Michelle Young

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. The ultimate life hack is the ability to quickly reset and recover. From a poor decision. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a bad day. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it. Fast recovery compounds.

I have a theory that life meets you at your level of audacity

met a guy last week making $43,000/month sending cold emails to people who left 1-star reviews for his competitors not joking he scrapes trustpilot and g2 for every 1-star review in his niche finds the persons linkedin pulls their email sends them one message: "saw your review of [competitor]. we built [product] specifically because of complaints like yours. want to see it?" reply rate: 11.4% for context the average cold email reply rate is 0.3% his is 38x higher because rather than just emailing strangers, hes emailing people who are already pissed off and actively looking for an alternative they JUST took time out of their day to write a paragraph about how much they hate the thing you replace theyre literally the hottest lead on planet earth and theyre free public information sitting on review sites he showed me his process: step 1: filter trustpilot for 1-star and 2-star reviews of top 3 competitors posted in last 90 days step 2: copy the reviewers name into linkedin sales nav step 3: pull email with apollo or instantly step 4: send the email within 72 hours of them posting the review while theyre still mad step 5: appointment setter calls every positive reply within 5 minutes close rate on these calls: 41% because the entire sales conversation is "what did they fuck up" and "heres how we do it differently" literally no convincing or educating needed no overcoming objections about whether they need the category they already bought it once they already know they need it they just need it from someone who doesnt suck last month he scraped 290 negative reviews found emails for 203 of them got 23 positive replies booked 19 calls closed 8 deals at $4,200 average contract value $33,600 in revenue from reading complaints the craziest part three of his customers told him they were ABOUT to switch to a different competitor before he reached out he intercepted them mid-churn one guy said "i literally had the contract open in another tab when your email came in" timing is everything most people are cold emailing prospects who dont even know they have a problem yet this guy is emailing people who just spent 20 minutes writing a essay about their problem on the internet every 1-star review is someone announcing "i have budget, i have pain, and im shopping right now" your competitors are generating your lead list for you theyre spending $50K on ads to acquire a customer that customer hates them writes a review and you email them for free and close them in one call right now theres probably 200 people who reviewed your competitor in the last 60 days theyre all reachable theyre all in market and theyre all ignored because everyone thinks cold email means emailing cold people these people are on fire go put it out p.s. if you want us to setup a cold email system that books you 10-30 calls per month - DM me "COLD" (you ONLY pay for qualified calls actually booked onto your calendar)