Alohaa

Here is what I am interested in & and execute @ Alohaa.ai

Goals: See that, we have profitable acquisition & scale. 

1) To find the right audience, in really really large numbers (right channels).
2) See that we understand the pain points well, and use them as messaging (our customers should feel - this is exactly what's causing me pain while using traditional phone systems for their business, let me sign with Alohaa.ai and get free from it)
3) Once they are in our funnel, I would love minimal drop-offs(that's what we strive for)
4) From here on, our Sales, Support, and product teams play the post-acquisition picture and they do it great, so my job mostly here is to just have peace of mind knowing all the customers are being handled by the right people & teams.
5)Well, you may notice that I have PM experience(and also kept it here). 

Initially year, I worked both on Product and marketing, now that we are more confident about the product, and our team has great people who understand (and build for customer pain points/feedback), 
I completely moved into marketing to distribute our product to a much larger audience.

One last thing, If you want to talk about any of your - Business Telephony needs(VMNs, IVR, Cloud Call Centers, Voice broadcasting, WhatsApp messaging, etc.) and see how alohaa.ai can help you or want to talk about SaaS marketing/product/unit economics. You can simply DM me. I am available 24*7 to respond(kidding I am not, I will respond as soon as my work & life allow, but we will talk)

Growth @ Alohaa

Solopreneur OS

Coaches & Consultants do great work at what you do. 
But 99% of them don't know how to have consistent clients & increase revenue.

The problem in the market is, 
95% of what's available is useless,
No one would want to go thought all that pain to find that 5% that works.

In the past, I grew products from 0 to thousands of paying clients around the world,
I distilled that knowledge and created Solopreneur OS.

I cover exactly what is needed for the coach/consultant and get them started.
I worked with a photographer, political strategist, an architect, among many others,
All of them got increase in ROI, One of them closed a 6 figure deal in 40 minutes with confidence.

Currently, I am offering

For Solopreneur OS (Ultimate package) - 6 Week 1:1 coaching (12 calls)
Growth OS (Power package) - 2 weeks 1:1 coaching (4 calls)
1:1 Clarity call -Solve a problem that got you struck (calls as needed)

The first call is free of cost.

If you want to know more, 
you can book a call with me on topmate.io/manojsurya or 
simply DM 'OS' and I will get you started.

Coach

Reforge

Member

Reverie Language Technologies

India has 600Mn Internet users while 500Mn of them cannot read English. We help D2C, E-Comm, Fintech and other verticle markets to go local in 12 Indian Languages. Currently we are the only company to provide end-to-end solutions for any brand (Text, Speech, Bot automation etc,.). 

This will help you 5X your market size, get profitable faster and become a Unicorn in lesser time(if that's your goal). I am currently working on D2C, Fin-Tech & Transliteration services.

Product Manager

Travelling

After quitting my job at the previous company(Way2online). I wanted to take a 10-12 week travel and exploration break. I am currently exploration places back to back which is expanding my world view and how much each geography, person, and even food changes in an overnight journey.

10-12 weeks is a very short time for a full-time exploration of the world(for now few parts of India). But I am understanding the rules of a long journey. While I attach more memories to my heart & soul. I am finding myself and evolving as a person and I can really feel it.

Travel Break

Way2Online

I head the growth team.
Increased the funnel convention by 25% (landing page to code integration)
Grew the total website traffic from 2 Lakh to 5 Lakh (source: Similar web)
Grew the registrations by 10,000 with in 10 months
Doubled the organic traffic.
Helped launch WordPress and Shopify plugins. 
Came up with pricing strategy and become operationally profitable.
All above at zero marketing costs, same team size.

Co-Creator & Growth Head @ Truepush.com

Drew the Initial wireframes for the product on pen and paper, rolled out the product within 5 weeks of ideation. Managed new features and roadmaps for the product based on the feedback from the customers. managed the tech/design team until the push notifications reached 45 Bn Push notifications/month.

