met a guy making $51,000/month by scraping reddit for the phrase "anyone got recommendations for" and emailing the posters within 2 hours
not joking
he opens reddit every morning
runs a search on 8 subreddits in his niche
finds people who just publicly asked for exactly what he sells
and emails them while the post is still on the front page
reply rate: 23%
average cold email: 0.3%
his is 76x higher
because these people literally just raised their hand in public saying "please take my money"
heres the exact phrases he searches every morning:
"anyone got recommendations for [service]"
"alternative to [competitor]"
"looking for a good [service]"
"got burned by [company], where do i go now"
"has anyone used [company] — are they worth it"
every one of these is a public declaration of buying intent with a timestamp on it
someone posted this 4 hours ago in r/[niche]:
"I need [service] urgently. Budget is $15K. Prefer someone who actually knows what theyre doing and isnt sketchy"
he saw the post at 9am
pulled the username
cross referenced linkedin
found the email
sent this at 10am:
"hey [name], saw your post in r/[sub] about needing [service] urgently. we do exactly that — last client we booked 34 qualified calls in a month. free 15 min call?"
reply at 10:11am
call at 2pm
signed $15K contract by 4pm
7 hours from public reddit post to signed deal
from reading reddit in the morning
this is the process:
step 1: find the 5-10 subreddits where your buyers hang out
step 2: run searches for "recommendation" "alternative to" "looking for" "anyone use" in those subreddits every morning
step 3: filter for posts under 4 hours old with clear buying intent
step 4: pull the username → cross reference linkedin → find their email
step 5: send a 2 line email referencing their EXACT post
step 6: warm call every positive reply within 30 minutes
thats it
last month:
- 187 reddit posts scraped
- 164 emails found (90% find rate)
- 38 positive replies
- 24 booked calls
- 11 closes
- $4,600 average deal
- $50,600 in revenue
from reading reddit while eating breakfast
heres why this layers perfectly on top of a normal cold email system:
your main campaigns are emailing 4,500 cold leads a day building pipeline at scale
reddit is a surgical strike on top of that
the guy on reddit literally JUST declared their problem hours ago
the declaration is the qualifier
theres no discovering pain points
they posted the problem
you showed up with the solution
the sales conversation is already 90% done before the call starts
its the highest intent cold email you can send because it might not even feel cold
they had the problem at 9am
you showed up at 10am
thats not a cold email thats a well timed introduction
and heres the part that should make every cold emailer sick:
every single person on this app is scraping apollo fighting over the same 50 million contacts
meanwhile reddit has 500 million monthly users posting their exact buying requests in public
timestamped
organised by niche
completely uncontested
free
nobody in cold email is scraping reddit
because nobody thinks of reddit as a lead source
they think of it as a place to post memes
while angry buyers are literally typing their credit card out loud every single day
one of the most profitable lead source on the internet has been sitting there for 15 years
organising itself
timestamping itself
qualifying itself
telling you their budget
telling you their pain
telling you what they just got burned by
and agency owners are still writing "hey firstname hope this finds you well" to marketing directors on apollo
go open reddit
search one of those phrases in a subreddit in your niche
youll find 10 hand raisers before your coffee gets cold
simples
p.s. if youre an agency owner with a proven offer and want us to setup a cold email system that books you 10-30 calls per month - DM me "EMAIL"
(you ONLY pay for qualified calls actually booked onto your calendar)
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An MIT professor cracked the code on "How to Speak and gave a legendary 1-hour lecture on it.
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A therapist who spent 40 years counseling couples on the brink of divorce wrote down the one conversation she wishes every couple would have before they get married.
She said: "If you have this conversation honestly, you will either save yourself decades of pain or build a foundation that can survive anything."
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drop a light background noise layer under your voiceover. coffee shop, room tone, street ambience. ai voices sound fake because the audio is too clean
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Your best ideas will never come from trying to have them.
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go to reddit.
find 3-5 subreddits where your target audience hangs out.
sort by top posts of all time. screenshot the top 20.
for each post, note:
• the hook
• the structure
• what made people comment
now rewrite the best ones for X or LinkedIn. same angle. same structure. your voice and your offer.
why start from scratch when someone already tested it for you?
YouTube just released one of the coolest updates I’ve seen in years.
It’s called Ask Studio, an AI built directly into YouTube Studio that can analyze your entire channel and answer the questions creators normally spend hours digging for.
Questions like:
• Why didn’t my last video perform?
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I used to make huge spreadsheets and multi-tab models just to get directional answers. Now? I ask a single question and get a clear, accurate breakdown in seconds.
What makes this different from every other “AI for creators” tool is the context.
Ask Studio understands comments, viewing patterns, and the nuances of what works (and doesn’t work) on YouTube. The recommendations feel surprisingly human, not generic.
It even interprets misleading analytics. For example, a video with a high CTR but poor performance doesn’t confuse it. It cuts straight to the actual reason.
I’ve already added it to my daily workflow, and honestly, every creator should be using this. The more you understand your channel, the faster you grow.
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So here are 10 prompts that have transformed my day-to-day life and that could do the same for you.
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