Testimonials
Kind words from clients and colleagues
I’ve been fortunate to work with many individuals and companies. Here is a selection of their feedback and kind words.
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1-on-1 Coaching
“With his help I went from dry spells in my consulting business to booking and getting paid in advance for gigs three months in advance.”
— Kareem Mayan, Principal, TrialToPaid.com — Read full testimonial
“I had immediate results, closing two clients for the recurring offering and earning a lot more work from the first two offboarding calls I had with clients.”
— Matthew Tallarico, Founder, GrowthFront Marketing — Read full testimonial
“As a result of working with Kai, I found clarity in my positioning (who I wanted to work with) and the services I wanted to offer.”
— Vincent Dickie, My Sales Flow — Read full testimonial
“The first couple of things I worked on with Kai immediately grew my consulting business.”
— Matty McLain, Founder, MattyMclain.com — Read full testimonial
“I’ve made about six months’ worth of progress in under three months, and I felt clear, confident, and totally supported the whole way.”
— Marissa Bracke, Owner, Just B Consulting — Read full testimonial
“Since I started working with Kai 5 months ago, my career has come into perfect focus. I’ve never been more clear about where I want to go and what I want to do.”
— Patrick Foley, PatrickFoley.com — Read full testimonial
“Working with Kai helped me realize that I can do marketing and sales. It helped me become a real business, not just someone who is getting projects by chance.”
— Yuval Oren, DevOps Consultant & Owner, PineWise — Read full testimonial
“In three months I’m making a profit, and better yet, I have a plan to breakthrough into my dream industry.”
— Adam Nicholson, Dubu Digital — Read full testimonial
“This work with Kai has helped me close a high value client and I have more deals in progress.”
— Maksymilian Majer, CEO, ITCraftship — Read full testimonial
“Being a part of Kai’s group coaching Marketing Accelerator Program has been one of the best decisions I have ever made from my business.”
— Jacklyn Deans, Ecommerce Consultant, Flash + Color — Read full testimonial
“I have increased my prices faster than I would have otherwise.”
— Bruce Harpham, Content Marketing Strategy — Read full testimonial
“The investment paid off immediately and is the best one I ever made in my business!”
— Meg Cumby, MegCumby.com — Read full testimonial
“Working with Kai helps make consulting less daunting by providing clarity on a manageable path to greater success.”
— Jen Havice — Read full testimonial
“I achieved a personal best: $10,000+ in pre-orders for my new course “Learn Javascript."”
— Zell, zellwk.com — Read full testimonial
“If you’re feeling confused about the best way to grow your business, call Kai.”
— Crystal Ellefsen, ConsultingforAuthors.com — Read full testimonial
Done-for-You Services
“It was well worth the money. We got so much value. It lifted the burden of decision making for us.”
— Marie Poulin and Benjamin Borowski, Co-Founders, Notion Mastery — Read full testimonial
“We tripled the amount of organic traffic that was coming to our site. Now we rank on the first page for all our major keywords.”
— Keith Perhac, Founder, Summit Evergreen — Read full testimonial
“Within 3 months, Kai cut high-cost, low-impact parts of our marketing, saving us thousands monthly. The processes he put in place will be our foundation for years to come.”
— Keith Perhac, CEO, SegMetrics — Read full testimonial
“Having Kai focused on our marketing increased our capabilities by quite a bit. It took a lot of work off my plate and saved me a bunch of effort. What I like most is that Kai looks for problems to solve.”
— Mike Julian, CEO, The Duckbill Group — Read full testimonial
“I’ve been able to bring the app to a positive year-over-year trailing twelve months growth. Something I don’t know would have happened if I didn’t have you in my ear telling me to get on podcasts!”
— Ilana Davis, owner of JSON-LD for SEO — Read full testimonial
“I never have to feed Kai what to do, he proactively goes out and finds opportunities. There’s no question about the outcomes and results Kai has helped me achieve.”
— Brennan Dunn, Owner/Founder, Double Your Freelancing — Read full testimonial
“We ended up adding some key content back to our redesigned site that has made a difference in the amount of new leads we get.”
