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When I started doing outbound for our company, I didn't know where to begin and I didn't want to hire someone before I understood what I'd even be asking them to do...

So I spent a couple of months on it myself before the process started making sense.

The first mistake that cost me most of the early weeks was building a list before I understood who I was targeting, so I had a few hundred company names in a spreadsheet with nothing I could use to reach any of them, and when I tried enriching it manually I spent more time scrubbing data than writing emails.

Once I cut it down to about 50 accounts worth targeting, the next problem was getting emails to land in inboxes rather than disappear, so I had to set up a separate sending domain and warm it up for a few weeks before sending anything.

And the emails themselves needed a few more rounds since my first drafts tried to explain everything we do in 4 paragraphs instead of asking one relevant question.

From there, the workflow I put together used Hunter. io to find and verify contacts, and Lemlist for the sequences since it handled email and Linkedin steps from the same place, and the first replies came in a couple of weeks into sending.

If I started over, I'd spend less time on list size and more time on deliverability before the very first send, because that alone blocked me from seeing any real signal for longer than it should have.

Way shorter email on day one too.

Je me suis mis au coaching en avril, dans une petite structure près de chez moi. Première séance, avant même de parler programme, il m'a demandé si j'avais des analyses de moins d'un an.

Sur le coup j'ai trouvé ça limite. J'y allais pour qu'on me fasse un programme, pas pour qu'on me demande mon dossier médical. Je l'ai dit, et pas franchement à voix basse, un truc du genre je viens ici pour m'entraîner pas pour faire un bilan sanguin.

Un gars qui s'échauffait à côté m'a entendu et il est venu me voir après. Ça fait deux ans qu'il est suivi là, il m'a dit qu'on demandait la même chose à tout le monde et qu'au début il l'avait mal pris exactement pareil. Il m'a surtout expliqué que le coach impose rien sur le comment. Soit tu demandes une ordonnance à ton médecin et tu fais ça à l'acte dans un labo, chez Synlab ou ailleurs, soit tu passes par une plateforme qui gère tout. Lui il avait pris Lucis. Il avait aussi regardé les anglais genre Randox, sauf qu'ils prélèvent pas en France donc ça tombe à l'eau.

Sauf que j'ai vraiment compris pourquoi trois mois plus tard. Un gars du groupe stagnait complètement, il montait pas d'un kilo depuis un an, il dormait mal, il mettait ça sur son alimentation et il se rajoutait des séances. Ferritine à 22. Il s'entraînait plus dur pour compenser un truc qui se règle pas à l'entraînement.

Lui il a fini par faire son bilan de son côté et ça lui a coûté un rein. Il est pas convaincu que ça valait le coup, parce qu'avec une ordonnance il aurait payé une fraction du prix. Encore aurait-il fallu que son médecin accepte de prescrire autre chose que le minimum.

Le coach dit qu'il voit ça une fois sur cinq, et que sur les mecs qui stagnent depuis longtemps c'est plutôt une fois sur trois. Je sais pas si c'est vrai ou s'il en rajoute.

Vous avez déjà eu un coach ou un prépa qui demande ça, et est-ce que ça a sorti quelque chose chez vous ?

Renewal is coming up and the price jumped again, so we're being forced to re-evaluate, and the problem is adoption outside the research team has been basically zero.

Candidates so far are Unwrap, Chattermill, and BuildBetter, the last one through a friend whose team switched specifically because of the call-heavy workflow.

So if you moved off either this year, I want the raw version of how it went.

We moved onto one of the larger all-in-one HR suites in Q4 last year, with payroll across 6 EU countries, partly because we wanted HR and payroll in one place and partly because the line was that global payroll was built in, not an add-on.

The US and UK side has held up, but the continental Europe piece has been rough, filings going out late and payslips in the wrong format for Germany and France, and the support team is clearly working off a generic playbook, with no depth on country requirements.

We're now weighing whether to push harder with the account team or split the stack and go back to a dedicated EOR for the non-anglophone countries, and Workmotion and Deel are the ones floating around internally for that piece.

Still undecided though, so if you've been through this, did splitting the stack back out help or just create different admin headaches?

Let's say you get ONE wish, and you want to wish for something like $10 billion.

