busness deas

I have been to easily 10+ apartments, houses, offices or studios with one of these in them in the last 90 days

Aesthetic market fit

Somebody should build an MVP agency to launch new ideas quickly 

- I pay you ~$5k
- give you v1 feature list
- you ship in 4-6 weeks
- very basic, default TailwindUI

Does this exist? I’d spin up 4-5 ideas at a time if there was a shop that could churn these out at scale.

Imagine this nightmare: I wake up and poof - Obvi's been wiped from existence.

The brand, following, everything.

Scary, right?

But here's the kicker: I'd be able to get back to $40M with ease.

If I had to rebuild from the ground up, here are the top 3 things I'd do…

Ecommerce Growth Rundown 🧵

10 articles. 10 tools. 10 takeaways.

Maximum growth begins below.

How to build an agency that scales, fast.

I've built multiple $1m - $10m+ agencies.

This is my playbook 📖:

Early-stage founder tip:

Pay experts by the hour to coach you on things you don’t have experience on, like:

- Meta & Google ads
- Landing pages
- Creative briefing
- Shopify theme configuration

Learn from others at first, and become an expert over time.

I just got some behind the scenes numbers on a few e-Commerce brands that are absolutely crushing the CRO game.

Here are 6 webites that have a conversion rate of 4-6.5% 👀

A thread:

I bought 50% of a business 1.5 years ago, and it’ll do $2-3M of free cash-flow this year.  

I got paid back my original investment in 6 months.

It got me thinking...

This is the golden era to buy a venture-backed business. 

Startups are going OUT OF BUSINESS left, right and…

Day &amp; Night Set

Thanks for writing this up! 

One thing not mentioned: how everyone around me, from my coworkers to my 3PL to my family, played a huge role in making Native a success.

How to test your business idea for < $100:

1. Write an article focused on the problem you want to solve
2. Run Facebook ads with 3 different USP headlines that all push to the article
3. Analyze how much the market cares about the problem and which positioning works best

Local SEO is the easiest way to make money as an agency right now, here's why...

1. It's easier than traditional SEO

Ranking in the Maps pack is far easier than the traditional SERPs. You don't have to worry about building a ton of expensive links or content, you can hire a VA…

Wow this is cool.

You can find business ideas by searching through troves of Reddit data.

Product is called Gummy Search and it's basically a search engine for Reddit.

1000s of good business ideas by simply searching:

"I wish"
"I hate"
"I need"

There are so many eCommerce businesses crushing that no one has ever heard of...

Sell boring, expensive, niche, necessary products to a large market and count your cash while the rest of the world bleeds to death selling the cool stuff.

A hill I'll die on:

95% of entrepreneurs should forget about technology (a few big fish and a lot of sophisticated fishermen) and focus on small business (small fish everywhere and really crappy fishermen).

A THREAD...

@theisaacmed "Low AOV is bad" is high on the list of biggest myths in Meta Ads.

With the volume of content you have access to, there is a very clear playbook to run here:

1. Try a mix of subscription offers and bundle offers (the former aimed at LTV, the latter aimed at AOV).

2. Run some…

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Genius

First job of a CEO:  
- Find product market fit
- Doer-in-chief

Second job of a CEO: 
- Build an organization
- Company-builder-in-chief

Third job of a CEO: 
- Invest profits in new products to re-steepen growth
- Innovator-in-chief

The 7 Eleven video is my second biggest.

I pulled myself into it several times.

900k views, 55k shares. 4k+ followers.

It's not about me, but you can't watch it without being like *who is this guy telling me about this??*

Insightful comment about the psychology of wealth in America

A graph so beautiful some call it the "Mona Lisa" of E-commerce

I run a $745K/year business with 0 full-time employees.

Here are 6 lesser-known tools I use to get sh*t done and sell more stuff:

Ok listen up for an iron law of economics.

When you subsidize the purchase of something, the market price of the thing goes UP by exactly the amount of the subsidy.

Everyone can now afford whatever they could afford before, plus the subsidy amount. The price gets bid up…

This tweet deserves to go viral. 

Ben is criminally under-followed. 

Brands, read it, soak it, live it. 

Bridges episode inspiration for sure.

Marc Andreesen on why building companies will become more expensive in the AI Era.

There's a notion that AI will help cut down costs and increase efficiency. However, Marc presented a strong counterargument by referencing Jevon's paradox.

Jevon's paradox:

The Jevon's paradox…

If you want a home-run business to build over the next 10 years, just take whatever the techy-fitness-wealthy influencers are into and make a kids version.

Healthy food -> healthy toddler pouches

Non-synthetic clothes -> non-synthetic kids clothes

Cold plunges -> baby cold…

Here's the template I use whenever I need to delegate something.

It's yours to copy/use/steal.

Just for fun, I decided to make a list of top tools that we are using across my portfolio of companies 👇

Few Important things:

- Our team @awesomemotive is fully remote across 50 countries.

- Over 25 million websites use the software we create.

- I have over 40+ portfolio…

Business should be more like poker.

How can I maximize my gain and minimize my risk?

How much cash do I really need to try to win on this hand?

my ecom stack (to get to $25m/yr) - here's each tool that I use, and what I use it for. 

1) @triplewhale - mobile dashboard is great. I can monitor the business at a glance on my phone. 

2) @NumeralTax - state taxes. If you're not doing state taxes right, you're going to end up…

I think the front end purchasing is going to get disinter-mediated across tons of different locations (Meta shops, tik tok shops, fermat style shops, retail, marketplace etc. etc). 

websites are an archaic idea

I f*cking love this sport (business). 

This video below describes a similar method I used for my last 2 clients: 

One $500M client that was growing 30% YoY top line but had accumulated tremendous inventory liabilities, new customer growth had slowed and their ROAS across their…

A perfect example is(Not a paid promotion). 

They are brilliantly building a native inventoryOS into your Shopify dash. 

As former founder of Chubbies, Kyle Hency, intimately understands the core problem an apparel business needs to solve.

Be like water.

Take the path of least resistance. 

The goal of every entrepreneur should be:

#1. Gain financial freedom

and

#2. Maximize the probability of achieving #1

How to spot a company that’s starting a new hype cycle instead of chasing an old one…

1. You wouldn’t describe the company as “the Uber for x” or “the Tinder for y.” A first-of-its-kind company can’t be categorized neatly in comparison to an existing company.

2. The founder is…

Innovation can happen in really small ways. 

I'm getting moderately wealthy right now by applying out-of-the-box software to self storage facilities.

I'm one of about 100 groups of folks doing exactly this.