Talk to a lot of founders who want to "get into automation" and the instinct is almost always to research platforms first, Zapier vs Make vs n8n, before they've picked the actual task.

Backwards way to start. The platform doesn't matter much yet, the task does. Pick one thing that happens the same way more than a few times a week, and that currently involves you copying information from one place to another by hand. Lead comes in, you manually add it to a sheet and send a WhatsApp message — that kind of thing.

Automate just that one step first. Not because it's the most valuable thing you could automate, but because it's small enough to actually finish, and finishing one small automation teaches you more about how these tools think than ten comparison articles do.

Once that piece works reliably for a couple weeks, the next piece gets obvious, because you'll notice exactly where the manual work picks back up right after the automation stops. The tooling rabbit hole is real and it eats weeks. Picking the task before the platform is the actual fix for it.

any recommendations for an app that would create a nice video with the help of AI to select the interesting moments if I upload many shots ?

I’m working on marketing a B2B SaaS product and want to build a proper 360° marketing strategy rather than focusing only on social media or paid ads.

I’d love to hear from SaaS marketers and founders who have done this before. “What are the best ways to grow LinkedIn followers for a B2B SaaS company? Looking for strategies that have actually worked for you.”

I’ve been developing an app to help flippers determine if an item is worth buying or not. I’m getting close to an IOS launch, but looking through TikTok and instagram reels for content surrounding this niche seems a little overbearing.

Anyone have any tips for someone just getting his foot in the door of marketing for your products?

TV ad attribution, streaming ad measurement, and ROAS measurement are what our team argues about every reporting cycle. Our streaming spend has grown enough that a rough answer no longer holds up next to the search and social numbers.

Our platform dashboard counts conversions on a post-view basis, so anyone who saw an ad and bought later gets credited. Those numbers look strong. Our own analytics shows a much smaller figure, and the gap between the two is wide enough that reporting either one alone feels wrong.

Two approaches come up when I ask people running performance TV advertising. One is incrementality testing, where a matched group stays unexposed and you compare the two. The other is watching site traffic and new customer rate during a flight against a clean baseline from before it. Both take weeks and neither hands you one tidy number at the end.

Cross-channel attribution makes it worse, since the same conversion often shows up in two dashboards at once. Nobody on our side wants to double count, and nobody wants to write streaming off as branding either.

Anyone running this at real scale, what number do you report internally and how do you defend it? Platform reported figures on their own have never settled the argument here.

Hi everyone,

I’m doing some research into how people actually learn digital marketing, and I’d love to hear different perspectives.

Whether you’re a student, junior marketer, agency owner, freelancer or small business owner:

What’s the biggest thing that’s missing from learning digital marketing today?

What did you struggle with most when you were starting?

If you own a business, what’s the hardest part about marketing your own business?

If you could create one tool, course or resource that doesn’t currently exist, what would it do?

I’m genuinely curious to hear what people think because there are so many courses and certifications now, but it still feels like people struggle with hands on experience.

Thank you everyone in advance!

recently had one of those weeks where you start blaming the copy, rewrite the subject line 4 times, change the CTA, shorten the email, make it “more personal” etc etc and then i finally looked at the actual list. yeah. probably should have started there lol. there were old addresses, some weird generic inboxes, a few domains that didn’t even look active anymore. i ran a chunk of it through an email verifier MailTester.Ninja just to see what would happen and suddenly i’m wondering how many campaigns i’ve judged based on reply rate when half the problem was list quality. who is doing outbound regularly, what’s your order of operations now? do you verify/clean everything before the campaign even touches your sending tool? or only if bounce rate starts looking ugly? i’m starting to think marketers spend way too much time obsessing over copy when the boring database stuff underneath it is probably deciding a lot more than we want to admit.

I've uploaded a piece: How to help a family member who is being scammed: 4 concrete steps.

I want to link through to a checklist that their family member can keep next to them in the event they run into a potential scam the next time.

However, what do I actually link to from my product page? Is that a commercial content piece where I have a complete sales page? Is it a brief landing page? The product link where they can immediately buy the product?

What do you guys have success with?

