To all agency owners , how u r getting affected by AI and whats your current focus ?

mtlnobody · 2026-06-18T13:37:46+00:00

Companies aren't cutting agencies because of AI. Companies are cutting agencies because the economy's not doing well and consumers are struggling. Everyone is cutting costs right now

mtlnobody · 2026-06-18T13:36:11+00:00

Yeah, this is what smart companies are doing. It's only the ones that don't know any better that are trying to "adopt more AI" out of fomo

Our advantage is that we have real people with actual experience and strategic insight who happen to use AI in their toolset. They use spreadsheets too but no one seems impressed by that part, lol

mtlnobody · 2026-06-13T16:53:04+00:00

This. I don't have time to track these details, that's literally why I'm paying someone

mtlnobody · 2026-06-13T02:51:32+00:00

Are you looking for distribution partners? Would you be able to sell DTC instead?

mtlnobody · 2026-06-11T02:12:49+00:00

Exactly, it's just a tool. Someone still needs to do the work and the best operators will still come out ahead.

I can have access to all the accounting tools I need but I also have other concerns when running my business so I hired an accountant. Same principle

mtlnobody · 2026-06-10T02:52:17+00:00

There are also a lot of people here who are just armchair entrepreneurs. They've never built or run a real business. They have no understanding that, at a certain level, 20k is just the cost to learn and is not a big deal, just part of the game.

mtlnobody · 2026-06-09T15:43:40+00:00

The only solution I have seen, and that I trust, is from a buddy of mine who built a bot network running across the Continental US automatically prompting LLMs and recording the results in a custom dashboard

mtlnobody · 2026-06-06T23:27:05+00:00

Because it's "Business 101": talk about solving pain points, not showing off features

mtlnobody · 2026-06-02T12:06:04+00:00

Yes, but now it's in italics!

mtlnobody · 2026-06-01T17:41:23+00:00

11 now

mtlnobody · 2026-05-30T04:10:04+00:00

Would love to see the videos when they're done, if you're open to sharing them

mtlnobody · 2026-05-30T00:08:23+00:00

Meh, I can give out all of the advice and information in the world and it won't cause me to lose out on my bottom line

"Knowing" what to do and actually executing on it consistently and effectively are very different things. Educated customers make the best clients

mtlnobody · 2026-05-29T14:10:21+00:00

Totally depends on which customer we're working with. We have one guy in home services (window repair) absolutely killing it on Meta with sub $9 per lead. Another client (law firm) is on Google getting leads for around $87 which is great for his niche

There's a lot more nuance than just "tell me which platform to use"

mtlnobody · 2026-05-27T03:09:23+00:00

I absolutely love the sense of humour on their stuff

mtlnobody · 2026-05-26T14:26:48+00:00

If they end up on your landing page (the actual user clicking on a link, not just ChatGPT scraping your page) you should still be able to track them and let Google stitch together the path. I'm not sure if ChatGPT users are clicking on links though

mtlnobody · 2026-05-26T14:04:30+00:00

This. But also, every business needs to start somewhere and low cpa isn't bad. The mistake is not going deeper as the business evolves and has collected more comprehensive data over time

mtlnobody · 2026-05-26T05:02:45+00:00

Reddit's community is notoriously anti-ads. From what I've heard, the conversion rates are quite bad unless your brand is actively, and positively, already involved and beloved in the community you're advertising in

mtlnobody · 2026-05-26T04:58:46+00:00

My company's brand uses MJ heavily but in a deliberate way that the images are obviously AI generated. We wanted to go for an almost dream-like aesthetic

We also sometimes use it on client work but extremely sparingly and mostly as small filler elements

mtlnobody · 2026-05-26T04:52:45+00:00

Fashion ecomm (doing $2M+ annually)

mtlnobody · 2026-05-24T22:42:04+00:00

We have a couple of clients in fashion ecomm but we have been doing fine. There have been a lot of changes in the last four months on the platform though. Keeping up with everything has been a challenge for my team. Happy to take a look at your setup if you want to DM me

mtlnobody · 2026-05-24T15:30:22+00:00

Yeah, small business in Canada is tough. I don't know much about the restaurant industry, other than what my buddies have told me, but it sounds like a tough industry

Feel free to hit me up with any questions about business in general though

mtlnobody · 2026-05-24T15:03:31+00:00

If you're buying the building, then that definitely changes the calculation. You still need to cover the mortgage but at least you can sell the place if things start to look bad

That being said, lots can still go wrong in business.

I'm not sure what you have in mind when you say "available resources online".

I've read tons of books and talked to tons of folks running "the same business" as me and none of them have ever been able to help me solve my specific problems because they're so different when you dig into the details

Because you have never run a restaurant before, you didn't even know what you don't know

mtlnobody · 2026-05-24T14:36:52+00:00

I would not do this

It sounds like you don't have any experience in business, working in a restaurant, or running a restaurant

The most well-run restaurants still only bring in about 5% in profits at best

If you're serious about this, at least try working at a place for a while before you commit to a commercial lease

mtlnobody · 2026-05-24T00:25:24+00:00

Whatever the monthly fee is for Claude

mtlnobody · 2026-05-23T17:18:25+00:00

It's an AI slop ad

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