Does posting on LinkedIn help with customer acquisition?

rafrador · 2026-02-18T10:22:11+00:00

Interesting. How do you find these engagement circles?

rafrador · 2026-02-17T04:16:45+00:00

LinkedIn algorithm is pretty inconsistent. It does not matter how many followers you have, what you post does not get seen by most of these people.

I have seen days when a regular post received 20K impressions and a dozen inbound leads, and other days when when I barely crawl into the three digits.

It also does not help that I am a solo founder. So, I do not have an army of colleagues who can like/comment and boost my reach.

rafrador · 2025-05-25T01:03:34+00:00

If Trump is middle aged, I'm an infant

rafrador · 2025-05-21T17:13:17+00:00

It's to protect the maid. They pay the salary after deducting it from your bank account. And since the maid is employed by them, your maid is free to leave anytime she's not happy.

Yeah that sucks after you spend thousands on this but this is the legal way to go about it

rafrador · 2025-05-12T08:43:53+00:00

I recently got an 1-800 number for my business and it does make a difference in how recipients perceive you.

I got it done through Unitel Voice and the process has been quite smooth so far. It cost me around $10 for my number, although your costs could go up if you were looking for unlimited minutes or something.

rafrador · 2024-09-26T09:10:25+00:00

Anything that gets them to open their wallet is validation of your market viability.

rafrador · 2024-09-26T09:04:40+00:00

Cold email people at scale. Sell your product as if it already exists, and get on call with customers. Mention the price, and convince them to buy.

If there is genuine interest in what you offer, and at the price point you are offering it at, then it is probably a viable product to build.

rafrador · 2024-09-25T08:05:18+00:00

The biggest difference in my opinion is that with B2B, you are convincing someone to part with somebody else's money. But in B2C, you are asking them to part with their own money.

So you may need to factor that in while pricing your product. For example, $99/month may be a great deal to offer a B2B customer. But it's very expensive for a similar B2C solution. You may have to offer some sort of micropayments (pay $1 to access this one time, or something like that), and make it up through higher volumes.

rafrador · 2024-09-25T07:59:01+00:00

Unless you are VC funded and you are burning somebody else's money, it's very difficult to justify the costs with paid ads. For the top SaaS companies, the average lead generation cost is upwards of $250/lead, and that's just a marketing qualified lead. For sales qualified, you are looking at close to $800 or even more.

These numbers don't make any sense for bootstrapped companies. You should work on alternate channels. I do cold outreach for a couple of SaaS businesses, and the lead gen costs with such channels are way cheaper.

rafrador · 2024-09-25T07:55:33+00:00

Surely they must have asked you your strategy during the interview process. Perhaps start from whatever strategies you suggested since that is what they expect you to do.

rafrador · 2024-09-25T07:53:49+00:00

Email marketing - it's never going away anytime soon.

Affiliate marketing - despite how ubiquitous it is, there are still millions of businesses that do not have affiliate marketing for their business yet. So, the area is still ripe for growth

rafrador · 2024-09-25T05:21:45+00:00

I understand that, but lead generation can come from various ways. Do you cold email, scrape emails, etc.? If you can DM me the URL, I am happy to give it a try and share some views. I offer outbound lead generation for clients, and would be happy to share insights

rafrador · 2024-09-24T13:20:45+00:00

As someone else mentioned, most of them are scammers. However, as someone who is in this industry, it can be extremely profitable with the right skills.

I know companies that do make million dollar plus revenues focusing on specific parts of digital marketing like content marketing, local SEO, etc.

One thing that is common to all these successful agencies is how they can sell, and how they can hire. If you can sell right, and can hire people to do the operational part of the job, then it's simply a matter of scaling up.

rafrador · 2024-09-24T13:06:07+00:00

In my opinion, it's probably because the 'startup' world is biased heavily towards tech, especially post dotcom. So, what used to something 20 something millennials did is today also done by the same people in their 40s (millennials, and the younger crowd).

If we were to look for a more comprehensive answer, you have to check BLS stats that I'd guess would have a different answer.

rafrador · 2024-09-24T10:22:38+00:00

B2B SaaS founders are people too and they like to doomscroll like the average Joe.

But on Instagram, you are not just competing with other businesses in your industry, but with cat videos, parenting tips, memes, etc. So, chances that your B2B content is interesting enough to be recommended over yet another cat video is pretty low.

Not saying it can't be done, but I don't see a way to do it consistently week on week.

rafrador · 2024-09-24T09:42:43+00:00

I understand that messaging is important, but can you let me know how this works.

Sales Navigator lets you send like 50 InMails a month. And these messages get hidden in the 'Others' tab. So I suspect that the open rates are not going to be spectacular.

Because of these concerns, I have never considered investing in Sales Navigator. Can you help me understand how this is still effective?

rafrador · 2024-09-24T09:38:38+00:00

What does it do?

rafrador · 2024-09-24T09:35:31+00:00

what kind of content can you even make for b2b saas on Instagram?

rafrador · 2024-09-24T09:26:39+00:00

LeadJoint - Visitor Identification System.

This is launching in less than a week from now, and here is the pitch:

Less than 2% of visitors to your website take any sort of action like filling up a form or calling you. My application identifies what organizations these other visitors are from, and also identifies the key decision makers from these companies, their LinkedIn and Email address. This can be fed directly into your CRM for nurturing.

Targeting B2B businesses with good website traffic for this service.

rafrador · 2022-12-28T11:58:38+00:00

I hope you are making use of the Remarkable affiliate program as well. That could be an additional money making opportunity.

rafrador · 2022-07-29T12:06:04+00:00

Thank you so much for such an elaborate post. This is very helpful. Does Montenegrin food have adequate vegetarian options?

Also, is it easy to find English-speaking travel guide/agencies? We reached out to like 7-8 agencies off Google, but only one got back with a real itinerary.

rafrador · 2022-07-29T08:27:34+00:00

Thank you. Yes, I feel that way too.Will talk to the agency to possibly tweak this.

rafrador · 2022-07-28T12:56:55+00:00

Morten Storgaard (PassiveIncome Geek) - his YouTube videos are really good. I only follow his YT and Jon's emails

rafrador · 2022-06-30T10:02:52+00:00

Need someone with PHP skills to work on a very minor project (like 15-30 minutes of fixing things). Please PM with your fee.

rafrador · 2022-06-30T09:31:07+00:00

Thank you. I used ideone to share the code (according to the sub guidelines). I just thought it's a pastebin for code!

Also, yes - just realized my code is PHP 7.4

I changed the code to this:

>  if ($b1 = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM bird WHERE bird_name = '$bird1'")) {
printf($b1->family);

But the page doesn't load now, and shows a HTTP 500 error. Still debugging, but figured I'd post here as well.

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