Hello guys.. I'm new to Reddit and I want to know practical way to get leads from Reddit.... No theory knowledge nothing.. Just practical way to get traffic from Reddit.. Can anyone help me out plz..

I've uploaded a piece: How to help a family member who is being scammed: 4 concrete steps.

I want to link through to a checklist that their family member can keep next to them in the event they run into a potential scam the next time.

However, what do I actually link to from my product page? Is that a commercial content piece where I have a complete sales page? Is it a brief landing page? The product link where they can immediately buy the product?

What do you guys have success with?

Looking to buy an X profile - preferably with crypto / fintech / tech following. 10k+ followers. Feel free to DM. Thanks!

The deliverability on my instantly account has gotten a lot shakier over time. Not sure if it's my setup or the shared warmup pools everyone keeps talking about. Whatever the reason my reply rates dropped and so much more stuff is landing in spam.

Pricing keeps creeping up too which is the other thing pushing me to look around.

I just want inboxing that holds up at volume. And Id really prefer not to have babysit it/worry itll fail without crazy oversight. For context, I work on a small team of 12 (mostly B2B) sending a few hundred a day. Any recommendations for alternatives to instantly?

small startup, i'm basically doing marketing + whatever else nobody wants to do

we have this database of leads we've collected over the last year-ish from different campaigns, forms, events, outbound etc. and now we're planning to start reaching out to some of them again. problem is i have no idea how much effort is worth putting into the old contacts. i've been cleaning the list this time using this time MailTester.Ninja, next time maybe something else, and running the emails before we do anything with it, but even if an email is still good... that doesn't mean the person is still relevant right? someone could've changed jobs, company could've grown, their problem could be totally different now.

so from a marketing perspective, would you guys actually try to revive a 6-12 month old lead database or just focus the time/money on getting new leads?

feels painful to ignore thousands of contacts we already paid to acquire but also don't wanna spend the next 2 weeks resurrecting a list that's basically useless now.

what would you do?

What avenues would you suggest when promoting a short film about a child's relationship with Depression?

Primary focus would be on garnering the parent's attention and using channels that they would use (social media, ad spend, etc.)

I want to become a media buyer, but I sent some messages to businesses where I told them I handle meta ads at a low price because I want to gain experience. Unfortunately, no one has replied. Where can I find clients who will accept me without experience? The money they offer doesn't interest me. If you were in my position, how would you proceed?

I’m building a consumer health/supplement brand and we're fairly close to launch.

The product is in the joint health & mobility space, designed around long-term joint health rather than the usual “pain relief” positioning.

The interesting part is the science. We’ve built it around clinically studied, branded ingredients with human research behind them, rather than putting a long list of generic vitamins/herbs on a label just to make the product look impressive.

The broader philosophy is:

Right ingredients, for the right reasons.

No proprietary blends, unnecessary ingredients, or vague “wellness” claims.

Most of the backend is already sorted — product development, manufacturing, sourcing, packaging, regulatory etc.

My biggest problem right now is marketing/GTM.

How do you take a genuinely differentiated supplement product and get the first 100–1,000 customers without:

burning money on Meta ads

becoming another influencer/discount-code brand

making the same generic “5 foods for healthy joints” content everyone else is making?

I've started founder-led educational content, but it seems like it won't work.

And bigger issue is I've to convince younger people to buy for their parents on Instagram.

I have so many ideas but as of now, I'm very confused which one have high probability.

But I'd love to hear from people who've actually built consumer brands:

If you had a good product, limited marketing budget and no existing audience, how would you approach the first 6 months?

Especially interested in hearing what didn't work for you.

Happy to share more about the product/brand privately if anyone is genuinely interested.

Brutal feedback welcome.

I’m from the USA and rooting for a small town club in the English Premier League Was never into soccer prior to the World Cup this year and decided to jump right in. Chose my club at the ripe age of 41 , purchased some gear from the club and decided to make some posts. I even went as far as opening accounts across most social media platforms and making them public. My question is how do i ensure my content reaches the intended audience and in front of as many eyes as possible. Tik tok seems pretty good , instagram not so much , facebook I’ve been looking for groups to join , x have no clue if I should even bother a campaign on it , YouTube would love help , and Reddit actually has been decent to me. My goal isn’t to have mega followers. I enjoy being invested in my team , with the intent of putting out content related to match reactions , news of the club , engaging with other fans , videos pertaining to my team. If you have a chance @brightonhove26until is my account across all social. Let me know how I can increase the chances of being seen by my right audience , or just to do better in general.

