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Many tools, platforms, and suggestions are available.

However, my instincts tell me I’ll realize after months of spending money which ones have all the necessary features.

I want to ask rather than wasting time.

Note: I am from software engineering background, parked my degree and now starting new journey as entrepreneur. Realized, I tried building my own tool but realized I should not invent the wheel.

If you would be starting fresh which platform or tool you would recommend or you found working for you? for cold outreach.

Much appreciated your advice.

Many tools, platforms, and suggestions are available.

However, my instincts tell me I’ll realize after months of spending money which ones have all the necessary features.

I want to ask rather than wasting time.

Note: I am from software engineering background, parked my degree and now starting new journey as entrepreneur. Realized, I tried building my own tool but realized I should not invent the wheel.

If you would be starting fresh which platform or tool you would recommend or you found working for you? for cold outreach.

Much appreciated your advice.

I am parking my engineering degree and building my own business.

I am out of work, only one contract from my past skills (software development) with part time income.

I have deadline and before March 2027 (9 months from now) my agency should produce more than 5K MRR.

Now I want to hear from people ahead of me, what is the expected timeline considering full efforts, GPT told me that I should consider consulting (custom AI integration, automation in workflows) where I can charge for setup and small retainers. If I target selling services only then it takes a while to get momentum.

I see many tools available to run an agency, we juggle between many tools, being software engineer and AI expertise, I built tools to run an agency. My sole purpose is to keep my building passion ongoing, saving in subscriptions, and fully customization flexibility.

Focusing on my today’s question: I already spent two months where I got success in building tools but unable to finalize my offer yet.

I am not looking for direct answer, what I should do, all I want to hear from you folks what was the real experience when you started, any tips or suggestions, lessons and estimated normal timeline before you reached 5K MRR.

One more thing, should I focus on social media for leads (it will take time to build audience as I am starting fresh, long term definitely beneficial) or email marketing (I want to focus on fast results/testing) to acquire clients.

Looking for insights and lessons from you to see if my target is achievable or not?