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It’s been a while since I beat up on freelancing… Where are you today?
ASSERTION SIDE HUSTLEFor 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...- Chx
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- Forum: Side Hustles, Freelancing, Web Design
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Bottom of Sales Funnel FAILING and I Don't Know Why or How
FEEDBACKThere 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...- Chx
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Bottom of Sales Funnel FAILING and I Don't Know Why or How
FEEDBACKMy 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?- Chx
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- Forum: General Business Discussion
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University /IS/ dogma...
SLOWLANEIf 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...- Chx
- Post #8
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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Ravens Guide to Leading With Ruthless Integrity
PEOPLE SCALING EXECUTIONGold 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...- Chx
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Most Billionaires Don't Change The World
SUCCESS!Why did you drop the invention after 9 months of innovation and solving problems? It seems like you were on the cusp of making something marketable.- Chx
- Post #30
- Forum: Business Models, Niches, Industries
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Test my Voice AI for insurance agents
SCALINGMakes sense. Also, have you seen Hamming - Automated testing for Voice Agents ? They launched recently, their product is supposed to help with testing and fine tuning voice agents. I tried out their demo and it was pretty neat.- Chx
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Test my Voice AI for insurance agents
SCALINGI tested it. I sold Final Expense a few years ago via cold calls so my feedback would be: - opener is exactly what I used to do... "hey is this NAME?" - I didn't love how it handled "not interested". It said "ok, what would be a better time to chat then?" vs. as an agent I would have said...- Chx
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- Forum: General Business Discussion
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Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread
HOT! CHATThought this would stump ChatGPT... I was wrong.- Chx
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Moved across the country alone and living in a car. Update thread until stability
HOT! MINDSET EXECUTIONCurious to hear @Ravens_Shadow thoughts on the timeframe to build a software product - if I remember correctly, he had no programming background and built an MVP in 1 month which has now become a successful company.- Chx
- Post #60
- Forum: General Business Discussion
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Michia Rohrssen (Co-Founder of Prodigy Software, sold to Upstart for ~$110m)
GURUSAwesome you were able to connect with him. Here’s a question that’s top of mind for me, if you could send it to him: In a recent video you (Michia) suggested spending 2-3 months on the idea/market before starting the business. If you were to start a new software company from 0, what...- Chx
- Post #24
- Forum: Gurus, Coaches, and Trainers
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Michia Rohrssen (Co-Founder of Prodigy Software, sold to Upstart for ~$110m)
GURUSGot some snippets from an archive of his website. IMO, this is a masterclass in value skew. He didn't make the next Facebook or ChatGPT, he's just helping car dealerships make a bunch of money and save a bunch of headaches, and made $110M doing so.- Chx
- Post #19
- Forum: Gurus, Coaches, and Trainers
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20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo
MARKETING EXECUTIONUpdate: I made $14,700 in July $7,200 in August $10,600 in September so far I currently have 3 clients. Still doing everything myself. NEED to hire some VAs asap, especially as I am back in school and time is scarce now. Once I free up some bandwidth, I will do outreach for clients again...- Chx
- Post #10
- Forum: Process and Execution
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If Steve Jobs were to cold call...
MARKETINGSteve Jobs would never cold call random numbers. It's extremely low leverage. There are much faster ways to get the customer conversations you are after. You said you do web design? Make a landing page displaying your idea, post about it in cooking forums, Reddit, anywhere people who cook hang...- Chx
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20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo
MARKETING EXECUTIONAs said above, my goal was to find a cold email script that books at least 2 out of 100 leads into a meeting. Test campaign 1: 1 meeting booked Test campaign 2: 0 meetings booked Test campaign 3: 0 meetings booked Test campaign 4: 3 meetings booked. Bingo! The calls are on Mon and Tues...- Chx
- Post #8
- Forum: Process and Execution
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20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo
MARKETING EXECUTIONThe way I see it, if I do a ton of fulfillment upfront, say in the first 2-3 months, I'll be much better equipped to train my web designer, copywriter, and whatever other roles are needed to replace me in the business, versus if I outsource immediately. If it gets out of hand I can take time off...- Chx
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- Forum: Process and Execution
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20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo
MARKETING EXECUTIONI clarified what I am going to be offering, and to which market. I'll be targeting B2B businesses. I set up a test email campaign to 100 leads with 5 emails per lead. Used AI to personalize the first line of each email. If I can book 2 meetings from this campaign (2% book rate) then I will know...- Chx
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- Forum: Process and Execution
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Starting a web design and hosting agency, need some advice
SIDE HUSTLETry to find the decision maker's direct phone so you don't have to go through the gatekeeper. Databases like Apollo and Rocketreach have phone numbers. If you don't want to pay for a subscription Rocketreach gives a free preview of their phone number like "423-434-XXXX" so then you can google...- Chx
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- Forum: Side Hustles, Freelancing, Web Design
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