AI Marketing Masters by Annika Helendi

Helping marketers and solopreneurs leverage AI so they could easily do a 5-person job alone. 

Follow my Youtube channel for free automation tutorials and join the AI Marketing Masters community to get access to all the shortcuts - blueprints, templates and prompts.

Founder

astronaut.marketing

Custom SEO-driven growth strategies for B2B SaaS startups in the $1-10M ARR range.
// Strategy creation, consulting and advisory
// Open to fractional CMO roles

Fractional CMO, Growth Consultant, SEO Strategist

Blessed Pirate

Get weekly LinkedIn posts for publishing. Build your personal brand as an expert - https://blessedpirate.com

ContentFly

* Developed and implemented the go-to-market strategy
* Bootstrapped ContentFly to $500k ARR in 2019
* Developed and launched 2 add-on products

Co-Founder & CMO

Dashbird

* Developed and implemented the go-to-market strategy
* Built the initial marketing team
* Raised a seed round of $800k in 2018

Teamweek 

* Took over and lead a 12-person internationally distributed team 
* Revamped the business and turned it profitable in 2 months. 
* Grew the revenue by 100% in 2017 (to $700k ARR).

Toggl

* Generated 1.8 million signups over 4 years without a marketing budget (60% year-over-year growth)
* Put together and lead the initial marketing team
* Worked with cross-functional teams to create growth loops, improve the product experience and customer lifetime value.

Head Of Marketing

🪭AI fangirl. Founder. Marketer.

📌 Helping B2B startups grow since 2012

📌 Generated close to 2 million SEO signups in Toggl (and helped to generate many more millions through my consulting work)

📌Favorite roles: founder, CEO, CMO, fractional CMO, SEO strategist, growth consultant

📌Career highlights: made Teamweek profitable and scaled it to €700k ARR with a fully distributed remote team, raised a seed round for Dashbird, launched a bunch of bootstrapped startups during Covid that all failed, been able to avoid having a boss for over 5 years, worked with over a 100 founders, launched a profitable side-business (Blessed Pirate).

Annika Helendi

We are hiring at Vacation Tracker! 

Want to work with me and David Vero in a fully remote, work-from-anywhere B2B SaaS? 

We are looking for a full-time (video-first) Content Marketing Manager to join our marketing team. 

To apply, you must either have a personal Youtube channel, or a company one you have worked on. Please use this form to apply and to get more information - https://lnkd.in/d7znqDBq 

📷 picture from our last team meetup in Greece. 

📌 I've been working on growing Vacation Tracker since September 2025. We are lean and innovative and we have REALLY ambitious plans for dominating the HR space. 

We also have a new hotshot $100M+ CEO Martin Gourdeau who joined at the same time as me and is leading the team with a great vision and experience. 

So, if you want to know more about the company's history (see how the founders Slobodan Stojanović and Lav Crnobrnja got started with it and grew it to close to $3M ARR) and plans for future, then check out these videos here - https://lnkd.in/dRxaTRTp

Taavi Lindmaa ⚡

Growing personal & company brands on LinkedIn® | Building SEO Article Generator | Investor | Sharing content daily how we do it!

Hi! Great seeing you here.

We are helping sports centres marinas, car service and rental companies with automation and digitalisation. Find out more autlio.com 

Send me a message. I´m passionate about helping you take your business growth to the next level.


Here is a little about myself:

- From Estonia
- Born in a bank, grew up in an entrepreneurial family
- Worked in IT since 2006 in various roles, most notably as the 10th employee and 1st sales leader of Veriff (Valued at 1.5B) and Salv.
- User Experience Designer by profession, having built check-in kiosks, mobile, and web applications UI
- Transformed into Sales Leadership and now to LinkedIn Personal Branding Expert and Content Creator
- Built my first business over 16 years ago 
- Lived and worked in 6 countries: the US (New York), Sweden (Stockholm), Spain (Malaga), the UK (St. Helens), Germany (Furtwangen), and Estonia.

Free daily insights, strategies, and motivational content to help you grow your LinkedIn audience.

One simple advice for a happier life 😎


Support your partner.

My wife has had to reinvent herself many times during her 23+ year photography career.

She was already working at a high level in London when we moved to Estonia.

She started building momentum in Estonia when we moved to New York City.

She reached a strong position in New York just as we returned to Estonia to raise our kids.

After our first child, she began building momentum in Europe again — until COVID disrupted everything and forced her to rebuild from scratch online.

And just as the momentum returned, artificial intelligence changed the entire game.

Today, it simply feels good to watch how she doesn’t give up.
How she adapts, tries again, and keeps moving forward.

This has taught me more about entrepreneurship than any book ever could
and has strengthened our relationship more than I ever expected.

If I have one piece of advice, it’s this:
support the people around you who are chasing their dreams.

