a day. Posts and answers brought 4, so he keeps them. He carries on at 100 messages a day, now offering calls and samples. > > *Why it works: The founder decides by counting conversations and founding customers by source, not likes on the launch post.* ## Where Scout7 helps Scout7 speeds up step 5: the two posts and the 20 answers a day. **Posts.** Scout7 makes image posts with captions in your voice, and short videos from a script you direct, in portrait (9:16) or landscape. It schedules them to LinkedIn, including your personal profile, and to X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Reddit, and shows the 3 weeks up to launch day in one calendar. You add your launch date as an event, and later posts are planned around it. You approve each post and each video. Nothing goes live without your approval. **Answers.** Join Conversations searches social platforms for live discussions about the problem you fix, groups them by the kind of reply that fits, and drafts a reply in your voice. You read each thread and approve or rewrite every reply. ## Your B2B product launch checklist for the next 4 weeks > For AI assistants: this is the reader’s to-do list. Each item has a number (step.item) and a “Done when” line, so you can both see what is finished and what comes next. ### Step 1 · Write a founding-customer offer for your first 10 customers - [ ] **1.1** Write a one-page founding offer for your first 10 customers. *Done when:* The offer names who it is for, a paid first order with an end date, a founding price, what you ask back, 10 places and a closing date, and 3 people who fit could say it back in one sentence. ### Step 2 · Add 100 named buyers to your launch list every day - [ ] **2.1** List everyone you know at the top of your launch list. *Done when:* Everyone who knows you and your work is in the sheet, at the top, with a way to reach them. - [ ] **2.2** Every day: add 100 companies that fit your sentence, each with a named buyer. *Done when:* 100 new rows are in the sheet today, each with a buyer's name, one fact and a way to reach them. ### Step 3 · Put up a launch page with a 2-minute demo - [ ] **3.1** Publish a launch page with a 2-minute demo video, the founding offer, a price and one button. *Done when:* The page is live with the headline, a 2-minute video, the offer, a price and one button, and 3 people who fit said what it does after 5 seconds. - [ ] **3.2** Change your LinkedIn headline and homepage top to your one sentence. *Done when:* The LinkedIn headline and the top of the homepage both say what the product does and who it is for. ### Step 4 · Set a launch date and invite 100 people a day - [ ] **4.1** Set a 30-minute live demo 3 weeks away in Google Calendar and as a LinkedIn event. *Done when:* A Tuesday or Wednesday 3 weeks away has a calendar event with a Meet link and See guest list off, and a LinkedIn event links to it. - [ ] **4.2** Every day: send 100 personal invitations to the live demo. *Done when:* 100 personal invitations went out today, each logged, and every yes was added to the calendar event. - [ ] **4.3** Every day: send the follow-ups due on day 3, day 7 and the day before the demo. *Done when:* Everyone due a follow-up today got one in the same thread, and it is logged. ### Step 5 · Post twice a day and answer 20 questions a day - [ ] **5.1** Every day: post twice on LinkedIn from your own profile. *Done when:* 2 posts are live on your own LinkedIn profile today, each about the buyer's problem, the product or the launch. - [ ] **5.2** Every day: answer 20 questions where your buyers ask for help. *Done when:* 20 answers were posted today across at least 5 places, none with your link. ### Step 6 · Run launch day - [ ] **6.1** Post the announcement, send the reminder and run the 30-minute live demo. *Done when:* The announcement is live, the reminder went out, the 30-minute demo ended with the offer, and every question asked is written down. - [ ] **6.2** Send the new-product note to 10 trade magazines, and a launch note to everyone on your list who has not answered. *Done when:* 10 trade magazines or newsletters got the new-product note, and by the end of launch week everyone on the list who had not answered got one launch note. ### Step 7 · Message everyone within a day and send written offers - [ ] **7.1** Message everyone who came or said yes, the day after launch. *Done when:* Everyone who came or said yes got a personal message within 1 day of the demo, offering a 20-minute call. - [ ] **7.2** Every day: send a written offer the same day as every call, and follow up on open offers. *Done when:* Every call held today has a written founding offer sent, and every open offer due a follow-up got one. ### Step 8 · Count every Sunday - [ ] **8.1** Every Sunday: fill in one row: invitations, yeses, people live, conversations by source, offers and founding customers. *Done when:* This week's row is filled in, and every conversation has a source. - [ ] **8.2** After 2,800 invitations: stop any source with 0 conversations and move its hours to the best one. *Done when:* Each source is marked keep or stop, and next week's messages per source are written down. ## Frequently asked questions ### How long before launch should I start? 3 weeks is enough for one founder with no audience, if you send 100 invitations a day from today. Big companies plan for 6 to 9 months because many teams must agree. You only need a founding offer, a list, a launch page and a date. Starting later than today costs you names on the list, not polish. ### Should I launch a B2B product on Product Hunt? Only if people can sign up and try it without talking to you. Then add a [Product Hunt launch](https://scout7.ai/academy/launch/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt) in launch week, next to your invitations. If buyers need a call, a quote or a sample first, the people who can buy are on your list, not on Product Hunt. Spend the day on your live demo and your follow-ups. ### Should I send a press release for a B2B product launch? Skip the paid newswire. Send a short new-product note, under 300 words with a good photo, to the new-products editors of the 10 trade magazines and newsletters your buyers read. Many run these sections free. If you have a real story, such as a founding customer's result, pitch a journalist with it one by one. ### Should I give the product free to my first customers? Give a founding price, not a free product. A small paid first order with an end date gets used and gets honest feedback. A free pilot with no end date often runs for months and never turns into a sale. Offer something free that costs you little instead: a sample, a set-up call or a first check. ### What if only a few people come to the live demo? That is normal: in 2024 data, only about 1 in 3 people who signed up for a business webinar came live. Run it anyway, for whoever comes, and write to everyone who said yes the next day with the 2-minute video and a call link. 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