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  1. DoWhatWorks

    "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a STUPID book

    Couldn't agree more. It's shocking how much that overrated book is recommended. Chiming in on " what about the upcoming young guy with nothing to offer" I think we are missing that there are so many ways to be useful: - Being a young guy who knows nothing, but spends time looking at someone's...
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    Are client emails, Slack, iMessage + WhatsApp driving you mad?

    FEEDBACK 
    Thank you for the feedback. I think we overestimate how technically savvy most people are... I'm in mastermind groups where 7-figure agency owners don't know how to use N8N This is helpful - appreciate it. I'm building this for myself first and foremost as it's a genuine pain for my agency...
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    Are client emails, Slack, iMessage + WhatsApp driving you mad?

    FEEDBACK 
    I got sick of my clients using Slack where my team are and instead email, WhatsApp, or iMessage me. I built a tool so that when clients email me, it goes to a group Slack channel, and when my team replies, the client gets an email from me. Future updates will include WhatsApp, SMS, and...
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    Why you should care about no-code SaaS tools

    - AI - 
    I'll be honest, I was the biggest hater of no-code SaaS tools. I thought it was just a fun toy, and people were just wasting their time and or promoting to make affiliate sales. But over the past three months, I have completely changed my mind. And for context, I run a six figure content agency...
  5. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    Business Growth & Net Client Ratio On my last update I was at 8K a month. Now I’m back to 10.1K a month. It's been a hell of a journey, but long story short, I had some churn and thanks to the help of my mentor I realized my biggest bottleneck was increasing my net client ratio. I've been...
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    How are you guys beating the social media addiction?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    After years of trial & error this is the best system I've come up with: 1. Buy brick (I'm not affiliated) 2. Buy a timer safe from amazon Each evening "brick" a.k.a block all time-wasting apps from my phone by tapping on the brick. Then put the the brick into the safe and put a timer on it so...
  7. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    Revenue Update and Forecast Adjustment In terms of revenue, my plan to go from 8.1k to 10.5k has been impacted. I am now forecasting to go from 8.1k to 9.3k. Still a move in the right direction. One of the silver linings is there was a client I was expecting to churn. I reminded him that he...
  8. DoWhatWorks

    3x Your Productivity With Wispr Flow

    HOT! - AI - 
    +1 to Wispr Flow - I use this daily! Helps me write LinkedIn content quicker, get Q&A with Chatgpt and even write forum posts!
  9. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    Thanks for following along! Terrible lol, I only updated my website to something I'm not embarrassed about in the last 2 weeks. Sounds interesting but for now I'm more interested in getting outreach dialled in. I like the predictability it brings. Send X messages and get Y clients back...
  10. DoWhatWorks

    I... Have nothing to do in the evenings?

    MINDSET 
    @MRiabov, welcome to the unglamorous, unsexy part of entrepreneurship nobody tells you about. Something I wish people told me earlier is "live long enough to get lucky." Don't go for big swings that will wipe you out if things don't go well, and instead go for small, low-risk bets. For...
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    Retention by Merit (M2M) over Retention by Force (Contracts) …. am I shooting myself in the foot?

    SCALING FEEDBACK 
    Definitely this. The right type of client will see this as reasonable. $99 a month and $99 setup is hard to say no to if they're actually serious. Type of clients who push back on this are future headaches anyway. Get clients through the door then figure out optimizations later. Once they're...
  12. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    Also, I should probably share an update instead of just replying to comments. It's cool to have people following along. As a side note that may be helpful for lurkers, I just use "dictate" mode with ChatGPT, ramble my thoughts, then ask it to re-order with subtitles to make it easier to follow...
  13. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    Nice! I've got a ton of value from you so hope this will be valuable for you in some way. I tried doing the content thing (it's literally my expertise) so I post 2x a week without fail, aside from getting vanity likes and comments, the thing that got me actual booked calls was this Very...
  14. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    Thank you, grateful for the progress but there's more work to do I play the numbers game. From day 1, I outsourced my message sending to VAs who give me the consistent volume needed to get clients. In 2024 for example, I got x1 client every 178 messages sent. Haven't reviewed my 2025 numbers...
  15. DoWhatWorks

    Cracking LinkedIn Personal Branding & Getting Inbound Leads

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Really great thread that I'll be following. Controversial take - I'm 100% pro LinkedIn automation (as long as it's done well!!) Don't think it's realistic for business owners to "build relationships" with loads of conversations that go nowhere. I might be proved wrong, but so far I've had...
  16. DoWhatWorks

    Scaling from $9,600 to $18,564 a month

    SCALING EXECUTION 
    I'm a marketing agency owner (I know way too many of us lol) who scaled from $1,970 to $10,000 a month while working a job which I quit in December 2024. My average monthly revenue last year in 2025 was $9,600 with my peak revenue reaching $11,070. My aim for this year is to nearly double to...
  17. DoWhatWorks

    In 2020's You Must Outperform Inflation

    ASSERTION 
    Very good point, I hadn't considered. Especially as I use and benefit from a lot of these deflationary tools myself like AI daily It's nuanced: the average house cost vs average earnings multiple has increased, so home ownership, for example, has categorically gotten "harder," BUT to your...
  18. DoWhatWorks

    In 2020's You Must Outperform Inflation

    ASSERTION 
    TLDR After hitting and failing to hit some goals this year - here's some reflections: The cost of achieving the same outcomes keeps rising, so improvement is the only rational response. If you can’t beat inflation yet, focus on outperforming your own past results and stack small wins. Use...
  19. DoWhatWorks

    $3,382 in MRR. What's the next best move?

    HOT! SCALING 
    @sonny_1080 I’m going to take a different angle to the others. By your results you obviously know what you’re doing (congrats btw many fail to get to where you have) so issue isn’t skill “Issue” is motivation. Ask yourself what do you want your life to look like in 2, 5 & 10 years time and if...
  20. DoWhatWorks

    Status is overrated, here's what to focus on instead

    MINDSET SLOWLANE 
    Yes, Nike trainers. Most times “good” brands can ship mediocre quality and get away with it based on a (outdated) reputation of previous high quality. Eventually it catches up, like with Nike and rise of adidas & other alternatives like Hoka but often there’s lag time. I’d argue even the...

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