Are you sure we’re allowed in here? It’s the CRO Roundtable Roundup!
Thanks to Matt Beischel and Iqbal Ali for joining us.
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One Sentence Takeaway
I’m a busy person; give me the TL:DR
Prioritize maintaining a small, focused business to reduce stress and increase value without the complexities of scaling.
The Notes
What we discussed this week
- Growth Strategies for Small Businesses
- Trade-offs between hiring and raising prices
- Maintaining work-life balance with a smaller team
- The myth of stress-free team management portrayed in media
- Automation of LinkedIn Events
- Using Selenium to automate event creation
- Exploring API limitations with LinkedIn
- Evaluating third-party tools like Zapier
- Company of One Philosophy
- Balancing growth with maintaining autonomy
- Maximizing value without increasing overhead
- Exploring the financial implications of scaling
- Remote Work and Social Interaction
- Importance of virtual roundtables for social engagement
- Challenges of isolation in remote work
- The value of occasional in-person interaction
- Site and Event Management
- Improvements to CRO Talks site
- Finding better calendar plugins
- Editing modules and pages with Elementor
- Building and Managing AI Models Locally
- Running models like Gemini and GPT-4 locally
- Creating specialized AI models with custom knowledge
- Exploring Docker-based setups for AI experimentation
The Quotes
Standout quips from this week
“If I hire somebody, that doesn’t mean I can take a vacation.”
— Iqbal Ali
“The value isn’t in that specifically. It’s in the actual talk that you’re producing.”
— Iqbal Ali
“I hate the term vibe coding… I think it sounds stupid.”
— Matt Beischel
CRO Link Digest
Useful and thought-provoking content shared this week
- Selenium – software for automating website interaction
- Open Web UI – user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline
- Zapier – web workflow automation platform
Book Club
Relevant reads recommended this week
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better—and smarter—solution is simply to remain small? This book explains how to do just that.
Off-Topic Sidebars
Experimentation isn’t the only thing we talk about at the CRO Roundtable. There’s often a healthy dose of discussion on shared interests, personal passions, and hobbies.
- Celsius vs. Fahrenheit for temperature measurement
- Vacation and travel plans for London
- Indoor rock climbing
Sidebar Shareables
Amusing sidebar content shared this week
- No Sidebar Shareables this week, sorry!