🤯 My e-commerce brand just passed the $500,000 in 2021 YTD revenue mark last week. No venture funding. Year one. And we're profitable. I'd like to story tell a few huge learnings I've gained as a 20 year old dropout who formerly cooked fries at McDonald's. 🧵Here we go.

Revolutionary.

"Buy The Season Tickets". Heard this wild fact on a pod recently:. Jesse Itzler bought four $320K Yankees Legend-level season tickets—financed by a friend on a “no-lose” deal. Jesse had $8k in the bank. He had to pay back in two years with interest, or the friend keeps the.

ego-crushing lesson i've learned:. the "sales cycle" is actually a real thing. you are not going to close every deal on the first call. if you're charging a lot, it simply takes time for people to think. impatient with inputs, patient with results.

“ Lazy” things/hacks I do that save me a f*ck ton of time so I can focus on the big picture:. - InstaCart/UberEats for groceries .- Meal prep 80% of meals .- Automate 90% of my inbox work with AI.- Yap to AI for 10 mins and let it formally structure my ideas for me.- Supplement.

Volume Always Wins. I moved out of my parents' house last year. No safety net. No real backup plan. Just my agency and a realization that hit me like a truck. My agency wasn't growing for one simple reason:.Not enough people knew it existed. The core four pillars of Lead Gen

Volume Always Wins. I moved out of my parents' house last year. No safety net. No real backup plan. Just my agency and a realization that hit me like a truck. My agency wasn't growing for one simple reason:.Not enough people knew it existed. The core four pillars of Lead Gen

Volume Always Wins. I moved out of my parents' house last year. No safety net. No real backup plan. Just my agency and a realization that hit me like a truck. My agency wasn't growing for one simple reason:.Not enough people knew it existed. The core four pillars of Lead Gen

Volume Always Wins. I moved out of my parents' house last year. No safety net. No real backup plan. Just my agency and a realization that hit me like a truck. My agency wasn't growing for one simple reason:.Not enough people knew it existed. The core four pillars of Lead Gen

Volume Always Wins. I moved out of my parents' house last year. No safety net. No real backup plan. Just my agency and a realization that hit me like a truck. My agency wasn't growing for one simple reason:.Not enough people knew it existed. The core four pillars of Lead Gen

Volume Always Wins. I moved out of my parents' house last year. No safety net. No real backup plan. Just my agency and a realization that hit me like a truck. My agency wasn't growing for one simple reason:.Not enough people knew it existed. The core four pillars of Lead Gen

You don't need a morning routine to make money. You need to solve expensive problems for people who can afford to pay.

Creating demand isn't complicated. Find what's bleeding money for people who have it -> fix it -> name your price.

I always laugh a little internally when a client asks me "when's a good time to start?". Bro. The best time to start posting on TikTok was 2 years ago. The second best time is right now. Every day you wait just makes the window of opportunity smaller and smaller.

The most valuable skill you can build is staying in a great mood when there's nothing to feel great about.

I'd rather have average product with elite distribution than elite product with average distribution.

Most people would rather fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally.

I'll never really understand why people willingly choose to accept a role at a company, then early on start to complain about the pay/the workload. It couldn't of been made more clear to you during the meetings. We all agreed. You signed. Now you're pissed?. That's on you.

I was 22 when a wealthy founder told me something that rewired my entire operating system. Not some fluffy "believe in yourself" advice. A brutal observation about why most people fail. He said: "I study rich people. They're not smarter than everyone else. They just decide.

Find it so funny when people use AI for a serious email response/Slack message and think no one will notice. You’ve spoken a certain way for the past 62 days and now suddenly you’re using the word “prosperous” ? . Hell nah.