Monitorbook – From side project to profitable company, a journey into sales

Not even a good shill. On the amplemarket front page "John from Monitorbook" says he has a team of 15 sales reps. On the marketing post he says he has a team of 6.

It's a good idea, but not entirely correct. Looks like the founder of Amplemarket is a different John, but probably a friend or something.

source: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fetch-6

I'm almost 100% certain "John Averi" and "John Carroll" aren't real people (notice you can't see the faces). Would be worth looking into who's actually running these companies (doesn't seem to be any public information available).

I was really disappointed that there was no mention of what they changed in their product or message to increase sales.

The fact that they were struggling so much suggests either that the product was missing key features that the market was looking for, or else their marketing either wasn't conveying the features people cared about or was being targeted at the wrong market.

As someone else pointed out, this looks like a shill for Ample Market, the entire article could be summarized as "We sucked at marketing, so we outsourced it".

I've actually started using amplemarket 4 months ago. We are a small team based in San Francisco and we wanted to ramp up our outbound sales without having to hire a lot of people. Amplemarket is working really well so far and each of us has its own virtual sales assistant now. I was able to double the number of weekly calls with potential customers since we started using amplemarket. The main pro is that I really don't have to worry about the initial part of the sales funnel: from the first touch point to the first call. Since they have my target customer profile, they do lead generation for me, answer any potential questions the prospects might have and finally calls just magically pop up in my calendar.