BaseCamp was spending 3millions a year in AWS bills ๐คฏ๐ธ I now understand better why they decided to leave the cloud a few months ago dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spenโฆ
i actually want to make blog content for hours and hours now using: - @whoisjenniai - @superblog_ai - MidJourney (AI Images) - @mangools_com (keywords)
wait, AI can making a banging ass image like this... but can't compress it yet like TinyPNG? Is there a prompt for this? pic.twitter.com/lBmimkZTBN
new blog for one of my SaaS like how can you NOT now have a killer looking blog with #MidJourney? pic.twitter.com/tEkQmSwiIU
Highly recommend SaaS founders use outsourced sales team to start (before hiring internal team). ๐ Thread with some of the top "SDR as a service" companies (will update as find new ones) Any I'm missing? Alleyoop.io did this for ZoomInfo ($2.5k for 1k leads)
FYI: you can find the API endpoints of mobile apps with this: mitmproxy.org
SEO Internal Linking Masterclass ๐ I talk about internal linking a LOT on this account, but I haven't really gone into depth on my own thoughts and strategy behind one of the most powerful techniques we have at our disposal. So, here's this ๐งต pic.twitter.com/opmXerbjwq
What I hear: * Google sucks * you can't google anything in web3 * we need a new search engine. What I understand: There's an absolutely massive opportunity for someone with web3 knowledge and basic SEO skills to absolutely print
13K MRR for @markcopyai ๐ This is the result of consistent content creation. Startup founders, let me show you how you can replicate that ๐ 8 Steps to create valuable content and scale your MRR ๐งต pic.twitter.com/pv9Ii8Zd6e
Spend vs growth is a popular topic for young businesses with limited $. Often leads to discussions about what a good CAC is which often leads to a discussion about what others are spending. Start with a $0 and work your way up vs optimizing against โindustry standardโ. My 2c
I've long hated the CAC/LTV framework (particularly for consumer businesses). Because itโs so tied with creating a structural dependency on Google & Facebook it isnโt only a poor framework, it can lull you into mediocrity. My raw notes over the years of addressing this topic:
Weโre building a baby Berkshire Hathaway. The crazy part? We plan to pay 0% capital gains, compound w/ low taxes, and give our investors the same luxury. Hereโs the playbook (that you can use too):
Uhhโฆ a massive DAO just voted to โrefundโ one of their investors who was owed a 30x return ($5M+) This is an insane story that impacts all builders in web3 and as a founder I need to speak out Merit Circle DAO vs YGG ๐งต
some good stuff from a social media user interview with a 14 yr old girl yesterday:
If youโre a Startup trying to compete with a Megacorpโthe 800-pound Gorilla in the spaceโyou need to understand the tax inherent to being a Gorilla And then you need to make that tax work against the Gorillaโwith your product's positioning & features A thread on Gorilla taxes๐๐พ pic.twitter.com/rk7H4zmIpV
We started Signaturely 1 year ago. Today it gets ~350,000 visits a month. All SEO. Here's what we did: pic.twitter.com/oZu53C5bc4
"We launched Merge, and it paid back in two weeksโ That's Jonathan Fields, the CEO of @join_assembly, on the value that Merge brought to his company Learn how integrating with Merge led to 10x in sales for Assembly! ๐ Customer story below! bit.ly/3HALdEW
A Marketing degree costs $80k. But, you can learn from world-class teachers for free on Twitter. Here are 10 masterclasses on 10 different aspects of marketing:
โจ I analyzed data on 10,000+ remote job posts to find differences in pay around the world TL;DR work remotely for ๐บ๐ธ US + ๐จ๐ฆ CA companies because the rest underpays HEAVILY Highest: ๐บ๐ธ US $118K ๐จ๐ฆ Canada $110K Lowest: ๐ท๐บ Russia $35K ๐ช๐ธ Spain $45K remoteok.com/stats#regions pic.twitter.com/P0xmhLFT7p
"If you do not have language/market fit, put down your tools and go find it. If you're doing anything else, you're wasting precious time." โ @matthlerner review.firstround.com/finding-languaโฆ
โ๏ธ After 4 years + 200 episodes it's my honor to be back on the @IndieHackers podcast with @csallen ๐ฆ How COVID changed remote work ๐ต๐น Ending up in Portugal and starting Rebase ๐คฏ Radical honesty & failing in public ๐ฅธ Happiness and meaning after money open.spotify.com/episode/0BBsbNโฆ pic.twitter.com/21pIpUyPvO
My SaaS business hit $1,500 MRR and then got stuck. Until I learned an important trickโฆ Hereโs the exact method I used to scale to $100k MRR in the next 12 months:
My curated list of 25 FREE SEO tools, that will help in marketing your startup ๐ pic.twitter.com/ZMMmXmUOPV
My Five Predictions for 2022: This is just for fun to look back on whether I am right or wrong. If you disagree, please be kind since I am curious to learn! pic.twitter.com/g9G5LarY8w
I started my 1st Shopify App 3 years ago. Today I own a $25k MRR app. But I hadn't found a lot of information back then. So here we go. My Christmas gift! ๐ 24 things I wish I knew when I started my Shopify App๐
Want to exit the rat race in 2022? Buy a Business for $50k. Turn it into a $1M a year profit machine. Let me show you how ๐
1. Spent the past few weeks going down a rabbit hole learning about MEV and Flashbots โ very cool stuff! I was surprised to learn that beneath the surface, Ethereum is lurking with sniper bots waiting for any opportunity to make money. Hereโs a TLDR on some research + findings. pic.twitter.com/PMSVi6xnzW