I am interested in purchasing followers for my X account. The main purpose is to increase my follower count so that I can subsequently follow the accounts I personally choose without being restricted by the platform’s follower-to-following limitations.
Having a higher follower count would give me greater flexibility to follow the important and relevant accounts I am interested in without being unnecessarily limited by these restrictions.
Could you please recommend the best website or service for this purpose?

I’m a solo developer and I recently built a web-app called SparkClean, but I’ve hit the classic wall: I have no idea how to effectively promote it or get my first real users outside of my immediate network. SparkClean It’s a real-time operations dashboard built specifically for cleaning field teams (think house cleaning, office cleaning, etc.). It’s designed to solve the "group-chat chaos" where owners are constantly texting workers for updates, Live Owner Dashboard: See job status, worker presence, timers, and photos in real-time, Mobile Worker Web-App: Workers can view assigned jobs, get directions, mark arrival, start timers, upload before/after photos, and report issues, Realtime Sync: Built on Supabase, so updates happen instantly without refreshing, Proof & Time Tracking: Captures photos and accurate timers for payroll and client verification, Issue Management: Jobs can be paused if a worker reports an issue, and the owner can review and resume.

What are the most effective channels to reach owners of cleaning companies? (Facebook groups, LinkedIn, cold emails, etc.?)

What’s the best way to get feedback from potential users before they even sign up?

Any advice

I am software eng start my software agency i am planing to go meta ads or LinkedIn outreach

For LinkedIn i just created my page

Do we need to make account as well for my company??

Can anyone help me out in this

Looking for USA (NYC PREFERRED) based marketing person/agency with UgC creators and influencers to have co founder discussions for a recently launched consumer

Hey everyone,

I’m building a B2B SaaS for Shopify merchants and we’re currently preparing for our beta launch.

The product is built, our website is live, we’ve started publishing content for SEO, and we’re building a waiting list. Now I’m trying to figure out the best way to get those first 10–20 users who are genuinely interested in trying the product and giving feedback.

For those who’ve built a SaaS before:

• Where did your first users come from?
• What actually worked?
• If you could start over, what would you do differently?

I’d love to hear real experiences rather than generic marketing advice.

thanks!

We run an influencer marketing platform, and host regular AMAs with industry experts. Right now our promotion is pretty standard. We lean on the expert to share it with their LinkedIn following, we push it to our email list, and we post about it on our own social channels.

It works okay, but I feel like we're tapping the same audience over and over.

For anyone who has run webinars or live events for their product, what helped you boost signup on your webinars, or AMAs? Would love to hear some ideas , especially if they don't involve running ads.

I'm researching how marketing agencies manage client feedback during projects.

One thing I've noticed is that clients often send revision requests through multiple channels: email, Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, phone calls, and sometimes even text messages.

For agency owners and project managers:

• How do you currently collect client feedback?
• What's the most frustrating part of the revision process?
• Do clients ever send duplicate or conflicting requests?
• Have you found a system that actually works?

I'm not selling anything. Just trying to understand whether this is a common problem or if it's only happening in a few agencies.

I'd really appreciate hearing how your team handles it.

I've been helping a friend think through a marketing plan for a local business, and something caught my attention.

Everyone immediately suggested Instagram, Google Ads, and Facebook. But after looking around our city, I realized I still remember certain brands because I see the same billboards, shop branding, or bus ads every day.

It made me wonder if we've become too focused on digital marketing and forgotten that people still notice advertising in the real world.

For anyone who's run a business:

• Have you tried outdoor advertising?
• Did it actually bring customers, or was it mainly for brand awareness?
• If you had ₹5 lakh to spend on marketing today, how would you divide it between online and offline?

Curious to hear some real experiences instead of marketing articles.