Day 11 of getting 10 paying customers: first FIDE-rated tournament (won 4 of 5), and my first no-show

Day 11. Most of the day went to my first FIDE-rated chess tournament, a rapid event. I won 4 of my 5 games, and by my own calculation the first rating should land around 1475. It's official on the 1st of next month, so don't hold me to it. For a beginner starting out with a rating, I'll take it. Then the real life of a launch push: I came back and found someone had booked a discovery call for tonight at 11pm. I got properly excited. It was the first booked call of this challenge. They didn't show up It was a personal Gmail, with no product link, so I knew almost nothing about them before the call. I've followed up to let them rebook. The call I have on Monday is still on. What ran while I was away \- LinkedIn kept going on its own: 30 invites today. 118 invited in total, 7 connected, 0 replies. \- The first follow-up questions went to the people who accepted. Numbers after Day 11 \- Paying customers: 0 \- Calls booked: 2 (1 no-show, 1 on Monday) \- LinkedIn: 118 invited, 7 connected, 0 replies \- X DMs: 31 sent, 5 replies \- Cold email: 69 sent, 4 replies, all no A question for you: should I only take bookings from work emails? I don't want to be strung along by people who aren't buyers. My instinct is that a work-email rule would turn away real solo founders, and a better filter is asking for the product link and the one task they want done. What do you use, and has anything cut your no-shows? Next: back to work tomorrow, and Monday's call. Later I'll probably write a post on chess for beginners, since a few of you asked.