AppyBee

Jan Donmez is the Founder & CEO of AppyBee.

📩 Contact Jan Donmez on Tela:
https://tela.app/id/jan_donmez

🤝 Add Jan Donmez on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jandonmez

Pictured: Jan Donmez presenting AppyBee in this demo video [Dutch]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8VI7mUhIM

👉 AppyBee in one sentence:

AppyBee helps trainers and gyms to manage their fitness businesses with a customized app that handles bookings, memberships, schedules, invoicing, and payments.

🟢 Schedule a free demo of AppyBee:
https://appybee.nl/en/demo

👉 AppyBee in more detail:

🔹 Customizable fitness app for trainers and gyms
🔹 500+ gyms and trainers already work efficiently with AppyBee
🔹 Customers can schedule themselves
🔹 Group lessons
🔹 Season tickets & day passes
🔹 Online payments and direct debits
🔹 Access control with QR codes

🟢 AppyBee: Main website
https://appybee.nl/en

📺 AppyBee demo video [Dutch], presented by Jan Donmez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8VI7mUhIM

✅ AppyBee reviews on Trustindex:
https://www.trustindex.io/reviews/www.appybee.nl

☕️ Follow AppyBee on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/appybeenl

📸 Follow AppyBee on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/appybee.online

Jan Donmez's feedback, ideas, and suggestions:

A message fee filters for serious people, which is great.

The crypto wallet requirement is a barrier. Lots of people don't have one.
-- Need to help them along. More guidance articles, videos, links.
-- Repeat some guidance provided by Metamask. E.g. link to Metamask's intro video.
-- Advise users to pin Metamask.

During setup, the Metamask popups (login and sign-verification) did not appear properly. They were hidden by the browser. Why ? How to guarantee that they appear above the browser, or at least can be found ?

Suggestion: A LinkedIn plugin that provides templates for replies.

Produce a demo video, in which you personally appear and guide a client through the app. Include chapters in the video for specific aspects of the app. Then, if you're on a call with someone, you can ask them to jump to a specific chapter and watch it. You explain that you'll stay on the call and continue with them afterwards. This means that you don't have to repeat yourself infinitely - you can let the video handle that.
-- Recommended tools: Camtasia, Wistia.

Tela looks nice - but not sexy. Hire a designer.

He would like "inbound communicators" to be filtered by message fee... but he doesn't want this to apply to a client or a friend. Something along the lines of "Hey, new business contacts, contact me on Tela" would be good.

My thoughts from the setup session:

Need to show users how to be sure that the wallet account has been connected to the website tela.app

When a user is starting a chat, show the other person's message price.

At 100 EUR / hour for Jan's time, and assuming that in one hour of chat conversation with someone he can send 30 messages and receive 30 messages (i.e. one message per minute during the chat), then:
100 EUR / 30 messages = 3.33 EUR / message ~= $4 / message
-- So Jan's message price is $4.

Template messages:

Example default reply to a direct message:

Hi there. I am available for chat but only on Tela:
https://tela.app/id/stjohn_piano/7b90ed

Jan thought for a while and wrote this response template:

Due to an overwhelming number of contact requests regarding business opportunities, please reach out to me directly on Tela if you're interested in discussing a potential sales opportunity. I appreciate your understanding and look forward to connecting. Contact me on Tela.
https://tela.app/id/jan_donmez

Jan showed me his LinkedIn inbox. It was full of messages from business development people. They don't just send one message. They keep going until they get a response. Some of them are using automated tools with a pre-programmed message sequence.

Jan replied to all of them with his new default response. His thinking is that this will cause them to either stop or contact him on Tela.

Jan's further thoughts on template messages:

1) These template message are useful. Try to expand them further. Put more emphasis on using them.

2) Add an extra link to an explainer page about Tela
- What is Tela ?
- Include a 1-minute video.
- Why is the person responding with this message instead of replying directly ?
- Emphasize that the responder will pay more attention to messages that come through Tela.
- An invitation: "Hey, by the way - would you also like to use Tela yourself ?"

Jan's experience of inbox overload:

Here's a sample (anonymized) message series in Jan's inbox:

Hi Jan, happy to connect here.

Hi Jan, thanks for connecting. How AppyBee development is going? I remember you told the way how we at CompanyX get things done resonated with your vision. So maybe it's time to catch up, what say you?:)

Hi Jan, I'm glad to see AppyBee growing. Let me know if you need a developer and a QA specialist to get ready for the next board meeting. Have a great day ahead!

Hi Jan, how is your Q4 going? :)

I want to invite you to our upcoming webinar [LinkedIn link]: Tech upgrade: 5 things to consider before the kick off. Any technology implementation starts with careful preparation. In this session, we unveil firsthand insights from the crucial aspects of tech upgrades.

PersonA will talk about real cases and what's new to consider in 2024. 👏 👍 😊

Here's another message series:

Hi Jan,
Hope, everything is fine 🙂
I'm PersonB. I work for a Ukrainian IT company. We are planning to partially relocate the business to the Netherlands.
Looking forward to extending my network and some advice would be great!
Thanks!

Hi Jan,

Thank you for accepting my invitation!

Our Co-Founder is planning a business trip to Rotterdam, so I would be glad to arrange a meeting with you if that's okay.

We are mainly interested in learning about the business culture in the Netherlands, the IT job market, and current sales and software development trends.

Could you please help?

Best,

PersonB

Hi Jan,

I'm sorry to bother you, please, let me know if you don't want any questions. We are new in the Netherlands and trying to get some advice from the local professionals. Will much appreciate your feedback.

We can also arrange a Zoom meeting to get acquainted.

Thanks!

Hi Jan,

If I've reached out at the wrong time, could you please follow my company page here? So, we can be in touch.

[LinkedIn company link]

Have a great day!

Jan has the same experience on his business email account. He forwarded me an example email chain, to which he had responded with his Tela link reply message.

Hey Jan,

We are a Design Agency that specializes in collaborating with companies like AppyBee by extending the support of our 50+ experienced Graphic Designers.

Our experts are proficient in premium tools like Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Figma, etc. and can help you with Print Design, Logo Design, Brochure Design, Web Design, App design and much more.

Jan would you be interested in learning more?

I would love an opportunity to showcase our past work and address your questions.

Best,
PersonC

Hi Jan,
I apologize for the email again.
I wanted to follow up on my previous email. I understand you could be busy.
If yes, we'd love to share our relevant work samples
Thanks
PersonC

Inspired by Jan, I have developed my own reply template:

Due to the overwhelming number of messages regarding business opportunities that I receive, please contact me on Tela. Each message requires a fee. This protects my attention and my time from the wider Internet.

Tela is my priority public contact point. I appreciate your understanding and look forward to a discussion. Here's my Tela contact link:

https://www.tela.app/id/stjohn_piano

If you would like to use Tela to reduce your inbox overload, you can sign up here:
https://tela.app/id/stjohn_piano/0ef3ab

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