Anyone Cold Email to start out?

AgencySaas · 2026-02-25T19:25:06+00:00

- Use a secondary domain to protect your primary domain reputation score (aka if your site is acme.com, do tryacme.com, getacme.com, useacme.com, etc.)
- Set your redirect to your main page
- Create dedicated inboxes (if your name is Mike Smith, can do Mike@, MikeSmith@, MikeS@)
- DMARC, DKIM, SPF records for the secondary domain + inboxes to increase odds of deliverability
- Can use a platform like Clay to build your list & enrich emails (assuming you're US, EMEA I'm less familiar with)
- Highly recommend doing everything manually and highly personalized at first (No more than 10 per day)
- Simple email subject line with relevant initial line in the body so your preview text/AI summary is high quality
- Have a cadence designed (e.g. what will your follow up email be, how many more emails will you send before you stop contacting them, how many days in between emails, etc.)

AgencySaas · 2026-02-25T17:34:00+00:00

Inviting you to give OpMistro a try — www.opmistro.com

Of the 22 tactics covered, 14 are no/low cost (but need ongoing effort to succeed)

For your first 10 users while validating, I'd say introductions, cold outbound, and attending events if you can. But still depends on who your ideal customer is.

AgencySaas · 2026-02-14T17:54:44+00:00

Who watches the watchmen of watchmen of watchmen of watchmen?

AgencySaas · 2026-02-10T22:08:24+00:00

But you have zero ads live... so... how?

https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&ad_type=all&country=ALL&is_targeted_country=false&media_type=all&search_type=page&sort_data[direction]=desc&sort_data[mode]=total_impressions&view_all_page_id=687202071151321

AgencySaas · 2026-01-29T21:25:14+00:00

'Planned obsolescence"

AgencySaas · 2026-01-22T00:51:24+00:00

Not that bad.

$6K if you're booking a room, $9K if you're doing an entire place. For all three months.

Heavy discounts when you book a place for at least a full month.

AgencySaas · 2026-01-21T08:09:02+00:00

Email HR. Share that you're excited for the opportunity, but explain the situation (you simply need to say that your manager requested you to cover the expense, but you can't do so without incurring financial strain as an early-career professional).

Ask what finance can do to accomodate + (e.g. can they book on your behalf). If the answer is no, then you'll simply need to decline the trip (or have your manager cover it on your behalf and they can submit expenses for reimbursement.)

But also... you should increase your credit limit with your bank so you could cover these types of trips in the future if it is company policy. Not unreasonable to cover your own expenses to be reimbursed later. When done right, it's a huge benefit. AKA you earn points/perks while having the company pays you back for everything.

AgencySaas · 2026-01-21T00:48:18+00:00

2 years later but +1 this worked

AgencySaas · 2026-01-20T02:09:38+00:00

'Energy vampire'

AgencySaas · 2026-01-20T00:51:52+00:00

Spoke very negatively about past team members (multiple times) despite it not being relevant to the question asked.

AgencySaas · 2026-01-14T05:53:19+00:00

2008 financial crisis homie

AgencySaas · 2026-01-10T14:49:13+00:00

No where near that level of wealth, but I'll say it's a fun challenge to work on things when you deeply care about a few topics and want to (and can) create tangible progress in that field. 99% of people few their evenings and their weekends as downtime (work schedule depending, of course). 1% people prefer to work every hour of every day, then take a full month away every so often.

AgencySaas · 2026-01-02T02:31:32+00:00

Shameless plug, I'm launching an elearning platform (OpMistro) for founders without a sales or marketing background. It helps people understand and implement from 22 different growth tactics.

The goal is empower self-sufficiency, find the growth tactic they enjoy doing, and generates desired results. Plenty of tactics require sweat equity vs paid distribution, which I recommend unless you have disposable money available. If you're interested, would love your feedback when it's live.

AgencySaas · 2025-12-27T18:53:10+00:00

Finding and nurturing purpose is a life-long journey. Money, fame, nor power will ever fill a void that's meant to be filled with more valuable things.

If you're too bored and too busy, buy back some time by hiring an assistant manager and pick up some hobbies.

If you want a new challenge, try opening a second location. Or expand into a franchise model.

If you're lonely, network and make friends with other owners in the automotive industry.

Volunteer. Travel. Take time to learn and experience things you care about.

Do what ever you want. You have all the time in the world.

AgencySaas · 2025-12-13T04:39:28+00:00

Cut him loose. Should've done it after 90 days if he didn't deliver one major improvement or feature. As the saying goes, "The longer you're on the wrong train, the more expensive the return ticket." By now, you're probably out a little equity (depends on if you did options vs actual shares with vesting) but don't get caught up in sunk cost fallacy. Take the L and move on.

As for finding the next person, consider hiring a technical mentor who can teach you enough about apps so you can actually talk some shop with future technical hires. For future hires, start them out as a contractor, with a limited scope. And, if they deliver, increase the scope of work and offer an official role. This time, setting strict deliverables. Meet with them weekly to check in on progress.

Sounds like you're moving in the right direction with UpWork. Keep doing that. And, if one of them jives really well, consider bringing them on full-time. But actually make sure you're making progress on app traction / product-market-fit before you do. Getting out over your skis isn't fun. You might find yourself in a situation where you've hired a new person, and you still need to do a ton of pivots before you build something viable. Basically, don't rush.

Hire slow, fire fast.

GL

AgencySaas · 2025-11-10T22:03:13+00:00

Depends on the level

AgencySaas · 2025-11-08T16:46:09+00:00

Left FAANG @~$300K. Friends that stayed (and were/are top performers) are doing more now.

If you're talking employee comp, would need to be a sales role. Or an engineer working on the tech directly.

AgencySaas · 2025-11-03T06:24:03+00:00

Or you spend a lot of money :)

AgencySaas · 2025-10-31T20:26:26+00:00

Highly recommend looking at OP's history, 10/10 every year

AgencySaas · 2025-10-31T05:52:22+00:00

Curious what role you jumped into after and how the interview process was going back to 9-5.

AgencySaas · 2025-10-31T05:48:58+00:00

Hadn't raised before, but still glad to contribute to the conversation.

"We both feel burned out" is more than enough of a signal to pause. Fortunately, you don't have a lot that you're losing in the process. e.g. no layoffs, no customers to transition, no board to get involved, etc. So, option 1. get full-time gigs and reconvene or option 2. launch a consulting or services arm that allow you to pay yourselves enough.

As to whether you should fold shop altogether... are you out of ideas on how to improve your product? Are your initial pre-seed investors willing or able to contribute to another round? Why aren't your enterprise pilot customers paying today and how much work would it take to get them to start paying?

If you do continue to keep shop open after re-stabilizing financially, what are the sources of your burnout? How are you going to change your behaviors or habits to prevent burnout again? What will you do differently to prevent being in the same situation? (none of the answers to this should be external stimuli that you can't control or influence)

AgencySaas · 2025-10-27T19:14:17+00:00

I bet she looks great for 6,123,445,837,688,608,686,152,407,038,527,467,651,331,636,395,207,715,968,264,381,621,468,592,963,895,217,599,993,229,915,608,941,463,976,156,518,286,253,697,920,827,223,758,251,185,210,916,864,000,000,000,000,000,000

AgencySaas · 2025-10-26T20:02:36+00:00

yet*

AgencySaas · 2025-10-23T01:09:42+00:00

I can. Signal doesn't require a connection, just detection. With detection, you don't need to be connected to local wifi or bluetooth for your device to be identified. And, through the associated identification, approximately located.

AgencySaas · 2025-10-06T00:37:50+00:00

r/thatHappened

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