You can't just say, “I wish for $10 billion,” because there are a million loopholes. Maybe it's stolen, maybe you owe $9.9 billion in taxes, maybe the money causes hyperinflation, maybe you get arrested for having it, etc.

So how would you word the wish so that there is literally no possible loophole or negative consequence?

For example:

“I wish to possess $10 billion worth of legitimate, legally obtained, tax-free wealth, with the money appearing in my accounts without harming anyone or negatively affecting the economy, and with complete legal ownership of it.”

But even THAT probably has a loophole 💀

What would your perfect wish be?

Sexe : Homme

Âge : 67

Antécédents : suivi cardiologique, prend des oméga 3 depuis 2 ans

J'ai la boîte de mon père sous les yeux. 1000 mg par capsule marqué en gros devant. Au dos, EPA 180 mg et DHA 120 mg. Donc sur les 1000 mg annoncés il y en a 300 qui correspondent à ce qu'on cherche.

Il en prend depuis deux ans sur conseil de son pharmacien et il a jamais retourné la boîte une seule fois.

Son cardiologue lui a dit de continuer les oméga 3 sans jamais préciser de dosage. Du coup on essaie de comprendre s'il en prend assez ou s'il avale surtout de l'huile.

Sa pharmacie lui a proposé de passer sur l'Omégabiane de Pileje. Un cousin à lui ne jure que par du Norsan depuis qu'il vit en Allemagne. Et en cherchant sur internet on est tombés sur du Nutrimea. Les trois annoncent des choses très différentes une fois qu'on regarde le détail au dos, et le prix ne suit pas du tout le dosage.

Il y a aussi l'histoire de l'oxydation et de l'indice TOTOX, mais très peu de marques le publient et j'arrive pas à savoir si c'est un vrai critère ou un argument commercial.

Vous vous basez sur quoi pour juger qu'un oméga 3 est correct ?

Support has tickets, sales has call recordings, and product has a Slack channel where everything gets buried, so we tried a spreadsheet to pull it together, but it lasted only a couple weeks before everyone stopped updating it.

We're on buildbetter now, which pulls calls and tickets into one feed and auto-tags recurring themes, so the monthly review works, though not sure we're getting the most out of it yet.

Dovetail came up a lot but felt purpose-built for research teams running proper studies rather than what we needed day-to-day, and qualtrics sent a quote that cleared that one up pretty fast.

Anyway, how are you keeping this from sprawling?

We've been deep in an evaluation to move off SAP Commerce Cloud and the timelines quoted in every discovery call don't match what I'm reading in published architecture write-ups.

Everything on the services side is coming in over 20 months for a full cut-over, but the strangler fig approach, where you keep SAP running while pulling services out incrementally and routing traffic through a new frontend, is showing up in case studies at 4 to 9 months to something production-ready, with a storefront live in 6 to 8 weeks because they decoupled the frontend first.

The platforms we're pricing are SCAYLE and commercetools, and the gap in what I can find is what the overlap period looks like in practice, where everything suggests both can run alongside SAP incrementally in theory but the case studies skip over how the parallel-run holds up before you're ready to cut over.

So if you've been through an incremental migration off SAP Commerce, what held up in practice and what didn't?

We're on a shared BigCommerce setup across 3 brands and catalog management is getting harder to hold together, where workarounds can only paper over for so long and peak-season load is increasingly a gamble.

So we've been looking at whether there's a migration path that doesn't mean tearing everything down and rebuilding from scratch.

The approach we've been researching is decoupling the storefront first, running a headless frontend on top of BigCommerce while we get a new composable backend up and running, and we've got SCAYLE and Spryker in the mix for that layer while migrating catalogue and order flows in parallel so the platform cut-over happens after a long overlap rather than as a single high-risk event.

The overlap period is where the case studies get vague, since they're specific about a decoupled storefront going live in 6 to 8 weeks but much wider on the backend migration depending on integration complexity.

And the architecture write-ups I've found don't get specific about what the outgoing platform looks like in these scenarios.

Still trying to find a case study where BigCommerce is the outgoing platform, since the composable-commerce write-ups tend to describe the incoming stack in detail while skipping over what the migration from SaaS commerce looks like from the other direction.

