Prerona Basu

I just had surgery and this what it taught me about B2B SaaS Lol Na man. I’m not giving you a LinkedIn style AI barfed listicle on life lesson. My doc’s given me too many top notch psychedelic meds for that. When he put me under I was absolutely euphoric for an hour. saw spectacularly colourful swirls of light and heard the angels sing. I kid you not. And then I came back to consciousness with a smile and the words ‘Chile chicken’ on my lips. I think it was divine wisdom. Though haters will say it was gas. PS how’s my pre-surgery low maintenance haircut?

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@HelloPrerona Send

I got 2 job offers right after fixing my About section on LinkedIn. (Screenshot in the comments) Look, I know you've been posting on LinkedIn for months. Decent content. Okay engagement. But zero leads. And this happens because you do everything except fix the first thing anyone sees when they land on your profile. Your bio. So even if you study the algorithm. Post at 8 AM on Tuesdays because someone on YouTube said so. You’ll be losing clients if your LinkedIn profile isn’t sorted. Now you could build a skill on Claude and fix it yourself. Or if you're running low on time and patience, use our free tool EinsteIN instead. Sorts your profile in minutes. Costs nothing. Just comment SEND and I'll DM you the link. Easy. (Save this post so you can come back to it if you're in the middle of something.)

I watched our dev team run an entire LinkedIn outbound campaign from a terminal window. No dashboard. No UI. No browser tabs. Just a black screen and typed commands. I'm a content and outreach person. I live in dashboards. I like buttons. My first reaction was "this is not for me." Then I watched them do with three commands what normally takes a full morning of dashboard clicking and it all happened before I finished my tea. - Triaged 48 hours of LinkedIn replies into three buckets: interested, objection, not a fit. One script. - Rewrote an underperforming follow-up and swapped it into a live campaign. No editor. No save button. Just done. - Cloned the whole campaign to a second LinkedIn account with a different writing style. One command. If your dev team isn't using Claude CLI for LinkedIn outbound yet, you might want to buy them a coffee and ask them to show you what's possible. What's the most manual part of your outbound workflow right now?

@Owais30337 prospects never fail to surprise 😁

I was ready to log off. Zero closes. Dead week. Then a “lost” lead commented: let’s talk again. Funny how sales works. It only looks dead… until it isn’t.

@Anushkaa1407 code

Claude code + CLI is how you automatically trigger a LinkedIn campaign. CLI makes the setup faster and SalesRobot handles the sending, linkedin compliance, sequences, inbox management. without automation, it’s switching 5 different tabs to import a list, add prospects to a campaign, start the sequence. it's just 3 prompts in Claude Code. here's what the setup looks like: → claude code writes the script against salesrobot's api → you paste your prospect list as a csv → one command adds everyone to your campaign and starts the sequence → salesrobot handles everything after: sending, timing, compliance, replies once it's running, you don't touch it. Not even for the replies. but claude code lives in a terminal. if you've never opened one, expect the first 20 minutes to feel uncomfortable. wrote up the starter kit. the exact prompts, the api setup, and the script structure that gets you from zero to a running an end-to-end campaign. comment "CODE", i'll send it over.

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@YourVibeGuy Biggest challenge right now is to increase our marketing channels. We’ve tasted success with SEO, LinkedIn and email and now we’re all in to figure out X and Reddit.

@HelloPrerona That's an impressive milestone! It's refreshing to see bootstrapped success. I wonder how your team's culture and processes have evolved with growth. Balancing efficiency with quality is tricky, especially with a small team. What’s been your biggest challenge?

Our SaaS crossed $1.2M in all-time revenue. Bootstrapped. India team. No VC. Here's the honest update. $1,247,943 in all-time revenue. Started from 0 in late 2023. We have a small team in India. 0 outside funding. What stayed the same: Still bootstrapped. Team size is about the same. No VC money. Still obsessively trying to fix churn. What changed: → We fixed the actual product. For three years, the backend was unstable. Customers were getting kicked off LinkedIn because of us. March 2025, we migrated to a new LinkedIn API. The product finally just worked. Everything else only started working after that. → White label became our best channel. Agencies are 5% of our customers. 25% of our revenue. One UK agency came in with 5 seats. They're at 80 now. We did nothing except keep the product running. → LinkedIn content with a follow-up system. We had at least one viral post every week in 2025. 52 weeks. 52 viral posts. One post got 3,000 comments. Our AI followed up with every commenter: 72% acceptance 53% reply rate $2,000 MRR from a single post. Impressions without a system behind them won’t produce revenue. If you want, I can share the whole system in the comments. → We stopped running one channel at a time. Four years of sequential thinking: Outbound → SEO → LinkedIn Each one killing the last. 2025 was the first year we ran everything simultaneously. That’s when the graph started improving. What still bothers us: Agency revenue is at 25% of MRR. The goal is 60%. We’re pointed at that number with everything right now… and still closer to the start than the end. Peaked at just under $80K MRR in early 2026. To everyone who stayed through the rough years when the product was genuinely broken... this number is yours too 🍻

@UpamanyuRo20884 love the hook

I look at competitor posts for two reasons: To get jealous, and find my next warmed up lead list. I target my competitor's LinkedIn posts using CLI. No browser. No clicking. No manual prospecting. One curl command to find every person who commented on a competitor's post. Another curl command to drop them into a personalized LinkedIn campaign. Here's the workflow: Step 1: Find a competitor's post that's getting traction. Step 2: Grab the post URL. Step 3: Run this in your terminal: “curl -X POST \ 'api.salesrobot.co/api/add-from-s…' \ -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_KEY' \ -d '{"searchUrl": "COMPETITOR_POST_URL", "searchType": "normal"}' “ That's it. Every commenter on that post is now in your SalesRobot campaign (or any outbound tool you’re using really). They already showed interest in the topic. They already engaged. They're warm. Your campaign hits them with a connection request + personalized follow-up referencing the exact post they commented on. Reply rates from post commenter campaigns: 25-45%. Reply rates from cold lists: 3-5%. Same effort. Wildly different results. I run this every morning. Takes 2 minutes. I check 3-4 competitor posts, grab the URLs, run the commands. By the time I finish my coffee, 50-100 new qualified leads are in my pipeline. All pre-qualified by their own behavior. CLI terminals don’t mess around. It just books meetings.

@litteralyme0 wasn't this on Black Mirror?

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@HelloPrerona Send! That looks incredible

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@Anushkaa1407 worth it

@HelloPrerona i gotta fix my about section asap

Job offer 2

Job offer 1

@Anushkaa1407 super helpful article!!!!!!!!!

@Anushkaa1407 marketing tobacco is one one the hardest things

"scared money does not make money. you never win a lottery you never bought a ticket for." - life lesson from an 89-year-old man. saw his reel and couldn't stop thinking about it. he built his fortune in tobacco. said he doesn't even like the smell of it. he just read something in the WSJ one day about a gap in the market, and went for it. no passion. no perfect moment. just a lottery ticket he bought. then ended up saying something that kind of didn't settle in - "i moved my kids to california when i was 29. that was 60 years ago. it was yesterday." this man has done everything, and time still felt like it collapsed on him. what's your excuse for waiting? credits - theschoolofhardknockz

@AshwiniNK21 ☺️thanks

@HelloPrerona Solid prompts.. I am sure the 100's in the list are too

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