when you realize
your hairs are part
of an entity
that does not
belong to you
beckoning itself back
to a place
alien
in the valley of disappointment
stuck in
having the pattern
recognize you
it starts
in a garden
of trial rhyme
#catelebon
#fountainsempty
#tohold
#poetry
Similar to creatine, baking soda can help with short, high-intensity bouts of exercise, which is thought to be due to its ability to buffer hydrogen ions produced from anaerobic metabolism.
I've worked every single day for the past 2 years. Some days 16+ hours.
I've finally pushed one of my projects over $2M ARR. 100% bootstrapped.
It has taken probably 55x+ more sweat than I ever imagined I had in me to accomplish my goals.
I just want that bag more than other
It's difficult for me to admit I've hit a bottleneck on growth on a $130,000 MRR company I've built in less than 2 years.
What is my way up?
Hire/include/surround myself with more folks that are smarter than me.
#hiring
#startups
#bootstrap
#buildinpublic
#growthhacking
The babe Achilles dunked by the ankle into the River Styx.
Real world body horror and macabre vs. metaphors for the absolute source of weakness in the god among gods...
our hero, Achilles.
A digital transfer of Ken Anger's monumental work called Puce Moment - Filmed 1949 with his cousin Yvonne in the ghost houses of Hollywood.
Audio added 1960s? I can barely remember the songwriter's name ...Jonathon Halper something - a relatively soggy mystery in itself his
The most common (electron) stealers are dental infections, emotional baggage, and toxins from things like GMO foods & pesticides.
Robbing us of
#voltage
.
Marketing is a relationship.
Help people, they’ll help you.
Be transparent, they’ll respect you.
Be useful to people, and they’ll buy from you.
Crazy how many marketers don’t get this right.
#marketing
#relationshipbuilding
#marketer
#marketers
A tip to anyone seeking to start up a new SaaS business:
marketplaces.
That is the operative word to a world of 3-4x valuations above any other really decent SaaS models.
You just never can get away with going somewhere without a story to be fabricated.
Silent travelling is forbidden.
There's always a requirement of reasons, explanations, plausibilities, inspection into the past, etc, etc.
And so we invent meaning to get us from one waypoint
Pontificus Maximus Expounds The Moral Freedom Ignoring The Dice of Fortune.
Life Lead According to Nature.
Immune to any passing whim.
A nice balance of character. Both gentle and dignified.
An complaining energy for what NEEDS to be done.
Proof against surprise or panic.
Refunding is hard and also a tough topic when dealing with high-ticket customers at design subscription agencies.
I refunded 4.88% ($26,928) of our revenue in the last one year. That’s ~1,000 refunds for a $25/m SaaS!
My mantra? Never fight with anyone who asks for a refund.
@Awan_Sahab
gotta be workin bru. regular world too boring. shipping new saasy saas
@aetherstuff
next week too so time to buckle in. rest when i'm dead.
You're jumping at shadows.
You're in a state of shock.
Yer hangin by a thread.
Yer on the razor's edge.
But it's mainly in your head.
Strange ways, strange days.
I've sent 2190000 (roughly 50% on $1MM+ revenue) cold emails in the past year competing with 100MM+ VC/PE funded companies.
Here is what I can report:
1. Entertain, shock, wheedle, or charm with abruptness. Short and sweet. Like a short pennied (microcock) lolita.
2. Read
What is the construction config of your current sales pipeline?
Mine looks like this:
Apollo leads list or Cyberleads (
@alexwestco
)
Imported to Aether for Video Landing page gen
Synced to Instantly to distribute
Sequence: 1st touch text only cold email, 3 sentences max; 2nd
Shai-Hulud’s real and fictional origins are from Arabic. Shai roughly translates to “Thing”, and Hulud roughly translates to “eternity” or “immortality”. In the Fremen culture it is translated as “Old Man of The Desert”, “Old Father Eternity”, or “Grandfather of the Desert”.
Get in the gym. It's not just about the physical benefits; the lessons learned from dedication, consistency, and resilience are universal. Transfer those lessons to your startup, to your marketing strategies, to your SEO.
Quit stalling. Start sweating.
We've been building this SaaS over on sendaether dot com for a few weeks now (explainer video👇)
Just cleaning up the corners.
DM "french fry guy" if you're interested in a free couple of months (limited availability)
Feedback is always👌
#EmailMarketing
#BuildInPublic
#SaaS
I see folks trying 'build 1 saas per month' and this I think is a really really REALLY bad idea.
Folks that build big startups LASER focus on ONE thing and ONE thing only.
This society is not driven to fulfill each and every one's purpose. It's to have the society maintained, the system maintained, controlled by a couple of people. All the energy, for what? Where is the happiness, where is the strength, where is the health?
Getting from zero to $2k MRR.
🔴 Expectation
⚫️ Reality
Progress happens slowly, then all at once.
It just takes a long time to find something that works.
Mainly, one good product and one good distribution channel.
For me, it took 2 years, 20 products and 19 failed attempts.
If I had given up on booze and birds earlier - say in my 30s - I would have smashed that cash success buzzer before now.
But then again, I wouldn't have been so happy as I've managed to report (for at least half of it).
So many hairy failures along the path. I'd be a bald