Brian_Curliss

Very excited about the Multi-Step Zaps! I've spent the last 20 minutes updating all our Zaps to be more fruitful and have a bit more to continue. The workflow is clean, the experience is great, and value is clear. Thank you!

I remember this being something I saw people on hacker news asking about in 2012 :)

Gemnote looks a lot like MailLift (http://MailLift.com) out of 500Startups. Excited to see what happens next in the space :)

Is there any other sources confirming this?

Not sure how cyphunk got that idea. Looks pretty gender neutral to me.

CMD + F —> "Daniel"

If anyone has any idea how we can fix this, I'd love to not have to explain to all the investors/customers why I am messaging them pictures of cleavage..

Lol, it must be difficult being sued for $1.5bn in a $2.1bn industry. http://www.marketresearch.com/Marketdata-Enterprises-Inc-v41...

Salesforce1 is going to allow anyone (that they vet in their LONG process) to connect to their millions of sales professionals. They are leaving this open to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that interfaces with an API.

See TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/17/salesforce-com-launches-sal...

I look forward to Salesforce sending handwritten letters (http://maillift.com) and offering better mail options (http://lob.com). I’m pretty excited to see what comes of Salesforce1!!

Actually, they are more like MailLift for consumers :)

I'd love to see the stats after this page stays on HN for a bit. (ie., how many people make it the entire way through; how many people click "take action")

Flashback.

This happens way too much

How many people are doing this at once?

• We have a three person team.

Farming 100 leads by identifying possible companies and finding a good contact is about 10 hours of work for one person in my experience, if you are not working off of some sort of minimally qualified list.

• Yep! We are working off an extensive minimally qualified list.

Do you have 3+ people cranking on it?

• Correct again :)

Also, getting 23 answers out of a 100 calls sounds like a pipe dream unless you are calling very low into your target organizations. At a Director / VP Marketing level you'll be doing good to get 10 conversations in 100 calls.

• We haven't hit the hundred mark yet (as we just started this), but that looks like the number we are expecting. Maybe this is the "luck" part of startups? Over time, I see your point and it will make sense that the number evens out to a lower #

Basically, (human) individuals who sell by phone and normally do not leave the office..

(1) Our cold calls aren't completely cold. We dig/farm for people or businesses we honestly believe we can help! It's not too hard to find someone losing out on links or driving traffic away from their site who we can help.

(2) Each call is a learning experience (ref: lean startup?). We are not pressing for sales (as you may infer from our pipeline at the bottom of the article), but looking for their pain... setting up a demo (hopefully)... then selling if there is a GOLDEN fit.

(3) On a avg size bed with the A/C on 68F ;)

Thanks for the feedback! We will spin up some copy on why the classic BMC for a SaaS model

Try out the free copy (it's just a tweet). I'd love your feedback!!

Thanks for the feedback. I will get some more details up soon, and have a free option too (if you tweet). Price has been lowered to $10 :)

That's all I do. If you have a simple and useful idea that's not too complicated, it is totally worth going for.

Tip: document everything. Document so well anyone can run your 'micro startup'. You never know when you will get a new idea and want to hire someone to take over your company.

A Steve Jobs quote? It sounds oddly familiar... either way, made my day!

Thanks for the feedback!

Short Answer: It works by connecting with your current retargeting software, 'spidering' through your campaigns and suggests improvements using predictive analysis to make you more sales. Like a well prepared audit, you receive actionable improvements with implementation walkthroughs.

Thank you! I was just searching for a Google Reader alternative.

Any thoughts?

Total smokescreen, but definitely about to build this out!

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Adrian, If you receive too many offers, and I hope you do, please pass a few over to me :)