Congrats on the launch of LeadGeni.us guys! Looks great and is a awesome market fit. Best wishes moving forward!
LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
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Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#52Did you use service to find users for your service?
Joking aside, including Craigslist in the list of places from which you pull your potential users doesn't sound professional to me, especially in a list with others like LinkedIn; It makes the service sound like a web crawler that hits into lots of noise while trying to classify users.
Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#53Did you use service to find users for your service? Joking aside, including Craigslist in the list of places from which you pull your potential users doesn't sound professional to me, especially in a list with others like LinkedIn; It makes the service sound like a web crawler that hits into lots of noise while trying to classify users.
Haha, actually we do use our own service to find users. We eat our own dog food, yum...
That being said, we're pretty agnostic to the methods we use to source our leads. We find that different industries can have widely different lead generation methods that are most effective. The advantage to our service is that we can customize how we generate these leads. If Craigslist ends up being the best way, we'll use that, if it's a different method (LinkedIn for example) we'll use that method or any other method that works well.
Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#54I love this.
So I guess the one thing I would ask is if you guys would be interested in doing a % of sales deal, for startups that can't afford those high fees.
I would think that you could make even more than what you charge on a % basis - if you are confident in the leads you produce.
Just a thought.
I would take you up on that offer if you had that - for sure.
Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#55I was close to signing up, until I went to the about page; isn't this a pivot/spinoff from a VA service you guys launched several months ago. I tried that, and was not too impressed by the research. This seems like taking the VA system and just charging a lot more. I'm assuming that "Lead Geniuses" are non-usa based?
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#56Hey guys, co-founder of MobileWorks here. We were really inspired by the post from PG about acquiring users manually. We have done that before with the help of our crowd so it was a no-brainer to create this as a service. We have been testing this with a number of YC companies and the results have been phenomenal. We are happy to present it to the larger Hacker News community. Happy to answer any questions.
Question: do you use an offshore staff? If not, how can you charge only $3400/m for two dedicated team members? If so, clever!
Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#57I was close to signing up, until I went to the about page; isn't this a pivot/spinoff from a VA service you guys launched several months ago. I tried that, and was not too impressed by the research. This seems like taking the VA system and just charging a lot more. I'm assuming that "Lead Geniuses" are non-usa based?
We do have a VA service but with different crowd (these people are good at sales leads). The problem you didn't get good results was because general VAs aren't really an expert at sales leads and outreach. And that's the reason we have raised the prices because general VA prices won't work for sales and lead experts.
The LeadGeniuses are both US and non-US based. A general rule of thumb is that people who do outreach and interact with the client will have 1st language or bi-lingual proficiency in English, so a bunch of US based workers.
Why don't you send me an email at prayag [at] mobileworks [dot] com and I will be happy to explain more.
Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#58I love this. So I guess the one thing I would ask is if you guys would be interested in doing a % of sales deal, for startups that can't afford those high fees. I would think that you could make even more than what you charge on a % basis - if you are confident in the leads you produce. Just a thought. I would take you up on that offer if you had that - for sure.
Although this sounds like a decent idea, the challenge with it is that you're assuming a couple of things:
1) The start-up acquiring the lead list has the ability to progress the deals to closure.
2) The start-up acquiring the lead list is able to appropriately break-down their revenue in an easily audit-able/non-modifiable manner to demonstrate which $ came from the acquired lead list(s).
This type of thing may be an option for these guys going forward (once they figure out the kinks), but I think they're doing the right thing right now by charging up-front.
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#59We've been using another ex-YC company http://hiplead.com/ which uses more algorithms and less outsourcing, and they've totally kicked ass for us-- that screenshot on their homepage is from us. I'm ex-google eng and know my way around AdWords, and hiplead clobbered it.
I'm curious if anybody's tried both?
Re: LeadGeni.us: User acquisition as a service
#60We've been using another ex-YC company http://hiplead.com/ which uses more algorithms and less outsourcing, and they've totally kicked ass for us-- that screenshot on their homepage is from us. I'm ex-google eng and know my way around AdWords, and hiplead clobbered it. I'm curious if anybody's tried both?
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