I'm a up-and-coming author and have a monthly newsletter. I've been using Constant Contact, because that's what I'm most familiar with. But I'm not sure if the subscription cost is worth the features.
I have a small but growing mail list and mostly just need a system that lets me easily built templates, schedule emails, and see email stats.
Do any of you have alternative suggestions I can look into?
I’m curious what’s worked in practice for other SaaS founders/marketers here.
When you’re busy shipping + support, “post consistently” sounds easy but usually dies after 1–2 weeks. For those of you who’ve made it stick for months:
Not looking for “just be consistent” advice. I’d love specifics (your routine, what you track, what you stopped doing).
I've been using Claude Code to fix SEO issues on a side project. The workflow was: run Google PageSpeed, copy the wall of text output, paste it into Claude, ask it to fix things.
It works but it's annoying. PageSpeed's UI isn't built for this. No export, no markdown download, lots of noise you don't need.
So I built a small wrapper: https://page-speed-claude.vercel.app/
You paste your URL, it hits the PageSpeed Insights API and returns a clean markdown file with scores, failing audits, the offending nodes, and suggested fixes. You drop that file into Claude and it has everything it needs to fix the issues directly in your codebase. No copy-pasting, no reformatting.
Took a few minutes to build, saves friction every time I ship something new. (good for small websites)
Is this a workflow you run regularly, or do you mostly ignore PageSpeed until something breaks?
Two hours a week. That's what cross-platform posting actually costs - rewriting captions, adjusting hashtags, converting carousels to video, checking character limits. Per platform. Every time.
So we built an agent (Claude Skill) that takes one piece of content and handles all of it:
Five minutes instead of two hours. Here's the short version of how it works.
You connect your social accounts, drop in an asset with a simple prompt ("post this to Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn, optimized for each")
The agent generates everything (captions, hashtags, first comments) and shows you a preview before anything goes live. You approve, it schedules.
Two tools you need:
- Zernio API key
- Claude desktop (Caude or Cowork)
- cost: Claude Pro ($20/mo) + Zernio (2 social platform are free, 9 platform - $42/mo) = $62/mo for full automation.
Full walkthrough: https://github.com/Enriquemarq1/zernio-library-skills/tree/main
After struggling for years with Brevo for tracking my transactional and campaign emails I decided to make an app for it. Brevo website is slow and very annoying to use, this app is easy to setup and use. Get an API key from Brevo and connect your account in the app, thats it.
You can monitor everything and the search function works for EVERYTHING, subject, email, name etc.
You can even connect multiple accounts, so no logging in and out anymore.
Search for "Emailtracker for Brevo.com" in App Store or Playstore to download it
someone help. memorial day is literally right there and I have a blank screen. I saw on culled xyz some brands like cann or athletic brew sending 6 to 7 emails in 15 days span but i think its too much, will hurt deliverability. What should i do and there isn't much time
I lead ecommerce ops at an 8-figure Shopify brand and helping figure out our ERP choice. We’ve got multiple warehouses and need better inventory, purchasing, EDI, reporting, and accounting visibility. Current setup is too stitched together. Seriously considering shifting to Fulfil since it seems more built for Shopify/ecom, handles accounting and has built in EDI. NetSuite seems more recognizable overall, but sounds harder to implement. Anyone here compared Fulfil vs NetSuite for Shopify?
Been testing Omneky and Creatify side by side for ecom stuff since everyone's talking about them.
Creatify does exactly what it says drop a link, get short video ads with AI avatars. Fast output, good for quick tests and stuff, but sadly they definitely have a ‘footprint’ or shall I say ‘a look’ you start recognizing. Then there’s Omneky. It's less polished, more complicated, but there’s a particular aspect which made me stick with it: it can sync performance data from ad accounts to guide further batches of content which already made a difference in longterm production. However, I wish it was so with Creatify, which instead requires manual generation and testing new batches. And every other tool I know of doesn’t solve this either. Perhaps there’s something I haven’t mastered yet, and something to get a better grip at generating to reduce the footprint and adapt to the brand’s identity. Thoughts?
One thing I’ve noticed with field service businesses is how much time gets wasted fixing scheduling mistakes, missed updates, and technician communication problems.
A lot of companies are now using field service management software to handle scheduling, dispatching, job tracking, and team communication in one place. It makes daily operations way easier, especially for teams working in different locations.
I came across this site Sign up free today → www.kickstarthq.com that explains it pretty well:
Curious how other service businesses here manage scheduling conflicts and real-time updates for their teams
Run email for a 100k list ecom brand. Want GenAI development to personalize subject lines + product blocks using purchase history.
Tested Jasper and Copy.ai but outputs feel generic or cross the creepy line using data we shouldn’t reference. Also worried about deliverability if every email is unique.
For marketers doing GenAI development in email, how do you balance personalization with brand voice and compliance? Did you build in-house or use a platform? What guardrails prevent the AI from saying dumb stuff to customers? Klaviyo integration is a must.
A pattern is emerging across MAP environments. Management is pushing hard for AI wins fast. The people closest to the tools respond — and none of it goes through MOPs or RevOps.
