For anyone doing cold outreach in Australia are you changing anything after the latest RBA increase? I’m mainly targeting real estate agents & agencies and wondering if owners are will become more cautious with spending or harder to close right now. I was planning to increase my outreach as from this week but now I'm unsure what to do. Would you just keep pushing as normal?

I audited an automation setup last month that was paying for 12 different AI subscriptions. It was an operational nightmare. They had 3 vector database tools, 2 AI writing apps, a scraper service, a video repurposer, and a separate webhook monitoring dashboard The founder was spending $650 a month on software. Yet every time an API key rotated or an endpoint changed its JSON payload, the entire client pipeline broke for 3 days The founder thought adding more software made the operation look advanced. In reality, they were just multiplying the surface area for failure. Every tool in a production stack is an ongoing operational liability: It requires error handling, authentication refreshes, and weekly monitoring. Amateurs collect tools. engineers strip away dependencies until there is nothing left to break. When I design a solo automation stack today, I limit myself to 3 load-bearing layers: - Deterministic routing: I use n8n for all triggers, webhook routing, and database writes. If a task has clear business rules, it belongs on a hardcoded track. I never split orchestration across multiple no-code tools - Model gateway: Instead of managing separate billing accounts and rate limits across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, I route all LLM traffic through openrouter or agent skills to Composio. 1 API key, 1 balance sheet, and automatic model failover when an endpoint goes down - Distribution hub: For social publishing and video clipping, I feed raw recordings straight into blotato. 1 tool handles vertical cuts, styled subtitles, and predefined calendar slots so I don't manage 4 separate social media dashboards That is the entire infrastructure. 3 dedicated tools replacing a fragile web of 12 disconnected subscriptions. My monthly software bill dropped from $650 to under $180, and weekend maintenance calls dropped to zero. How many software subscriptions are you currently paying for, and which one would actually stop your business if it went down tomorrow?

Good and attentive worker and common sense are most important but GHL, Ads manager (not ads, just navigation knowledge) and video editing are a big plus. I know that there's loads of GOOD VA's being let go because of shitty situations so I'm looking to rescue someone hard working and diligent person. What you get: Small team you'll be working with every day. Lot's of freedom but you have to keep up with the deadlines. We are growing day by day so this has lot's of opportunity. Hope this is ok to post (Haven't been active :))

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.

yoo, read @Dalle M's show rate thread from last week and it's been on my mind, because his reminders are already better than most and people still aren't turning up. My guess is every one of those texts talks at the lead and none of them asks for anything back. So I'd make the booking something they have to reply to. You can do it in GHL with what's already there: 1. In calendar settings, turn off auto-confirm. New bookings then land as unconfirmed. 2. Right after they book, send one text: "Hi {{contact.first_name}}, it's John. You're booked for [day, time] to go over [what they told you on the triage call]. Reply YES and I'll lock it in." 3. Set up a workflow on the Customer Replied trigger. If the reply has "yes" in it, update the appointment status to confirmed. 4. Anyone still unconfirmed the evening before gets a call from a real person. That's the call Thure and Ismail were talking about. 5. Keep booked, confirmed and showed as three separate numbers. If confirmed is low, the booking is the problem. If they confirm and still no-show, it's more likely the reminders or the lead. I'd get step 2 right before touching anything else. My bet is someone who's just read their own problem back turns up more often than someone who only got a time slot. Has anyone run reply-to-confirm and lost bookings from it? Wondering if it scares off the maybes