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  1. Chx

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    Thought this would stump ChatGPT... I was wrong.
  2. Chx

    Moved across the country alone and living in a car. Update thread until stability

    MINDSET EXECUTION 
    Curious 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.
  3. Chx

    Michia Rohrssen (Co-Founder of Prodigy Software, sold to Upstart for ~$110m)

    GURUS 
    Awesome 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...
  4. Chx

    Michia Rohrssen (Co-Founder of Prodigy Software, sold to Upstart for ~$110m)

    GURUS 
    Got 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.
  5. Chx

    20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo

    MARKETING EXECUTION 
    Update: 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...
  6. Chx

    If Steve Jobs were to cold call...

    MARKETING 
    Steve 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...
  7. Chx

    20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo

    MARKETING EXECUTION 
    As 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...
  8. Chx

    20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo

    MARKETING EXECUTION 
    The 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...
  9. Chx

    20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo

    MARKETING EXECUTION 
    I 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...
  10. Chx

    Starting a web design and hosting agency, need some advice

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Try 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...
  11. Chx

    How do you guys find prospects for cold-calling web design clients?

    EXECUTION 
    D7 lead finder
  12. Chx

    Starting a web design and hosting agency, need some advice

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    You'll learn a ton if you ignore me and just rip it with your current plan but I do see one issue, "I will target small businesses with lackluster, outdated websites." Small biz with shit sites most likely (A) don't care about their website and (B) don't have the budget to pay you to remake...
  13. Chx

    what is the latest modern business one can start

    MARKETING 
    Helping business owners get richer is a tried and true model. If you make a business owner 50k he'll have no issue paying you 5k. How can you help them? Business owners need lots of things: websites, ads, videos, good employees. Figure out what a business owner needs and figure out how to get...
  14. Chx

    The Journey of an Email Copywriter

    MARKETING EXECUTION 
    You're sending 5 a day? I email ecommerce brands too and the volume you need to be hitting is more like 300 a day. See below 2K sent in the last week. I get 2-3 positive replies a day and that's because of the volume. Get instantly.ai and set up automated sending/follow-ups. You can personalize...
  15. Chx

    20 Years Old -- Scaling to $20k/mo

    MARKETING EXECUTION 
    What's up! My story so far: Discovered Fastlane age 15, started freelance copywriting, landed some pretty kickass clients but never cracked $3k/mo Quit copywriting around 17 to pursue some awful venture ideas Eventually built my own SaaS at 19, launched it and turned a profit but not much From...
  16. Chx

    Ask Me Anything About SaaS ( I'm building my 7th )

    GOLD! HOT! SAAS / APPS 
    Yup - recently finished the MVP of my email finder SaaS and am currently hustling to get my first few customers. I've got a few people signed up and on a free trial, but none have converted to the paid plans yet.
  17. Chx

    19 Years Old - Building First SaaS

    EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    Thanks for the kick and the a$$ and also for linking that Paul Graham post. These parts stuck out to me: Plan for the week is to do a lot of 'comparatively untargeted' outreach and see what sticks. Hustle to my first user and then my first 5, 10, etc.
  18. Chx

    19 Years Old - Building First SaaS

    EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    Used this template: ClarityUI Template made by Rareblocks
  19. Chx

    19 Years Old - Building First SaaS

    EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    Launched yesterday and sent ~80 cold emails today, to a list of marketing agency owners scraped using my own tool. Got 3 responses. 1 wanted a demo next week, 1 got on a call right away with me but was not a good fit customer, 1 said the tool was "perfect timing" for them but hasn't subscribed...
  20. Chx

    19 Years Old - Building First SaaS

    EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    I need to stop f*cking around and LAUNCH. Today and tomorrow I'm going to finish all essential features (payment processing, email) Anything else, at this point, is a distraction. I've been getting a lot of urges to improve the UI, start posting on Twitter, fix small bugs, and add new...
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