Ankit Patel

Salesforge 🔥

Tech Ninja

Supergrow

Growth Marketer

Pony Express

Customer Success @taplio @tweethunter

Applied AI Consulting (AAIC)

Marketing Executive

Experiment 27: Marketing for Mobile App Development Agencies

Working on the content stretagy, Content creation, Social media marketing for Alex Berman's youtube channel.

- Responsible for suggesting content ideas
- Creating a blueprint for the content in the video
- Repurposing the content to fit other social platforms
- Creating blog content from the videos
- Helping with the editing process to improve the output

Digital Marketing Executive

GoldenGate Technolabs

Building relations with Teams around the world to deliver the best web and mobile development solution. 
Always working to create long-time trust by delivering reliable services.
From idea to implementation to delivery, Provide support and advice for achieving the best results. 

My key achievements at the firm:-

** Initiated changes to expand services in the mobile development industry
** Contributed and pushed for changes in marketing plans of the firm
** Strong advocate of remote work and flexible timing (Once the employee have shown the ability to deliver results without monitoring)

About Goldengate Technolabs:-

One of the fastest-growing IT firms in India, With a Great reputation in the industry for delivering quality solutions. 

Technology stack :
For web: WordPress, PHP, PHP frameworks, .NET, Python, Java
For mobile: Android, iOS native development as well as Hybrid development for support in both platforms

Business Development Executive

VNurture Technologies

- Android front-end development to build client side and team side user interface
- Develop web pages with functionalities like login, register, forget password, Email, Filters using
JavaScript, JQuery and HTML.
- Used JavaScript and XML to update a portion of a web page thus reducing bandwidth usage and load
time and add modal dialog in web pages to get user input and requests.
- Responsible for content and UI development.
- Designed dynamic client-side JavaScript codes to build web forms and simulate process for the web
application, page navigation, and form validation. Gathered data from API via AJAX-JSON calls and
updating the DOM.

Android development - Project work

Growth @Supergrow.ai | Helping every day creators level up on LinkedIn

I generate leads for B2B business on LinkedIn.

Customer Support @Taplio and @Tweet Hunter.

Daniel Deaconu

TheSimplifier

Positioning and messaging consultant for early stage tech companies.

Founder

HiveKeepers

My role is to drive global awareness, scale adoption, define the go-to-market strategy, and turn that strategy into action.

Growth Advisor

TechBolide

Business Development Manager

Key achievements:
•	Developed a trading strategy that generates a 40% increase in profits on a yearly basis.

Key Responsibilities:
•	Operated various software applications and apply knowledge of the forex market in order to successfully trade throughout each session;
•	Managed the risk associated with forex trading – very strict money management rules.

Forex Trader 

Apiary Book

Key Achievements:
• Increased the company's turnover by 400% in the first 6 months

Key Responsibilities:
• Create the business development strategy;
• Open new business verticals;
• Find new clients and partners;
• Negotiate contracts;
• Pinpoint growth drivers that will help the business grow;
• Perform market research to identify new business opportunities, new strategic partnerships, and establish strategies for pursuing those new opportunities;
• Network with new potential clients, investors, and other business partners to generate new leads;
• Assemble all presentation materials and maintain all business development materials.

Key Achievements:
•	Over 300.000 Euro attracted for multiple startups in the middle of the pandemic;
•	Helped a startup win one of the most prestigious Tech Accelerators from SEE;
•	Helped a startup sign a POC with the biggest commercial bank in Romania.

Key Responsibilities:
•	Participating at online technology events and scouting for the most promising technology startups;
•	Approached startup founders via cold calling and cold emailing to sign the advisory contract;
•	Assessed the startup needs to be based on their growth objective, find the best match with investors; 
•	Built all the presentation materials (pitch deck, business plan, financial projections, etc.);
•	Approached investors via cold calling and cold emailing in order to attract the funds;
•	Lead generation – helping startups find clients for their products/services;
•	Monitored competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new services, and delivery schedules;
•	Translated the most complex technologies and concepts into a form easily understood by the startup’s customers.

Startup Advisor | Sales Consultant

Key Achievements:
•	Trained 58 participants, divided into 9 MasterMind groups, on sales development skills, sales strategies, and sales campaigns implementation.

Key Responsibilities:
•	Lead generation – organized online and offline events to promote the MasterMind concept;
•	Assessed the participant’s needs and formed the MasterMind groups based on interests:
•	Facilitated meetings and ensured the optimal exchange of information between participants.

