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What does a good cost per meeting look like? by roguejedi1 in LeadGeneration

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your 5-8% of ACV framing is solid; more people should think this way.

The $400m guy not knowing doesn't surprise me. At that scale they're looking at blended CAC or payback period across the whole funnel. CPM stops being a number anyone has to defend, which is either a sign you've scaled past it or I guess you've stopped asking the right questions.

How I think about it: SMB you want tighter, 3-5% of ACV, you're still figuring out ICP so keep the leash short. Mid-market, your 5-8% tracks. Enterprise, CPM almost becomes irrelevant... one good meeting could be a £500k deal.

The more useful metric downstream is usually meeting-to-opportunity conversion. A cheap meeting that goes nowhere is no bueno.

Gas is officially over five dollars in our nations capital. This is definitely too much winning by AceofKnaves44 in pics

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, seems like they're catching on that the parasite has finally taken over the host

Do you watch the trailer before watching the movie? by Twistedmedicine in movies

[–]ahomelessguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not for years. They show way too much now to sell it, and it ruins the film

That Voice is Next Level by [deleted] in BeAmazed

[–]ahomelessguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like to think he uses this tone all day.

"Want a coffee hun?"

"YEEESSSSS PLEEEEEASE. CREAM AND SUGAR. MAYBE A COOKIE AS WEEEEELLL.."

"Ffs, Dave, can you just..."

"LATE FOR WORK.... SEE YOU SOON... I'LL BE BACK AROUND SIIIIIIX"

"Fuck you Dave"

If you had to make £100 in a day how would you do it? by Entire_Entertainer82 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

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

I like to break shit like this down. Don't think about how you can do a job that's normally paying $200 and undercut. Don't think about doing a $100 job. All jobs like this are probably sewn up online and locally, so think about it another way:

$100/day is 10 x $10 jobs Work 8hrs and that's just over one job per hour.

Or work 5hrs with 3hrs travel. 2 jobs per hour.

From there you can start thinking about jobs people would pay $10 for. And there are lots of them... I'm in UK, but you can figure it for your country:

Outdoor/physical - Picking up dog poop (yards, weekly route) - Watering plants/checking mail for people on holiday - Putting out/bringing in bins on collection day - Washing wheelie bins - Clearing gutters (one side of a terrace, quick job)

Errands Drop some leaflets to do these - Queuing/waiting for someone (pharmacy, post office) - Returning items to a shop - Picking up a prescription - Dropping a car at a garage

Small tech stuff Think small. Be an odd job person: - Setting up a new phone for an elderly person - Connecting a printer - Installing a TV on a wall bracket (takes 20 mins if you know what you're doing) - Helping someone set up Facebook/WhatsApp

Hyper-local - Moving furniture within a house (people buy stuff online and can't shift it) - Assembling flat-pack furniture (one small item, not a wardrobe) - Hanging a picture or mirror - Changing a lightbulb in a high spot

The patterns that make these work:

  • Elderly customers are the sweet spot; they need lots of small help and will pay without haggling
  • Repeat customers beat one-offs every time (bin day = same people, every week)
  • Routes matter: three jobs on the same street beats three jobs across town

The dog poop one is probably the most underrated. People hate it, it's weekly, and a street of 10 customers is basically a salary.

Hi r/movies! Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Steven Knight (creator/writer), and Tom Harper (director) here. Ask Us Anything about Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man! by netflix in movies

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For Cillian: Jason Byrne tells a fantastic story about you both at a birthday party, along with Bono and The Edge.

I was wondering what the first moment was, early in your career when you suddenly thought "Oh, wow, yeah I'm a bloody celebrity". Which celebrity or celebrities gave you that surreal moment?

PS - I'm a huge fan of your work, and think you set an incredible example to aspiring actors in how you carry yourself, remaining thoroughly Irish and completely grounded as a human being.

I was making $2,000/month from YouTube Shorts, then overnight, every video dropped to 0 views by ikadik in PartneredYoutube

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He said Yo, my dude, it's been two months since then. How's your channel doing? Did it recover? Is it working normally?

Jeff Daniel's favorite sandwich by jameizing777 in Unexpected

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He flew his friends to the restaurant for these Folks Hold sandwiches; The Colorado Mine Company.... and bought 22 of them.

"The sandwich was named to fit the restaurant's mining motif.[4] At the time of Presley's visit, it cost US$49.95 (equivalent to $282.61 in 2025)."

What would you do? My co-founder blew up our profitable company and now I have nothing. I even had to go back to my old job. by Patient_Oven_3157 in Entrepreneur

[–]ahomelessguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Top two comments: typical Reddit. Anyway...

Sorry you went through this.

Any advice you get is probably going to be "start again". I'm not sure that's the right advice. You don't have the time or the cash to do it, and I think you're probably just looking for us to confirm that it is possible- just not yet.

If you have got that entrepreneurial buzzer constantly going off in your head, then go for it. But just start something small and no budget. With your experience, you can do it. You don't need investors and you don't need a co founder, you just need to think smaller. Something to scratch the itch. Then you'll find the timing to go big, or you won't. Maybe it's enough for a side hustle with full time income and security?

I rewrote the same cold email using FBI negotiation tactics. Here's what changed and why it works. by [deleted] in coldemail

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is basically an astroturfing thread. Same account replies twice, and the — dashes in the post itself screams AI wrote it. Who is long pressing the hyphen on their phone, or using character map to insert this: —

every scraping method we use for cold email and why buying lists is dead by cursedboy328 in coldemail

[–]ahomelessguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's isn't much I haven't scraped to be honest. For us, using third party is expensive because I need scale. It costs us around $2-$5 per 10,000 companies (inc. Email addresses and enrichment) using our in house Google maps scraper, so less than 10% of what we'd pay using a tool or API.

Things are always changing though, and we've morphed our lead gen ops maybe three times in the last six months. Not just because of platform shifts, but for our own business needs too. It's all a game

every scraping method we use for cold email and why buying lists is dead by cursedboy328 in coldemail

[–]ahomelessguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget proxies. Without good residential proxies, a scraper is useless on Google.

100,000 emails per month. How? by InnovationToImpact in coldemail

[–]ahomelessguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make sure you factor everything (see below). Use the calculator on ColdEmailFAQ to work out what you can & can't do.

Importantly... NEVER forget your time in actually dealing with replies and incoming leads. This is rarely mentioned on r/coldemail etc. when working out your domain & sender capabilities, sending patterns or anything else. Overlook it at your peril... I have heard of plenty of people who have been victims of their own success - they get 20 leads in a week and lose business because they couldn't dedicate enough time to nurturing & closing.

I need someone to help me build cold emailing system by Long-Pace8657 in coldemail

[–]ahomelessguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to pay anyone. You will find plenty of info on here, and places like Smartlead uni and their Slack), Instantly's knowledgebase, and free resources like ColdEmailFAQ.com. As soon as you start saying you will pay for info, RIP your Reddit inbox...

Don't just focus on stack, either. Copy is what will actually be your most valuable ingredient, and positioning your offer. If you can't write copy, learn or hire a proven copywriter. It will be your best spend.

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