We have won multiple G2 and other Saas Awards for the product and ease of use. Have a great sense for good UX and really love not including things that are needed in the first place. I wrote the product copy. Have the product releases happen on time through sprints. Responsible to the growth/sales team and manage expectations while signing up with high-volume customers.

Our G2 Reviews - https://www.g2.com/products/truepush/reviews

Co-Creator & Product Head @ Truepush.com

10X - Business Short News 
Entrepreneurs, CXO's and Investors often have busy schedules and it will be impossible for anyone to be updated on all business news.  We at 10X are covering 7 major industry news, general business and politics/sports. We believe this is the only app you will need to cover all the news. Our content team works really hard to curate business news with quality and deliveries in time. You can download Android version here - http://bit.ly/a10xapp , IOS Version - http://bit.ly/i10xapp

Product Head - 10X - Business Short News

Startup Talks

Startup Talks is a Community for Early Stage Entrepreneurs where they can Learn, Network & Collaborate on different verticals of a Startup. We are currently have 25000 + members in our community.
If you are an early stage entrepreneur you can attend one of our monthly meetup at one of these cities - Hyderabad(www.meetup.com/startuptalks) , Bangalore (www.meetup.com/startuptalksbanglore) , Mumbai (meetup.com/startuptalksmumbai )

Founder & Organizer

[self-employed]

I am exploring a couple of niche spaces.
- Movie Franchising to brands 
- Helping Authors to Increase their PR, establish credibility to and increase book sales

Freelance Marketeer 

Zenty

Zenty helps Brands to connect with powerful Influncers handpicked by us to execute offline campaigns which helps them generate word of mouth, get consumer insights, generate content for their marketing channels and many more. Our platform will help Brands learn more insights and use the data and content generated to use in their other marketing activities which can increase their over all ROI on marketing and branding spent.  You can reach me at Manoj@zenty.co for more details.

Founder

Startup Leadership Program

The Startup Leadership Program (SLP) is a highly selective 6-month world-class training program and lifetime network for outstanding founders and innovators. SLP Fellows have founded over 1000 companies that have raised $450 million, and include breakthrough and award-winning startups like Runkeeper, Sensobi, Shareaholic, Solar Junction, Voicetap and Ubersense. The program began in Boston in 2006 with seven Fellows (participants). It has grown to 26 cities in 12 countries.

Fellows spend six months in a rigorous cross-disciplinary entrepreneurial-CEO training program that combines

* Mentoring from successful entrepreneurs
* Extensive participation in active VC, corporate, and entrepreneur network
* Coaching and professional development
* Fireside chats with entrepreneurs and VCs and
* Focused skill-building workshops

Fellow

I advice on Product Management | Growing your customer base | Career Growth

I spent the last few years building products from 0 to a few thousand paying clients

Out of reading, learning & implementing,
I found the 5% of marketing & business systems 'that work'

While these work, everything has basics to get sorted

99% of professionals screw it up

Because,

It feels like it would take forever for something to figure out,
People want to feel busy and get going 'fast in the wrong direction'.

Currently at Alohaa, a tool that will make your brand omnipresent among your customers through Calls, SMS, Voice broadcasts, WhatsApp, etc. 

I am leading marketing, using these systems & growing consistently.

I felt I could teach these systems to the most needed experts on the planet - Coaches & Consults.

Coaches & consults are hard-working Solopreneurs. I want to help a lot of coaches & consultants with my knowledge, so I build a 6 week Solopreneur OS program, that helped few of my existing clients to triple their leads & revenue.

Book a call with me to talk about Solopreneur OS, Alohaa, and Business & Growth systems,
book it on - topmate.io/manojsurya

Alternatively, DM me 'OS' and I will get you started

Yesterday this happened 

First and last trail run for the year,

Paderu 25km.

Manoj Surya

2X Entrepreneur || Ultra Runner || Growth Marketeer

LinkedIn New India (7.6Mn followers) mentioned me today in the post and creative today.

