Mohamed Aqib

Full Stack Info Marketing/Backend

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@delancs I litrelly know someone who lives in a 3bed house with latest tech and gets money from the govt

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@delancs impressive. Is it like an ebook or a program?

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@justineliaa Can't agree more

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@justineliaa Finally someone said it

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@marcodendis Even tho he said the last one would be the final but still more and more people every batch

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@justineliaa Exactly right RIP

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@scalewebinars G move

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@delancs Most people here show their ARR without counting churn and think they are Elon musk.

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

BULLSHIT if you just have a basic foundation + backend. Nothing is better than ads they are easier and faster

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I'll die on this hill...

There is absolutely no reason you should touch paid ads until you're doing $5 to $10 million in revenue.

Learn how to create demand organically through content, partnerships, and outreach first. That's enough to take you to that 5-10M mark. Then once that engine is running, layer ads on top.

If you do it the other way around you risk getting eaten up by rising ad costs before your margins can absorb it.

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@delancs Faster too

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@siggyfoss Software and ECOM they are all exit models. For cashflow nothing is better than info.

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

most of your revenue leak isn't a traffic problem. it's a handoff problem.

here's the thing nobody selling "growth" wants to say out loud:

you can 3x someone's lead flow and their monthly revenue barely moves. i've watched it happen. more leads just means more leads falling through the exact same hole.

the hole is almost never where people look.

it's not the ad creative. it's not the hook rate. it's not "the algorithm."

it's the gap between a lead getting captured and a lead getting a real human follow-up. that gap is where deals go to die quietly, with no dramatic failure, no red flag, nothing that shows up in a screenshot.

i worked a case where the client was sitting at $35k/month with decent lead flow already coming in. we didn't touch their ad spend. didn't touch their content. didn't add a single new traffic source.

what we did:

rebuilt the offer around their strongest actual customer outcome, because the positioning was vague enough that leads didn't know what they were buying before the call.

installed a real setter/closer split with defined handoff criteria, so leads weren't sitting in a shared inbox waiting for whoever happened to check it.

built tracking on show rate and close rate specifically, because before this there was no visibility into where people were dropping off. you can't fix a leak you can't see.

added structured follow-up for the leads that ghosted the first touch, since most of them weren't gone, they were just never followed up with a second time.

same audience. same traffic. same content cadence. $35k became $60-70k/month.

the lead flow was never the ceiling. the system behind it was.

here's the mechanism if you want it in one sentence: a CRM without a defined setter-to-closer handoff loses leads silently. it doesn't show up as a crash. it shows up as a slow drift down in show rate that's easy to miss unless you're actually tracking it week over week.

most creators check their view count every day and their close rate never.

that's backwards. views are the vanity metric the second your offer crosses four figures. show rate and close rate are the actual P&L.

the uncomfortable part: fixing this is less exciting than "going viral" or "10x-ing your reach." nobody wants to hear that their bottleneck is a spreadsheet nobody's tracking and a handoff nobody defined. it's not a sexy problem. it's just the real one.

if you've got real lead flow already and your revenue has been flat for a few months despite it, the traffic isn't lying to you. the machine behind the traffic is.

go look at your show rate before you spend another dollar on getting more people into the top of the funnel. you might not have a lead problem. you might have a leak.

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@jonesnylander True af

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@jonesnylander Seems like a good strategy

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

"value" content stopped working the day everyone got claude

anyone can generate a 7-step guide in 10 seconds now. that used to be an entire business model for half the people in this space

so posting value first isn't building trust anymore, it's proving you're replaceable by a chatbot

what actually moves someone from scrolling to booking a call:

proof you've actually done the thing. not "here's how to grow," but "here's what happened when i did it." screenshots, real numbers, real outcomes people can't generate with a prompt

and personality. nobody hires a faceless framework. they hire the person who clearly isn't bullshitting them, whose take they've been reading for months, who feels like a real operator and not a content farm

value still matters. it's just the dessert, not the meal. you earn the right to teach once someone already believes you're good at the thing and real about how you got there

skip straight to value and you're just an unpaid intern for people's chatgpt tabs

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

If you are doing less than $20k/m with you info offer there's something wrong in your system or you are just retarded

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

most revenue leaks don't announce themselves

your show rate doesn't crash overnight

it drifts. a few points a week. easy to miss when nobody's tracking it against a real baseline

meanwhile there's no defined handoff between setter and closer in the CRM

lead gets booked, sits in a stage nobody owns, follow-up never happens because follow-up was never assigned to anyone

by the time you notice the drift you've been bleeding booked calls for weeks

the leak was never the traffic

it was the seam between two people who both assumed the other had it

fix the handoff before you spend another dollar on lead gen

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

you're paying an agency $5k/m to a content agency to edit reels.

views are not your problem. Your backend is.

$50k/mo, they land you 2 buyers cause of views at $5k. congrats, $60k.

fix show rate instead. same leads, same views. 20% to 40%.

$100k. off leads you already paid for.

stop funding editors. fix the leak.

[Mohamed Aqib @aqibx0]

@scalewebinars Organic Foundation + Ads on top = Killer 🔥