Co-Founder - MasterMind Club

Curatenie Profi

Key Achievements:
•	Presence in 7 major cities in Romania
•	Managed over 300 corporate clients
•	Led over 50 employees
•	Successful exit in 2019

Key Responsibilities:
•	Oversaw all operations and business activity to ensure the desired results and performances;
•	Developed high-quality business strategies, ensuring their alignment with the long term objectives;
•	Negotiated terms of business acquisitions to increase business base, solidify market presence;
•	Oversaw executive leadership, employee training, and relations with key customers;
•	Established and managed the annual budget with effective controls to prevent overages, minimizing burn rate, and support sustainability objectives.

Founder & CEO 

The Simplifier | Simplify your message — Amplify your impact | SaaS/B2B Founders: Get your Message Market Fit — Turn tech jargon into clients

Hi, I'm Daniel, The Simplifier :)

If your message is lost in translation, I'm the one who makes it understandable, relatable, and memorable. I rewrite confusing landing pages into understandable ones, with clear positioning and messaging that clicks with the right audience.

I work with founders who struggle to explain their products due to complex or confusing messaging. This is especially painful when a valuable product can't scale because the audience doesn't understand it.




𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦:
SaaS — fastn, vloxq, Wellnessentially, TED Data, Wellview Solutions, Apiary Book, TechBolide
B2B — Witanalytica, Meaningfy

Work with me - https://calendly.com/thesimplifier/30min

Marketing consultant and brand message strategist for SaaS and B2B companies across various industries, with revenues ranging between 100k Euro and 2M Euro.

A founder told me our services are too expensive. He decided to hire someone on Fiverr and pay them a lot less to write some texts for LinkedIn.

But then I went on his profile and saw his last post. It starts with:
"In today's world, integrating AI solutions seamlessly into your workflows is no longer optional—it's critical."

The Simplifier | 1-hour session = 1 month of LinkedIn content | Grateful father of 3 daughters 🙂 | 800+ consecutive days of running

Your story is your content. Not just "how it started."
Your story is what you do every day with your clients, with your team, and with your partners, what you learned last week, or what problem you solved yesterday.

Last week at the Tekpon AI Summit, I shared how you can use your founder story to build your personal brand on LinkedIn. 

Thank you, Alexandru Stan and Cristian Dina, for having me, and congrats on everything you're building with Tekpon! I'm so proud of you and so happy for your success  (I'm one of the few who actually know how hard you worked to achieve it)!

I know "personal brand" has become a buzzword, and everyone throws it around.

But what does it actually mean?

It means your reputation. What people say about you when you're not in the room, and how they perceive you before they ever meet you.

The personal brand is separate from the company brand, and it's what makes people want to work with YOU specifically.

Founder-led marketing is more trusted than the company marketing and offers a strong reason for people to choose your product over a competitor with a similar product.

People buy from people they trust. And trust comes from seeing how you actually think, not from reading what AI believes you should say.

More and more founders want to fully automate content creation because they believe it's faster, cheaper, and easier.

But content is the one thing that gives you the chance to show people how you think.

When you fully outsource your writing to ChatGPT, your content becomes unremarkable, unnatural, and has no voice. Because AI is great for research and generating ideas, but it's terrible at capturing YOUR voice.

When you fully automate content, you're missing a huge opportunity to connect with your audience.

Most AI content fails not because AI is bad, but because people skip the hard part.

Yes, you can use AI in the content creation process, and I'll show you exactly where.

But AI is a tool, not a goal.

Don't aim to create AI content. 
Instead, use AI to create YOUR content faster.

There's a huge difference.

Your best content already exists in your team meetings, client calls, and day-to-day conversations. You just said it last week on a client call. Or in that internal discussion where you explained your thinking to your team.

So you don't need to create AI content.
Simply use AI to extract what you already said.

Your best content is already there. You just said it last week in a client call. Or in that internal discussion where you explained your thinking to your team.

AI can help you extract it and structure it.

At the Tekpon AI Summit, I shared the exact prompts that Vlad and I use to extract content from meeting transcripts and gave them to everyone in the room.

If you want them, send me a DM, and I'll share them with you.

The Simplifier | Build your personal brand on LinkedIn | Grateful father of 3 daughters 🙂 | 850+ consecutive days of running

"I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the prestigious Tekpon AI Summit..." 
No, no, no!
Nobody talks like this in real life. But still, we see this type of content every day in our feeds.

So I'll simply say that, on November 27, I'm speaking at the Tekpon AI Summit in Bucharest. 

