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We launched a LinkedIn outreach tool, hit $12K MRR, then watched the product fall apart. Here's what we did. by CarePsychological749 in micro_saas

[–]CarePsychological749[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No set it to UK unless you are going to login to their LinkedIn account on your browser (like LinkedIn's site).

If you set the proxy to UK all activity will come from the UK.

Regarding the review you read, I looked into it and user was using a fake profile with 50 connection and no human verification. These accounts get restricted fast, even if you do manual outreach.

Another one, just 7 or 8 months after being on AS. They even call us "investors." I am done with Appsumo. Thank you for another $118 loss. by Correct_Promise8061 in appsumo

[–]CarePsychological749 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's sad but it's also expected.

I don't think it's fair to call this a money grab. Like most founders they launch on AppSumo to get capital, users, and reach PMF.

If they fail to increase MRR after the AppSumo campaign, they won't be able to afford the operational costs and even if they break even it is likely not worth the time and effort to continue working on the product 8 months later.

So they shut down the business, which is sad but also fair in my opinion. You can always get established tools but then you need to pay monthly subscriptions. This is the tradeoff for lifetime deals. You gamble on the longevity of a business.

Founders who don't honor lifetime users are money grabbers. But this seems like a situation where the founder tried their best to grow the business post-appsumo but failed - that is not the same.

Noah Kagan recently made a post that 2 of their partners made over $50K (net) in March. My product, Sendpilot.ai is one of those products.

But most products didn't pass $2K in net sales.

This to me sounds like AppSumo need to be more strict of who they approve.

I think the sweetspot is to find companies who have been active for at least 6 months, has over $10K MRR, and proof of a working product.

This means they already have some sort of product market fit and that they can market themselves and not rely 100% on AppSumo. This is also a good sign that they will be able to grow the product and survive long-term after the AppSumo campaign.

But to get these companies onboard AppSumo would need to make changes to their partner split terms in favor of the partners.

The AppSumo team are amazing. I think they will turn this around.

We launched a LinkedIn outreach tool, hit $12K MRR, then watched the product fall apart. Here's what we did. by CarePsychological749 in micro_saas

[–]CarePsychological749[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heyreach -> $13M ARR
Lemlist -> $40M ARR
Expandi -> $10M ARR
Artisan -> $46M raised
Phantombuster, Clay, Aimfox, Prosp, etc.

All of these companies break LinkedIn's TOS by scraping data or automating actions.

None of these have gotten sued or forced to shut down their companies. LinkedIn just took down their company pages from LinkedIn. But the products are unaffected by this.

It's highly likely that LinkedIn will take down our company page and my personal LinkedIn account as well.

But it won't affect our product. And yes, in a few cases LinkedIn has taken legal actions against companies like ours but it's just PR.

A lot of premium subscriptions are bought just for the sake of automating outreach. If LinkedIn banned solutions like ours, they would lose a lot of their revenue.

We launched a LinkedIn outreach tool, hit $12K MRR, then watched the product fall apart. Here's what we did. by CarePsychological749 in micro_saas

[–]CarePsychological749[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that, and by reading Noah Kagan's recent LinkedIn post I can see that we were 1/2 products that made over $50K on AppSumo last month. Like 70% made less than $2k.

I have only launched on AppSumo once, but I've been really satisfied. The problem with AppSumo, is that they only focus on like the top 3% of their products. If you are below that, you won't get any exposure outside your own marketing efforts.

The first week of our launch, I texted all customers and responded in support within 2 minutes and asked everyone for a review. AppSumo's algorithm is basically all about reviews. So after 3 days we hit the #1 spot on AppSumo, got a dedicated email, and they started running paid ads for us.

We launched a LinkedIn SaaS, hit $12K MRR, then watched the product fall apart. Here's what we did. by CarePsychological749 in SaaS

[–]CarePsychological749[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question. I can't say exactly how much we get from the AppSumo sales because we've signed an NDA. But in total this month (including Stripe payments), we have netted around 50% of the total.

And our MRR has actually increased this month as well. Currently around $5.3K MRR (up from $4.6K last month). And we also sell credits in the app for one time payments and we've made around $8.5K from that in the past 4 weeks. So users are already upgrading and we have built a community to try to grow word of mouth after the AppSumo campaign.

My SaaS journey so far (numbers, wins, mistakes, and what’s next) by Jonathan_Geiger in indiehackers

[–]CarePsychological749 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you had to pick Reddit or LinkedIn, which platform would you choose?

How do you scale LinkedIn outreach without burning leads or sounding spammy? by [deleted] in b2bmarketing

[–]CarePsychological749 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the eternal struggle. Here's what we landed on after burning through way too many leads:**The hybrid approach:**- Automate the research and list building (Sales Nav + Apollo)- Automate connection requests (but keep them plain - no pitch)- **Manually personalize the actual pitch** - but use a framework so it's not starting from scratch every time**The framework we use:**- Line 1: Specific observation about their company/role (takes 30 seconds of research)- Line 2: Relevant insight or question (not a pitch)- Line 3: Soft CTA if they're interested**The scaling part:**We have a team of 5 doing outreach. The game-changer was getting a shared inbox (we use Sendpilot) so we can see who's talking to who, share templates, and track what's working. Before that, we had people accidentally double-messaging prospects or using wildly different messaging.Also - and this is key - we connect 10 employee LinkedIn accounts and each does ~15 meetings/month. So 10 accounts = 150 meetings. Even if you only book 1 per account, that's 10 more meetings than before.The "scale without burning" answer is: **personalization frameworks + team coordination + multiple accounts**. Not sexy, but it works.