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Show HN: I built a tool that generates viable newsletter ideas with AI(newsletterideas.co)
2 points by louisswiss 2y ago|0 comments
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by louisswiss 5y ago
> It's not much of a fair market if one of the items have been removed from the shelves and you have to specifically ask for it and the price. To be fair, this isn't a very apt analogy. A better one would be to liken Apple to a
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by louisswiss 5y ago
> This no longer exists. You need Twitter in perpetuity. If for some reason you’re banned from Twitter (often there’s no reason at all) there goes an entire career and audience you’ve built for years. For a newsletter at least, this defi
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by louisswiss 5y ago
easy... character = trust / competence
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by louisswiss 5y ago
> It literally means 'regular person test'... The whole point is that it doesn't mean "regular person test'... It means "person who isn't the target customer and who probably cares about you too much
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by louisswiss 5y ago
> In the end what changed is that e-mail based marketing was on the decline, with other mediums taking over. FWIW this is completely incorrect. Over the past 2 years other marketing channels have skyrocketed in cost (eg FB ads) and most
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by louisswiss 5y ago
If you're buying a large software license today — and I bet this holds true for at least some houses, cars, other "high-pressure sales situations" too — the vendor definitely won't think of the negotiation as adversari
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Show HN: Magic – one-click signup from inside any newsletter(sparkloop.app)
10 points by louisswiss 5y ago|1 comments
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Apple's email privacy protection hurts creators(nathanbarry.com)
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by louisswiss 5y ago
Sounds like you'd get a lot out of the Sales for Founders podcast: https://pod.salesforfounders.com/ I was in a similar situation to you ~10 years ago and had to learn sales the hard way. The podcast is my attempt to m
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by louisswiss 6y ago
Interesting article, however I'm surprised the author only went into the time it takes them to create content. I run a bootstrapped product called [SparkLoop]( https://sparkloop.app ) which makes it easy for creators to add a
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An inside look at bootstrapping a SaaS business from 0 to $2m ARR with sales(pod.salesforfounders.com)
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by louisswiss 6y ago
> “Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” By Ronald Wright.
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by louisswiss 6y ago
I've employed developers in Zurich. I promise you, the market for developers does not top out at anywhere near $100k. That's closer to a starting salary (assuming a university degree).
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by louisswiss 6y ago
> even the workers seem to value the rights of the employers far above the rights of the employees. I'm not sure why this is. To paraphrase a famous quote, in the USA the workers don't see themselves as workers, but as temporar
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Show HN: How to do sales in an economic downturn(salesforfounders.com)
1 points by louisswiss 7y ago|0 comments
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by louisswiss 7y ago
Thanks, means a lot!
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by louisswiss 7y ago
> They don't use sleezy techniques and unruly ways to "get them". Or aggressively piss people off. That's definitely NOT what S4F is about. One of the main reasons I made this course is that most founders - especi
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by louisswiss 7y ago
"If you want someone to marry you, why don't you just tell me that the first time you meet them?" Same reasons apply here... - I want to give you time to see bits of the course and learn about whether it's a good fit for
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by louisswiss 7y ago
I focus less on techniques and more on strategy and mindset. There are thousands of 'successful' cold email templates and guides out there for free, for example. You don't need another one. But they probably won't work
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by louisswiss 7y ago
This is a really common problem! The easiest way to overcome it is to reframe the problem. Instead of asking "how do I go from yes to paid invoices", ask yourself "how do I change the default outcome from they don't buy
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by louisswiss 7y ago
> I'd love to just pay someone cash to sell it for me and help me get from zero to one. I've seen quite a few founders try this, and it normally ends badly. There are two main drawbacks... 1. The salesperson effectively become
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by louisswiss 7y ago
OP here. Interesting, thanks for sharing! I haven't read the book you mentioned, but have come across it a few times previously. If you're wondering how the S4F course is different from this book (or other sales resources, such as
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Show HN: Sales for Founders(salesforfounders.com)
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by louisswiss 7y ago
> I think the answer is that there are two sources of feeling like a noob: being stupid, and doing something novel. I very much doubt that being stupid correlates with feeling like a noob. In fact, my own experience of 'stupid'
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by louisswiss 7y ago
I teach (technical) founders how to do sales at SalesForFounders.com. What my work has taught me is that... a) some founders are motivated by improving their customers' lives b) some founders are motivated by building the best solution
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by louisswiss 7y ago
Interesting! You probably know this is a crazy crowded space - there are tools out there like ViralLoops and ReferralHero, to name just two of the more popular ones that have been around for years. What's your value proposition over on
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by louisswiss 7y ago
The whole point of the scenario was that there are no good options . We shouldn't allow people to get into a situation where they have to choose between losing a kidney and their children starving. But - if someone is in that situat
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by louisswiss 7y ago
My original comment (above) made it pretty clear that I believe we should be doing everything we can to ensure people don't have to make these kinds of choices. But the way to do this is by adding new, better options, not by restrict
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by louisswiss 7y ago
Yes. As a society, we should put measures in place to make sure no-one ever has to make this decision (easily accessible food banks, state support etc). And we should make sure anyone making that decision is aware of the alternatives (and i

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