I Made $1K MRR From a Database Jay Called "Garbage" (And AI Didn't Do The Hard Part)
Jay just turned his phone off for the weekend on Friday, and I need to tell you something before he turns it back on. First time in four months, his phone is off and he told the team not to email him until he decides to check back in. He'll still be active here on Skool but he's decompressing after a full sprint of building AiA's. I ran an experiment starting this month: Grabbed one of Jay's old databases scraped from Instagram in 2023. Jay โ "Ian, don't touch these, they're garbage. My students have been putting this list on blast for years." Me โ "I bet I can take what I've learned and still get it to work." Game Plan: I took a list of about 10 million contacts scraped in 2023 from Instagram. Picked a random niche. Sorted the contacts through Google Cloud computer using Google Drive links. Down to 30k contacts. Verified for $50. Resulted in 15k verified list. Then I used Jay's foot-in-the-door offer method to write the first campaign. Used my Dyslexic Copywriter Style for the first 3 emails. Reply to every opt-in with a super simple lead magnet. Automate offer and sales. What happened in 2 weeks: 4,224 emails sent 125 replies 21 opportunities 6 customers One new paying customer every other day. From a trash database. Zero sales calls - just a free Google ranking report and the reciprocity framework. Pacing to $1,000+ MRR in month one. Haven't even tested it in niches where I know it works. Here's what most people in this community are missing: AI automation is sexy. Everyone wants to talk about N8N, Claude, and building workflows. But here's the problem: You need conversations with prospects before you have anything to automate. AI Automation Insiders taught me HOW to automate everything. The fulfillment, the follow-ups, the systems that run while I sleep. But LeadGenJay Insiders taught me WHO to talk to and WHAT to say to actually start those conversations. How to set up infrastructure to get my message in front of my ICP. How to write campaigns that actually convert.