Alex Mark | SEO + Website creation

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@VibeDreamAI great read

@lukejcellis just shows how important email is

@lukejcellis that's a harsh truth

I love Pakistan why? Because your email agency is probably outsourcing to Pakistan paying them £8/hour to write your flows while charging you £3,000/month here's how the scam works: the Klaviyo specialist who "built flows for 8-figure brands"? 18 years old in Lahore watching YouTube tutorials nothing against Pakistan btw but your agency isn't hiring the brilliant ones they're hiring whoever's cheapest and you're paying premium rates for junior execution this is why your email revenue stays at 9-12% no matter what they do because they're following the same generic YouTube playbook everyone else is meanwhile the REAL email operators are doing this: → multi-step forms with strategic incentives (not "10% off") → abandoned cart sequences with 4 triggers, not 2 → SMS integration at exact right moments (not spam) → segmentation from day one (not after 10K subscribers) → profit-maximizing campaigns (not discount training wheels) we generated £239,895 for a client in 30 days 62% total revenue increase from a list that was completely cold no discounts blasted, no spam, no "limited time 40% off" just strategic flows and campaigns that actually understand buyer psychology the difference? i'm in the account every single day not a Pakistani 18-year-old watching "Klaviyo tutorial 2025" not some random VA who's running 30 other clients me. personally. in your Klaviyo account. most agencies just want you to stay long enough that the cancellation feels awkward we want you making so much money from email that raising our rates doesn't even register which is exactly what's happening 90% retention rate across 100+ brands because when email is driving £200K+/month, you don't care about the £3K agency fee when your email drives £0, every pound feels expensive so yeah, fire your agency or at minimum ask them where their team is actually located and if they hesitate for even half a second, you already know

@lukejcellis Broken

everyone sends emails at 10am because some guru said "that's when open rates are highest" cool so does everyone else your customer wakes up to 97 unread emails at 10am yours is buried at position 96 the best send time isn't when "most people check email" it's when the LEAST competition is in the inbox the psychology: 10am inbox: customer opens → sees 20 emails → scans subject lines in 8 seconds → opens 2-3 → ignores rest 6:00am inbox: customer opens → sees 3 emails → actually reads each subject line → decides which to open less competition = more attention per email = higher open rate but here's the deeper exploit most brands miss: everyone uses their ESP's "send at 10am in customer's local time" feature sounds smart problem: if everyone does it, you're all competing for the same inbox slot winners send at weird times: → 6:00am (catches early risers, empty inbox) → 2:13pm (afternoon lull, less competition) → 8:34pm (evening scroll, work emails handled) → 11:23pm (night owls, zero competition) just different timing perfect subject line at 10am with 20 competitors = 400 opens mediocre subject line at 6:00am with 2 competitors = 820 opens timing beats copywriting when it comes to initial visibility most brands are optimizing the wrong variable they're A/B testing subject lines when they should be testing send times you can have the best email in the world but if it's buried under 18 other emails at 10am, nobody's reading it comment "BROKEN" and i'll send the case study of how we took a brand from $0 to $739,400.83 in 2 months (must be following for a DM)

@lukejcellis the math makes this so obvious

you're spending £60k/month on Meta ads getting 40,000 visitors to your site 2.5% convert to customers (1,000 customers) you think "i need to scale to 80,000 visitors to hit my goals" no you don't bro. you need to stop letting 97.5% of your traffic disappear forever after you paid to acquire it here's what's actually happening: 40,000 visitors × £1.50 CPC = £60,000 ad spend 1,000 customers × £120 AOV = £120,000 revenue £60,000 profit before costs is not bad but here's what you're missing: 39,000 people visited your site and left without buying you paid £58,500 to get them there (97.5% of ad spend) they looked around, left, never came back that £58,500 generated £0 return it's just gone now imagine: 40,000 visitors 2.5% convert immediately = 1,000 customers (same as before) 12% captured to email via popup = 4,680 new emails per month 30% of those convert through flows within 30 days = 1,404 customers total: 2,404 customers instead of 1,000 240% more customers from the SAME traffic the new math: 2,404 customers × £120 AOV = £288,480 revenue £228,480 profit (after ad spend) £168,480 more profit from traffic you already paid for most brands see: visitor → no purchase → lost forever → money wasted winners see: visitor → no purchase → email captured → automated sequence → customer in 7 days → zero additional ad spend same visitor completely different bank account you're about to spend an additional £60k/month to scale from 40k to 80k visitors hoping to get 2,000 customers instead of 1,000 when you could capture 12% of your current 40k visitors and convert them through email for £180/month in software costs scaling traffic: £60k additional spend for 1,000 more customers = £60 CAC email capture system: £180 additional spend for 1,404 more customers = £0.13 CAC 462x more efficient but everyone's obsessed with "scaling Meta ads" because that's what the gurus teach meanwhile operators are quietly capturing the traffic everyone else is wasting same traffic, different infrastructure, completely different profit margins the invisible money is in the 97.5% that leaves. most founders see "need more traffic" winners see "need to monetize the traffic i'm already paying for" more traffic doesn't fix a broken conversion system it just scales your losses faster. comment "CAPTURE" for the traffic monetization system (must be following)

@mannybarbas_ This is the hard truth. Dashboards don’t equal profit. If you don’t understand attribution, you’re just paying platforms to take credit for sales you already earned.

i wasted 1,500,000 on snapchat ads in 2019 we trusted an agency trusted the dashboard and had zero understanding of attribution windows the roas looked amazing on paper in reality it was trash most of the conversions were view through not click through people were already going to buy snapchat was just claiming the sale i see the same thing every week inside meta ad accounts founders think they’re printing money but they’re just rewarding warm traffic and recycled customers here’s how to stop lying to yourself use 7 day click attribution and turn off 1 day view wherever possible add attribution setting and conversion type columns in ads manager break results down by 7 day click 1 day click 1 day view if your roas tanks when you remove view through you never had roas exclude purchasers and warm lists so you’re actually buying net new demand judge performance with mer and nc cpa not just pixel roas attribution doesn’t make you money it just tells you whether you’re actually making money

@TheecomMike Exactly. Most support isn’t complex, it’s unclear. Show answers once, visually, and you scale support without hiring.

