How I Built a $5k/mo Side Project in 5 Months

I have really mixed feelings.<p>On one hand, I want to congratulate them on getting their dream....on the other hand, as someone who regularly has to tell the receptionist to screen my calls....<p>Yeah. This is really a tool to collect prospects to spam and cold call. I&#x27;m sure it will last the OP awhile, possibly it&#x27;ll be a project that survives forever with different data sources, but at the end of the day &quot;lead generation&quot; is really just a way to collect people&#x27;s information to pester them. This sort of marketing is, frankly, invasive and for every person you get from this...you&#x27;ve also likely convinced a dozen or more people never to have anything to do with you.

I found each point illuminating; this one stood out, for me, as a good description of market positioning: &quot;When you hear Volvo what comes to mind? Scandanavians, but more importantly you probably think “Safe car.” How about Honda? Odds are “Reliable car” came to mind. This is the basic idea of positioning. What comes to mind when people hear {company name}?&quot;

Congratulations, this is great.<p>&quot;Whether you’re working on a startup, side project or contributing to a larger company, the place where you work should be a place where you go to grow, interact with people, and have fun. It should never be a place where you derive unhealthy stress, anxiety or fear. &quot;<p>Good perspective as well, hopefully once your side project grows into a real company you&#x27;ll recall this line for your own employees.

Great read.<p>I found it very interesting in how this might scale for you. Is it possible to continuously source, say 2000 leads&#x2F;month for your clients?<p>Some further questions.<p>1. What process do you go through to both source the contacts, and to verify their quality (e.g UpWork team to scrape etc.)<p>2. Have you any feedback on how successful this has been for clients (e.g response rates)<p>Good luck with this, and really hope it works for you.

That whole post is duplicated about five times - in entirety - in various &lt;meta&gt; tags. Kinda weird.<p>The email he sent to the founder of Growth Geeks also appears to be missing (after this sentence: &quot;After receiving a couple marketing emails from the company I sent this email to the founder:&quot;)

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