u/beatopsplatform

Hey guys, I run a Go-To-Market agency and I want to swap external APIs for job posts with internal scraping capability.

I saw that the jobspy is a good alternative but I understand that I need proxies for this to operate.

I'm relatively new here and I don't know much about this so if anyone is willing to explain to me

what do I need,

what are the providers,

how much it would cost,

and how to calculate how many proxies I need,

And any other relevant knowledge that I should gain,

it would mean a world to me.

Thank you all in advance!!

I just wanted to provide a quick overview of how the things are progressing with my go-to-market agency. I've started a few months ago. I got my first client and we are going to start working in the following days. I got the first payment, which was a huge success honestly, and I am currently in discussion with another two clients.

I am very close to closing one of them, hopefully I get to write another update soon with good news.

I'll try to provide some value in a sense of how I've been doing things. I'd like to get some kind of sanity check or advice on what you think is good and what you think I should improve and how I should focus in the following months to make this grow even further.

As for the progression of agency, I've created four Trello boards, with each one having a pillar of growth of agency.

1. Internal capabilities: here I incorporate everything that is related to building capabilities, such as building custom scrapers, building signal tracking, expanding our offering in a sense that I want to integrate website building, I want to integrate our LinkedIn content offering and also SEO and the GEO services for websites.

The ever-evolving workflows of getting and manipulating data, improving copies, improving approach to go-to-market systems, etc.

2. Inbound: here I put everything that is related to capabilities that could bring inbound leads:

• Website (including geo and seo)

• Our content and presence on LinkedIn

• Reddit (I guess) but I try to keep Reddit for value provision and learning new things and I think this is the best approach to Reddit and this is how you can eventually get clients from it. My first client actually came from Reddit from a random comment where I just wanted to help someone out, I have presented enough knowledge and expertise and someone saw it, it sparked the curiosity and he wanted to learn more about what I do and what I offer.

3. Outbound: this is related to our internal go to market systems and our targeting, segmenting, ICP definition, signal tracking, and everything that we do for our clients but doing it for ourselves.

4. Cirrent clients: this is the most important one and the main goal of my agency is to try to achieve a zero churn rate. I am aware that this is a hard thing to do and that you cannot control all the circumstances. The primary focus of my agency and my work is to fulfil and exceed the expectations of our current clients and to keep and build long-term mutually beneficial relationships.

I can currently handle everything myself but as my focus gets diluted into several parts of the agency at the same time, it can be difficult to stay focused on the next task.

As for the further growth my plan is to find one employee that would be willing to do copy and also find one that can do the engineering part, building scrapers and everything. I am quite technical and I can build most of the things myself but as the time progresses I see myself talking to clients and closing clients and planning the go-to-market systems since this is the part where I can provide the most value in.

As for the engineering part I don't have a problem with it because I have a few friends of mine that could be doing that part. For the copy part I can not come up with a good solution regarding the arrangement between me and the employee that would do the copy. The problem is that I can do up to three or four clients myself. Then when we scale to five clients, I would not turn over all five clients directly to the person doing it. I cannot afford to pay a full-time employee to do only a copy for two clients. I don't know what to do and how to proceed with that part. For some context I'll be moving to Madrid in September and will be living there in the following years.

The same goes for the linkedin content orchestrator. I have the knowledge to build out the systems for analysing posts and giving ideas but I don't have the time to do that. I don't want to dilute my focus even further so I would like to find someone that would be willing to operate the system that has been built and to do it for us internally and for our clients.

Also I'm not sure what should be the next steps. Should I build out the website and then start building a LinkedIn presence and when does the multichanel cold outreach come into the mix? Should I aim for GEO and SEO optimisation and start building blogs immediately to play the long game or should that wait?

Anyways I'll try my best to help anyone if you have any questions and I'm looking forward to your advice. Hopefully I get to scale this to 10+ long-term, successfully served clients in the following year