Go on read it, let me know what you think?

PS: also the fact that today I hit my 2000km run mark and seeing this, looks like it’s going to be a wonderful day.

In today’s News Wrap, we ask: What is your approach to building healthy habits at work?

Also in the News Wrap: Hospitality players in the U.S. are wooing Indian tourists, and retail firms in India are bracing for a revenue boom.

Thanks to Paridhi R. for her comments on travel trends, Dr. Sanchit Misra💡 for his insights on the retail sector, and Manoj Surya for sharing how to build a healthy habit.

#EveningNewsWrap

Source:
Business Standard - https://lnkd.in/gAZiNzGv
Viveat Pinto - Financial Express (India) (https://lnkd.in/gzSU8wVR)
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✍ : Novinston Lobo, Rakshit Ravindranathan

News Wrap, Thursday, December 12

Yesterday I crossed 2000km of runs this year,

While main races days are 2 or 3 only,

Most of what running is about consistency and weekly milage, without being burnt out or injured.

The process is the challenge.

I missed 350-400km of running this year due to health issues, but still great to see crossing 2000km mark.

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I have set very high goals for 2024,
and hit a few of them.

I set up high goals in roughly 10 areas,
and I was totally okay to fail,
and I did fail in most of them.

However, this is how it looks (roughly)

Travel - 2 countries
Running - 2 marathons, 2 50kms and 1 80km runs
Books - 24 (so far)
Learning - multiple courses that I implemented
Experiments - selling digital courses, LinkedIn growth, Twitter growth

While meeting friends often, and doing my office work.

I did face some health issues and some surprises at work and in life.

Despite that, I am happy with how things turned out for me.

Will share more details by the end of the year.

I made over 342 LinkedIn posts this year by today. 

(43 weeks posting steak If we counted weekday postings)

Thinking about it, if I focused more on likes / views / connects. I would not have developed a muscle to post daily, that people read.

I don’t have any viral posts that got me lakhs of impressions. The most viral one got me 80 connections that day. May be 10k views and lot of inbound queries. 

The skill I developed to write content, formats, topics, can’t be taken away despite platform change. 

I love how consistency makes things easier to do. 

And I scheduled posts till 30th this month.

31st post hopefully will be my yearly review blog post :)

How did year look on LinkedIn?

Manoj Surya LinkedIn Yearly review.

Which of these is more appealing to you?

- Linkedin comment generator
- LinkedIn blocker for AI-generated comments
- Hot tea on a cold evening?/

For me, just for one day, I would choose a blocker for AI-generated comments over Hot tea.

How about you?

PS: Is it just me or, you too finding comments though AI-Generated content that is annoying to read?

You can't grow something that you can't measure.

It's not a big deal, I will skip the workout today and eat ice cream,

It is what I feel 1/3rd of the days.

If I did what I felt and got a $1 every time I felt that, I would have at least $1000 just for that this year.

Discipline is just showing up, out of habit,
not out of emotion.

I ran 82.4km on a 400-meter track for 12 hours.

And what's the point of running in circles for 12 hours?

If you wonder about that,
Let me tell you,

It's neither about the run, nor the distance,
It's never about the finish medal.

It's the proof that,
I committed to a goal,
executed it and will not settle for less,

and that I can keep scary goals,
work for it, and get it.

Fitness and health is one of the controllable things in life,

if we don't keep in check,
quite easy other things in life will slip away too.

Again, unhealthy people are earning more,
but they are also more tired physically to enjoy their luxuries. 

I would be happy to run and catch a bus,
than to sit in pain in an expensive car,

ever better, I would love to sit in an expensive car while being physically and mentally healthy.

What you need is

Courage, Consistency, Humor, Acceptance and nice people around

You can make almost anything happen with this while being content.

One of the things I realized over time is that -

I wouldn't advise people on something I have done for weeks or achieved results in the past.

