Every platform meant writing the piece again. One blog post, then a LinkedIn version, then a carousel, then a thread, then a script for video. The ideas already existed. The work was reformatting them, one platform at a time, by hand.
One blog post, ten pieces of content, none of it in someone else's voice
Finding those developers was a person's job. His colleague James would work through Rightmove listings by hand, look up which company was behind each development, find the directors on Companies House, hunt for an email address, check it wasn't dead, and then type all of it into the CRM. Every lead, one at a time.
A manual research job turned into a pipeline that fills the CRM on its own
Every development deal that came in arrived as a brochure PDF. Somebody had to read it, pull out the numbers that matter, GDV, purchase price, build costs, CIL and S106 contributions, the timeline, then look up the planning and CIL position for the site, then type all of it into Hallcroft's appraisal spreadsheet to see whether the deal worked.
A development appraisal that took an afternoon, built from a brochure PDF
A paid community is not a course. Members show up every day with questions, and every one that goes unanswered is a renewal that quietly doesn't happen. The community needed to run well without consuming the person whose name is on it.
Two years running the operations of a paid community, 200 members to 900
Video content for six brands means either booking a shoot for every message, or not making the videos. Most people pick the second one and then wonder why nobody knows who they are.
50 avatar videos from five presenters, delivered in a week
Local business lead research is the same six steps every time. Search the area, copy the business names, find each website, guess at the email format, check the address is real, paste it into a sheet. It is genuinely simple work and it eats entire days.
From a search term to verified, contactable leads in a spreadsheet
They had bought a content production system, an Airtable base plus a set of Make.com scenarios, from the person who built it. It worked when it was handed over. Then it was theirs, and nobody in the building had built it.
Keeping a bought-in content system running after the builder moved on
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