I’ve built 10+ brands to $100m+ in total sales

Here are the 4 biggest lessons:
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1) Riches in Niches is overrated.

Show me a a brand in a small niche that did $100m+

And I’ll show you 100 in the biggest categories:

Health, wealth, love & status.
2) Limit choices.

Many brands try to launch 10-50 products at once.

Instead, pick 4-8.

Or, just 1.

An old rule of marketing:

Give people too many choices, and they will pick 0.
3) Look for an Education Opportunity

Example: The Honest Company

Taught you many household items contain bad chemicals.

Then, they offered you items that didn’t.

Another example:

4) Solve a pressing problem.

If it doesn't involve health, wealth, love or status, it's probably not pressing enough.

Seek to enter the conversation in your prospect’s mind, that keeps them up at night.

Then solve that problem, so they can go back to sleep.
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- Crafting irresistible ads
- Growing brands to $100m in Year 1
- How to crush it without a college degree
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Want to 10X your income in the next 4 years?

No, this isn't a get rich quick scheme.

Here are 6 rules that helped me do it, from 2009-2013, and the action steps to start today👇
1) Quit Your Porn

Everyone has some sort of “porn”, that hijacks your brain, & wastes your time.

Yours could be actual porn, or a different time-suck like video games or (gasp!) twitter.

The Key: Identify the distraction.

Action Step: Commit to quitting "it" for 60 days
2) Exit Your Social Cyclone

In NYC, every night was a special event or someone's birthday.

"I'll do one drink" could turn into 10.

Action Step: Realize events are optional.

Don't skip your Mom's birthday, but make growing your business the priority event.
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This is gonna piss a lot of people off.

But I'll say it:

Bitclout is about to take over the world.

It's the future of social media, advertising, and monetization for your favorite creators, athletes, and musicians.

Here's why👇
Ok, what the hell is Bitclout?

Bitclout = Robinhood + Twitter, but decentralized on the blockchain

Decentralized = no banning.

Blockchain = money + transparency built in.
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On Bitclout, the people are the stonks.

Everyone has a “coin price” over their head.

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I sucked at writing.

5 years later, my writing helped build a multi 9-figure business.

You can use the method I used, to master any skill in 4 steps👇
1) Immersion

You need to live and breathe your skill nearly all your waking hours.

For my first 3 years learning copywriting, I didn't listen to music in my car.

Only marketing or copywriting courses. Which back then were on CDs and cassettes.
2) Application

You must DO your skill at least 5 days a week!

My mentor Eben challenged me to write 10 pages a day.

He promised me a raise to 100k, if I could do it for 6 months

I did it, & got it.

But more importantly, putting the boots on the ground daily got me the chops
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We did $1.1 million in sales in 2 days.

Ya know those probiotics we all take?

In 2014, we became the biggest seller in the USA, using a little-known category secret.

Here’s the story👇
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1) Clueless - What is that?

2) Curious - I've heard of it

3) Saturated - I've heard it too much
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For the Curious, you need to catch the wave.

And if you try to enter the Saturated, the wave will body slam your ass.
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Today is my 42nd birthday. Here are 42 things I’ve learned. Business, relationships, and life:

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1. Write letters to your parents sharing your thoughts on your childhood, both angry and happy. Send the happy ones.
2. There is no such thing as being overdressed. There is only making other people feel under-dressed.
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1. Trying to be funny. If you’re in the copy game, you are likely speaking on something your customer is VERY serious about. Less humor = you sounding MORE important
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2. Sounding too “hyped up”.

If you use too many exclamation points, then you won’t be able to make it POP when you need a big one. Limit yourself to 1 per page
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3. Describing scenarios that are TOO specific.

E.g. if selling a dating advice product to men, saying “Have you ever been at a bar and met a hot blonde, got her number, she was so into you… then she didn’t call back?”
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