u/ZealousidealBank8484

Lucky me, I got diagnosed with testicular cancer last year. Thankfully I beat it but now my hair is all patchy because I don't produce as much testosterone as I used to. It's a sick joke dude, I just turned 30, I had plenty of hair last year and now it's like I'm losing it all very quickly.

Obviously minoxidil is what I hear people pointing to, but like - Hims? Keeps? Do those work? Or do I really need to go the standard oil route?

Hey y'all, I'm in the midst of developing an offer right now.

It's an annual offer, and I'm in the SaaS industry so as you can imagine it's a bit pricey, but the point is it offers to offer a discount for in exchange for a year's commitment.

I'm bouncing between 10% or a month free.

Tbh, 10% is the better deal, but people hear the word "free" and latch on to it. I'd like your thoughts. What do you think?

After years of having the idea about it and talking about it, making excuses, putting it off for whatever reason, I finally picked up piano back in July. I'm having a blast, I practice a little bit everyday and I can't wait to be good enough to make my own tunes.

My mom asked me for gift ideas recently, and as someone approaching 30 I internally groaned because at this age I can never think of anything. But this year I had the idea, now that I know how to read music, why not pick up another instrument on the side?

I've thought about it, and I'm torn between flute and guitar. Which would be easier to learn? Keep in mind, I won't have an instructor like I do with keyboard -- I'm just going to start my booklet from the beginning and teach myself.

The whole story is kinda long, so I'm gonna try and simplify it.

I tried hiring a cold call booking agent. I did, they made no conversions, only a bit some conversations saying "send me info". Did that for about a month due to troubleshooting -- maybe it was the leads, maybe it was the agent. I was also in between deciding a new niche and a major surgery.

Got rid of the first agent. The next one charged less and also offered faster turnaround time, excellent. Once again though, only produced signal.

"Fuck it" I say, "I'm going to do it myself". Slightly better results ("call me in x months"), still no bookings though. I also realize this is unsustainable.

Finally, through some unconventional networking, I hire a new agent. Within the first week, he's booked me six meetings, and we don't even have his software properly set up for him yet. It's only his first week!

My business has been in limbo for the past several months due to wrong hires, or to myself taking on tasks which should've been delegated. The only reason I came across my current employee was dumb luck.

Long story short: save yourself a headache and go through a hiring process.

Hey y'all,

I'm looking to scale by making cold calls. I typically use Fiverr due to how inexpensive they are, and the fact they typically deliver good results. However, that hasn't really been the case with cold calls. Where do you go to hire your call agents?

A few weeks ago I was pretty pissed that my call agents weren't converting anything. After getting some advice from this sub, I decided to take on calls myself. While I haven't actually landed any bookings yet, I did manage to land some "follow up in x months" which is better than I was doing before.

That aside, I do have this one client, who had been dragging the process. Now, that's kinda my bad, but he was so far for along in the process and I knew as soon as I closed him he would give me a testimonial. And he did! He even gave me referrals to call, super cool on his part.

Now I have a new monthly payment of $500.

I thought I'd be excited, but I'm not. It barely covers the service costs, and assuming he'll want unlimited calling (which he likely will) then I'll probably still be in the red. Obviously as I scale I can charge more, but for now I'm stuck where I am, and I've come too far to give up.

Which leads to my initial question: how long do I have to wait? I really, really want to just start making money already.

Hey y'all,

So for a while now (early May) I've had an outreach assistant. I hired her 4 times. She managed to get a little signal, but never an actual booking. This most recent time really pissed me off. I always pay her extra for the 4 day delivery, rather than 10. She was 2 weeks late and at first i was like fine whatever, but then on the day she was supposed to deliver she asked for another 2 week extension. Like dude. You're already late. Zero communication. I paid extra for the fast delivery. Anyway.

So I found a new caller. This guy charges half as much and delivers in half as much time. Wish I'd found him sooner, feel like I've been throwing my money away. And yet...no bookings yet. It's too early for me to be worried, but it did make me wonder if maybe I should be the one making the calls?

What do you think? Is this a thing for businesses which haven't established themselves yet?

Hey y'all,

I got a new job a few months ago in order to focus on my business. It's overnight security. My bosses are chill, they don't mind if we play video games, watch TV, listen to music, just so long as we get any alarms that come up. So I use this time to either do that, or get work done when I can.

The thing is, I'm in the outreach phase right now. Any "work" I do right now is just selling the product to the prospect, and communicating with employees / customers. Very doable at this stage. It should be at least.

