James Hanzimanolis

Co-founder @ Erudite | Organic Content Marketing

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@narayananh Amon Amarth!!!

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Clients like this make selling so much easier. We work like crazy for Chris [last name anonymous].

Prospect wanted a couple references. This is what he said.

Absolutely love to see it.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

This is ridiculous.

Yes, go all-in.

"Find an hour each day to grow a side project"

Building a business takes way more than 1-hour per day.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

Please don't quit your job and go "all in".

Find an hour each day to grow a side project.

Replace 60% of your current income while trending in the right direction.

Then make your move. Almost always a better decision.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

I know it's 'lame' to bash competitors, but these guys are the worst. And I have a stack of receipts to prove it.

TLDR
They takeover your account, 'write' 40 generic AI-written sloppies each month, and plug their sponsors into your posts as advertisements. This is a 10 y/o, 120-person company btw.

[THE FULL STORY]
In the past year, I've met with 3 of their clients (all of which are sales leaders). And every time, it was the same sh*t.

"If you're a CRO at [REDACTED FINTECH], why do they have you posting this random article talking about insurance?"

It was a pattern. All of Qnary's clients were all writing the same thing and posting the same links.

If you don't believe me, look up the folks who left testimonials on their site. Go through their posts.

Bizarre.

This isn't what hiring a ghostwriter should feel like. You want someone who understands your domain of expertise and can magically drive impressions and $$$...

If the content is driving anything meaningful, then what's the point?

And for the record, this isn't a cheap-shot attempt from me to win their customers over. So if this post turned you off, Tommy Clark, Finn Thormeier, and Nate Zroh are all stellar writers, too.

But please, don't work with this company.

Rant over
🎤🤚

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@goo_vision This has @thefinnmckenty written all over it

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Palmer Luckey's genetically modified military dog startup, Warhound, comes out of stealth, aiming to create enhanced canines for the U.S. military.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@WrongsToWrite Absolutely not. Just means you’re locked in

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@lporiginalg If more of us were this picky, the divorce rate wouldn't be 50%

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@DefiantLs wait a second that kinda looks like....???

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Might be crazy to post it on LinkedIn, but he's not wrong.

[Chris Balestras @gtmba_]

alright this is getting out of hand

what are we doing here guys

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Any fonts made before 1966 were done by hand. This goes for movie posters, ads, magazine covers; you name it. Nearly all these fonts have been forgotten about and were never turned into digital fonts.

This means they are unavailable.

So I'm launching a side project: Typeface Revival

I've brought back 129 fonts so far. And I'll be bringing back many, many more.

Free for everyone: https://t.co/hd8bMiKwUY

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Lead: "I can train GPT to do it"
GPT:

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@storeycopy Amen!!!

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Babies are a beautiful gift.

"I'm sorry" is a disgusting response to this.

Should be celebrating.

[Stone Oreye @stoneoreye]

Just look at the Nurse’s face

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

AI is reaaaaally bad at writing. And it always will be.

You could feed AI every piece of Shakespeare and it wouldn't be able to produce anything remotely good.

Hard stop.

Sure, they've gotten a lot better. Especially when Astra dropped.

However...

We have the data that proves it still sucks.

Some of the startups we work with are on a low-retainer plan where 100% of their content is produced through our agents (they are aware of this btw).

Despite 200+ hours of building frameworks, testing LLMs, harnessing, prompting, etc.

Feeding it loads of skills and .md files.

Despite the effort, the content produced through our agents generate 85% LESS impressions than hand written pieces. Even with manual changes.

This is the different between 1M impressions & 150K impressions per month on LI.

So, if someone wants to build a content agent... we don't stop them.

Try it.

Half-assed content.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

@stoneoreye Babies are a beautiful gift.

"I'm sorry" is a disgusting response to this.

Should be celebrating.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Agency is doing better than ever.

My income from Erudite has officially exceeded my highest-paid years in tech sales.

Wife and I got a new car today.

New crib for the baby.

Life is good.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

https://t.co/ocgNVYCwC1

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

Ever since I was a child, I’ve been obsessed with type.

I’d go through my dad’s library just to stare at the covers. I’d trace the letters on my VHS tapes.

That’s why I’m launching Typeface Revival: bringing forgotten lettering from ads, old books, films, and posters back to life as usable fonts.

Beautiful work, drawn by artists decades ago, deserves to be seen and used again.

100% free. Link below.

[James Hanzimanolis @HyperSalesman]

My wife went on LinkedIn for the first time in 8 months:

"It's just a bunch of people talking about the same things. I don't understand how you could spend so much time on it. Adam Robinson is kind of cool but I don't even like reading his stuff."