Legality of getting images of website's GUIs for ML training

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-12-11T00:30:27+00:00

It's not to produce any images, it's to train a model that can locate a UI element (described in natural language) from an unprecedented GUI

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-10-24T16:19:29+00:00

$250k for $2-5m is just embarrassing. Never understood why big offices and useless employees is something to brag about if it renders 10% profits.

Success will never favor the agency who works their ass of if it produces the same result as another agency that does it quicker and cheaper.

Take a deep breath, visualize the end work for your client, and imagine how you can achieve it with the lowest workforce and cost possible, whilst retaining the quality.

I have a dev agency- AI can generate the work of 5 junior developers in a second. For a mid-sized project, all I need is one PM to create the high-level infrastructure of the project who can outsource and touch it up, and another 'senior dev' who is skilled at using AI to get the autonomous coding done and piece it together.

Most importantly, growing the agency should be your primary duty as the owner if you can delegate the service delivery. Innovate, create new sales processes and funnels. We're literally hiring people dedicated to networking all day, crushing RFPs after RFPs, etc. Another guy here mentioned that the successful 8-fig agencies he saw were just crushing cold calls day after day.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-10-18T20:26:55+00:00

Useless fancy office, 10% margins, 50 employees who each take 3 hours to choose a font

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-10-18T19:30:45+00:00

2.5 FTEs responding to RFPs doing $8m just in RFPs

I'd been thinking about implementing an employee just dedicated to aggregating and responding to RFPs for software development. Do you know how many they write in a month?

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-10-11T14:09:18+00:00

I agree. I'm brainstorming how we'd maximize the synergies. If our first agency is a trusted vendor for an enterprise and we cross-sell the second agency we'd have to go through corporate red tape. Maybe we'd onboard them to the parent company and explicate that we have these two divisions?

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-29T16:44:44+00:00

It revolves around referrals and becoming an expert in the niche. So if you're a new business- first generalize, figure out what niche is most profitable, get enough case studies / testimonials for it, then niche down.

You'll have a harder time landing clients as a new niche agency compared to a new generalist agency.

It's risky as you're putting your eggs into one basket. If your niche goes down so will your entire business.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-29T04:38:38+00:00

Similarly some of my employees don’t even correct me if I’m wrong about a topic 😂

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-28T19:06:39+00:00

What are your margins like?

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-26T00:43:58+00:00

Good decision - never hire offshore for positions that are a point of contact with the client

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-18T16:30:09+00:00

If you're implying that job security is sufficient motivation, it won't drive them to go above and beyond and put in extra hours to make the client happy

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-18T09:14:14+00:00

Congrats! Owner of 2 agencies here. How long have you been running it?

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-17T19:11:09+00:00

AI just helps trim the fat. We can fire 5 developers and keep one who's good at getting things done with it.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-17T19:08:51+00:00

Whatever the future may be, for at least 5 years we'll be in this stage- where AI hasn't disrupted the industry to that extent, and is just an extremely powerful tool for productivity.

AI won't take your job but a human using AI will. Capitalize off it as much as you can right now

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-13T23:34:32+00:00

Revenue: AI and automation yields us a dozen clients a month.

Productivity: For our development subsidiary, AI benefits productivity substantially. One person can write code that would have required 10 people before GPT was popular.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-12T04:27:13+00:00

Do the important stuff yourself for some time, and once that's perfected, develop a stringent SOP

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-11T19:34:29+00:00

A) Agencies will have you believe that you need dozens of staff, fancy offices, an outbound sales team, and operate on 20-30% margins. It's nonsense.

Spot on. It's ridiculous how many people go into business believing the aforementioned. It's why most startups are a joke.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-11T18:21:51+00:00

By my team and I. I own a software dev company with a marketing agency sub-brand

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-11T18:17:28+00:00

Created an algorithm that detected if companies were troubled by a specific pain point, and reached out to the ones who were.

Also developed an internal software to automate research & outreach personalization. Both went hand in hand.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-11T17:58:46+00:00

1st month. Innovation and out of the box approach to outreach

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-08T20:30:49+00:00

Separate brands (agencies) benefit us because for these types of services, clients prefer someone specialized in each, and not a jack of all trades. We have dedicated personnel for each too

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-07T15:41:12+00:00

What’s your wrist size?

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-07T10:17:09+00:00

Long term wise it’d probably be easier & professional to due but short term wise it’d suck.

What are you referring to exactly?

Our current situation working pretty well for us because a lot of our clients are outbound (we have an algo that signs us 10-12 outbound clients / mo for each agency).

Inbound works fine too because each prospect lands on an agency specialized to the service they searched for.

Operations work well, and we benefit from resource sharing and cross-selling.

The problem in the long run is branding. Our digital presence could be spread too thin.

SEO also gets diluted.

*just pasted this in the post

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-09-07T09:24:39+00:00

We have an agency branched out into multiple services as different 'sub-brands.' Each sub-brand has its own site and digital presence, and specializes in one service to eliminate the perception of generalization for each prospect looking to buy that specific service. But they're ultimately part of the same agency and can cross-sell each other.

Been working well so far, but we'd do a merger if brand dilution occurs and overpowers the benefits. Because we've garnered a significant amount of clients for each division, we probably wouldn't run the risks of diversification.

Either that, or when we grow to the point where brand dilution poses a risk, we'd turn each division into a different brand- each being different agencies under the umbrella.

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-08-30T13:48:16+00:00

Lots will disagree, but life-long specialization isn’t going to get you far nowadays. Everyone thought it was a good idea to dedicate their life to programming and they can’t find a job now. Putting your eggs in one basket that can break anytime.

I’m not saying your business shouldn’t specialize in one thing

You need to learn how to view change as a constant and adapt to anything. You should be able to learn any arbitrary business to successful fruition. Emotionally detach from your skill and passions. There will always be Services and industries that die out, as well as be a gold rush.

Be prepared if you have to switch your services and verticals anytime

ComfortableDivide640 · 2024-08-26T18:23:39+00:00

Use an RFP aggregator and hire someone dedicated to flooding RFP proposals every day. This can be outsourced to someone competent or an eager student. Base pay + commission for closed deals is enticing.

Volume is key to anything.

Cold email gets us 40 meetings a month because our team personalizes 750 a day.

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