Today I turn 28 years old.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me their birthday wishes!

And specially to our Twitter corner for making this world a better place.

To celebrate,

Here are 28 business lessons I’ve learned in 28 years.

//Birthday Thread//

Enjoy:
1) Find a network of winners

You can't achieve your dreams on your own.

You need people that will help you when you're down,

And celebrate you when you're up.

Rule of thumb:

If your network wants you to win, you'll win.
2) Trust yourself

Your gut knows more about life than you do.

If something feels right, go for it.

If something doesn't, it's for a reason.

"Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string."

-Emerson
3) Ask more questions

People don't ask questions because they're afraid of looking stupid.

Nonsense.

If you want something, get to the bottom of it.

We don't need more people following orders.

We need more people questioning them.
4) Double down on what works

I get results for my clients because I learned to say no.

-> No to doing ads
-> No to doing web design
-> No to doing SEO

We focused on email only because that's what we're good at.

Results?

$50 Million in email attributable revenue.
5) Trust the process

You'll be alive for decades more
You have billions of opportunities right in front of you
You'll forget about the problems you have today

If you keep trying, it's literally impossible to stay stuck.

Keep moving.
6) Choose who you work with wisely

Nothing will drain you more than the wrong partnership.

Choose people you

-> Trust
-> Want to work with
-> Can deliver

The wrong partnership can age you for years.

The right partnership can set you up for years.
7) Say no.

If you don't learn how to say no to people nobody will take you seriously.

Don't feel guilty about saying no to people who want to feed off your energy.

It's your time.

It's limited.

You choose who deserves it.
8) Money is good. But it's not all.

Money will make you happy,

To a point.

But taking good care of

-> Family
-> Self Respect
-> Love
-> Health
-> Purpose

Will make you happy forever.
24) Without family, it's all worthless

Call your mom, hang out with your dad, help your brother.

Family is what remains after all is gone.

And in your deathbed, it will all be gone.
25) Think Big

$4,300,000,000 are the estimated ecom sales in 2021.

There’s more than enough for you, me and everyone you know.
26) Don't take anything personally

If you react with logic over emotion, you're already ahead of most people

-Financially
-Spiritually
-Physically
-Mentally
-Emotionally

Most insults are not even directed at you.

They're insults people are too afraid to tell themselves.

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1) Increase # of customers
2) Increase # of purchases per customer
3) Increase $ per purchase

Here's how you do each (with examples):
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Because we’re talking about email, the main thing we need to focus on is sending more emails.

Obviously, with a focus on the right emails to the right person at the right time.

Here are 3 emails you can send to accomplish this:
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Structure:

>> Welcome to the family!
>> We are [brand]
>> Tell your brand's story
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>> CTA with discount already applied

Send to: anyone who joins your list.

Note: You'll want to build out a series for this.

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2) Abandoned Checkout Email:

Structure:

>> Quick reminder!
>> You left [products] behind
>> [Breakdown of items left behind]
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Send to: people who started their purchase but didn’t complete it.

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3) Sale Email:

Structure:

>> Sale alert!
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Send to: engaged, non-buyers.
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I scaled an email list from 0 to 500k subscribers in 10 months without using paid ads.

Here’s exactly how I did it:

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1. Cold email:

Cold email was our top channel.

We built a tool that aggregated the following data from Instagram:

> Accounts with posts tagged #travel
> Popular travel account followers (e.g. NatGeo)
> Accounts people geotagged with popular traveling destinations (e.g. Bali)

And continued collecting until we hit 5 million addresses.

Once we had the emails, it was time to start sending.

Which meant finding some killer subject lines.

Luckily, we knew everything about these people from their IG profiles, so…

We were able to send highly-personalized subject lines.

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> Your {{hashtag}} photo
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The average open rate?

45-50%.

Meaning out of the 5 million addresses, almost 2.5 million saw our email.

Not bad.

Now we couldn’t just auto-sub these people to the list…

But we could ask them to opt-in to our new community via our broadcasts.

And with our highly-personalized emails based on the data collected, we achieved 10-15% CTRs.

Resulting in 100's of thousands of clicks from roughly 5 million emails sent.

Note:

This result was only possible because of the time we put into segmentation & personalization.
2. Giveaways:

This was another massive channel for us.

We put together some insane travel packages (free airfares, hotel stays, etc.) that lucky subscribers could win via giveaways.

And every time we ran one to our existing audience…

We got 20-40k entries and 5-15k new subscribers.

To achieve these numbers, we also incentivized current subscribers to share the giveaway by giving them additional entries if they did.

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The emails were so good & value-packed (we weren’t selling anything yet) that subscribers from the giveaway would stay even after the winner was announced.

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I scaled an email list from 0 to 500k subscribers in 10 months without using paid ads.

Here’s exactly how I did it:

(Steal my playbook)

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1. Cold email

Cold email was our top channel.

We built a tool that aggregated the following data from Instagram:

> Accounts with posts tagged #travel
> Popular travel account followers (e.g. NatGeo)
> Accounts people geotagged with popular traveling destinations (e.g. Bali)

And continued collecting until we hit 5 million addresses.

Once we had the emails, it was time to start sending.

Which meant finding some killer subject lines.

Luckily, we knew everything about these people from their IG profiles, so…
We were able to send highly-personalized subject lines.

For example:

> Your {{hashtag}} photo
> Travel influencer
> Came across your Instagram
> {{username}} <> Email Travel Series

The average open rate?

45-50%.

Meaning out of the 5 million addresses, almost 2.5 million saw our email.

Not bad.

Now we couldn’t just auto-sub these people to the list…

But we could ask them to opt-in to our new community via our broadcasts.

And with our highly-personalized emails based on the data collected, we achieved 10-15% CTRs.

Resulting in 100's of thousands of clicks from roughly 5 million emails sent.

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