📸 My spouse, Katrina Tang 📸
little Family Hub

Self-service automation for sports, marinas, vehicles, rental, service companies | Autlio.com – bookings, access, digital contracts & payments in one autonomous platform | 1xExit | Ex-Veriff 🦄 |

One small change can completely transform how a service feels. 🚗

I’ve lost count of how many times car servicing has meant:
- arriving during working hours,
- waiting in line,
- or rearranging my entire day just to hand over keys.

And if something happens late in the evening or early morning?
You wait.

That’s why I genuinely like what Carzone Autokeskus has now done.

They’ve made car service actually available 24/7 by implementing Autlio’s smart key locker.

Now a car can be:
- dropped off early in the morning before work
- picked up late in the evening
- or even handed over at 2 a.m. when something unexpected happens

No queues.
No rushing before closing time.
No “we’re already closed” conversations.

Even payments can be handled as part of the same flow — without standing at a counter or syncing schedules.

What I find especially interesting is what happens behind the scenes.

⚙️ For the service team:
- technicians start the day knowing exactly which cars have arrived
- all relevant info is already logged
- payments are completed or correctly recorded
- fewer interruptions, smoother workflow

It works whether the visit is pre-booked, spontaneous, or even arranged via roadside assistance.

To me, this is a great example of how automation isn’t about removing people —
it’s about removing friction.

👉 Carzone made a conscious decision to give customers more flexibility, time, and peace of mind.

Which service would you choose?
One limited by opening hours —
or one that fits your life, not the other way around?

A great start to the day 💪🏃‍♂️

Morning workout completed — our first morning run together with my son.

I bet many of you know the feeling: getting out of bed early for your kids isn’t 
always easy.

Every beginning can be challenging, but starting together makes it easier — and the feeling at the end is always worth the effort. 🔥

A good reminder that consistency and support take us further, both in sports and at work.

👉 What’s your go-to routine to kick-start the workday?

Does this sound familiar? 👇

You’ve put in a lot of effort to get the kids dressed for winter.
Gloves, hats, helmets, spare clothes.
Finally, everything is in the car and you’ve made it to the slopes.

And then… the waiting begins. 😮‍💨
 ❄️ A long line at the rental counter
 ❄️ “We’re just looking for the right equipment…”
 ❄️ A rental agreement no one actually reads
 ❄️ Being asked to leave documents or an ID as a deposit (which isn’t even okay)
 ❄️ No clear labeling on the equipment — it’s unclear
 what was rented out, when, and for how long.
❄️ Was it used for two hours — or three or more? No one really knows.

The kids are waiting. Patience runs out.

And by the time you finally get to the slope, half the energy and good mood are gone — for both kids and parents.

🎿 Why couldn’t it be like this?
 ✔️ Book the equipment in advance
 ✔️ Arrive on site
 ✔️ Pick up ready-to-go gear
 ✔️ Start riding immediately

This is exactly the kind of experience we’ve built a solution for with Autlio —
for ski, snowboard, skate rentals and more.
Less waiting. Less confusion. More joy on the slopes.

👉 Let us know:
Where should winter sports equipment rental be truly convenient?
Which ski resort or ice rink desperately needs a better rental experience? 👀

Let’s make winter sports simpler — especially for families with kids. ❄️🎿⛸️

We turned parcel lockers into sales machines 🚀
  
Autlio has introduced the ability to sell products through smart lockers, enabling businesses to create entirely new, fully automated business models that operate 24/7.

Previously, Autlio smart lockers were primarily used for rentals and service delivery.

Now, all smart lockers connected to Autlio can also be used for product sales.

🛒 How does it work?
✔️ Products are placed inside individual locker compartments
✔️ The customer scans a QR code
✔️ Payment is completed online
✔️ The correct compartment opens automatically
✔️ The product is collected — no staff required

✨ Why does this matter?

The same smart locker can be used in parallel for:
- rentals
- sales
- service delivery

Additionally, the solution is:
- fully contactless and automated
- operable without on-site staff
- enabling new business opportunities
- helping to keep operational costs low

🔁 And it doesn’t stop at smart lockers.
The same Autlio logic and platform also works for:

🚚 trailer locks (e.g. trailer rentals and sales)
🏋️ gym / sport center access (buy a pass → enter immediately)
🔑 keyless access management

💬 Where would you like to see the next automated sales machine?

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Learn more from our blog: https://lnkd.in/dRBtMJ6T

👉 In essence: one platform, unlimited business models.
Autlio helps transform existing lockers, locks, and access points into smart, automated sales channels.

How much time do we actually spend in waiting rooms? ⏳

We sit.
We wait.
We check the clock. 👀⌚️

Sometimes 5 minutes.
Sometimes 30.
Sometimes, an entire morning or evening was supposed to be “free time.” 🌤️

We’ve simply normalized it.
That service means waiting.
Those processes only work during office hours. 🕘

But Sunday is a good moment to ask:
Does it really have to be this way? 🤔

Small changes in services can give people back something incredibly valuable — time. ⏱️✨
And time is the one thing you can never create more of.

Do you enjoy waiting — or does it drive you crazy? ⏳

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Photo: Sami Abdullah

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