It made my life easier.

I did not need to assume things to talk or keep a mask.

I would say -

- I don't know how to react to this
- I wish I knew how to respond to this
- I don't know much about this. How are you handling it?

Keeping it honest made other people know that I am genuinely interested and honest about it and that I care what they say.

Most times, when I tried to add something, both of us in the conversation realized I had no idea about it(a few times I tried).

Do you have the power to say - I don't know, every time, throughout your life?

Let me know.

This might probably sound weird,
but this is one of the most inspiring clips for me and
here is why.

Comedy is one of the highest forms of intelligence,
there is no way you can create comedy in words without saying the truth,
An even higher form of comedy is making people laugh without words.

In this video,
He knows what he is doing(confidence),
he is doing less work(smart),
knows the audience's impulse(knows his art and craft),
had the courage to look dumb to make the act work(courage).

This isn't a fluke.

Think about this, now you know why people are laughing, know the technique, know it works, would you still do it?

No?. Exactly!

Anyone can speak with a lot of words.
Letting silence speak, that's something else.

PS: Either I love comedy too much or I just have weird tastes and sometimes I don't know which is which.

If you want to feel free,
Build a routine and stick to it.

Boat that sails it's course is freer,
not the boat that goes with the wind.

PS: If you have a lot of money in the bank,  and don't have a home base to come back to soon, then go with the wind(and share those stories with me).

There is a lot I can learn in 2024.

Here is what I have in mind for 2025

Theme:

Slow, consistent, and big goals

Motto(s):
- Feel lively, not comfortable. 
- Be excited and content, not drained
- Take enough breaks to make the above happen

Of course, reflecting on failures and hits. 
Doing this is the fun part of this year.

More on it soon.

PS: What are your biggest learnings, wins, failures, energy-giving, energy-draining things you faced this year?

PSS: I am planning and reflecting using Sahil blooms framework for reflection and yearly planning (google about it). One of the simplest and easiest to follow.

Every time I buy a new course, I write them in my notes to keep a track.

Now I can scroll my notes like I scroll Instagram because I was okay to pay, buy and learn.

Here are few courses that totally helped me.

1) Masterclass:

Malcom gladwells writing class was Amazing.
Also totally enjoyed listening to Neil gamans course.

They influenced my thinking while I write.

Dan brown’s course too is a delight to listen.

There are other course from Starbucks founder, Disney’s ceo etc. See what suits you.

2) Mind Valley:

I save consistency every month in Mutual Funds however, the finance course in Mindvalley gave me some basics to follow and think long term.

Their manifestation course seems to give back some magic in life again.

I’m excited to try more in their portal.

3) Matt gray:

Took multiple courses from this guy and he is a poster person on how to build system that are less dependent on you.

I’m still in awe how he runs his content empire and coaching empire making few million every year while traveling.

4) Justin Welsh’s LinkedIn OS

Freaking power packed course.

Hands down, he knows what he teaches and you look at his following on LinkedIn

5) Visualise Value:

While I haven’t applied this,
I still feel I got better at thinking and deciding on good designs

(Given I’m in marketing, this made me a slightly better person at judging ad copies and creatives - indirect influence I would say)

These are my Top 5. 

Bonus: Dan Koe - look up this guy and he talks sense on growing X audiance.

Combine all this and you will be unstoppable with consistency and know better what to do / write / build.

I hardly run out of topics to write now or things to do.

What courses did you love learning and impacted you well? Share in comments.

Steve Jobs is right when he said customers doesn't know what they want,

and it's only applicable if you know their problems, better than them.

If you never experienced the problem yourself, or have deeply understood your audience,

you have a better chance of survival serving what they want.

Iternate and then innovate, may be?

Take advice only from experts - changed my life.

If you to take advice on how to build a wall with bare hands. Take advice from the person who have built several walls before.

If you want to know how to borrow money, make someone build 100 walls, maintain positive cash flow from profits and re-investing all the time.

