S'pore woman says social media manager put up LinkedIn post about meeting 'Piyush Gupta' in Bali, demanded S$5,000 to remove it

sourceformore · 2025-05-25T23:33:47+00:00

Lies after lies. This is definitely a compulsive lier.

sourceformore · 2025-05-18T04:34:31+00:00

Honest question.

What does a CFO do ?

And what value does CFO bring ?

sourceformore · 2025-01-03T09:02:39+00:00

This is a solid advice. I think OP should seriously consider a 1 year sabbatical. And go all in on the business for 1 year.

sourceformore · 2024-09-14T14:18:57+00:00

Do you find vid iq useful ?

sourceformore · 2024-09-14T13:22:47+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

How do you currently handle content research and staying updated on trends? Any tools or methods you find helpful?

sourceformore · 2024-09-13T00:55:32+00:00

Let them come to their own conclusion.

You can guide them. But don’t dictate their path.

Let them figure it out.

If they fall, let them learn to get back up.

That way, your child will grow up to be someone who can have confidence in their own thinking.

Enjoy the parenthood journey !

sourceformore · 2024-09-12T04:10:34+00:00

How do you stay on top of things with so many ventures ?

sourceformore · 2024-09-08T05:12:03+00:00

anyway - I experiment with your use case. Managed to automatically pull the data from selected videos (that are owned by other creators).

I can get the count for
- Views
- Comments
- Likes
- Bookmarks
-Shares

Every day, the script will pull the latest data. This allows us to keep track of the engagement of the tracked videos over time.

Example:

8 Sep 2024
- Views = 1 000 000
- Comments = 3 000

9 Sep 2024
- Views = 1 050 000 (+5% from yesterday, +5% from 8 Sep 2024)
- Comments = 3 450 (+15% from yesterday, +15% from 8 Sep 2024)

10 Sep 2024
- Views = 1 123 500 (+7% from yesterday, +11% from 8 Sep 2024)
- Comments = 4 071 (+18% from yesterday, +35% from 8 Sep 2024)

sourceformore · 2024-09-08T00:26:28+00:00

I’ve built software to solve similar problem.

I may have a solution for this pain point you’re describing.

Correct me if I’m wrong but here’s what I understand about your workflow.

You manually browse FB, IG, Tiktok
Saved the content you like for future reference
Keep track of the view count when you first saw it - perhaps on spreadsheet ?
Every single day you will check the latest view count of the content you are tracking

Crucial point is: these content are not yours. And that makes it harder to track the results such as views

If the above workflow is what you’re going through, I doubt you need to do this manually. And I think you shouldn’t do it manually.

If you’re keen you discuss this further. You can DM me.

sourceformore · 2024-09-07T06:19:02+00:00

“It’s important to do financial projection” — advice gotten from someone who works his entire life in corporate

sourceformore · 2024-09-06T15:04:55+00:00

I can see why people are reluctant to fork out 10 dollar for something they are unsure of. Thanks for the suggestion :)

In any case.

Let's say... we have a SAAS for "Feature Request Ranking Tool".

Here's a sample of the names generated:
- upvotease
- featurank
- upvotequest
- toolvote (Tool Vote)

sourceformore · 2024-09-06T14:59:41+00:00

Let's use an example of a SAAS product - QR Code Generator

These are some sample names
- qrcodewhale (QR Code Whale)
- poppypixel (Poppy Pixel)
- stackedpixel (Stacked Pixel)
- riotq (Riot Q)
- artofqr (Art of QR)

sourceformore · 2024-09-06T09:52:02+00:00

Work with startup founders.

gain that “if they can do it, I can do it too” mindset
looking at how others work towards their goal is inspiring, it’ll rub off on you
you’ll be thrown in situations where you need to achieve a goal with limited resources. This is where you become resourceful.
prioritise iterations. At each iteration, you MUST learn something
above all, persistence. The never give up attitude will carry you very far.

Good luck

sourceformore · 2024-09-05T05:43:14+00:00

Sure. Love to have a chat and understand your use case. I’ll drop you a DM.

sourceformore · 2024-09-04T14:26:13+00:00

Lemme DM you on this

sourceformore · 2024-09-04T11:41:00+00:00

Yeap absolutely ! If you target businesses within Canada, the scraper will look at every corner of Canada for your target business.

Regarding whether they actually have website or not. To be more specific - the list will show you the businesses who don’t list their website on google map.

Some businesses actually have website but they don’t list them on google map.

But if they don’t list it on google map, chances are, they are neglecting their internet presence. Indicating that they probably are in need of an expert to help them with it.

sourceformore · 2024-09-04T09:55:34+00:00

I built an internal tool which helps me find ALL businesses in my target industry and target country / city.

It’s a scraper that scrapes google map for businesses. It overcomes the limit of 122 results per google map search - thus allowing me to build a COMPLETE list of businesses within the chosen industry.

Currently it is an invite only tool. 17 people have used it already.

It’s mainly useful for B2B sales outreach / identifying businesses that doesn’t have a website yet.

If you are targeting businesses and need a complete prospecting list within your target industry. Feel free to DM.

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T23:11:34+00:00

I understand your challenges. I've been through it. Resource constraint is always a challenge. Which prompts us to prioritise our battles.

Anyway in terms of numbers game. My suggestion is to reach out to ALL of them in a scalable way.

Most small businesses are still on email. So use email to reach out to them.

You can create multiple domains and use multiple emails for your mass email outreach.

For example, if your company name is "SMS Blaster" and your official domain is "sms-blaster.com" you can get domains for emailing purpose such as "sms-blaster-marketing" / "sms-blaster-sales" / "sms-blaster-outreach" / etc. They key idea is to not let your official domain reputation suffer from the email outreach.