— Arianne, Captain/Founder, Aeolidia — Read full testimonial
“I was placed on over 50 podcasts! A huge level-up for my business!”
— nickd, Designer, draft.nu — Read full testimonial
“Working together, I learned that outreach is a process: It’s valuable and it takes time to slowly develop and learn what works.”
— Jonathan Raymond, Founder, Refound.com — Read full testimonial
“I am much better equipped to act on the growth plan and put strategies in place to hit my user growth goals.”
— Celso White, Founder, Otto Scheduler — Read full testimonial
“With Kai’s help on my cold-emails for an outreach campaign, we saw an increase in responses by 2-3%.”
— Joshua Waldman, President & CEO of Billy — Read full testimonial
“Kai Davis is Last Week in AWS’s go-to fixer — anything we need solved, he’s on it.”
— Corey Quinn, Last Week in AWS — Read full testimonial
“There’s a clear distinction in my email audience growth before and after the episodes started coming out.”
— Swizec Teller, author at swizec.com — Read full testimonial
“Kai helped us identify things that we didn’t realize were issues on our website. We immediately saw our email campaigns spike and so far, it was a great decision.”
— KJ Smith, Marketing Director, RIPT Apparel — Read full testimonial
1-on-1 Calls
“Just one advice from him helped me lay the foundation for an imperative fundamental shift in my entire business.”
— Jan Winum, Founder GITNS and Mailiac — Read full testimonial
“In 15 minutes, we literally came up with a new, profitable, and frankly easy productized service to add to my business.”
— Kurt E. — Read full testimonial
“After speaking with Kai I have clear, actionable steps on how to grow my business. There was no fluff, no bs, no running of the clock.”
— Jacklyn D. — Read full testimonial
““Kai, you gave me a piece of advice last year that made those “famine” times almost non-existent, and I wanted to tell you THANK YOU!”
— Kris Kellogg-Garrison, Founder, The Click Creative and The Click Creative Quilting Shop — Read full testimonial
“I’ve managed to more than 4.5x the amount of monthly income I was receiving before our call.”
— Rachel Shillcock, Founder & Designer, Rachilli — Read full testimonial
“Since we’ve worked together, I’ve had the confidence and clarity to work towards my goals.”
— Lee C. — Read full testimonial
“Kai cuts through your inner debates and fears and gets you focused on your next best steps.”
— Marian E. — Read full testimonial
“I got feedback that was tailored to my situation about which activities I should focus on in order to get to a paying client the fastest.”
— Zaid Hisham, zaidhisham.com — Read full testimonial
“I now have clear next steps, additional marketing ideas, and a motivation boost.”
— Brian Hogg, Creator, Making Pro Plugins — Read full testimonial
“Within 15 minutes, he provided several great suggestions for my high-touch communications consulting business — including a very actionable suggestion that opened my eyes to a new addressable market.”
— Bob Lalasz, Founder & Principal Consultant, Science+Story Communications — Read full testimonial
“Kai helped me to confirm some of my ideas and also fix wrong assumptions I had in mind.”
— WJ Bae — Read full testimonial
“Kai is a wealth of knowledge, and it’s clear that his goal is to make sure you achieve your goal in the most effective and efficient way possible.”
— Erik Jacobson, Founder, LemonPie.fm — Read full testimonial
“This call saved me HOURS of research and trial and error.”
— Connie H. — Read full testimonial
“As a result of working with Kai, I got clarity on a decision I needed to make for my business.”
— Baz (aka Rahoul Baruah), ClientRobot.com — Read full testimonial
“Kai helped me develop a clear plan on which people and companies to target for business.”
— Bruce — Read full testimonial
“I came away with confidence and a plan of action I can put to work right away to connect with people in a new business area.”
— Greg Milette, Gradison Technologies Inc. — Read full testimonial
“Kai’s advice was very easy for me to take action on. He definitely made the penny drop on a number of issues that I had great concerns about.”
— Malcolm Myers, AMH Test Systems, UK — Read full testimonial
““I was able to raise my daily rate from $600 to $800 with an existing client.”