Coming home after an overnight shift I go to bed and sleep for like 2 hours, and then wake up for like 2-4. And then at some point the exhaustion hits me and I need to go to bed again. Which sucks, I figured working overnight would give me more time to workout, learn piano, do art, take on customers, etc.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. The point is, even at its busiest, my job is pretty slow and I could probably get some work done. Should I just switch over to a day shift, even if it means I'll have to cut down my customer availability?

Day 3 of being bored at work. Pick a number and I'll give you a song from my 2024 replay.

Feel free to give me feedback on your song!

Bored at work again. Pick a number and I'll give you a track from my 2023 Replay.

Feel free to give me feedback on your song!

Bored at work. Pick a number I'll give you a recommendation from my Apple Replay 2022.

I've known this for a few months now, but I gotta tell this story just for anyone who doesn't know.

Back in February (fucking February!) I had a client who reached out to me asking for me to run a promo for them. Sure. No problem.

For context, I was going through chemo at this time. Constantly tired, no energy, etc.

The break from work had given me lots of time to work on my business though, so I asked if he'd be willing to test it out since I think he'd be a good fit. Sure he says, to which I say great.

I deliver his copy, and I also get to work on his AI caller. I sent an email asking for basic info (probably sent this email like 5 times in the span of 2-3 weeks). Eventually decided fuck it, guess that's that.

Come mid-late April, he emails me out of the blue, asks if I'd be interested in doing another run of copy. At this point I want to just write back "Fuck you" and hit send. But it occurs to me that this time I'll tell him "sure, but rather than pay me through cash, try the system for 30 days". He agrees.

But this mofo always seems to take a minimum of a week to schedule things with me, or cancels his appointments. It was only recently to my great relief he said it was okay if I booked appointments on his site. I was literally about to close him this week so I can finally be done chasing him all the time, everything is finished, but i open his site and he's away for the next 2 weeks.

I'm so done with this guy. anyway, that's my TED Talk.

Hey y'all, wish i'd thought to post here a looooooong time ago. I spontaneously got blessed with epilepsy just before I turned 17. I've relied on family, friends, and Uber to get me around ever since (I'm 29 now, I'll be 30 in September).

Thing is, my epilepsy isn't even that bad. If anything, it's gotten better over time. Most people assume I live a normal life. Come next month, I would've been on a 5 year no seizure streak had I not accidentally activated my triggers 2 years back (but on the flipside -- that experience did help me identify what actually activates my epilepsy).

Which brings me to where I am now. I'm sure as epileptics, a solid lot of us would love to drive. My neurologist won't sign off on it due to absent seizures. I've kinda grown to accept this, but part of me also wants to fight this since the longest my absent seizures last these days is like 2 seconds, and I know I'd be more than grateful to have the responsibility. There are people who drink and drive, people who text and drive, etc. I know being distracted in any capacity isn't good, but like could I really be any worse than any other driver? I highly doubt it.

TLDR: My epilepsy isn't that bad, my neurologist won't change her mind on signing me off, is there anything I can do about this?

I've had writer's block for months now. Like six months, probably more. And it's frustrating because I've actually had an eventful year so far.

But I'll pull up a Google Doc or my Notes app and my head just goes completely blank, even when I want to write something.

I'll start typing, and I just think "crap" and trash it. Idk what to do at this point, I'm actually really frustrated.

Any tips on how to get out of this?

Hey y'all, I've been working on my business for about a year now. In that time, a lot's happened -- I ran into some unexpected financial trouble, I had some health problems, etc.

So needless to say I was pretty fucking stoked when I could start doing outreach this month, and so far it sucks. I already knew it would due to a past career path, but after a week of zero responses I was over it, and handed the responsibility over to a freelancer.

Now here's the thing: one of the prospects was interested enough to setup an interview for 9 AM this morning. Of course I agreed, I was ecstatic to finally have a meeting with someone. Only they didn't show up. I called them after waiting for ten minutes and asked if we were still on for 9, and she asked if we could move the appointment to 10 instead. Fine, whatever.

10 rolls around. Again, doesn't show. At this point I'm frustrated but I also don't want to obsess over one client. Like is it the right move? I feel like it's so difficult to gain momentum when you're first starting out, no one wants to give you a chance, and part of me feels like I'm throwing an opportunity away, but part of me feels like moving on is the smart move, too.

wwyd?