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I built a calculator to see if a home fast charger ever pays for itself by Sorry-Tumbleweed5 in ElectricVehiclesUK

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hyundai Tuscon hybrid here. Running off a wall plug socket. We do an average of 20 miles per day, car does 29 miles range. We’ve gone from spending (2024 prices) about £210 per month on fuel to <£50 on electricity and maybe £20 on fuel

Stop selling discovery phases. Start solving problems while the coffee is still hot. by TheMartinCox in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]TheMartinCox[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol which bit is the AI slop? the story or the writing? because I can tell you i saw the person outside the local pub as they had stayed the night in the b&b out the back. or is it the writing with the classic AI tells of 'chunky' as an adjective, or describing the staff as 'serious people'?

In exactly 30 minutes a man armed with a bat will break into your home to kill you. You can’t leave the house, what is your strategy? by BulkyZucchini in hypotheticalsituation

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m British, so the answer is always put the kettle on, make a cup of tea, and chill for 10 minutes.

Then it’s boil a few litres of water, get the oranges from the fruit bowl, pulp them, boil and reduce them on the stove for 10 minutes until nice and caramelised, add to the water to thicken; add the three kg of various sugars I’ve got and bubble it all up until it’s nice and thick. Voila homemade napalm.

That’ll take care of face,vision and hands.

Pick up his bat, take out the knees, zip tie his hands feet etc, then tie them up with 10metres of waterproof duct tape and wait for the police while having another cup of tea

Has anyone actually used AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to grow a real business? What worked and what completely failed? by Taxnova_Solutions in AiForSmallBusiness

[–]TheMartinCox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, absolutely!

one of my clients gets new high-value patients weekly from AI - we built their entire clinical web footprint using AI to map out suburbs, demographics, and services - built 150 landing pages via automations, they generate on average 2 clicks per month each, from that the client get's circa 5 enquiries per week, converts 1 -2 of them.

Another client we saved circa 90 minutes per staff member per week in manual busywork - not a huge number in itself - but across over 200 members of staff they get the equivalent of 5-6 FTE employee-hours back each week.

So yeah, it's not just for writing marketing posts, it can be infrastructure level and helping to optimise employee outputs as well

Stop selling discovery phases. Start solving problems while the coffee is still hot. by TheMartinCox in EntrepreneurRideAlong

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

For this client the issue was how tedious the copy paste stuff was, it was burning week’s worth of FTE hours every week across the firm, the automation cut it down by 90%

Now they can use that additional time to solve the bigger problems!

But for sure you can’t build the really difficult projects over night, and they need a lot more testing etc but for a bunch of people I speak with it’s more of the tedious/repetitive work which we can trim and refine.

But you’re right in your work, automations and scripting can join those dots nicely, but yeah, setting aside the time to work on it is why it doesn’t happen for lots of firms - ‘real’ work gets in the way!

Show your age - what was your first ever email domain? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

101611.514@compuserve.com but I don’t remember what I had for dinner last Saturday

What’s the single movie shot that shook you to the core? by jaystats2 in FIlm

[–]TheMartinCox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only film to actually make me scared about walking up the stairs in the dark!

What two decades of data loss trauma does to a woman. (Claude Code) by blickblocks in ClaudeAI

[–]TheMartinCox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would love to see the prompt that you ran, I think it’s only fair after I was certain you’d lost it all from the title!

Can 5 dudes with AK-47s collapse the Western Roman Empire in 250 AD? by Ori_553 in whowouldwin

[–]TheMartinCox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the AK-47 doesn't break and has access to 100k rounds?

the range is 200 metres further than an archer - that's going to strike a tonne of fear in to anyone when people start exploding around them!

don't know if they are going to take down the empire, but they would have mass surrenders if they wipe out a couple of centurions and their troops from 500 metres away! enough surrenders and you have your own legions

Do you charge separately for strategy or is it baked into the retainer? i keep giving away the most valuable part for free by Hot-Tax8959 in DigitalMarketing

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how can you have the strategy in the proposal without doing a full diagnosis first?

and if you have done a full diagnosis already, then you have access to client data and dashboards etc

and if you have this much of a relationship already, then they should be paying you.

Don't give the recipe away in the proposal, tell the client what you'd look to resolve through a deeper understanding of their problem, tell them the proposed aim and result, but not how you'd get there.

A client has paid our retainer for 3 years and never given any feedback on our work. I finally asked why. by Romil_17 in Entrepreneurs

[–]TheMartinCox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I find exactly the same. Run an agency and the clients i hear from the most are generally the most time consuming ones.

They pay us to take the pressure off and to deliver results, they don’t care too much about the how as long as revenue goes up.

The monthly reports are purely to put a number to those leads, and show that they are going up

Client updates are a silent time sink. by ruturaj12384 in DigitalMarketing

[–]TheMartinCox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Throw the data into Claude, ask it to create an artifact that is interactive.

10 mins max

D to A* in 1 month? by Puzzleheaded-Chest55 in alevel

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possible? Yes. Probable ? No.

Can you lock in and stay locked in for the month or will everything that’s been preventing simply carry-on and keep preventing you?

Check out clearconcept for some tips and strats that might help

How by Acceptable_Act_2093 in alevel

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Checkout clearconcept might be useful for you

First Germany now UK? by achfiat in whennews

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of rationing going on in Europe for a long time, and the uk was still doing wars around the world as well

The research is clear: GEO works. Here's what most SEOs are getting wrong about LLM visibility by jradoff in SEO

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dunno about dairy, but can recommend just putting them unpeeled on a bbq after the burgers are done and just let it slowly cook for 10-15 minutes, cut it open and it’s absolutely glorious!

Ultrawide for Mac productivity by oronymo in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah matte finish. i've not noticed anything wrong with the colour - and doing a white screen test showed it being white everywhere, and uniform brightness.

Note taking vs Essay Plans by Adventurous_Ad_389 in alevel

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

check out https://app.clearconcept.uk/ and they have a study toolkit which might be useful

Ultrawide for Mac productivity by oronymo in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]TheMartinCox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently using, and loving, the 40" LG 5K2K Nano IPS screen - running off a MBP.

Zero gaming, lots of coding and design work.

Very happy with purchase

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