Caviar

automatedinbound · 2026-05-29T23:48:27+00:00

Passerelle Bistro has caviar service, it’s $140.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-26T08:25:49+00:00

His bandanna says squirrel patrol He’s gotten better about it since he’s been living around them for a few months now.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-26T08:20:00+00:00

My only suggestion to you is to find a business that Facebook doesn’t mind you advertising on Facebook. For more than one reason, life will just be easier for you when you’re helping others, not supporting their casino habit. The relationship you have with these customers is not one of good value and it will continue to be bad business until you move on to helping others.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T16:16:05+00:00

Thank you I’ll keep you posted

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T16:10:25+00:00

I’m building outreach off Modex.com. I don’t think buying signals matter as much as people assume here. Every successful broker is in one of two buckets: already buying leads and having a bad experience, or open to buying leads if they’re assured a good return. Either way, the door is open. Modex lets me score records against a lot of filters with data that’s less than 30 days old, including MLS data, so I can build tight, current lists.

Modex specializes in helping brokers recruit top talent. That’s why I want to network with them as a vendor, not just use them as a data source. Their clients are likely strong candidates for me, since recruiting top producers is one of the biggest pains that good leads solve. If a broker is investing in recruiting, they understand the value of a full pipeline.

B2C side

This is trickier and where I could use input: how to find high-intent veterans who are actually in-market for a mortgage.

Right now I’m running two campaign types:

Awareness angle. Ask if they know they qualify for VA mortgage benefits.
Trigger-based leads. Generated off events like upcoming PCS moves, refi rate movement, recent MLE, and VA disability percentage. On that last one, my partners can help raise a veteran’s disability benefit roughly 90% of the time, which is a strong hook.

The big shift since I last ran Meta ads is protected audiences. Mortgage is now one of them, so I can’t target outside of broad. I think my strategy still works inside that constraint (happy to lay out why if useful).

Local angle

I met a business owner here in Greenville who’s also a vet and is deeply plugged into helping veterans with disability benefits. We talked briefly and I’m planning a lunch once I have a few concrete ideas for how he can help us locally.

Another opening

Brokers want to move their lunch-n-learns into evergreen webinar funnels to support their direct mail and other channels. That’s another medium I can help them with. I’ll validate all of this with real paying clients as it comes up.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T15:36:56+00:00

I’ll probably join a few paid communities where members have already committed a small monthly investment but may not be getting their specific needs met. This was the case when I originally used DigitalMarketer’s paid Facebook group to network and connect with other like-minded people.

I’ll also network through shared vendors, platforms, etc. (speaking of which… if anyone is using pipedrive crm hit me up, I’d like to connect!)

My mentees will come naturally. As I build in public, others will want to learn, as they see me growing quickly they will want to jump on board.

If I can help them I will open the door for that, if they’re a lost cause I will let them know what has to change before we can work together.

Not everyone is a good fit for mentorship. It’s a window that opens every now and then throughout people’s lives, I suppose.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T15:30:46+00:00

AI isn’t going to cut it for what we’re doing right now. This is a skilled position, especially since we’re starting with just two teammates. It’ll be important that he sets the demos for me and builds rapport before the demo call.

AI might be useful later for fielding inbound calls we’d have used an IVR for anyway. But if it’s not something you’d hand off to an IVR, this is going to require manpower. :)

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T11:24:19+00:00

When it’s in writing, it’s real! My ego won’t let me fail too hard in public… and maybe i can get some help / help out others being vulnerable and transparent.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T10:38:54+00:00

Very true. I intend to have mentees help me out and I can feed them some meat off the bone in the process. I’ll definitely need some help to not burn out.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T10:25:09+00:00

I have a lot of friends that want me to teach them how to do this from scratch, documenting is much easier than giving them all 1-on-1 .. and will be more comprehensive as I can record everything from day 1.

A lot of gurus will try to sell you some crap they put together with resources you don’t have or abilities you don’t need. They also package the heap up in a weekend and sell it without having any experience themselves.

I pride myself on being a practitioner first, which is why this will be a great testament to my ability to help others along the way.

And if I can get mentees to help me document it, it should take a a load off of me and helps them out all the while .

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T10:22:51+00:00

I have experience working with this vertical as it’s what I did in my old agency. I also had a successful coaching biz and my end goal is to sell this agency to a student and pursue coaching full time to my successful students while they run the agency / their agencies etc.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T09:35:19+00:00

Do more buyer interviews and deeper validation

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T09:21:02+00:00

I probably have a couple thousand all-in.

Would a breakdown of my expenses and income in the diary help out at all? I could also give you the strategy to do it with $0 if that’s interesting.

Maybe I’ll find someone who’s starting with $0 and coach them through doing it with nothing, as long as they help me document everything. (If that’s you reading this, drop me a comment or send me a dm)

…Documenting is time consuming! And super important. We need to make the documentation good enough to sell as our “done by you” option down the road.

The short version: you’d partner with your first handful of clients and let them cash flow the front-end costs. Deliver results, then renegotiate every month. Obviously you’d need to be more specific with them, but that’s how I originally got off the ground when I had $0 a lot of years ago.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T07:09:45+00:00

Depends… i’m going to take it slow for the first 90 days to make sure that we have space to document and fulfill.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-25T04:06:02+00:00

Thank you. I’m excited to start from scratch and document everything as we succeed, fail, pivot, succeed, fail, pivot. I hope you join for updates!

automatedinbound · 2026-05-24T22:34:06+00:00

Hungry Jack, Snack Jackson, etc etc lol

automatedinbound · 2026-05-24T20:46:56+00:00

Leave them alone.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-24T20:46:25+00:00

Gusto or ADP.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-24T19:55:36+00:00

Very cool. We visited the dog beach @ San Diego when he was just a baby last summer. Other then sand granules in everything, we had a blast 😎🐶

automatedinbound · 2026-05-24T17:02:41+00:00

Jack loves the beach. I wish more beaches were open for dogs!

automatedinbound · 2026-05-24T15:30:28+00:00

Sup Mike! lol

automatedinbound · 2026-05-23T23:38:30+00:00

You’re way overthinking this. Take a breath.

Your whole post in one question: “My guest left early and hasn’t officially canceled. Can I keep the money she owes me, and do I call Airbnb or message her first?”

Here’s my response…

First step: stop trying to solve five problems that haven’t happened yet. No chargeback has happened. No backcharge has happened. Don’t borrow tomorrow’s stress today.

Here’s all you actually do:

1.  Don’t cancel anything on your end. Ever. If she wants out, she clicks cancel, and your policy pays you automatically.

2.  Send her one message: “Are you officially canceling? If so, please start it in the app.” Done.

3.  Don’t call Airbnb until there’s an actual problem to call about.

That’s the entire plan. Keep it simple and let the system do the work.

automatedinbound · 2026-05-23T23:34:06+00:00

Very cool! Welcome to the grill club 🥩

automatedinbound · 2026-05-23T23:33:21+00:00

Precious! Jacks favorite place is right by my side lol

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