Letter Leverage

If you have 1M+ monthly impressions but no educational email funnel, you could be missing out on over $100,000 a year in profit.

Why you should trust us:


1) 44% average open rate emails (from 750,000+ sendouts)
2) 65% average open rate email courses
3) We're the best at what we do
4) We have an exclusive Techno Spotify playlist with 77+ likes - so our music taste is certified

Want to convert impressions into buyers? DM me

Founder

Ghostly Mail

Traffic & Offers Club 

Community of solopreneurs looking to grow & monetize their Twitter by JK Molina

Member

Ship30For30 Captain's table

Community of digital writers. By Nicolas Cole & Dickie Bush

notus

This is a start-up so formal roles don't mean sh*t.

I did everything necessary to ensure we grew & succeeded as a company.

Formally, these were my main responsibilities:

• Overseeing client projects / ensuring customer success
• Lead the content strategist team
• Managing freelancers
• Further develop the content engine processes 
• Talk to potential employees & clients
• Represent the company at events and speeches

But I'm also getting new employees aboard, training them, automating processes, recruitment, sales, design, UX, etc.

Head Of Operations & Lead Content Strategist

Helping start-up founders amplify their company's growth by building their personal brand.

At Notus, we capture founder's voices through natural conversations, then convert these into content that attracts the right people. 

I.e. we help founders get their story out there.

My role is to talk with founders as a content strategist, then write and distribute the content as a copywriter.

If you're a founder who believes in personal branding, then I would love to chat and help you make an impact.

Just drop me a LinkedIn message, and let's connect!

Notable Clients: Ryan Serhant, Hubert Rhomberg, CYBERA, w3.fund, Constant Contact, Jim Kwik, David Meltzer, Rohan Oza, Jon Taffer, Extell Development, nft studio, Poppi, ScholarMe, Cosmiq Universe

More info: notus.xyz

Content Strategist

Modern Mastery

Community around personal development & digital marketing basics. By Dan Koe

MORJAS

Digital and physical customer service.

Mainly, I answered customers' questions and sold MORJAS products via email, chat, telephone and in our showroom. I took the initiative for our customer service team to switch CRM and made other improvements to streamline our customer service. In total, I had 969 chats, out of which 199 turned into a sale within an hour.

Additionally, I wrote blog posts for Morjas, guides for new customer service employees and some UX copy. By proofreading and talking with customers, I helped our UX team to improve website usability.

Voluntarily, I analyzed Morjas' loyalty program and communicated what improvements we could implement in the future for higher customer loyalty & LTV.

Customer Service Agent

Moderna Museet

I served visitors in English, Swedish and German. Took care of child groups. Sold tickets as cash assistant.

Museivärd

I can boost your newsletter revenue faster than a "free beer" tent at Oktoberfest generates a line (and trust me, that's FAST)

AI- and coffee enthusiast with a passion for psychology, foreign policy, and writing.

If you have 1M+ monthly impressions but no educational email funnel, you could be missing out on over $100,000 a year in profit.

After seeing how 100s of brands were killing their authority, trust, and revenue by not educating their audience, we decided to pioneer the transformation from "Newsletters" to "Eduletters" - educational emails.

At Letter Leverage, we build out educational email funnels for AI brands and some 8-figure founders.

DM me for details.

Nils Liedlich

A recruiter from one of the fastest-scaling private equity firms just rewired how I think about hiring:

Frank Lofaro

He's as legit as it goes:

1/ Recruited 5 directors in 8 days average (from first meeting to signed offer) 
2/ Built hiring infrastructure that scaled multiple portfolio companies simultaneously 
3/ Now helps founders stop making $100k hiring mistakes

(he also has this wild Italian superstition thing going on - won't tell you the details, but let's just say he has strong opinions about a black cat crossing his path)

Anyway-

I met Frank a few weeks ago in Columbia at the Main Street Summit, and the conversation has been top of mind since.

Here are 4 things I learned from him:

1/ Your job description is external sales copy. Stop using it internally.

I would write a job description and then use it to evaluate candidates.

To Frank, that’s backwards. Instead, he builds a qualification doc, mapping out:

- Must-haves (weighted 1-5)
- Nice-to-haves
- Intangibles

Each of which you score A, B, or C.

The key question: 

"What percentage of their time goes to each responsibility?" 

That determines which skills to weigh heaviest.

We've scaled Letter Leverage from 2 to 9 team members this year… and just a few weeks after speaking with Frank, we had to fire an exceptional writer because of deficiencies in other areas. It wasn’t the writer’s fault - we just didn’t qualify properly.

2/ Compare candidates to the job, not to each other.

You find someone great. Then you think "let me get one more to compare." You wait. You lose the great one.

To fix this, go back to the qualification doc-

Define what "great" looks like before you start. Then score every candidate against that standard - not against each other.

3/ Treat recruiting like sales

Speed through the hiring funnel. Slow down at the end.

After any interview, there are only 3 options:

1. They're out
2. They're in consideration
3. They're a f*ck yes

If they're in consideration, move them forward tomorrow. Don't stall.

The best candidates are off the market in 10 days. Pre-commit your hiring managers' availability. Book meetings from meetings. 

Frank's team filled director-level roles in 8 days on average because of this approach.

4/ You can't train confidence.

A person is 

a) their actual skill and 
b) their self-confidence

You can train skills. But you can't train someone to believe in themselves.

