Kyle Thacker

Excited to see the community grow!

I do, I definitely take some weekends off but a few extra hours on the weekend can really set up my week for me. It's a bit of focus time. But also, absolutely take vacations and days off, it's all long term.

The new standard, again.

It's a lot of work! Congrats on pulling through it.

This makes getting started on sponsorships so much more approachable. We know how important working with content creators is but its such a leap to get started, this changes that. Excited to use the discovery tool! Congrats on the launch!

Really cool example of using AI to help small businesses. Love how it gets the momentum going so people can get started with something. Can’t wait to see what the team does next with this!

Accept that it takes time to find the right people, which means investing earlier in the process of finding talent. Write up great job descriptions, get them posted, but start searching for people immediately, don't sit back and wait. Keep the momentum going, if you know you're going to hire another role in 6 months, don't wait 6 months to start the process.

Mailchimp enters the no code website arena. It looks similar to their email builder so should be easy for people jumping between email to a website.

I think the bar has certainly raised. I'd look into the Kano model and see where your product fits, it could give some insight into where you're investing your time. The concept of an MLP, or Minimum Lovable Product, might also help you—it looks at what's the minimum expectations of your product to make your users love it.

Personally would be easier but professionally I feel would be really limiting growth. If your audience is on instagram or facebook, you're giving up potential followers/users/spokespeople for your brand—especially if you're just starting out.

Some insights I put together to help freelancers with their business. I wanted to touch on topics that others avoid, like the actual struggles of being alone while freelancing. Hopefully, there are some tidbits that help make a freelancer's life easier.

Think of free access as an acquisition cost, its not free to you. If the cost of offering it for free is greater than you're willing to spend to acquire the audience you're building, then its time to reconsider.

I design my week to suit myself and my work. Since building my own thing alongside a mix of freelancing, I don't think of weekends the same as I used to. It's more about maintaining progress and my happiness. If I need a break, then I take a break. If I want to work every day, I do that. So there isn't really a weekend as much anymore, its more about giving myself the time I need to feel good...

This looks driven by real user needs, understanding how instagram is actually used by people. Its really interesting from Instagram's side what types of integrations they decide to make available. On one side it would be nice to automatically publish the stories, but as a consumer I appreciate that it's actually more difficult to automate.