It gets built in the shadow because governance has a reputation as the team that says no.
The risk is not hypothetical. In 2019, a rogue API write to a CRM contact record could create a duplicate. A rogue AI agent making the same mistake today can corrupt your entire lead scoring model or write junk across 400,000 records before anyone notices.
Do you see this? How are you managing it?
Not looking for hot takes on AI governance in general. What's actually working at the ground level?
It's 2 AM. Do you know what management-approved agents are doing to your CRM right now?
I’m looking to chat with sales teams or entrepreneurs who still handle growth themselves at their companies.
we're interested in learning more about about how they are generating ultra qualified company and contact lists, with signals, to focus sales effort in the right place, on the right companies.
We know volume is tricky, precision is key to find business.
we want to understand how companies are adapting and if it's a problem for them.
If my posts doesn't respect the rule, happy to remove / edit it
Happy to provide a case study if needed!
If you’re struggling to get your product seen, I can help you with marketing across Reddit, LinkedIn, and Meta.
I focus on real visibility, not spam or fake engagement just clear positioning and content that attracts the right audience.
If you want more eyes on your product, drop a comment or DM me and tell me what you’re building.
Hey guys, ran an experiment over the last few weeks. Tried to grow my agency by handing off repetitive marketing work to agents.
Results were pretty solid.
Website traffic went from 100-150/day to 250-300/day in about 2 weeks. Nothing magical, just replaced the stuff that needs to happen every day but never actually does.
1. Quora Agent (Claude Routines)
Runs daily, finds questions in my niche, and scores them by relevance and intent. Only targets the best fits instead of answering everything. Writes responses that are actually useful. Most Quora answers are shallow so there's real room to stand out. Traffic from this one is slow and steady. You'll get clicks from answers you forgot you wrote.
Claude Routines is basically scheduled automation inside Claude. Set the instructions once, it runs on a timer, and you never have to think about it again. Perfect for anything that needs to happen consistently but doesn't need you involved.
2. YouTube Comments Agent (Claude Routines)
Scans videos in my space and looks through the comments for people asking questions or comparing tools. Drafts replies that help rather than pitch. The interesting thing is you're catching people mid-research, not just passively scrolling. Lower volume, higher intent.
Same setup as the Quora agent. One Routine, runs daily, no manual effort after the initial build.
3. Content Agent (Claude Projects)
This one made the whole content side feel sustainable for the first time. I feed it one idea, usually something from my newsletter or something I'm already thinking about, and it expands into blog posts, LinkedIn posts, tweets, lead magnets, whatever. Instead of constantly generating new ideas, you're just squeezing more out of what already exists.
Claude Projects lets you give Claude persistent context, instructions, and even custom Skills so it already knows your brand voice, your ICP, your content format preferences. You're not re-explaining yourself every session. The Skills feature is underrated here. You can build reusable instructions for specific tasks like "write a LinkedIn post in my voice" or "turn this into a Reddit post" and call them whenever you need. Huge time saver.
4. Outbound Agent (ProspectZero)
This is the one that actually drives signups. It monitors LinkedIn for real-time intent signals, people engaging with competitors, posting about pain points, asking for tool recommendations, scores them, and starts conversations. Intent-based LinkedIn outreach using real-time signals, so instead of cold outreach into the void, you're showing up when someone is already in-market. Big difference.
The individual pieces aren't complicated. The hard part is doing them every single day. Agents remove that bottleneck.
Still early, but doubling traffic in 2 weeks without changing my offer or positioning was enough to keep going. Planning to test agents for X and review sites next.
Happy to share the prompts used to create some of these.
I've been going back and forth on this lately. Our agency sources for tech companies and we need to find candidate email addresses and phone numbers fast when we spot good profiles on LinkedIn.
Looking at all the chrome extensions out there. ContactOut seems popular but the contact accuracy is super hit or miss. Sometimes I get perfect emails, other times it's completely wrong or outdated. Their mobile numbers are basically useless - maybe 1 in 10 actually work.
Lusha is better for accuracy but way more expensive. We're paying close to a hundred bucks per user per month and burning through credits like crazy. The ROI just isn't there when you're doing candidate sourcing at volume.
Seamless.AI promised the moon but their LinkedIn extension breaks every other week. Support is non-existent.
I've seen Prospeo mentioned a few times in this sub - anyone have experience with it? Jury's still out on what to switch to but we need something that actually works for mobile numbers. Cold calling is making a comeback and email-only outreach isn't cutting it anymore for recruiting passive candidates.
What are you all using?
We are on Marketo and our nurture is only based on email clicks and form fills. Meanwhile our product team has usage data in Amplitude that shows who is stuck or about to churn. By the time sales gets the alert, it is too late. I want workflows like if a user tries feature X 3 times and fails, trigger a how to email and alert the CSM. If weekly active use drops 50 percent, start a winback sequence. The challenge is getting product events into Marketo without a data engineer building a pipeline for every use case. How are lean marketing ops teams doing this?
