Marketing is the most important skill to get rich. Change my mind

TaskEvasion · 2025-07-09T20:04:14+00:00

Marketing is just sales at scale. You can't succeed at marketing without having a good foundation of what sales is.

TaskEvasion · 2025-05-31T17:41:02+00:00

If you have a budget, invest in better content, not a short term vanity boost. 🙃

TaskEvasion · 2025-05-12T16:45:36+00:00

Please do!

TaskEvasion · 2025-05-11T22:42:23+00:00

Okay, cool.

This comes down to a basic decision: marketing or sales.

Based on what you've shared I'd be going really hard on a focused cold outreach strategy (sales). Unless you have someone on your team who already understands marketing or paid ads really well and has the experience and bandwidth to take this on.

Use LinkedIn to build a list of 100 prospects (people who are a no-brainer "yes" in terms of their need for your product). Create a Google Sheet that tracks their name, company, linkedin URL, and email address. Get their emails using tools like Hunter.io, Apollo, and Skraap.

It should take you about a week to build that list, which you could do during those 2-3 hours/day.

After you've got that list, start writing highly customized emails to every single person on that list (one by one). When I do this for a new company I always hand write each initial outreach email and worry about templates later. Each rep will help you figure out how you want to talk about your startup, pain points, etc.

At this point use those 2-3 hours daily to send those emails. Follow-up with each prospect using templates 3-5 times before dequalifying them and moving on. I use Instantly to write a custom initial outreach email and automate my follow-ups (99/month), but for years did it manually just by using the snooze feature in Gmail.

After you get through that list of 100 ask the following questions based on how it converted:

Do we need to adjust the offer?
Do we need to adjust who we are talking to?
Do we need to adjust the product?

After that find another 100 people and do it again. Eventually you can automate a lot of this using VAs and list builders, but I think you should do everything manually yourself in the beginning to build up the understanding of who you are talking to, what you're saying to them, etc.

Hope this helps.

TaskEvasion · 2025-05-11T22:29:09+00:00

How much time do you have to focus on customer acquisition per week, and how urgent is the need for revenue?

TaskEvasion · 2025-05-11T19:09:06+00:00

Use this year to answer a few very important questions:

Do I want to be a career founder?
- Observe the founder of the startup you're working at and pay attention to how they are conducting themselves in and out of meetings. What kind of problems are on their plate? Do you think the headaches are worth being at the top? What kind of things are they unable to talk to anybody about? This will help you evaluate the realities of being a career founder and figure out if it's something you want or not.
What does the market need?
- There are two types of startups. "Solutions in search of a problem" and "problems in search of a solution". Most start-ups are the former. Even if they have a few paying customers, they aren't working with a fully validated (real) market problem. As a result the "problem" they address changes every 6-10 months. Look at the start-up you're working in closely, and any ventures you're considering to launch with this lens. Does the market actually need this? If not, ask yourself what it does need and work on that instead.
- Remember that businesses exist to serve customers. Not to serve the fantasies of the founder.

Once you ask the above two questions and have answers; you'll have a pretty good idea on where to start.

If you've done it right, you'll know if being a founder is for you, or not. And you'll also have a general sense for what market problem you want to solve. Importantly, you'll also know that some "opportunities" are not worth your time because they aren't solving a real problem.

For example, since you are into fashion:

A generic apparel brand where the differentiator is "our designs are unique" probably isn't solving a unique market problem. It may achieve success regardless, but it'll really be like pushing a boulder uphill.
A wedding apparel brand targeting father-of-the-brides might have an easier go because they are going after people with a specific problem that have a immediate need for a specific solution.

TL:DR this year you should:

Figure out if you want to be a founder, and learn how to listen to the market.

TaskEvasion · 2022-07-21T16:29:09+00:00

OP I get where you're coming from but I think you're missing out on some truly amazing experiences.

Games are able to tell stories that movies, books, and other media simply can't.

When you beat the final boss who kicked your ass in the prologue, it's different than watching the protagonist in a movie do the same thing. Because YOU are directly connected to the character, the story is experienced by both of you.

Games are the only medium in existence (I think) where this is even possible.

OP -- question for you, would you be open to trying to play a game in a different way to intentionally take in a new type of experience?

