Hey everyone! 👋 My partner and I are planning to go all-in on the Rank & Rent business model, and I’d love to hear from people who have real experience with it. Where We Stand - We understand the overall Rank & Rent business model and how it works. - We have knowledge of SEO and understand the process of building, ranking, and generating leads through websites. - We also have access to a full-time mentor with 10+ years of SEO experience. - We’re prepared to put in consistent work and treat this as a serious long-term business, not a get-rich-quick scheme. What We Want to Know 1. Is Rank & Rent still a viable business model, or is it overhyped online? 2. Have people here built Rank & Rent websites that generate consistent monthly income? 3. How realistic is it for beginners to rank a local website and secure a paying business owner? 4. What are the biggest challenges: choosing a niche, ranking the website, generating quality leads, or finding businesses willing to rent it? 5. How long did it take you to get your first paying renter, and what kind of investment did it require? 6. If you were starting from scratch today, would you choose Rank & Rent? What would you do differently? A Few Things I’m Particularly Interested In - Real experiences, including failures and lessons learned. - Realistic timelines and earning potential, rather than exceptional success stories. - Whether you recommend focusing on one website first or building multiple websites to increase the chances of success. - Any mistakes or risks we should understand before committing our time and money. I’m not looking for motivational answers or someone selling a course. I genuinely want honest feedback from people who have done this themselves or have meaningful experience with the model. If you’ve tried Rank & Rent, are currently doing it, or decided against it after researching it, I’d really appreciate hearing your perspective. Thanks in advance! 🙏

We’re 2 partners from India, both strong on the AI automation/service-delivery side, and we’re currently trying to solve one major problem: Client acquisition. We started by building and selling AI automations to local businesses in India. We tried: - Warm contacts - Cold outreach - Door-to-door visits - Different pricing approaches But we quickly noticed something frustrating: most small local businesses weren’t interested in AI automation yet, and even the businesses that showed interest felt that the price was too high. The crazy part? We were offering solutions for around $50/month. This made us realize that selling AI automation to small local businesses here may require a completely different approach. At the same time, as beginners, directly approaching larger companies without existing connections has been difficult. So we’ve decided to focus on international markets. What we can deliver We can build and manage things like: • AI Voice Agents • AI Chatbots • WhatsApp AI Agents • Lead Qualification & Follow-up Systems • Appointment/Scheduling Automations • CRM & Lead Management Automations • Custom AI Agentic Systems • And other business-specific automations Our strength is building and delivering the actual solution. Our weakness right now is getting the right clients in front of us. Being based in India also makes traditional cold calling international businesses difficult, and cold DMs haven’t been getting much attention. So we're looking to connect with people who are strong at sales/client acquisition. We’re open to a few different possibilities: 1. Sales/Acquisition Partner 🤝 Someone who wants to partner with us and take primary responsibility for client acquisition. We handle the complete technical/service delivery side, while we work together on the sales side. We’re also completely open to learning under someone who has already figured out client acquisition. 2. Freelance Sales Partner 💰 If you’re already doing B2B sales or client acquisition and want to work on a commission basis, we’d be happy to discuss a performance-based arrangement.

Hey everyone, I could really use some advice from people who have actually built and scaled AI agencies. My partner and I recently started an AI automation agency in India focused on real estate. We're both strong on the technical side and build custom AI systems ourselves. Our main offers are: - A WhatsApp AI agent that qualifies leads, answers property queries, recommends properties, and books site visits. - A complete AI agentic system with Voice AI for follow-ups, appointment scheduling, customer support, and other automations. We've tried a lot of local outreach, especially door-to-door visits, but the results have been disappointing. Most SMEs here either don't understand the value of AI yet or expect everything to be extremely cheap. I even tried lowering my price to just $50 for some offers, but that still didn't generate much interest. From what I know about international markets, these same solutions can easily sell for $1,000+ when positioned correctly. The good news is we aren't starting from zero: - We signed a large real estate client who's currently on a one-month free trial. - We're also in discussions with a quick-commerce company (through a referral) for a WhatsApp AI customer support system worth around $500 if the deal closes. The challenge is that I don't think staying focused only on the local market is the right long-term move. I want to start getting international clients. The problem is: - We have no budget for paid ads right now. - Door-to-door obviously isn't possible internationally. - I'm much stronger at building AI systems than I am at sales calls, and I'm not very confident on cold calls in English. - I do have experience with digital marketing, especially Meta ads, but that's not an option without a budget. So my question is: If you were starting from scratch today with solid technical skills but no ad budget, how would you land your first 5-10 international AI automation clients? Would you focus on cold email, LinkedIn, X, Loom videos, Upwork, partnerships, communities, content, or something else?

Hey everyone 👋 Started an AI automation agency in India a couple months back — learned mostly from US YouTube channels and how agencies operate there. Built a WhatsApp automation agent for real estate (instant lead qualification, property matching, site visit booking) — priced it at just ₹5,000/month (~$50), way cheaper than what I've seen locally. Went door-to-door to real estate consultants in my city. Got a lot of "we'll think about it," "too expensive," and "show us existing clients first." Pivoted to my personal network instead — landed one free-trial client who's actually 5x bigger than anyone I met cold. Also in talks with a used-tractor dealership getting 100+ WhatsApp inquiries a day. Here's my honest struggle: I'm confident in the building/product side — I'll happily spend hours perfecting the automation. But outreach is where I freeze. Just thinking about cold calls or walk-ins kills my confidence before I even start. Added pressure — I'm a fresh grad, and if I don't show real traction in the next 1-2 months, my parents want me to take a ₹10k job instead. I believe in this business. I just need to close 5 paying clients this month to prove it to myself (and them) — but I keep overthinking the "how" instead of just doing it. Would genuinely appreciate advice from people who've been through this exact wall — how did you push through the outreach fear in your early days? Any real, tactical advice welcome. Not looking for motivation quotes, just what actually worked for you. Thanks for reading this far 🙏

Hi all I've been struggling with client onboarding after they sign, and I know a lot of you have too. Client signs → you manually send welcome email, create their folder, log them in your sheet, schedule kickoff call. 45 minutes of admin. Every. Single. Time. Here's how I automated the whole thing for less than $10/m: 1. Client fills a Tally form after signing Name, email, company, service. One form. That fires everything. 2. GPT-4 sends a personalized welcome email Mentions their name and service. Sounds human. Sent via Gmail automatically. 3. Google Drive folder created instantly Named after their company. Shared with them automatically. 4. Google Sheets logs the new client Name, email, service, start date — added automatically to your CRM. 5. You get an instant notification So you always know when a new client is fully onboarded. Total cost: ~$8/m. Every client gets a 5-star experience from day one. If anything is unclear, let me know. Hope this helps you 🙏