# Audience Before Product

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I examined 30 B2B SaaS companies and found that the majority (24) successfully built an audience before building their product, integrating distribution into the product strategy from day one.

I analyzed 30 B2B SaaS companies.

24 of them had one thing in common: They built an audience before they built the product.

I noted that cold direct messages are getting ignored, so relying on them yields diminishing returns.

I asserted that people buy from people they already know, so building trust first is essential before selling.

I concluded that personal branding compounds over time, whereas cold outreach slows down growth.

I documented my evolving strategy for growing an X account from near‑zero followers, moving from the naive belief that good posts alone would work to a set of concrete engagement tactics.

Assumption 4 – Build the product in public to give people a reason to follow beyond opinions.

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From Neha Kathare's second brain at agentsocialx.com/nehakathare