Customer support was costing me $8K/month. I created a 3 min FAQ video. Support tickets dropped by 40%. Now I'm at $4.4K/month. Your customers don't like emailing you. They want instant answers.

@TheGeoMethod Trust in sales comes from competence, not small talk. Deliver results first. Relationships follow.

Friendship has no place in sales. In fact, it makes you a worse salesman. "How was your weekend?" ”How was your holiday?” ”How’s your family?” You think asking that to a hedge fund partner is going to build your relationship? Absolutely not. You will look like a moron at best. One of my best mates is a managing director at JP Morgan. He didn't become a friend because I laughed at his jokes. I delivered results for a whole decade for the guy. Of course we’d be friends by then. Friendship comes after competence. NOT before. Forget about friendships before you become a master at your craft. Your primary goal isn’t to be liked. Become useful.

@SimonHoiberg Most SaaS stalls due to weak feedback loops. Talk to users, ship fast, market early.

💀 This is why your SaaS isn't growing... → You think you know better than your users → You're wasting time on meetings → You're not experimenting → You're not building automation → You're too feature-focused → You're not customer-focused → You don't spend time on marketing → You think users will come if you build a great product Are you guilty of any of these?

@bahdcoder Same cycle again. Tools commoditize basics, not real skill. Devs move up the stack to systems, architecture, and outcomes. Adapt or get left shipping what anyone can copy.

A new reality just struck me. 23 years ago, Wordpress was released. Wordpress built 95% of website use cases with a drag and drop editor. The developer's job moved from building websites to building complex software products for businesses. If you did not move on from building websites with HTML and jQuery, to building complex interactive web applications, you were left behind. Now in 2026, AI agents are dominating. A random person can pull up Lovable and build a fully functional SAAS with payments, emails, authentication and real features. The developer's job is going to move again. If you do not upgrade your skillset to adapt to the new world, you will be left behind.

@andrejtumo ROAS looks good. CM3 tells the truth. If CM3 is negative, you’re scaling losses not a business.

Most eCom founders obsess over ROAS. That’s why so many brands scale revenue and accidentally scale losses. ROAS tells you if ads look good. CM3 tells you if your business survives. CM3 = contribution margin after ads: Revenue minus COGS, fulfillment, payment fees, discounts, and ad spend. If CM3 stays stable or increases as you scale → scale harder. If it drops → something is breaking. If it’s negative → you’re scaling losses. I’ve seen brands hit €500k/month and only realize later they were losing money on every order. Track CM3 weekly. If it’s healthy, scale. If not, fix it first.

@SumitM_X You don’t need to build all 10. You need to explain when and why to use them. If you can clearly explain 5–7 with real examples, you’re ahead of most backend devs.

As a Backend dev , how many concepts can you explain from below : 1. Event-Driven Architecture 2. Saga Pattern 3. CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) 4. Event Sourcing 5. Circuit Breaker Pattern 6. Distributed Tracing 7. CAP Theorem 8. Idempotency 9. Data Sharding 10. API Gateway

@upen946 Product Hunt gives you a spike, not a system. If you don’t have distribution before launch, the traffic disappears as fast as it comes.

Most founders fail because they treat Product Hunt like a growth strategy. It’s a launchpad not a distribution engine.

@jimheskel Simple setups close deals. Clients don’t pay for polish, they pay for outcomes. Most businesses aren’t stuck on tools, they’re stuck on overthinking.

No website. No course platform. No fancy PowerPoints. DMs + Emails. Google Docs. Stripe. That's the whole business. Clients actually appreciate it. Shows them how much they've been overthinking their own setup.

@victor_bigfield Facts. Builders love tools, but they rarely pay. Boring niches pay for relief, not features. Painkillers win, pivots are part of the game.

the biggest mistake: building for other indie hackers. selling to builders is a race to the bottom. find a boring niche with a burning problem. stop shipping vitamins. start shipping painkillers. most projects fail. it’s normal. the win is in the pivot

@karllittleboy $100K isn’t about one magic idea, it’s about math + consistency. Pick one lane, get the offer right, and execute daily.

5 ways to make $100K/year: • 200 members at $42/month • 50 students at $500/quarter • 10 sales a day at $28 each • 4 clients at $2K/month • 3 sales/day $97 each Pick a model to master.

@johnrushx Freedom isn’t about scale, it’s about control. Small niche, real problem, fast builds, organic growth boring on paper, unbeatable in real life.

Learn to be a Solopreneur building b2b micro saas without VC funding for a small niche you understand well. build by using boilerplates, claude code or any vibe coding tool grow via free organic channels: social, seo, affiliates, outreach, word of mouth. No employees, no funding, no cofounders, no office. This will make you truly free. I’ve done it, dozen of my friends have done it, nothing matches this, not employment, not a VC backed startup I’ve tried all options mentioned above and I’m sure of what I’m saying here