agency95

joined 10 months ago
[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I don’t understand the push to position stuff like this as “ai” powered. It literally doesn’t matter. Lead with why your product is better than the others. The person using it doesn’t care if it’s a monkey suggesting recipes, a billion line switch statement or completely random. Sell the benefit not the tech

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Landing page is good enough imo. Your problem, and many others in my opinion, is trying to build a brand around a bullshit commodity product. “say goodbye to back strain”?! Like come on is anyone buying that as a benefit?

Some things are just meant to be sold for $5 at the local pet store or on Amazon.

The alibaba, resell the same garbage from China with a new brand is the plague of online shopping.

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Take photos of stuff that mean something to you and moments you want to remember. Don’t just go out trying to “make art” or “take incredible photos.” You’ll be more invested if you’re genuinely interested in capturing the moment than just trying to git gud

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Not a professional photographer but cold messaging you like did works in almost no line of work. The rule of thumb is to provide value before having an ask. You started with the ask as a complete rando on the internet which is bound to fail

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I would not pursue the MBA in marketing unless you really just want to. MBAs are more about working in existing companies than starting and running a startup. Some of the stuff will be valuable but you can learn way more by self-study and doing.

Is your mobile app B2C? If so, go all in on learning how to build an audience, content, social media, and whatever other traction channels you think my work. There’s a good intro book called Traction.

If your app is B2B, go all in on cold calling and sales. This is a super power.

It certainly wouldn’t hurt to learn the basics of programming and product management so you can speak the language and help drive direction.

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I agree that most ideas are worth $0 or very close to zero. But to add a slightly different view, I think there are some ideas that do have inherent value. If the idea is dependent on being a really niche subject matter expert then the execution can be a little less important. You still need to execute on the idea and vision, but these really niche SMEs can sometimes find gaps in the market that are extremely receptive to any solution. Whereas most markets in this day and age require a fairly polished solution.

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The bottom number doesn’t really mean much besides putting you at risk. What are her open rates? Click rates? If people click, what is the conversion rate? Etc

You can blast everyone on the planet but if it’s not targeted, personalized, etc it’ll be a waste of time and resources.

I’ve worked with some large e-commerce companies that aren’t that high, but >100M. They have very robust tracking, segmentation, personalization, etc. I couldn’t imagine anyone having success at that scale without those things at a 10/10.

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Only watched the first half cuz east coast and young kids. But was chuckling to myself going to bed about the thought of Denver beating Buffalo. Didn't actually think it would happen. Got dayum would ya look at that. What the hell is going on in Buffalo? How did they fall off so quickly?!

[–] agency95@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I watched my first one this weekend during the first half of the game. It was super cringe. The hand signal audible bit went on wayyyy too long and Arnold couldn’t have cared less about the game.