— Zan Anderle — Read full testimonial
“Since our initial call, I’ve built a 6-figure agency and given jobs to 20+ people all around the world.”
— Jakub Zajicek, Co-Founder and CMO, Speak On Podcasts — Read full testimonial
Website Teardowns
“It is now about two weeks since the teardown, and the fee I paid has more than paid for itself.”
— Reuven Lerner, Author of PracticeMakesPython.com — Read full testimonial
“Average sales went from 1 or 2 per day to 3 or 4 per day (Just yesterday I made 3 sales of $119 each)!”
— Jorge, https://javebratt.com/ — Read full testimonial
“This teardown has totally been worth it. The insights I’ve gotten give me some very specific paths to take, and will easily bring my website up 2 levels.”
— Nathan Lippi, VP Marketing (CMO) at Letter Friend — Read full testimonial
“The advice from the tear down has helped me not only improve my website, but also my approach to business!”
— Robert Games, Founder, Pad Media — Read full testimonial
“My overall confidence level in the site was dramatically increased.”
— Jonathan Stark, Mobile Strategy Consultant for Credit Unions, JonathanStark.com — Read full testimonial
Other Testimonials
“I started a convo with them about raising my rate, which went very well, and now I’ll be making an extra $5-6k per month.”
— Jeremy G., Consultant — Read full testimonial
“The Independent Consulting Manual is what I recommend to everyone who asks me how to get started in freelancing/consulting!”
— David Colgan, Founder and Solo Consultant — Read full testimonial
“I’m pretty certain that @kaisdavis is the Kevin Bacon of internet-based businesses.”
— Pat Maddox (@patmaddox) January 4, 2018 — Read full testimonial
“I sign up for (and unsubscribe from) a lot of emails, but I always keep yours because they offer quick, uncomplicated, no bull-shit value!”
— Dina N., Founder, Glowfly Marketing — Read full testimonial
“Kai, I really appreciate what you bring to what I’d call ‘modern’ consulting (between me and you, I’ve grown a wee bit tired of just reading Alan Weiss)”
— Brandon M. — Read full testimonial
“I get a ton of newsletters these days, but I always look forward to Kai’s letters (and actually read them)”
— Nicholas S., Founder, Growth Marketing Toolbox — Read full testimonial
“Simply talking to him provided great value for my SaaS biz, I can’t wait to start working with him!”
— Jason Forrest (@tenlinesofcode) September 10, 2014 — Read full testimonial
“Your advice has helped make doing outreach not only make sense, but actually comfortable for me (which I didn’t think was possible just a few months ago).”
— Tsavo — Read full testimonial
“Everyone needs a second pair of eyes on their business, but Kai goes beyond that by bringing in a second, more experienced mind.”
— Aaron Mahnke, Founder & Host, Lore Podcast — Read full testimonial
What Newsletter Readers Say
“Your newsletter rocks. I appreciate your wisdom. I trust your opinion, and I don’t even know you.”
— Kim Lifton, President, Wow Writing Workshop
“Kai is top of mind when I have a marketing implementation concern — “didn’t Kai write something about this a while back? goes to gmail to search. BOOM — there it is!””
— Paul Swail, Principal Consultant, Winter Wind Software
“The main value I get from Kai’s newsletter is another perspective on problems, solutions and processes — it teaches me how to look at things differently, usually in a nicer, kinder way. His emails are short and offer templates that are ready to use. I think his is one of the perfect examples of a newsletter.”
— Franz Sauerstein, Owner, WooCommerce Marketing Consultancy
“I really enjoy Kai’s work. His list is phenomenal and he’s got a lot of small focused high quality guides that are very useful at every level of doing business.”
— Joel Hooks, Founder, Badass Courses
“Kai’s newsletter tackles some of the issues that get ignored.”
— Ethan Clevenger, Owner, Sterner Stuff — Read full testimonial
“More than once I’ve implemented Kai’s advice and seen an increase in leads, customers, and revenue.”
— Pete Boyle, Founder, GrowthModels.co — Read full testimonial