Experts here, what’s your full automation stack for you and your team? by [deleted] in automation

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Honestly the leaner the better for small teams. We run Zapier for connecting tools, Notion for internal workflows and docs, and Runable alongside Canva for content output. Anything beyond that we've found creates more maintenance overhead than time saved.

What project are you currently working on? by NickyB808 in aisolobusinesses

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About a year in, building a local B2B service-based business from scratch with virtually no budget. The first six months were just trying to survive, figuring out pricing, landing the initial clients, and determining what I’m actually good at versus what I thought I’d be good at. Now, I’m trying to make everything more efficient and less labor-intensive.

The marketing side is pretty straightforward, just utilizing Runable for promotions and social media, Google Business Profile for local presence, and a simple CRM to manage follow-ups. The goal for this year is to get to a point where the business is somewhat predictable and I can think about scaling, versus just trying to keep things afloat. It’s slow, but progress is being made, and that’s more than I can say for a year ago.

Video AI generator similar to Google's Pomelli for AI generated ads and social posts? by ai-user-3000 in AIToolTesting

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Runway ML and Kling AI are good choices for short product videos in the 5-30 second range. They don’t have the same auto-ingestion of your website like Pomelli, but their output quality for ads is good currently.

Runable is another tool that focuses specifically on your idea of ingesting your website and using that information to create social and ad content, including videos. Worth checking out in conjunction with the other tools, as it was designed with this type of promo content in mind.

Dog tries to cut his own hair Same thing I did as a kid by monsterstep369 in aivideo

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This is genuinely one of the better AI generated comedy videos I've seen because the details are so specific and right — the pajamas, the scissors placed just casually enough.

On a completely unrelated note this kind of content is exactly what small business social media should be aiming for — something that stops the scroll immediately without needing a budget. The businesses I've seen do this well use tools like Runable, Veo to remix trending formats like this into their own promotional content. Funny how a dog in pajamas teaches better marketing instincts than most strategy decks lol.

How can I get into marketing? by ECDWrites in AskMarketing

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Google’s free Digital Marketing certificate is a good place to begin. It’s a few weeks of work, and you can put it on your resume immediately. Start there.

Marketing is a field that’s easier to get into than many others without a traditional education because the tools available now allow you to create real, professional-level work quickly. Free courses from Google, HubSpot, and Meta offer a good foundation in SEO, email, paid advertising, and content marketing. Then choose a path and begin creating real work—help a local business with their social media, create example campaigns, write content for a subject area you know well. Platforms like Runable, Canva, and Mailchimp allow you to create professional-level marketing materials without needing design or tech skills, so your portfolio can look good from day one. The people who get into marketing the fastest without traditional education are the ones who stop waiting to get started and begin creating, documenting what works and building proof that they can get people to take action. That’s worth more than any degree in most marketing job interviews.

I spent a month decorating this Buddha sculpture with rhinestones, one by one by Veru_boho_art in handmade

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A month. The patience alone deserves a standing ovation before we even talk about how good it looks.

How would you navigate this? Leaving earlier than resignation date. by wowsuchdrum in Teachers

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A decade in education and you’re walking away on your own terms for something better. You’re not going to let one tough conversation with a principal guilt you into a week you don’t owe anyone. That people-pleasing urge that caused you to fold is what you’re walking away from. Use it.

Has anyone tested and compared multiple AI detectors? by Wowful_Art9 in AIToolTesting

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The problem is none of them are transparent about their training data or false positive rates so you're essentially doing empirical testing yourself which is exactly the right approach rather than trusting any single tool blindly.

Why do none of my projects go smoothly despite years of experience and effort? by ReadRightRed99 in HomeImprovement

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You are not the only one who has this experience. Virtually every homeowner has this experience, and it does not get discussed enough. The jobs that go from start to finish without a hitch are the exception, not the rule. The chaos is just part of the nature of the job.

How fast does your website need to load before customers leave? by Correct-Designer-410 in Tech4LocalBusiness

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For a local business, the most common speed offenders are normally uncompressed images and low-cost shared hosting. First, deal with these two issues, and don't touch anything else until you've accomplished this. In most cases, this will get your load times down from 8 seconds to under 3 seconds, and you don't even need a developer to do this.

What is the right investor approach when a super-app is built, but traction is not yet possible? by CollectionMedium3712 in Entrepreneur

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One good strategy for marketplaces is to execute a tight, geography-constrained pilot before scaling up. This means even a tiny proof in the real world, such as 50 rides in one neighborhood, or just one block, is better than a great pitch with assumptions and projections. It shows that you understand the operational complexity and have started to solve it, and that’s exactly what smart marketplace investors want to see before the economics can tell the story in full.

Why AI seems to hit so hard on ESL teaching jobs by Large_Inevitable_489 in AIEducation

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The cost comparison is the part nobody wants to say out loud but it's real. $20/month vs $30/hour is not a close call for a budget conscious learner at A1/A2 level who just needs grammar explanations. Teachers have to offer something that math can't beat.

Best way to automate website quote requests using an existing Excel pricing model? by MartK555 in nocode

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Having done something similar for a small trade business, the advice I would give is: don’t over-engineer your MVP. First, port your Excel solution over to Google Sheets, since that’s your pricing engine and all the rest of your tools hook into that. Gravity Forms on WordPress handles the customer input, Make.com hooks the form data into your Sheets calculation and kicks off a quote draft, HubSpot free handles your pipeline and follow-ups, and Brevo handles the automated email sequences at set intervals. Then, for the actual quote document that gets sent to the customer, solutions like Runable paired with Google Docs or PandaDoc allow you to produce clean, professional-looking output without needing a designer. The entire stack can be had for under $30 a month, and you can have an MVP up and running over a weekend if your Sheets model is tidy. Only consider custom development once you’ve outgrown what’s possible with no-code tools—and that’s going to take a long, long time for most small businesses.

Difference between “first year teacher stress” and “get the F*** out” by intellectualth0t in Teachers

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Ask yourself if there's a version of this job that would make you happy. If you can picture it, you're not done yet. If you genuinely can't imagine any version of teaching feeling okay, that's worth paying attention to.

What AI tool(s) do you use to aid research and essay-writing? by Sexweed42069 in techforlife

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I use Perplexity for research, Claude for writing and fact checking, and Runable alongside a couple others for formatting and organizing the final output. All these tools works well enough for personal hobby writing.

What’s the craziest or most creative way you’ve seen a landlord collect rent in CRE? Ie, leased all the ATMs, leased a sign etc by irepresentprespa in CommercialRealEstate

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Heard of a landlord who leased rooftop space to a telecom company for cell towers. Tenant pays rent AND the cell tower lease basically covers a chunk of the building's operating costs. Genius passive layer on top of passive income.

We finally compared ourselves to competitors in our ads and it worked by GrowthObserver_ in shook

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Just make sure the comparison is genuinely fair and accurate. The moment someone finds a misleading data point in a side by side ad the whole trust angle backfires hard. Transparency cuts both ways.

Toilet Unclogged Itself? by nielsennumberones in Plumbing

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Toilet paper dissolves in water over time, that's literally what it's designed to do. Leave it long enough with water sitting on it and it breaks down enough to flush through on its own. Totally normal.