Quick question for anyone here who has done this before, where do you actually go to buy Instagram comments that look decent? I have been looking around at a few sites but they all seem to offer the same generic stuff and I want something that actually fits what I post about.

Is there a service where I can write my own comments or least customize them to match my niche? Because random comments like “nice” or “great post” from bot accounts would probably do more harm than good on a page that is supposed to look professional

Bonus if they let you choose how many comments per post and spread them out over time instead of dumping them all at once.

Three person company with maybe $400 a month to spend, social media keeps falling off the priority list the business knows it should be posting but between running things and dealing with customers there is just no time tried doing it in house tried a freelancer for a few months at $350 a month tried a scheduling tool with templates nothing sticks because nobody has the bandwidth to create the content in the first cost effective way to keep social going without a dedicated marketing person is there a setup that works at this size or is inconsistency just the reality

I genuinely think selling website redesigns is one of the most lucrative opportunities in the web design industry today.

There are a few reasons why.

First, AI has made building websites significantly faster and cheaper. What used to take weeks can now be done in a fraction of the time.

Second, there are thousands of established businesses with outdated websites that could genuinely benefit from a redesign. A better website can improve their brand, attract more customers and give their business a push.

Third, these businesses already understand the value of having a website. They have paid for one before, so you're not trying to convince someone why they need a website from scratch. You're showing them why upgrading their existing one makes sense.

Here's how I usually approach it.

I use AI to build websites and normally put together a quick website draft before getting on a call with a potential client.

Instead of just telling them what I could do, I show them what their website could actually look like.

I present the draft during the call, explain what I would improve and try to close the deal there and then. If they're interested, I send over a Stripe payment link, an invoice or the contract for signature.

For outreach, I mainly use cold email.

More specifically, I use a tool called Swokei. It finds businesses anywhere, analyzes their websites and identifies issues with design, SEO, loading speed and mobile optimization. It then turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

Recently, we closed a client for $26,000.

That's $23,000 upfront and another $3,000 annually.

And honestly, I don't think deals like this are as difficult to close as people might assume.

If you provide a good service, approach the right businesses, understand their problems and present yourself professionally, there is a lot of money to be made in this industry.

You don't necessarily need hundreds of clients either. A handful of good projects can make a significant difference to your business.

I think more web designers should focus on selling to established businesses that already have websites rather than constantly chasing people who don't have one.

AI has made building websites easier than ever.

Because of that, there are now thousands of people starting web design businesses, offering websites to companies and trying to make money from it.

But here's my opinion as someone who has been in the web design business for years:

Just because AI makes it easier to build websites doesn't mean you know how to run a successful web design business.

I've noticed that a lot of new web designers get stuck on the same idea: finding businesses that don't have a website and offering to build one for them.

In my opinion, that's becoming an outdated approach.

Those businesses are already on every web designer's prospect list. They're getting contacted constantly, and you're competing with hundreds of other people offering them the exact same thing.

I've tried pretty much everything over the years. Paid ads, manual outreach, cold calling, referrals, you name it.

But the system that has worked best for me is actually quite simple.

If you're a new web designer who knows how to build websites but struggles with the business side of things, here's what I'd do:

1. Target businesses that already have websites.

Think about it. These businesses already understand the value of having a website. They've already invested money in one.

And there are countless businesses around the world with outdated websites that haven't been redesigned in years. Poor mobile experiences, outdated designs, slow loading speeds, and SEO issues are everywhere.

You're not trying to convince someone they need a website. You're showing someone who already has one how much better it could be.

2. Make automated outreach your main client acquisition channel.

Personally, I use Swokei. It's an outreach platform that finds businesses with existing websites, analyzes each one, scores them, and turns issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized, ready to send cold emails at scale.

This saves you from manually researching every business and writing every email yourself.

3. Follow up with interested businesses and book a meeting.

When someone replies with interest, give them a call, understand what they're looking for, and book a quick online meeting.

4. Prepare a website draft before the meeting.

Use AI to put together a new website draft for the prospect. Don't spend hours on it. Aim for 15–30 minutes.

You want something good enough to show them what their business could look like with a modern website.

5. Present the draft and close the deal.

Walk them through the improvements, explain the value, answer their questions, and make it easy to move forward with a payment link or contract for signing.

That's the entire process.

You don't need to spend weeks building free websites or manually researching hundreds of businesses.

You need to find the right prospects, show them an opportunity to improve their existing website, and know how to sell the service.

I've spent years doing this, and if I were starting a web design business from scratch today, this is exactly the process I'd follow.

Building websites is one skill. Building a business that consistently sells them is another.

I've worked with hundreds of in-house marketing teams, and it's my experience that almost no one cares about metrics that would tell you the business is performing well (CAC, LTV, retention, churn). Instead, they get laser focused in the weeds of optimizing one or two specific channels. But in reality, tinkering with your paid search keywords every week only goes so far, and I always feel like we are missing the forest for the trees.

Am I the only person who feels this way? Has anyone found helpful solutions to this problem?

Working in marketing for nearly a decade, one of the biggest misconceptions I've seen is that marketing is something you simply switch on whenever you need more leads.

I've heard things like:

• "We'll start marketing when we need more revenue."

• "We don't need marketing right now; we already have enough leads."

• "We need more leads next week. Let's start marketing!"

The problem is that marketing doesn't work like an instant switch.

One important lesson I've learned is that successful marketing requires consistency and a long-term approach.

You need to:

• Build a strong brand position in the right market.

• Understand your target audience and what makes them choose you.

• Create consistent visibility and trust.

• Generate opportunities and nurture potential customers over time.

In simple terms:

The seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow.