We had a writer candidate who told us: 

"If you find someone as qualified as me, you should probably hire them over me."

That’s a green flag to me because it shows self-awareness.

But she also submitted her paid trial late without notifying us. And scored a 6/10 on a writing assignment when other finalists were 8-9s.

tl;Dr

Low confidence + low skill = anxiety
Low confidence + high skill = perfectionism
High confidence + lower skill = entitlement
High confidence + high skill = hire immediately

You want someone whose belief in themselves is backed by the receipts.

thx

AuthoredUp

I'm building a tool I needed (and couldn't find) when I started creating content on LinkedIn. 

✅ Post preview on multiple screens 
✅ Formatting and emoji picker
✅ Drafts and templates
✅ Scheduling 

+ a lot more features. Our roadmap is available on a website, and everyone can suggest new features and vote for the existing ones. :)

I'm a business co-founder, so I'm covering all stuff related to marketing, sales, and finance. 

Beta launched in July 2022. 
From July to March we had 7 releases.

Co-Founder

European Commission

Evaluating project proposals for Europen Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. 
EIC supports individual Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in particular, Startups and spinout companies to develop and scale-up game-changing innovations.

Evaluating startups and projects funded by Horiozon2020 and Horizon Europe and cascade funding calls.

Subject Matter Expert

Institut za razvoj i inovacije

Developing project proposals
Collaborating with consortium members 
Developing SSH and gender aspects, advanced communication strategies and business models 

Two projects funded - one in Horizon2020 and one in Horizon Europe

Partner for European Projects

TalentKit

I believe that take-home assignments are the best way to test hard skills. 

So, I co-founded a platform that helps hiring managers and recruiters manage and evaluate them. 

I was working on marketing, sales, fundraising, and finance. Full stack business! 
But we made multiple first-time-founder mistakes, and we couldn't recover from them. 
(ask me more about that). :) 

We were supported by the Serbian Innovation Fund and Science and Technology Park in Belgrade.

Xcalibra Exchange

Chief Financial Officer

Safex Foundation

Developed an economic model and optimized mining functions for Safex blockchain.

Chief Economist

Balkaneum

Developed, implemented, and monitored day-to-day operations and processes 
Worked closely with HR, participated in 200+ interviews and skill assessments, and employed 50+ people throughout two years
Built and maintained relationships with all employees (30+ at peak), external partners from four countries, and vendors
Contributed to three blockchain/cryptocurrency projects, software and hardware, and managed the development of features. 
Upheld organization policies and standards, ensuring legislative and compliance regulations are followed

Chief Operations Officer

Fiscal Council Republic of Serbia

Economic Analyst

MonopolList

I became an editor-in-chief in a difficult period for the journal and faced many challenges due to frequent member changes, poor organizational structure and some financial difficulties. 

I worked closely with the editors, graphic designers, photographers and authors in order to rebrand magazine and deliver better content to our readers. My typical responsibilities included: supervising and coordinating work of all members, editing content, interviewing and hiring new members, taking responsibility for issues after publication. 

During my mandate, my team and I made huge turnover. We redesigned magazine, established new sector (Team for sale), redefined recruitment and selection process. Also, we organized panel discussion about economic growth in Serbia named „Whether We Are Facing a Lost Decade (2006-2016)?“ to celebrate 18th anniversary.  

Successes included: implementing new marketing and sales strategy (selling advertising space to Ernst and Young, Škola Intelektualnih veština, Equilibrio etc.), implementing new recruitment system (which increased number of members by 50%), upsurging in the number of readers, making a strong company framework in which students and business partners can work efficiently and effectively, both individually and collectively, and succeed for mutual benefit.

Editor-in-chief

Co-editior

Built a Chrome extension to grow your Linkedin organically. 🚀 Available for free 🤩 Trusted by 20.000+ users 🔥 I write about Linkedin insights, employee advocacy and building startup.

Not your typical startup story. ▶️

We were over a year in free beta. Bootstrapping. Investing 10,000 hours before seeing a dime. 
To make our lives even harder, we decided to adopt a no-cookie, no-automation policy (which means more time per feature + a ton of constraints). 

Whispers labelled our approach "insane." 🤯

And they were probably right. But we wanted to do it "the right way". Not to sell something we don't like, that doesn't work, or that is not complete. Right? 

So, what was our goal? To help people like us create content on LinkedIn and get the ROI of their content. After all, this is a professional business network. 

Like us = regular people, not just professional writers. 

And if you know anything about content creation here, you know it is hard. Despite the popular "it's a breeze" narrative. 

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So, how did I end up working on AuthoredUp? By accident. 

My first startup didn't succeed.. and while trying to land some beta users on LinkedIn, I tried to create content and build awareness... 

Let's say it was... an experience. 💨💨💨

Before diving into the world of startups:

I was deeply interested in Austrian economic theory during my student days (the school of thought, not the nationality!). That changed, but my love for diving deep and understanding the "why" remains. And I read scientific articles for fun (not kidding).

In the startup scene, I've done everything. From leading large teams to managing multiple companies all at once. I even got a VQF license in Switzerland (a license for operating a crypto exchange under FINMA). 

But one thing remained constant: I was the go-to person to solve problems. ✅

Want to chat? 
Reach out at ivana@authoredup.com

Want to try out AuthoredUp?
Check the link under my profile.

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