I'm not an AI expert, so why would I speak at an AI event?
Well, because people who built AI tools need to market and sell them.
And content plays an important role in any go-to-market effort. 

There are so many AI tools and solutions on the market that claim you can use them to create authentic content that sounds like you.

But this is a lie. That's simply not true. 

And I know this because over the past 2 years, I've written more than 1000 LinkedIn posts.. 

So far, I haven't found a tool to create content that actually sounds natural. (I won't claim to have tested them all, so if you find one that truly does it, please share it with me.)

BUT using AI in the process definitely helps. Just not in the way most people think.
AI is great for research, generating ideas, and brainstorming different angles. But it's terrible at capturing your voice.

More and more people have outsourced so much of their writing to an AI tool that their content has become unremarkable, unnatural, and robotic.

Therefore, at the summit, I'll show you how to use AI as a tool without letting it turn your content into something that inspires nothing and has no taste.

Grateful to share the stage with an incredible lineup of speakers like Charles Tenot, Angeley Mullins, Ionut Sas, Sara Maldon, Jeko Kolev, Valentin Radu, Frank Sondors 🥓, Bill Stathopoulos, Tom Hunt, Stefan Smulders, Alex Oprisan, Alex Baldovin, among many others. 

Thank you for the opportunity, Alexandru Stan, Cristian Dina, and Alina Maria Stan! And thank you to the entire Tekpon team for putting this together!

If you're in Bucharest next week, come say hi.

👉 Get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/dj9SFdyt

"I'd rather not post on LinkedIn than post the same bull***t that everyone else does."
That's what a founder running a $4.5M ARR software company told me a few days ago.

Their product has more than 2 million users, and the company is growing very fast. But he stopped posting on LinkedIn because he didn't want to tell the clichéd "founder story" everyone tells in the same way.

He doesn't like to talk about the standard stuff or about how hard it was to build the company. And he has a definition for all of that:

He calls it startup porn.

Instead, he wants raw honesty. Super raw honesty that no one shares. And he wants to be relatable, authentic, and different.

After we talked for 30 minutes and asked a lot of questions, I told him:
"You just did it. You literally just told me your story. Raw, real, authentic, and zero bull***t. That would be the best content ever."

That's exactly what we do at The Simplifier, Personal Branding Agency.
We extract stories from founders and C-level executives through monthly 1-hour sessions and turn them into thought leadership content for LinkedIn.

We take your words and your thinking and turn them into LinkedIn posts. That's it.
Because your best content is already there, you just said it in a client call last week.

The cost you pay for cheap content is way higher than the cost you'd pay to create high-quality content.

Most companies want to automate content because it takes time and money.
But something gets lost in all this automation.

People buy from people they trust. And trust comes from seeing how you actually think, not from reading what ChatGPT thinks you should say.

Every post you publish is an ad for the way you think. It either builds your credibility or destroys it.

So yes, cheap content is faster, easier, and it costs less upfront.
But in the long run, it costs you credibility and real business opportunities.
And that's way more expensive than the time it takes to create something valuable.

Prospect: I'm not interested. Thanks.

Me: Thanks for letting me know. I'm curious, though, you're not interested in the service, or it's just that our offer doesn't match your expectations?

Prospect: Yeah, the examples didn't really stand out as anything I could just write myself and the responses to them didn't seem to suggest there was much impact.

Me: If you take the posts one by one, yes, the impact is not huge. But when you post this type of content weekly, the impact compounds.
Yes, you can absolutely write this content yourself, and it would work great. The question is whether you have the time to do it.
Because writing one quality post takes 1-2 hours when you factor in structure, thinking, and writing. Multiply that by 8-10 posts per month, and you're looking at 15-20 hours of focused work.
And yes, you can use ChatGPT or other AI tools to speed up the process, but a founder in your position can't afford to publish generic content that sounds like 99% of what's published on LinkedIn.

As for the "didn't really stand out as anything" part, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Those posts have hundreds of likes and tens of thousands of views from the right audience. There you have the founders sharing their knowledge. It's not flashy. It's simple and straight to the point. That's exactly what people are resonating with on LinkedIn.

If you change your mind, feel free to reach out.


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This is a real email conversation I had with a prospect.
This is the day-to-day reality of running an agency. Not everyone we discuss with becomes our client. 

We know we're not the right fit for everyone. But we want to make sure that after you discuss with us, you have a clear view of what it actually takes to write good content.

It takes time. A lot of time and mental space.

