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  1. Chx

    Scaling an exterior cleaning business

    EXECUTION 
    Most people are viewing these platforms on mobile, so maybe a vertical video that takes up their whole screen will be more engaging and convert higher?
  2. Chx

    Starting (and Fastlaning) a lawn care service business

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Johnny can you expand on why you don't believe in dreaming or planning for the future?
  3. Chx

    Yet another marketing agency progress thread..

    MARKETING 
    Amazing progress. Did the SaaS idea come from a problem you personally faced while building the agency/info product biz, or did you discover that painful need in other ways?
  4. Chx

    Journey to $10k/mo and Beyond...

    EXECUTION 
    Correct, that’s one of the downsides of the coaching model. No recurring revenue built-in, you always have to be acquiring new customers. That career coaching operation for example, I saw some wild fluctuations in their revenue - $120k some months, $20k other months But still, for that $20k...
  5. Chx

    Journey to $10k/mo and Beyond...

    EXECUTION 
    You're usually going to be selling a coaching program that is some number of months long, with a desired result and process attached to it. Here is a real example of one that I worked with Audience: Corporate 9-5ers who lost their job or want to switch jobs Program length: 6 months Desired...
  6. Chx

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    That's great! What message did you put on the brick?
  7. Chx

    Journey to $10k/mo and Beyond...

    EXECUTION 
    I've done some work in the coaching space both as a sales rep and as a copywriter - and as a copywriter, my best launch for a client's coaching program did $320,000 in 2 months - so I know a bit here. The two problems of (A) some coaching clients take no action so you can't help them and (B)...
  8. Chx

    LOVABLE is Magic. Now need help with marketing

    HOT! - AI - 
    Somewhat - I got one of his courses for free as an add-on in some bundle I bought a long time ago. Are you?
  9. Chx

    LOVABLE is Magic. Now need help with marketing

    HOT! - AI - 
    I run a cold email lead generation service business, and these numbers are not realistic. For exceptional offerings that really stand out in a prospect’s inbox, a 1:100 or 1:200 contact-to-lead ratio would be reasonable. For more commoditized or saturated offerings like web design it could...
  10. Chx

    Boston / New England

    MEETUPS 
    I'm in Boston and would be down for a meetup.
  11. Chx

    Mind blown: Lovable for no-code website development and apps.

    HOT! - AI - 
    To summarize your argument. You are saying that: TODAY, AI can do certain things like: Make images (Nano Banana, GPT-image, etc) Entertain people with funny chats (c.ai, replika, etc) Help kids in school cheat (gpt, youlearn, etc) Provide advice (albeit often hallucinatory) Create code...
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    Mind blown: Lovable for no-code website development and apps.

    HOT! - AI - 
    If you're referring to the millions raised - no, I wouldn't want to trade places with them. They need to return those millions to investors before they can take any money out of the company for themselves, and they won't know for 5-10 years whether they exit for $0 or for millions. I am no...
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    Mind blown: Lovable for no-code website development and apps.

    HOT! - AI - 
    An example on the point about Need/value: a friend of a friend raised millions of dollars to build this company, an AI that speeds up spreadsheet work. As someone who does a lot of spreadsheet work, their idea sounded great to me. But once they launched their product and I tried it, I quickly...
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    Mind blown: Lovable for no-code website development and apps.

    HOT! - AI - 
    Undoubtedly the shovel-sellers like Cursor, Lovable, and the AI providers themselves will make millions/billions in the current rush. But in my opinion starting an AI wrapper business or vibe coded SaaS is a major violation of Control, Entry, and Need: Control - has already been discussed in...
  15. Chx

    It’s been a while since I beat up on freelancing… Where are you today?

    ASSERTION SIDE HUSTLE 
    For me, yes: 15 - joined FLF 16-18 - freelance copywriting 19-21 - cold email agency 22- (current) - scalable SaaS venture I definitely couldn’t have started my current business at 15. Freelancing/agency taught me sales, marketing, fulfillment, retention, a bit of hiring, etc. But in...
  16. Chx

    Bottom of Sales Funnel FAILING and I Don't Know Why or How

    FEEDBACK 
    There are certain products where marketing is as simple as getting a bunch of eyeballs and converting a % of them with a product page. These would be simple products that people are already looking for, so no pitch is required: clothing, food, beauty products, etc. Yours is not one of those...
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    Bottom of Sales Funnel FAILING and I Don't Know Why or How

    FEEDBACK 
    My first impression is that you’re asking people to pay before having any sense of what their book will look like and say — this might be too much resistance to buy. Why not let them go through the design experience first — or at least the first few steps of it — before the paywall?
  19. Chx

    University /IS/ dogma...

    SLOWLANE 
    If your cooking device does what you claim it can do, you should have no problem getting a pre-seed (500k-2m) check from VC investors. VCs are actively looking to invest in disruptive technology that can turn into 10B+ companies. And they often invest pre-product or pre-revenue, which it seems...
  20. Chx

    Ravens Guide to Leading With Ruthless Integrity

    PEOPLE SCALING EXECUTION 
    Gold as always. How do you handle situations where you have to choose between (A) doing right by one person / a few people or (B) the best long term interest of the company? I've had situations in the past few weeks where I'd promise a user X feature by Y date. Then it would be the day before...

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