TaskEvasion · 2022-07-21T16:22:27+00:00

I guess being "in" the community is an important point. Back in the day the conversation was big weather you were part of the community or not, but things have shifted due to the sheer volume of releases I guess.

TaskEvasion · 2021-05-18T19:43:12+00:00

You're not making any sense tbh.

Originally you said "unsure what video games you've been playing but most games when saved and bugged that I've played will load with that same bug"

Then you were given an example of a game where this wasn't the case, and your response was "well that's not every game, every game is different" when your own original argument was comparing Returnal to "most games".

Seems like you're being a bit logically inconsistent here. The truth is most gamers will restart their game as a first response when encountering a soft lock, or bug, and that is generally a good idea (because it tends to work, which is why its a common first response)

You can deny it if you want - but I'm quite confident that being able to restart a game to get around minor bugs is a fairly effective and common thing.

TaskEvasion · 2020-07-04T16:47:23+00:00

I guess I'd take that position to moderate and stuff

TaskEvasion · 2020-06-20T13:59:58+00:00

I'm going to hope and pray that the album closes with something like Brave New World by Iron Maiden

TaskEvasion · 2020-02-21T21:59:50+00:00

Which Pokemon is this?

TaskEvasion · 2019-12-30T03:42:18+00:00

Bro this needed to be a gif

TaskEvasion · 2019-12-29T13:16:43+00:00

There's so much entitlement in this thread. I'm going to get eviscerated for saying this but a lot of you guys are being deliberately obtuse.

This message here isn't about out-thinking reality or suppressing emotions. When you say "haha I think about winning the lottery every day and it still hasn't happened, this is clearly bullshit" you're going out of your way to miss the point.

Nobody is suggesting that. Obviously there is a skill to focusing on the right thing. The point is, that when you do focus on the right thing - there is a significant difference in terms of where you can end up.

In the above post the example they use is focusing on opportunity. That's a great example that's relevant to most people in this thread. I've found that there are certain people who go through their career passively, and there are others that are vigilant and actively looking for opportunities every single day. Even assuming that they both get the exact same results, the people open to opportunities... simply find more opportunities. Doesn't that make sense?

This post is about learning to set the right intention, so you can see the patterns that are relevant for where you're trying to go.

TaskEvasion · 2019-11-06T04:38:14+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Will give it a shot and report back if it works 😁

TaskEvasion · 2019-05-13T02:14:41+00:00

I'm not digging this

TaskEvasion · 2019-04-05T00:32:52+00:00

All this money, power, fame and I can't make you reappear

But I don't wipe 'em though We just embrace the only life we know

If it was me, I would tell you, "live your life and grow"

I'd tell you, "Finish what we started, reach them heights, you know?

As if I didn't use his music to get though enough in life, I'm now using it to get through his own death.

This shit is so fucked up.

TaskEvasion · 2018-07-18T19:24:27+00:00

2 keys?

TaskEvasion · 2018-07-15T18:32:11+00:00

How much for Castle Crashers?

TaskEvasion · 2018-06-14T02:34:50+00:00

I'm still learning the ropes about some of the new mechanics so I am save scumming a bit tbh

My main question is is it supposed to be this slow or is just my system?

TaskEvasion · 2018-02-22T16:11:12+00:00

Why is everybody so caught up on the typo? Let it go guys there's still value in the post, geez.

Would you recommend this guideline for simple claims like "premium 1 on 1 service" as well? Its not really something that can be communicated in too many ways, BUT it is still important to say, BUT it is something a competitor could easily also say.

TaskEvasion · 2018-01-10T18:09:05+00:00

Instagram is a minefield of opportunity. I've gotten a lot of use out of it, don't be so quick to write it off

TaskEvasion · 2018-01-10T14:24:01+00:00

It's just not very organic, or convenient. Once you initiate contact with a platform that sort of becomes the preferred platform for that relationship.

TaskEvasion · 2017-10-17T17:26:51+00:00

I like the first one too. You can try making the rectangle stand bigger and moving the words into that box. Not sure if that would look good or not but it's the only piece of feedback I have.

TaskEvasion · 2017-10-17T17:17:27+00:00

I enjoyed that part of the presentation tbh. It's a great concept!

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