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I'm an MBA student in Pakistan and already run PM for a small web agency day to day (client intake, dev tasking, QA, delivery). I want to move into remote PM roles with international clients, and two certs keep coming up: PMP and the Scrum Master cert (PSM I from Scrum.org).

Before I spend the time and money: from Pakistan, do these actually move the needle, or do clients mostly care about portfolio and referrals? And if they help, Scrum Master (PSM I) or PMP first?

Anyone landed remote PM work from a non-Western country, what got you in the door?

People are increasingly asking AI tools things like "suggest the best hotel/resturant near me," and a few businesses keep getting named while everyone else is invisible.

For those working on this (GEO/AEO), what's actually driving those recommendations?

1. What sources do the models pull from? Directories, review sites, Reddit, listicles?
2. Has getting mentioned on third party sites gotten you into AI answers?
3. Does schema markup help, or is it mostly off site citations?
4. For "near me" questions, how do you influence location context?
5. Any tools to track if your brand is being cited?

What's actually working? Trying to separate strategy from hype.

Hey everyone, curious to hear from anyone who got selected for the MBA Class of 2028 or knows someone who did.

What was the interview actually like? What kind of questions did they focus on, and what do you think made the difference in getting selected?

Asking because I’ve been following some of the selected candidates on LinkedIn and noticed that a lot of them don’t seem to have much (or any) work experience after undergrad. Always assumed LUMS MBA leaned heavily on professional experience, so this surprised me.

So what are they really evaluating in the interview? Academics, extracurriculars, communication skills, career goals? Would love to hear from anyone who went through the process recently.

I run a small web design agency. We've got a solid portfolio and our own site ranks well organically, so the fundamentals are there. I'm about to test a paid social campaign built entirely around price transparency, and I want holes poked in it before I commit budget.

The offer:
Three fixed-price tiers: $199 / $499 / $999. scaled by page count and scope. No hidden fees, upfront pricing shown directly in the ad and on the landing page, fixed turnaround times per tier, and some free hosting/maintenance included depending on the plan.

The thesis:
Every competitor I've researched in my market is either playing a premium/relationship game (no pricing shown at all, "let's talk" CTAs) or has essentially abandoned paid social entirely. Nobody's owning the "transparent, priced, fast" lane for small business websites, so I'm treating that as the wedge.

What I'd genuinely like feedback on:

• Is competing on price a trap long-term, even if it's the differentiator short-term? Does this attract the wrong kind of client (price-shoppers who churn or demand scope creep)?
• Does showing exact prices in the ad itself hurt or help CTR/conversion compared to a "get a quote" style ad?
• Anyone run a similar fixed-tier pricing model who can speak to margin reality once you factor in revisions, support requests, and no-show clients?
• Is $199 too low to be taken seriously, or is that exactly the point?
• Any blind spots in going all-in on one channel for this kind of offer?

Not looking for "just build a stronger brand" platitudes, genuinely want to hear from people who've either tried this exact playbook and it worked, or tried it and got burned. Tear it apart.

I've been researching Higgsfield a bit and, on the surface, it seems like a pretty solid tool.

One thing I keep seeing in their YouTube content is the claim that you can freelance and make money using Higgsfield for various AI-content-related services.

For those of you who have actually used it professionally, can anyone confirm whether these claims are realistic? Have you landed paying clients or generated income specifically because of skills/projects built around Higgsfield?

Or is the "freelance opportunity" angle mostly marketing hype to sell subscriptions?

Would appreciate hearing real experiences, the good, the bad, and everything in between.

I run a small digital agency. We build custom WordPress and Shopify themes for clients.

I'm thinking about expanding the team and my plan is to hire fresh CS grads and train them up on custom WordPress/Shopify theme development from scratch.

But I'm second-guessing the timing. With where AI and dev tooling are right now, I'm not sure if adding headcount is the smart move, or if I'd be better off keeping the team lean and just squeezing more output from my existing devs using AI/automation in the workflow.

So a few things I'd love input on:

• Is now actually a good time to hire and train juniors for custom theme dev, or is that skill getting commoditized by AI?
• For those running agencies, have AI tools meaningfully cut the time/cost of theme builds for you? Enough to delay hiring?
• If you'd hire anyway, what made headcount worth it over just better tooling?

Trying to make this decision before I commit to onboarding/training costs. Appreciate any honest takes.