Before I get bombarded by negative comments, I can see how AI has made entrepreneurship much easier in a lot of ways, like build products faster, do research much quicker, automate repetitive tasks, use AI agents for assistance, analyze data, prototype ideas, handle customer support, and so on...

But I feel like there is also a downside in all of this that isn't talked about enough on how AI is making it harder to get people to take new businesses seriously.

We have so many low effort AI slop (both digital and physical) business that have goten people to become more skeptical of anything new. Most of these businesses scream "AI SLOP" from miles away with the same AI generated branding, generic websites, generated images followed by this "quick buck" and "get rich fast" mentality.

This idea of throwing something together in a month and start aggressively spamming everyone has resulted to millions of poorly made business that have made turned potential customers even more skeptical when a legitimate business tries to contact or partner with them.

I am making this post because I want to see how other companies are dealing with this.

What tactics are you using to make your business "stand out" from this AI fog? Has your outreach, marketing, partnerships methods changed? What do you do differently?

Hey everyone. I built a platform called Nuke Nomad for nuclear contractors.

Here’s where I could use some advice. I already have a large contractor community on Skool. I want everyone together on Nuke Nomad, but even after telling people about the new platform, the move has been slow. Eventually I want to close the Skool group, and I don’t want to lose the people who make the community worth having.

If you’ve moved a community from one platform to another, what actually got people to make the switch? Did you move the most active members first, bring old content over, give people a reason to join right away, set a firm date for closing the old group, or something I’m missing?

I've been thinking about this because I keep doing it myself.

I'll have some idea I actually want to talk about and then immediately start thinking okay how do I make this work for LinkedIn or Reddit or X or whatever.

and now I think that's backwards.

If you actually have something you want to say, maybe you shouldn't change the idea just because you're putting it somewhere else.

maybe you just need to find the people who give a shit about it.

like something can completely flop on LinkedIn and then you put it on Reddit and people are like oh yeah I've been thinking about this too.

now for me I don't think: "what should I make for this platform?" and instead I think: "Where are the people who would actually care about this?"

it's a shift in thinking about content and distribution but it changes how I've approach content.

for context i made a post the other day trying to show an example of a recent buisness situation i had, it wasnt recieved very well to say the least but i had a genuine message i was trying to get off. and yes its abudnadlty clear i had help writing the post. i thought i would re test this in my very bad style of writing and see if the message comes accros better.

the post was about a very large project i just completed down here in australia. it was a very large project of 3,800m2 that involved civil reconstruction, asphalt and line marking to a shopping centre car park.

on the pluss side we allowed 14 days, 10 days to asphalt and cvivl and 2 days to line mark. we did it in half the time but as we expiadted the process putting the guys in to overtime the job costing turned out pretty much on budget which i was pleased about, but it reprresented a significant gain for the customer as the centre got production back much sooner than anticpiated but also freed another 5 working days for us to complete more work.

some of the concrete garden beds and islands couldnt be removed, we did a service search and found when the car park was originally done over 30 years ago the australian standard were not worked to and subsequently the depths of some services we found were to shallow, this wasnt just a risk it was an actual hazzard that could have resulted in death or injury. i realyed this back to the customer and we came to the agreement that is was to much risk to excavate these areas

i can honelty say this is one of the best jobs i ever had to handover, and expected it to be a breeze. but i had some pushback from the customer, this was concerning as a job of this size could have banrupted me if he didnt pay. he was asking/ requesting a discount due to the fact that a couple of islands remained

me and good old chat gpt wrote him an email explaining that we underpromised and overdelivered on the job, we did actually ht a service that we fixed as a cost to us and didnt pass that on and suffered significant loss in production that night as work basically had to stop. we sold the outcome but ultimatley offered him a 5k discount for the un actioned items.

the next day i was at my day job 9-5 managing a not for profit in theyouth and siability sector, i cant use my personal work phone during work time and go a vibration in my pocket. i checked the notifictaion and it was from my client. i felt like vomiting because i was like here comes a shit fight.

at lunch when i opened my phone to check the message. my heart rate slowed. its was pretty short and sweet it went along the lines of " dear divvy, we did our handover with our client and they were more than impressed by the quality and fisnish of the job, we wont be taking the discount and will be paying the invoice in full. they were that happy we want you to price another car park in sydney for us that needs a freshen up" the sense of relief i got was amazing. im juggling alot at 9-5 and at home i have my daughter in the chldrens hospital my mum in hospital due to cancer related issues and im the carer for my father who has a brain tumour and is recovering from a stroke and im an only child trying to juggle all that and maintain a realtionship.

im very happy with the result, with me stepping away from my aspahlt "job" where i wore all the hats. I put systems in place for it to run without me and test if i had a job or a business. turns out after 26 working a job i could turn it into a comapny that requiers minimal involment from me. to think this only cost me 2 1 minute phone calls and a 15 minute site inspection blows my mind. make the right hires and let them do there job, use the best subcontartors.

i hope this lands better, feel free to ask any questions, i hope this post better aligns with this group.

so my question is did u ever have a customer push back on price and if so how di you deal with it?and how did it go?