A random story from when I was working at a summer center.

We were playing that old paper fortune-teller game (the one where you pick numbers and it tells you your "future job"). I filled it with all kinds of careers: engineer, architect, doctor, teacher, and even more modern ones like YouTuber and gamer. Every time a kid landed on a job, they'd immediately say, "No, I don't want that."

So I'd ask, "Okay... then what do you want to be?"

Almost every single one of them gave me the same answer: "I just want money. I don't want to work."

I'd laugh at first and say, "I wish it worked like that too, but how are you going to make money without working?" Their response was always something like, "Lots of people get money without working."

The thing that shocked me wasn't just one kid saying it, it was nearly all of them. These were children between 6 and 10 years old.

I remember asking them another day, "What do you like to do in your free time?" Most of the answers revolved around phones: Roblox, YouTube, TikTok, games... and that was pretty much it.

I've taught students from nursery all the way to middle school, so this isn't based on one experience. I've seen the shift over the years, and honestly, it scares me a little. It's not that kids wanting money is a bad thing—we all understand how important money is. But hearing children who are barely in primary school say they don't want to do anything, they just want the money, made me realize how early that mindset is developing.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but that conversation has stayed with me ever since.

I'm looking for songs that have the same feeling as "Twin at the Carousel."

It's hard to describe exactly what I mean, but I'm looking for music that sounds beautiful, whimsical, almost angelic, yet somehow fills you with dread. Like a haunted carnival, an abandoned festival, or a dream that's slowly turning into a nightmare.

Not necessarily horror music. More like something that feels festive and magical on the surface, but deeply unsettling underneath. Music that makes you feel like you're somewhere that shouldn't exist.

If you know songs with that eerie carnival, dark fairytale, uncanny, heavenly-but-creepy vibe, I'd love to hear them. Any genre is welcome.

Why are there so few stories where someone from the past ends up in the future?

Regression stories are everywhere, but they're almost always about going back in time.

I'd love to see more stories where someone from a fantasy world or a historical era suddenly wakes up in modern society instead. It feels like there should be way more of them.

I'm not talking about movies that are just straight-up considered bad.

I mean the ones that everybody and their cousin seems to love, the critically acclaimed stuff, the fan favorites, the “modern classic” type movies, but for whatever reason, they just did NOT hit for you.

Maybe the characters got on your nerves, maybe the pacing felt sloooow, maybe the themes didn’t do anything for you, or maybe you just never connected with it the way everyone else did. It happens.

I always think these kinds of discussions are kinda interesting because they really show how subjective movies are. Like, two people can watch the exact same film and walk away with totally different reactions. Wild, honestly.

So yeah, what’s a movie that most people seem to adore, but you just couldn’t get into? And what was it about it that didn’t work for you?

Just keep it civil, yeah? I’m way more interested in hearing different takes than watching people argue about who’s “right.”

I'm not talking about movies that are just straight-up considered bad.

I mean the ones that everybody and their cousin seems to love, the critically acclaimed stuff, the fan favorites, the “modern classic” type movies, but for whatever reason, they just did NOT hit for you.

Maybe the characters got on your nerves, maybe the pacing felt sloooow, maybe the themes didn’t do anything for you, or maybe you just never connected with it the way everyone else did. It happens.

I always think these kinds of discussions are kinda interesting because they really show how subjective movies are. Like, two people can watch the exact same film and walk away with totally different reactions. Wild, honestly.

So yeah, what’s a movie that most people seem to adore, but you just couldn’t get into? And what was it about it that didn’t work for you?

Just keep it civil, yeah? I’m way more interested in hearing different takes than watching people argue about who’s “right.”

I'm looking for a TV show that had such a strong impact on you that you wish you could erase your memory and experience it all over again.

I'm open to any genre: sci-fi, mystery, drama, thriller, horror, fantasy, or anything else. What I'm really looking for is a show that completely hooked you, kept you thinking about it between episodes, and left a lasting impression after it ended.

What show would you recommend, and what made it such a memorable experience for you? Please keep spoilers to a minimum.

I'm hoping to travel abroad for the first time in the next year or two.

What's a mistake you made on your first international trip that you'd warn a beginner about?