Every month I was spending about 6 hours pulling together a competitive landscape report for my agency's email marketing clients. They wanted to see where their current platform sat relative to alternatives on three axes: pricing per 10k contacts, deliverability score (from EmailTooltester and GlockApps benchmarks), and aggregate G2 satisfaction rating. I was doing this in Google Sheets, screenshotting a scatter plot that honestly looked like something from a 2014 blog post, and pasting it into a slide deck. Clients never complained. I kept making copy and paste errors and dreading the first Monday of every month.
So I automated the whole thing. The report runs on a monthly cron, scrapes current pricing pages for Mailchimp, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Brevo, Customer.io, Drip, Omnisend, MailerLite, and GetResponse. I was genuinely surprised Customer.io even publishes list pricing given their enterprise lean, but they do and it scrapes cleanly. The agent pulls deliverability benchmarks from public test sources, grabs G2 scores via their API, and renders everything into an interactive bubble chart (Chart.js) inside a single HTML file. Each bubble is sized by G2 review count as a rough proxy for market presence, positioned with monthly cost at the 10k contact tier on one axis and deliverability percentage on the other.
Some findings from the May 2026 run. Brevo scored 93.6% deliverability, up from 90.1% three months ago, now sitting just 2.2 points behind Klaviyo's 95.8% at roughly half the cost for the same contact tier. That was the number that made me go back and manually verify the scrape twice. MailerLite continues to be the pricing outlier, coming in under $50/mo for 10k contacts while holding a G2 score above 4.5. ActiveCampaign raised its Lite tier pricing again (third increase in 12 months) without a corresponding bump in deliverability or satisfaction, which is exactly the kind of slow drift my clients never notice until renewal sticker shock hits.
Actually that last point led to a real conversation. One of my clients had been on ActiveCampaign for two years and hadn't registered that their effective per contact cost crept up 22% since they signed. I showed them the delta column in the tracker and they started a migration conversation that same week. Probably the single most useful thing the report has done, and it was a byproduct I didn't plan for.
The setup runs on a MuleRun agent with a cron schedule. I described the scrape targets, the benchmark sources, the comparison logic, and the chart layout in plain language; took about 45 minutes to get the first version right. The part that ate the most time was handling pricing pages with nonstandard markup. Omnisend loads their pricing dynamically with about four different slider states, so the scrape specifically captures the 10k contacts position rather than trying to parse every tier. Getting that one source reliable probably took more iteration than the other nine combined, which I did not expect going in.
The other recurring challenge is full page redesigns. GetResponse overhauled their pricing page in April and broke the scrape for one cycle. I added a fallback that flags "unable to confirm current pricing" in the table rather than silently displaying stale numbers. That ended up building more trust with clients because they could see the system being transparent about its own gaps instead of confidently showing wrong data.
Below the chart there's a sortable comparison table with exact numbers, a delta column, and a flag for any platform that moved more than 10% on any metric since the prior month. The whole thing deploys as a hosted page I share via link. Clients treat it like a dashboard now rather than a static PDF. A couple have asked if they can trigger a fresh pull on demand instead of waiting for the monthly cron, which I keep saying I'll set up and keep not doing.
Lately I’ve been seeing more service businesses struggle with the same issues:
technicians arriving late
double bookings
slow invoicing
poor communication between office and field staff
It feels like once a business starts scaling, manual systems stop working properly.
A friend recommended www.kickstarthq.com and I actually liked how it combines scheduling, dispatching, payments, and job tracking into one platform instead of using multiple apps.
Curious what everyone here uses for managing field teams and customer jobs daily?
So now that were spending a bunch on claude cowork credits our tool budget is getting out of control and I dont want to give up my beloved brother claude so Im starting to vet the other expensive pay per user pricing tools we have. Hard to overlook how fast Hootsuite is adding up right now and when I started researching alternatives Vista Social popped up with a pretty decent offer Im srsly considering. Theyre saying 6 months free if youre a hootsuite user and send in receipts plus they do the setup for you. Im like okay that lets me afford more claude and seems to be a 1:1 swap. Fo r anyone who has used both, waht am I missing here?
Built a free WhatsApp auto sender Chrome extension — need feedback
I got tired of manually sending the same WhatsApp messages over and over for outreach, reminders, events, etc. Most tools I found were paid, sketchy, or looked like obvious bots, so I built my own extension.
What it does:
• Opens WhatsApp Web and sends messages automatically
• Types messages character-by-character with random delays
• Lets you add cooldowns/jitter between contacts
• Supports scheduling campaigns for later
• Personalization using {name} placeholders
• Import contacts from CSV/TXT or Google Sheets
• Save/load campaigns
• Export activity logs as CSV
• Works locally in the browser — no backend/server
It basically behaves more like a human using WhatsApp Web instead of blasting requests instantly.
Everything runs locally on your machine. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics.
Current features:
It’s completely free right now because I mainly built it for myself and wanted to share it.
Would love feedback from people who use browser automation or Chrome extensions regularly.
Chrome Web Store:
Free WhatsApp Auto Sender