"I'm not the CEO of Hubspot. I'm just the average founder. Who am I to give advice?"
That's what a founder with $3.9M ARR and 4,000+ paying customers told me last week.

A few years ago, he tried posting on LinkedIn. He got some engagement, and it was nice, but not great.

And he stopped because he was positioning himself as a guru who cracked the code but felt like a fraud. 

But look, you don't need to be the CEO at Hubspot to share your experience.
You don't need to have a $1 billion exit to talk about what worked (and what didn't).

You just need to have actually done the work.
This founder built a company to $3.8M ARR and 4,000 clients.  
But he still doesn't feel "expert enough" to post about it.

And I see this all the time with technical founders.
They've built great products that solve real problems for real customers. Some of them have decades of experience.

But they're afraid to post on LinkedIn because they think, "Who am I to give advice?"

Meanwhile, people with half their experience are posting every week, gaining visibility and clients.

You don't need to give any advice. Just share your experience and knowledge.
You're not a guru when you talk about what you built and how you solve real problems for real people.

People don't need another generic "top 5 tips for product-market fit" post.
They need to see real examples from real founders who actually did the work.

You're not the CEO at Hubspot, but that's exactly why people will listen to you.
Because you're relatable and real, you're the average founder who built something great.
And that's the best kind of thought leadership.

I've written 1,000+ LinkedIn posts for tech founders over the past 2 years. There are 4 types of content that build thought leadership. But most founders ignore 3 of them because they only post about their product, and product updates alone don't build trust.

If you want to create thought leadership content on LinkedIn, these are the 4 types of content you need to cover:

1. Personal stories

Not very personal, though, but how hard it was for you to build the business, what were the biggest challenges, and how did you overcome them?

This type of content is relatable and shows people the real work behind the success.

2. Business knowledge related to the industry

This is where you share your thinking about the industry and talk about things your audience cares about (even if they don't use your product yet).

You need to show people that "hey, we have a great story, but we also have the business knowledge."

3. Value provided by the product and social proof

Share case studies and real examples of companies that use your product. How did the product change their lives for the better, and what were the actual outcomes?

Don't talk about the product directly. Focus on the problems it solves and how it helps in practice. 

4. Product-focused content.

Explain what your product actually is, what it does, and for whom. Talk about specific features and how the product integrates with your client's existing tools.

Make the content super specific and ensure it speaks directly to your best-fit customers. 

VERY IMPORTANT 

In every piece of content, talk about your unique perspective on the product, the company, the industry, and your clients' needs.

Look at the patterns you see that others don't:
- What do your clients struggle with that nobody talks about? 
- What have you learned from building your product that surprised you?
- What works for your clients that goes against "best practices"?

Your unique view comes from your specific experience, not from trying to be contrarian just for the sake of controversy.

Talk about what you've learned from actually doing the work that nobody else has done the exact same way.

Show people YOUR thinking based on what you've actually seen and built. 

Sounds simple, right?
Well, it's not.
It will take time and mental space to do it right, but building in silence will cost you more than imperfect content ever will.

Yesterday I spoke with a founder who is afraid to post on LinkedIn because he believes he will make a fool of himself.

I met many founders who face this exact fear. They know they should post and get more visibility. But the risk of posting and getting ignored feels too real.

So they stay silent. But silence guarantees zero engagement.

The reason 

Most founders' content gets ignored not because they have nothing, but because they sound like everyone else.

They open ChatGPT and ask it to "write a LinkedIn post about leadership."

And what comes out is: "In today's fast-paced business environment, effective leadership is no longer optional—it's critical."

Nobody cares about that.

People care about your actual story and the real decisions you make. They want to hear about the mistakes that cost you money and learn from them. They want to see your real, authentic thinking and want to know how you can solve their problems.

So here's a 287-step framework to solve this:

I'm joking, this is not that kind of post.

There's only one thing to do. Write a simple post about how you solved a client issue this week.

Be super specific about what the client needed and explain their context. Then explain how you solved their problem step by step and what the impact was on their business.

Just talk about what your business does and how you help people. 

That's it. It doesn't need to be more complicated than this.

Write as you talk

More and more people outsourced so much of their writing to ChatGPT that their content has become unremarkable.

Their content sounds unnatural, inauthentic, punchy, and robotic. It inspires nothing and has no taste.

LinkedIn should be used as a stage to show people your thinking. But if you outsource your thinking to an AI model, because it seems cheaper to automate content, well, you need to be aware that this will come with a much higher price.

People will smell the fact that you put no effort into writing that post. 
And when they do, you'll lose their trust.

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