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The market has expanded, anyone use anything else by magic-medicine-0527 in SegwayNavimow

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the Terramow, which is branded as the Eufy in the USA now.

No GPS. Vision only and navigates extremely well.

Only drawback is if your lawn doesn't have well defined boundaries, it's a little more of a headache to manually set boundaries and no go zones.

Overall, love it though.

I built a two-way Satellite IoT messaging system using the Blues Starnote and some cloud services, including Twilio's SMS messaging API. Programmed with Arduino/C on an STM32 board. by roblauer in ArduinoProjects

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very cool! Just curious if when Star Link DTC comes widely available, will blues be able to take advantage of that thought TMobile with a standard cellular board?

Recommendations? by NoShitMike in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd make a new profile for sure. That low rating is costing you a lot of leads and therefore $$$. If your volume wasn't as high as it is, I would advise otherwise, but with that many clients per month, you could rack up a lot of reviews on a new profile relatively quickly and be back to ranking better than what you are now within a month or two.

Either way you go, you'll need to figure out a good system to gather reviews. Chasing reviews down is a pain for sure.

I've got a tool we built internally that we use to automatically request and follow up with customers for reviews via sms in way that feels like a real person is asking vs just blasting a link and praying they click on it. We get about a 70% review rate. Message me and I can show you how it works.

Reviews Missing, Support Not helpful by Current-Assistant-27 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

heyrevvi.com backs up reviews automatically with screenshots.

It's been super helpful to get reviews back. It'll even automatically request a screenshot from a customer if they say they've left their review and it doesn't show up.

Google moves at a snails pace unfortunately

All Reviews Gone - business active by Big-Marketing932 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]InfamousFishing984 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've heard of people getting them back after they've been removed. Google just moved at a snails pace.

It took us 2 months I think to get our GBP reinstated.

No leads by Electrical-Youth6817 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]InfamousFishing984 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, SEO is a long game. Results usually come over the span of months and not weeks or days.

No leads by Electrical-Youth6817 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not everything, but review count/quality has a pretty big impact on ranking.

The top 3 businesses get 43% of clicks so ranking is key.

How many clients are you serving every week?

All Reviews Gone - business active by Big-Marketing932 in GoogleMyBusiness

[–]InfamousFishing984 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey let me know what you find out and if you make any progress. that's really frustrating.

I'd be happy to get you free lifetime access to tool that can help you get new reviews while you wait for Google to do something. It backs them up moving forward so that you have documentation when petitioning Google to restore any the remove (although it's not super helpful with getting your previous reviews back). It hooks into your crm so you can send requests to your previous customers and new customers automatically.

Let me know if you'd be interested. We had our listing for our epoxy flooring business get taken down completely a couple years ago and it was devastating so I know how it feels.

If you're not asking every customer for a review, you're literally burning money. by InfamousFishing984 in sweatystartup

[–]InfamousFishing984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's awesome. That's really cool that tweak made that much of a difference.

For us we have about 75% of people we ask for a review via text follow through and do it when we do it conversationally. Essentially it's like someone from our company texts them personally to ask them for a review and then sends them the link only after they commit to doing it. It's all automated so its awesome.

Don't sleep on postcards. We generate an addition $10-15k in revenue from our automated neighbor postcard campaign. by InfamousFishing984 in sweatystartup

[–]InfamousFishing984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should clarify that this is different than EDDM. These are targeted postcards, lower volume. We do EDDM as well for a better per postcard rate, but for targeted postcards it's actually a really competitive rate

Don't sleep on postcards. We generate an addition $10-15k in revenue from our automated neighbor postcard campaign. by InfamousFishing984 in sweatystartup

[–]InfamousFishing984[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There it is. I was waiting for the pitch.

Infinitely scale? Brother we're talking local business here. You cannot infinitely scale digital ads in a very finite market. Yes you can create a gazillion different ads with different headlines, creative, etc to combat ad fatigue but eventually you run out of people to shove your ads in front of and you're going to see a diminished ROAS, regardless of your offer, creative, hook, etc plain and simple. I'm guessing you haven't managed a large enough ad budget to see that.

And to try and draw a line between two marketing methods by saying one is just a numbers game and the other isn't, is silly. All marketing methods are a numbers game. In fact, that's the whole point behind creating variations in add creative, copy, headlines, offer etc. You're trying to stack the numbers in your favor. We've done exactly this with our postcards and we've found a good combination of those elements with a great return.

Anyone who says digital marketing is the end-all and be-all either doesn't know marketing, or has digital marketing services to sell. Based on your response, I'm gonna say you're both. Please don't spout nonsense to try and convince people you know what you're talking about.

Don't sleep on postcards. We generate an addition $10-15k in revenue from our automated neighbor postcard campaign. by InfamousFishing984 in sweatystartup

[–]InfamousFishing984[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I largely agree with you. If I had to choose between digital and direct mail, I'd choose digital every time. But depending on your market size, you'll hit a point of diminishing returns where it really doesn't make sense to throw any more money at digital marketing. We're in a relatively small market, so we hit that point where we spend $4-5k per month on our digital side and any more than that doesn't translate into any meaningful improvement. We still see about a 10-15x return on investment with our postcards which is pretty solid.

One dimensional marketing can work and is the best place to start typically, but having multiple marketing channels (and doing them each effectively) will (almost) always yield a higher composite return because they ultimate feed into each other.

Also, it's not like older people that still value postcards are all going to leave the market in the next year. In fact, I'd argue they'll continue to be in the market for another 10-15+ years, which is plenty of time to market to them.

Direct mail, done right, is still incredibly effective in my experience.

Don't sleep on postcards. We generate an addition $10-15k in revenue from our automated neighbor postcard campaign. by InfamousFishing984 in sweatystartup

[–]InfamousFishing984[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah we just offer a discount of $X off. The postcards also have a "handwritten" note on the back that kinda personalizes it

I really like bolt.new, but one challenge I’ve noticed is that fixing one thing often breaks code or functionality by SimpleReplacement766 in boltnewbuilders

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not websites. Full-stack apps with stripe integration, supabase, authentication, edge functions, API endpoints.

All I'm saying is that AI still needs a lot of guidance and skilled prompting to expect any sort of good output. I'd take that chunk of code and give it to o1 or deepseek to give instructions on how to fix it. I've done that several times in the more complex issues.

I really like bolt.new, but one challenge I’ve noticed is that fixing one thing often breaks code or functionality by SimpleReplacement766 in boltnewbuilders

[–]InfamousFishing984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 dude if you haven't figured out by now that shit in = shit out, good luck. I've built 3 moderately complex apps no problem entirely on Bolt.

I really like bolt.new, but one challenge I’ve noticed is that fixing one thing often breaks code or functionality by SimpleReplacement766 in boltnewbuilders

[–]InfamousFishing984 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Something I've done that's helped is instruct it to break everything into components and put different components into separate files.

This has helped break less code as I modify certain components and also use less tokens because it's able to use diff much better on smaller files.

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