u/Consistent-Hearing26

I’m researching how entrepreneurs get feedback on business ideas from people in their target market.

If you’ve tried doing that on Reddit recently, what happened? Which audience were you trying to reach, what did you post, and did the responses help you make a decision?

If it didn’t work, what did you try next? If it worked well, what made the difference?
I’m exploring a business in this area and want to understand people’s actual experiences before proposing anything.

I’m researching podcast production workflows and trying to understand this part before assuming there’s a problem worth solving.

For people publishing weekly or biweekly, think about your most recent episode.

Once the actual editing was finished, what still had to happen before everything was live?

Things like uploading, titles/descriptions, show notes, chapters, thumbnails, scheduling, website updates, YouTube, QA, social posts, etc.

I’m especially curious:

• Who handled all of that?
• What parts were manual?
• Did anything get forgotten, delayed, or need to be redone?
• If everything worked smoothly, what system made it work?

Not pitching anything here. I’m trying to understand what the real workflow looks like, including cases where this is already easy and there’s nothing to fix.

I’m doing some research on how prior authorizations actually get handled day to day.

For those of you who work on them regularly, thinking about the last few difficult ones you dealt with, what actually ate up the time?

Was it gathering documentation, figuring out payer requirements, submitting through portals/fax, calling for status, responding to requests for more information, denials/appeals, or something I’m missing?

Also curious how you keep track of everything while a PA is in progress.

For transparency, I’m researching whether there’s something useful to build here. I’m not selling anything, and I’d especially like to hear from people whose current process works well.

I’m researching how this works in real companies, specifically teams using HubSpot + QuickBooks.

I’ve heard a few examples of the two systems agreeing initially, then getting out of sync later after things like partial payments, refunds, reversals, credit memos, or an invoice being changed.

But I don’t want to assume that’s common based on a handful of cases.

If you’ve actually dealt with this at your company, what happened the last time the two systems disagreed?

How did someone notice?

Who ended up fixing it, sales, finance, RevOps, an outside consultant, someone else?

And what did fixing it actually involve?

Especially interested in firsthand examples rather than what the integration is supposed to do.

I’m doing some research into how brands manage TikTok Shop creator affiliate programs.

One thing I’m trying to understand is whether sellers actually track profit by creator after free product, shipping, commission and refunds, or mostly use GMV/sales inside Seller Center.

If you’re doing this at decent volume, how are you tracking it now?

Spreadsheet, Seller Center, another tool, or something else?

Say you agree on a brief, deliver the content, and then the brand asks for another hook, a different script, extra cuts, or a reshoot.

Where do you personally draw the line between a normal revision and a new paid deliverable?

I’m especially interested in people who have actually charged extra for this.

What did the brand ask for, what did you charge, and did they pay it?

Also curious whether you keep track of revision rounds somewhere or mostly just go back through the contract, brief, emails, and DMs when there’s a disagreement.

I’m curious what the process looks like once you’re getting enough leads that you can’t just remember where every call ended up.

Do you actually reconcile your Google LSA leads against your CRM or completed jobs to see which paid leads turned into appointments and revenue?

Or is it more like checking cost per lead in Google and occasionally looking back at whether the leads seemed decent?

I’m especially curious if anyone has found things like:

• leads you paid for that never made it into the CRM
• duplicate/bad leads
• leads marked as good that never became appointments
• difficulty figuring out actual revenue per LSA lead
• having to compare Google and the CRM manually

If you do reconcile this regularly, what are you using, spreadsheet, CRM reports, agency, something automated?

Trying to understand whether matching ad spend all the way through to actual jobs is routine for home-service companies or something most people don’t bother doing.