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People keep saying selling AI agents to local businesses is “dead” or “too saturated,” tbh ur just lazy asf.

It’s not that the opportunity is gone, u approach it in the most useless way possible.

They spin up some generic agency website, hype themselves up, make a handful of awkward cold calls, get zero traction, and then decide the whole thing doesn’t work. No shit it’s not gonna work.

I’ve never relied on a website. Still don’t. And I don’t sit there cold calling all day either. That approach just isn’t it.

What actually changed the game for me was realizing how stupidly easy it is to build effective AI voice agents are for simple, real-world use cases answering calls, booking appointments, handling overflow after hours. Stuff local businesses actually care about.

Think about it like salons, dentists, contractors… these people miss calls constantly even weekends. That’s lost money for them and that’s how u pitch

Once I saw how fast I could build something functional, it flipped a switch. Instead of pitching an idea, I started showing the finished thing upfront.

Not “hey, I can build this for you.”

Only say “I already built this for your business. Try it.”

Before, the tech made it annoying to scale. Now it’s fast enough that you can crank these out all day and reach a ton of businesses without burning out.

Obv not everyone replies that’s just how outreach works. But when you’re sending something tangible instead of empty words, the hit rate goes way up.

At this point, I’m consistently closing a couple deals a week. Pricing usually lands somewhere between 300€ and 900€ per month depending on usage, plus a setup fee on top.

The real advantage here is information asymmetry. Business owners don’t know how easy this stuff has become. To them, it still feels technical, expensive, complicated.

To you, nothing.

If you’re just starting, keep it simple. Use tools that let you build and deploy quickly without overcomplicating everything. Once you get more comfortable, then you can stack more advanced tools and workflows.

recommended for beginners: novavoca- https://app.novavoca.com/dashboard
(simpler workflows, easy 5 min set up & deployment, cheaper alternative)

recommended for advanced: combination of n&n, 11labs, and different platform tracking tools.
(more complex workflows for bigger clients, more time invest / build, more pricy)

But honestly, tools aren’t even the main issue.

Getting your first customers is where most people stop and lowk i don’t blame them. I’ll share from experience, don’t ignore the easiest option sitting right in front of you.

Literally
Just go outside and talk to people.

Walk into local spots, show them something real, and make it a no-brainer. Early on, even discount it if you have to. One happy client can turn into multiple referrals without any extra effort. Just give it to the first few for free, gather referrals, keep growing. Thats the whole point not to make quick money

That’s the most underrated option. The next best choice is the obvious: scrape leads, send emails, automate outreach. Plenty of platforms like smartlead, clay, apollo.ai. I’m sure u can build some scrapping tool with claude in half an hour.

But don’t sit there saying it’s impossible when you haven’t even tried properly.

End of the day, this only works if you actually take advantage of the speed AI gives you. Without that, the numbers don’t make sense. I give simple ai solutions a one year window before it’s known by pretty much every business owner so take advantage while u can.

if you’re stuck or trying to figure it out, ask. reddit is such a good space for this

Some of you have never heard of selling Ai Agents to local businesses, some of you probably think it’s completely oversaturated and impossible.

Im here to tell you its totally possible, you are just thinking about it wrong.

Literally everybody who tries and hates on it creates their own agency site and then does ten cold calls and quits.

I never and still dont have a personal website. Waste of time. I dont cold call either.

A year ago I started exploring how to build AI Voice Agents for booking appointments after hours/on weekends… and was amazed how good the Agents were for contractors, dentists, salons, and businesses like that. I thought, if I can Build the agent in five minutes, couldn't I just email hundreds of local business owners a day with a link or test number to their agent that I ALREADY created? Some would be bound to reply right? I back then the technology wasn’t there to build ai voice agents that quick or at that scale, i was using 11labs. But today it is, and i’m able to leverage it like fucking crazy.

Skip to today and I close 2 deals a week on average, selling the agents anywhere from 300-900€ MONTHLY depending on call volume + a set up fee.

This is why it works so well: local business owners don't know they can make their own Ai Agent to answer their calls in mins, but you DO, which means you can sell it to them like its still 2019 and you have a degree in ai engineering.

And sending the Agent to them first (providing value before asking for anything) is what gets them to believe you and catches their attention. Finally, cold emailing is always going to have low response rates, no matter what. Without AI Agent builders, you would never be able to reach the volume needed to do this. But now you can!

I know most people probably feel behind with how fast everything in AI is moving, so I'll share with you the best tools available right now that i use to sell and build Ai agents:

For building & deploying (30% cheaper than 11labs): Novavoca - https://app.novavoca.com/dashboard
(Recommended if just starting out looking to build and test for free, shallow workflows, and best offering to provide businesses who aren’t qualified prospects yet)

More complex: Use N&N, 11Labs, twilio
(Recommended if you have more time, experience, money, and prospects with more complex workflows)

For finding local businesses:

THE MOST underrated for first 20 customers:
DO D2D!!! (Go door to door). Build it in 5 mins, go to your local barber, salon, restaurant, dentist, whatever and just ask them- offer them a discount or something at the start, and use them as a referral!! You would be surprised how well this works. If you have gone to 20 different places and ALL of them had ZERO interest, that’s when you can start complaining, but srsly, I did this in my first weekend.

underrated : Instant google map scraping
or for email sending included: smartlead, apollo.io, clay(more expensive).

I would first do Google maps scraping, search up any google maps scraper tool and use it.

Lmk if u got questions or drop comment if u got questions. Let’s get this cash 💰

(I just bought my dream car, 1971 Mercedes baby.)

I built a platform that i wish I had when i was trying to start out in the Ai Space, selling Ai Agents to businesses. The platform allows anyone without any tech knowledge, to build and deploy a voice ai agent handling appointment bookings follow ups emails faq’s for all inbound calls a company gets. The platform is currently free and you can build the agents prior to paying anything meaning you can show it to prospects… Im looking for business owners or motivated individuals acting as reselling partners to help gather the most amount of feedback. Since we’re doing it for free for now, we’re obviously eating some costs, so we’re looking to onboard maybe 7-9 more businesses/resellers. If ur interested, let me know so we can see if it’s a fit! Thanks guys. General feedback about the Idea/ how useful it is would also be great.

I just launched my 2-minute AI Phone Agent Builder platform novavoca.com/nova and I truly believe this has value but I’m wondering what would be best to actually get the first customers.

I worked in software engineering and cybersecurity for more than 10 years and I always saw answering bots as a bit rubbish that only take care of surface questions, unlike a proper integrated tool that will go deep. This is why I built this, gave it all my methodology and skills and it’s honestly good now, and managed to make it 30% cheaper than 11labs.

However, I launched many projects in the past but they all failed because of marketing and getting people to actually use them.

People who launched successful saas projects:

- What worked for you to get your first paying users?

- What channel did you use to get them?

- How did you get real feedback?

- Any other tips

Leite einen relativ kleineren HVAC Betrieb und sind gerade auf der Suche nach einer Lösung für die Automatisierte Anrufbeantwortung- mir wurde eine Self Service Plattform NovaVoca oder Fonio empfohlen. Hat hier jemand Erfahrung mit den, oder auch anderen?