Everyone's telling you to sell AI receptionists, and they're right, but some business owners are still weird about AI. Missed call text back is the perfect foot in the door. Literally just a simple text that fires when they miss a call. Owners get it immediately because they've literally lost jobs to missed calls before and it's a pain they already feel. And once they see it working, the AI receptionist conversation gets 10x easier. Basically the key is that you're not pitching them on something foreign anymore, you're just expanding something that's already making them money. Full build walkthrough if you want to see 👇

Happy Tuesday! 👋 Just wanted to share something that worked really well for me when I was in the early days of building my agency. Cold calling and hitting gatekeepers was killing me until I stumbled onto this method. Started using it, got way more decision makers on the phone, and honestly wish someone had shown me it sooner.

This one hits different because you never go after your prospect directly but you audit their competitor instead, then hand them the receipts. Business owners don't care that they have a problem, but they will care that their competitor might be winning because of it. That's the lever. 🕵️ Here's How You Run It 1) Pick a competitive local market. Med spas, dentists, law firms, anything with two or three players clearly fighting for the same customers. 2) Call the competitor. 3) Submit a fake inquiry through their contact form with a burner email. 3) Try to book after hours. 4) Document the response time, the tone, whether anyone even picks up. You're building a dossier on the competitor's gaps. 📨 The Outreach Subject line: I looked into how [Competitor] is handling their leads. You'll want to see this. Body: "I do lead response audits for local businesses and ran one on [Competitor] this week. Their after-hours follow-up is pretty bad. Problem is customers don't know that, so they still go there just because they got a reply first. I built a missed call text-back system that fixes exactly this. Worth a 10 minute look?" ⚡ Why It Flips on Them Every owner reads that and immediately thinks "wait, what if someone did this to me?" That paranoia does your selling for you. Half the time they'll ask you to run the same audit on their own business before you even offer. That's when you show them their own gaps and close on the spot. 🔒 Why It Works - Zero manufactured proof needed, the competitor's failures are real - Loss aversion kicks in before you mention your product once - They self-qualify by asking for their own audit The energy on these is completely different. Try it out and let me know your results. Good luck!

Most automation builders are sitting on way more value than they're charging for. And honestly it's not their fault because nobody really teaches you how to price this work. You do what feels logical. You think about how long the build took, come up with a number that feels fair, the client says yes almost immediately and somewhere in the back of your mind you already know you left money on the table. The thing is your client doesn't care how long it took you to build something, they care about what their business looks like after the problem is gone. If your automation saves someone 15 hours a week, that's not a $200 project, that's a $1,500 a month conversation. The build is just the entry point and the outcome is where the real value lives. Before your next client call, sit with this: what does this problem cost them every month it goes unsolved? --- Drop your answers below 👇 1. What's the last automation you built and did you charge what it was worth? 2. Retainer or one time payment, what's been working better for you? 3. Where do you get stuck most, figuring out the value or actually saying the number out loud?

How to Pitch Automation Without Sounding Like a Sales Bro Stop pitching tools. Nobody cares. Bad pitch: “I build AI automations using n8n and agents.” Good pitch: “I help [niche] reply faster to leads so they don’t lose deals.” Your pitch must answer one question: What problem do you remove? If your pitch needs: slides long explanations technical terms It’s weak. Clear beats clever. Always. 🧐Questions:-> 1. How you're pitching your builds? 2. any add-ons? 3. which point is more useful? 4. where you're struggling in your work which pitching?