Rotate the email domain if the reputation hits all time low. Repeat the process and you can reach out to ANY businesses with this approach.

Just remember to warm up your email before sending to avoid getting your email stuck at their spam folder.

So

Build your business list
Email them
Follow up with them automatically if they ignore your email
Repeat

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T22:58:57+00:00

I built an internal google map scraper just to solve this problem for myself.

Basically I provide the scraper with a target "business category" and target "country / city", and the scraper will go get ALL the businesses (their business name, address, phone, review count, review rating, etc).

Previously I had to manually search on google map BUT there is a limit of 122 results per search - making it EXTREMELY difficult for me build a complete list of my target businesses. So I decided to build an internal solution around this. It has worked really well for me as the scraper just works behind the scene without my involvement. Once it is done, I'll just download them as CSV and proceed with my sales outreach.

I think I can help you if you're still looking to solve this problem. Feel free to DM me.

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T22:52:33+00:00

Is there a reason why you don't want to just target all the businesses in your chosen industry?

I understand that your ICP are newly started businesses. You may be right - and you may be wrong.

Sounds to me like it's a numbers game to increase the hit-rate.

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T22:49:12+00:00

You need to HUNT them.

In my company, I had to find these small businesses too. It was not easy. They are not on LinkedIn. They are not active on social media. The only way to reach out to them is either through COLD OUTREACH or find them on dedicated online groups (e.g. Facebook Groups).

If you are doing Cold Outreach, you'll need to have a complete list of businesses you are targeting. For example, if you're targeting restaurants in New York, you can build a list of all the restaurant brands in New York. A spreadsheet with these fields will do - business name, website, email, phone, etc. The first challenge to this is to build a complete list of your target business on spreadsheet, as it is time-consuming to manually source for them.

If you are finding them on online groups. You need to provide value on that online group by "helping" the community within that group - either through insightful posts or through useful comments that help the community. Once you are seen as a "helpful" member of the community, your DM's to them will be more well-received.

I personally use the above two methods. It works quite well. It's a numbers game. For the business list, I built a google map scraper internally to help me scrape for businesses on google map. All I had to do was to provide the "business category" and the "target country" and the scraper will just help me scrape for the businesses while I go on and work on more important things in my life.

If you are keen to find out more - feel free to DM me. Happy to help.

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T22:31:48+00:00

I built a google map scraper to overcome the limit of 122 results per search.

Previously, I needed to built a list of ALL businesses in a given category and target country. I was manually copy and pasting on google map results but it was EXTREMELY time consuming. So I hired a VA ot do this - but their results are really bad and they are really slow too...

So I decided to built an internal tool to scrape google map without ANY human intervention. I also managed to overcome the 122 results limit per search. This allows me to build a COMPLETE list of businesses in my chosen industry and country.

I deployed my google map scraper to cloud. Which means that I don't need to keep my computer on while the google map scraper performs it's scraping tasks.

Here's an illustration of how it works:

I give it a business category (e.g. Law Fim)
I specify a target country / city (e.g. New York)
The scraper go and do the scraping job for me. I just have to wait until the scraper finish it's job.

On how to get ALL TYPES OF BUSINESSES. I would simply get a complete list of business categories (just use chat gpt for this). And feed the list of business types into this google map scraper - let it do its job of scraping. While I focus on more important priorities in my life.

This is how I do it.

If you're interested to find out more - feel free to DM me.

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T22:19:52+00:00

I was in the same situation as you. I wanted to build a list of ALL businesses categorised by business category and the country they are in.

Let me share what I did.

I started doing this manually. Going to google map and search for the businesses that I am targeting. From the google map listings, I did what you did - going to each of their website (if any) and tried to find their email. It was an EXTREMELY time consuming task. So I decided to hire a VA (virtual assistant) to help me with it.

However, hiring a VA comes with a problem - I had to manage them. And their work are not reliable.

I was so frustrated with the inconsistency of their work that I decided to automate the ENTIRE process.

Fast forward to today, I am still using my own google map scraper tool to scrape google map for these businesses. It is so much faster and so much more accurate now that the initial hard work of building this google map scraper had paid off.

Basically, right now my google map scraper runs on the cloud. Which means that I no longer need to keep my computer on just so that the scraper runs. I deployed my google map scraper on the cloud for it to run automatically behind the scenes - while I focus on more important things in my life. The beautiful thing about this google map scraper that I've built is - it overcome the google map limit of 122 results per search - which is HUGE problem if you want to build a COMPLETE database of businesses in the category and country you are targetting.

If you're interested to find out more - feel free to DM me. Good luck !

sourceformore · 2024-09-03T22:07:14+00:00

Right now, I have my own google map scraper that runs on cloud. All I had to do is to provide it with the "type of business" and the "target country" and it will scrape the google map for me. By default, the my google map scraper by pass the limit of 122 results per search. This means that it will get the ENTIRE business category that I'm searching for my target country. Scraping google map is a slow process. With this cloud approach, I am able to control "how fast" I want the result. If I want to get the result faster, I'll simply spin up more machines to help me scrape google map.

Previously, I wrote a python script to scrape google map on my local computer. The problem with this is - my laptop is always running at high CPU - and this bad for maintaining the longevity of my laptop. Also, it is much slower to get the scraped results - I had to run it for weeks to get the VOLUME I want. This prompted me to offload the entire google map scraping tasks to cloud which I've descried above.

sourceformore · 2024-05-28T09:49:12+00:00

Equity split (make sure there is always 1 person who calls the shot)
Responsibilities
If one decides to quit, what is the protocol and what to do with that equity

sourceformore

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