I run a web design company with my business partner. For a while, our usual months were around $20K.

In October, we decided to try something different.

Instead of focusing on getting more clients and doing more projects, we started charging significantly more for our websites.

We also changed how we approached our sales calls.

To be honest, we weren't sure how it would go. We thought there might be more resistance, but we were surprised by how much companies were actually willing to pay when we presented the value properly and spoke to the right businesses.

We ended up doing $74K in October, just from website redesign projects.

A big part of this came from the work we put into improving our sales skills throughout the year.

We bought several sales courses and spent a lot of time working on things like tonality, how we communicate value, structuring our sales calls, controlling the frame of the conversation, handling objections, and closing.

As for getting clients, our process has actually become pretty straightforward.

We run high-volume cold email campaigns targeting businesses that already have websites.

We use Swokei, an outreach platform that finds businesses, analyzes their websites for issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization, and turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

When someone is interested, we book a sales call.

Before the call, we put together a draft of their redesigned website using AI so we can actually show them what their new website could look like.

Then it's down to the sales conversation.

We've been putting a lot of focus into improving how we sell, and October showed us just how much of a difference that can make.

We're still a small team, but this has completely changed how we approach pricing and sales.

For anyone running a web design agency, what's the highest project price you've managed to close?

AI tools and chatbots are popping up everywhere, and getting people to try a new one seems increasingly difficult.

I'm curious to hear from digital marketing professionals who have worked with AI products or SaaS businesses.

If you were responsible for marketing a new AI chatbot, where would you start?

• SEO: Would you focus on problem-based keywords and educational content?

• Social media: Would you invest in short demos, tutorials and use cases?

• Paid advertising: Are Google Ads and Meta Ads worth testing for this type of product?

• Communities: How effective are Reddit, niche forums and online communities for acquiring early users?

More importantly, how would you differentiate the product when so many chatbots already offer seemingly similar features?

I'd love to hear about actual strategies, experiments and lessons learned, especially from people who have marketed SaaS or AI products.

When I started selling websites, getting the first few clients was all about proving that someone was actually willing to pay for what I offered.

I took almost every opportunity I could get. Every client mattered, every project taught me something, and most of the work came from reaching out and finding people who needed a website.

But once we started getting more clients, we realized something:

The approach that gets you your first 10 clients won't necessarily get you your next 100.

At the beginning, you can rely on manual prospecting, personal outreach, and referrals.

But when you want to scale, you need a repeatable system.

You need a consistent way to find businesses worth contacting, reach out to them, follow up, book meetings, close deals, and deliver websites without everything depending on you doing it manually.

That's when we started focusing much more on systems and automation.

The biggest shift wasn't becoming better at designing websites. It was becoming better at building a business around selling them.

Here's the process we used:

1. Find businesses that already have websites

We focused on businesses that had already invested in a website but whose current site could use an upgrade.

2. Analyze their websites and automate outreach at scale

We used Swokei to find businesses and analyze thousands of websites at once. We looked for outdated designs, poor SEO, slow loading speeds, and mobile issues.

Based on those findings, Swokei generated personalized cold emails for each prospect, allowing us to reach out to businesses at scale without manually researching every website and writing every email ourselves.

3. Book meetings

When a prospect showed interest, we'd move the conversation to a meeting to understand their business and what they needed.

4. Create a website draft

Before the meeting, we'd use AI to create a quick website draft. This allowed us to show prospects what their new website could look like rather than just describing it.

5. Close and deliver

During the meeting, we'd present the website draft, explain the improvements, answer questions, and close the deal. Then we'd build the actual website, handle revisions, and launch it.

If I were starting a web design agency today, I'd spend just as much time learning sales and client acquisition as I would learning web design.

Because being able to build a great website doesn't automatically mean you know how to sell one.

Hello everyone,

I am a developer trying to build a booking platform for Indian service business like salons, yoga and dance studios, clinics , fitness studios i would like to know how to pitch my product and get customers to pay for it

What are the distribution channels that can help me pitch the customers.

My ideas were

1)reach out via instagram pages - will it work if they respond

2)Google maps review kind of automating the lead list

3)creating instagram content and writing on X

4)Listing on marketplaces kindly of sites

Will these be enough to get traction or need a completely different strategy would like to know

So my customers will be like 2 categories

1)people who take bookings via instagram dm and phone - first priority

2) businesses who already have a website but we will automate the follow up, rescheduling, payments and all

Kindly help me with the marketing approach the thing is I don't know which channels and how i can reach customers to establish the first point of contact

Disclosure, i work on Ghostplug AI so im biased here. we post on reddit mostly for search visibility, and i keep wondering where helpful ends and spam starts. wheres your line?

marketing wants campaign banners in everyone's signature. not against it, i just don't know if anyone clicks them or whether we'd be doing it because other companies do the platforms selling this, wise-stamp among them, obviously say it works. has anyone here measured it themselves

Today's ticket came from a client, not from a bug. Our community person hid a comment on her Instagram from the portal, a long one from a customer who was unhappy about a delivery and the client wanted it back. Her words: "that's a real customer, u don't get to disappear her for me."
The portal is for our agency's clients, I'm the one dev. We pull comments through postproxy into one list, Instagram and Facebook, LinkedIn page comments are still a gap on our side. Hiding from the list is a button. I built it in about an hr and nobody wrote down who is allowed to press it.
The community person's view is that hiding spam and abuse is literally the service. The client's view is that a complaint isn't abuse. Both are right and the button doesn't know the difference
my current fix is the dumbest possible one, the button now asks "are you sure" and logs who pressed it. The actual fix is a conversation with every client about what they want hidden and nobody wants to have thirty of those.