In the past: Sent 500 cold emails. 3 replies. All "no thanks." New approach: 50 emails. 22 replies. 8 calls. 3 customers. The difference: 1. Research the person - Found something specific: a tweet, podcast, project. Referenced it first. 2. Make it about them - Old: "We help companies with X." New: "I saw your post about struggling with X. Here's how I'd solve it." 3. Short. Really short. - 5 sentences max. 4. One clear ask - Not "check out website, book demo, or reply." Just: "15 minutes this week?" 5. Follow up with value - Follow-up 1: Case study. Follow-up 2: Useful resource. Follow-up 3: Direct ask. 6. Time it right - Tuesday-Thursday, 9-11am their time. Cold outreach isn't dead. Lazy cold outreach is. What's your outreach approach?

Built a lead scoring automation that saved my sales team 15 hours per week and tripled our close rate. Here's the exact system: Every inbound lead gets scored 1-100 based on 12 criteria: Company size (from LinkedIn/Clearbit data), industry match (are they in our sweet spot?), budget signals (job postings, tech stack, funding), urgency indicators (language in their message), engagement history (have they visited pricing page? downloaded content?), title/role of the person reaching out, source (referral vs cold vs content), time since first touch, email domain (corporate vs gmail), geographic fit, previous interactions with our brand, and tech stack compatibility. Leads scoring 80+ get routed directly to calendar booking. 50-79 go to a nurture sequence. Under 50 get a polite "not a fit" response. Results: - Close rate: 8% → 23% - Sales time on unqualified leads: Down 70% - Average deal size: Up 40% (better qualified = bigger budgets) Who's still manually qualifying leads? There's a better way.

Here's a lesson that took me years and multiple failed products to fully internalize: fast shipping beats perfect planning every single time. I've launched 8+ products at this point. Some I obsessed over for 6 months, perfecting every feature, tweaking every pixel, adding "just one more thing" before launch. Others I forced myself to ship in 2 weeks with barely functional MVPs. The results? The products I shipped in 2-4 weeks outperformed the ones I built for 6 months by 5X MRR. Let that sink in. The "ugly" fast launches generated 5X more recurring revenue than my "perfect" slow builds. Why does this happen? A few reasons: 1) Market feedback is everything. When you ship fast, you learn what customers actually want within days. When you build for 6 months, you're guessing for 6 months. Your guesses are usually wrong. 2) Momentum compounds. A live product attracts users, generates word of mouth, ranks in search, builds social proof. A product in development does none of that. Every day you're building instead of shipping is a day your competition is learning from real customers. 3) Motivation dies in long builds. I've watched my own excitement fade on projects that dragged on. By month 4, I was bored. By month 5, I was looking for reasons to pivot. The fast ships kept me energized because I was seeing real results. 4) Features you think matter usually don't. Half the features I spent months building? Users never touched them. The fast launches forced me to ship only the core value prop, and turns out that's all people needed anyway. The hard truth: your product sitting on your computer is worth exactly $0. The same product live, even if broken, is worth infinitely more because it's generating data, users, and revenue. Ship fast. Learn fast. Iterate fast. That's the game. What's something you've been building too long? Maybe it's time to just launch it.

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