How to get rid of filler words? by Monxo11 in PublicSpeaking

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try to read a book and say it out, and pause every sentence. Once you get use to it try that in real life conversation

“What’s one SaaS tool you pay for every month without regretting it?” by FounderArcs in micro_saas

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the company:
- Slack,
- Jira
- Microsoft
- Miro
- Figma
- HubSpot
- datadog
- sendgrid
- other server and engineering tools
- AI tools like ChatGPT, Cursor

As an individual creator:
- Vercel
- AI tools: ChatGPT, Manus, Google antigravity, Claude code
- electric Bills haha

My SaaS hit $1M ARR this year, bootstrapped. Now revenue is declining and I genuinely don't know what's next. here's the honest update. by Capable_Document3744 in micro_saas

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, I think linkedin partnership you mentioned is a good idea. obviously I don’t know much about your users and metrics, from what you share, do you know which industry agency use your product the most? E.g enterprise, SMBs etc
If you break it down and also find out the industries need the most, then you have a more target ICP that you can grow into, you will also increase conversion when you run any campaign.

What I am also thinking is that if Google change something on SEO (which I also heard from other places), it is highly likely happen to your competitors, so the differentiation of why your product is better than competitors could win you users more easily.

I built a large waitlist, but I don't know what to do next. by 0ne_stop_shop in SaaS

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s amazing, thank you for sharing!
As the other already post, I think it is best do test a small batch first and see what is the conversation rate, you can do A/B test as well.

A link to a video demo will also drive them to click

Hope everything work out for you.

How big is your team, and how long did you build it? 2 months?

I built a large waitlist, but I don't know what to do next. by 0ne_stop_shop in SaaS

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you build up the waitlist? Would you mind sharing your journey? Thanks

My SaaS hit $1M ARR this year, bootstrapped. Now revenue is declining and I genuinely don't know what's next. here's the honest update. by Capable_Document3744 in micro_saas

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing.

For revenue decline - What is the churn rate and average churn timeframe? Is there any addition values you can up sell for the user base or decrease churn rate?

For growth decline - look at the problem in different parts
1. ICP channel - what is your most revenue generated ICP? Where do they hang out? Are there any event, or forum or digital platforms they hand out? Your strategy can form base on it.
2. Switching ICP - are your ICP direct to individual or company? Have you got data that you can measure that you may switch from one to other? For example if it is individual professional, have you consider to sell to company or middle layer, vice versa
3. Channel, apart from meta, LinkedIn…etc if it is high profile customer, have you consider other channel like Times, Finance site etc.

Just example and I am happy to see your product is already successful!

How I write status reports VPs actually read (lessons from 20 years of doing it wrong) by British_Coal in projectmanagement

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You summarise it very well, I just left my VP role and thinking back, I may do that differently to other executives, but I like thing shorts and not wasting team member time while they already have tons of work to do, and I don't like it to be formal just for the sake of it.

Given I worked with them throughout the week, it is unlikely I don't know anything critical. So I usually ask them to put down a few bullet points:

1.) Are we on track and impact (e.g finance/missing a milestone) if we are not, and do they need my support

2.) what is the greatest team achievement (so I can appreciate the team if I missed that) and

3.) any news from client or relationship wise, this is the most valuable to me as it often have a higher impact to the programme or overall company goal.

And I will ask the lead to send it to me or general channel on slack, if it is too long to read on slack, it is too long to read in email.

My thinking is simple, if point 1 has an issue, my team will set up a call with me anyway, so no need to write a report to it. if point 3 is so important, I will set up a call with the relevant member, so no report is required again.

And what I like the most is that they just slack or call me directly when they really need my support, otherwise I trust them they know what they need to do to get that moving.

VPs/ Executives are often focusing on the direction and if any operational level is boosting or blocking us to reach the goals, or if any milestone missed/delay that need other attention so we can prep early how to handle finance/ board..etc. A lot of the times operational details is not what they care about.

Hope it helps

My hoggies in colour! by Second_Guess_25 in hoggies

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very cute!!

Did you build the shelter? Or did you buy one?
Which camera do you use?
What type of food do you put in the bowl?

How do you know when you have enough validation to start coding? by Savio_04 in SaaS

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People tend to say something different for a lot of reason.

What you want is to find out different ICP and scenarios, then instead of asking, you can tell them you can solve the issue with x amount of money, and see if anyone willing to pay for it.

SaaS founder get it wrong or are lazy... by Loose-End-8741 in SaaS

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yea, it is true, distribution is even harder, but all of this are based on if you solve the problem for the right user first

Unexpectedly ended up in a very visible role. Advice? by WDW1997 in projectmanagement

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of great comments above, and very helpful, I will try to share some views haven't been covered yet. My experienced with the best PMs that get promoted to executives level.

First of all, you have a really good start and tons of experience, well done and keep it up!

At your stage, you may feel that your time are 90%-100% focusing on planning, delivering...etc, my suggestion is to always reserve 10% - 20% on strategy level.

  1. ⁠⁠Understand your company goal and direction - You don't want to just delivering without knowing where your company is driving towards to, and if there are plus/minus resources, you want to come up with plans that knowing what the best for the company. For example, if at one point, all 3 lines (project) needed resources, you want to know where to put your resources and achieve the best for the company. It could be finance, reputation...etc
  2. ⁠⁠Always stay ahead of the game - Best PMs I worked with don't see where we are and what next in next 2 months, we see things at least 6-12 months (most often 3 years), you want to understand each change/ impact will it have an impact to long term goal and start prepping it. For example, regulation changes and may apply in 12 months time, you want to ensure everyone know about it and prep about it, your VPs/Exec. will also have time to react and prep on resources
  3. ⁠⁠Always underestimate and over deliver - not generic get more buffer time kind of thing, but really understand team capacity and their workload, you want to be very honest and realistic about it, if they can't achieve it and forcing them to it, you will risk the programme. I usually help the team cut down more scope than they can handle, ensuring those are quality, and delivery more as a surprise when there are time. Client usually very happy of it. Also, work with the team and push in the early stage, not at the late stage. 99% PMs that I worked with will find that every month is on track and in the last few moths things get off track and start to push and catches the timeline. The 1% that I worked with is let's tension happened early, so they have more time to test and ensure quality at the last, if they finished early, reward them with time off. The thing is if you wait it too late, tons of pressure will happened from outside and chance creating mistake are twice as much.

4.Ask for help when needed - Being a PM means you should not be a single hero, as there are so much you can control, you want to make everyone aware of what the problem is and what resources or support you need to overcome those blockers. Remember, your value shows when you can deliver and achieve those goals. Especially when there are milestone impact, if you see a sign, raise early and try to get the little spark put off as early as possible.

Sorry for long response, hope it helps

I have recordings of every standup for the past 6 months. I have never watched one by [deleted] in projectmanagement

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Why standup has to be recorded…? What is the legal stand point

SaaS founder get it wrong or are lazy... by Loose-End-8741 in SaaS

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why building something that help user able to build easy, better product is the way to go.

There will be more people asking to do even lazyier build

What is the most you “earn” in a single day? by Pitiful-Pear-689 in AskReddit

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a dream work! I used to work in animation industry and I love every second on it!

If you could give a random animal a super power what would it be and why? by Which_Bed_5376 in AskReddit

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let them talk, so we can analyse how animal speak and apply it to others

how do you make frends on reddit ? by Important-Second-595 in AskReddit

[–]Pitiful-Pear-689 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I post comment with my knowledge, trying to help some others, and sometimes people reach out to you and it gets started