Take advice from someone who have sold 100 houses walls (atleast) and been through the process.

For me, it’s  very discomforting to listen advice from people who haven’t done things themselves and share advice, in career, or life.

In college, my friends and placement officer told me to work for free for sometime and get a job. I ended up making more money in first salary than other people who got placed in MNCs.

When I started up. My employer friends told me I have to get 5 years of experience in a job before starting something. While they have no idea what they are doing or saying.

When I started running. My non-running friends told me not to run as we aren’t used to it. One of them, I remember was grinding ear to ear thinking he is speaking as an expert.

When I started up. It took me months to find a mentor I could stick to. He would take weekly updates. I would have specific questions and he would advice how to rectify those. 

This is when I was borrowing money to pay rent in a 2 bhk (while 6-7 of us were sharing it). My mentor had experience with selling a $10mn company with less than 10 people working.

He knew what I was doing and saying was legitimate. 

I spoke to a person who did Ultraman (10km swim, 540km cycle and 84km run -to be finished in 3-5 days).

I asked him how much time I can spend weekly and it determines everything on how much I can do or aim.

Why? Because races are about training volume. 

If I asked some non triathlete the same. They would say, wait for 5-10 years or some BS like that and they have zero idea what they are speaking.

After my college, I was the first one to be placed and by the time my friends got offer letter. I already had one hike just in few months in salary and I was quitting my job to startup (or what I thought would be a start up, story for another day)

Done 2 Startups in the past and more ideas tested than I could remember. Every time I had an idea I would create a Facebook page. I may have atleast 10-15 pages created. 

I recently ran a 82.4km in a stadium track 400 meters loop). 

Most times I failed. Sometimes I succeed.

Success was sweet. And right mentors can make a lot of difference to get here.

After years of trying each, I would get lucky to find right person at once and it made the difference.

Building habits is so underrated.


Because it’s boring, repetitive, and results doesn’t come fast.

5 years ago, I started saving money in Mutual Funds, first 3 years I was like - it’s so less money what’s the point?

7 years ago, I started running, I used to dream of being able to run a 5km without stopping.

I never read much in school, even for marks. My 10th and 12th I have less than 60% , not because I couldn’t read, but because I did not understand the practical applications of them ln life? (I was a good student until 8th class though in terms of following the default study plan).

After saving money that I never believed I could save (actually money compounded that’s why it’s unreal), running a 82.4km in 12 hours (still unreal), and reading 301 books in last few years(no number typo there and unreal for me).

I could safely say - things compound beyond our imagination.

I figured first 2-3 years is about being consistent in the game and from there on magic starts (at least in above 3).

And bow to build these habits?

Easy.

- List down things that gave you energy and joy
- Pick one thing out of them
- Have a yearly goal
- Make it realistic by breaking them into daily / weekly goals (20 pages / day = 1 book every 2 weeks, 24 books a year)
- Set aside time for it
- Do this daily / weekly
- Only exceptions are  your ill health, family loss or your own death 
- Keep doing these since you started doing because you found joy in these

- Get adjusted in 6 weeks
- Be proud in 3 months
- Be suprised in 6 months
- Never look back after an year

Hope this helps, good luck!

PS: what are 3 things that gives you joy? Let me know in comments.

Do whatever you want,

sometimes it looks like being in the herd
sometimes it looks like standing out

and the mindset that, you are comparing is wrong.

Trust the process,

Follow your feelings, and see where they take you.

Sometimes asking help be like - ‘ I’m not able to work on XYZ task’, can you hold me accountable for this task? 

And let someone check on you. 

You don’t need to feel silly to ask small favours,

Sometimes mind refuses to do this and cripples our work / day. 

Asking for help is strength, not weakness.

Have you ever asked such small requests (with big impact)?

PS: I do it frequently.

If I say, I’m releasing a book soon. 

Which topic of the book won’t be too surprising for you to see, coming from me?

Taplio

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