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Bryan Harris

@Harris_Bryan

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Co-Founder of 3 kids. Working on Growth Tools, monthly coaching that aspires to make it nearly impossible to fail to get more customers.

Nashville, TN
Joined October 2008
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
1 year
New client acquisition channels take 6-9 months of daily tracking and iteration to become reliable and stable. Don't start unless you're working on that timeline. Ads? 6-9 months Organic? 6-9 months Partnerships? 6-9 months Results should trickle in before then. But cost,
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Bryan Harris
4 years
“Most people never, ever forget the first person to give them a sizable advance on their own self-confidence. There's no greater security in life than being a serial enabler of wonderful people” ( @webdevMason )
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3 years
Atomic Habits = great book!
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Bryan Harris
4 years
5 levels of delegation Level 1: Do what I have asked Level 2: Research and I’ll decide Level 3: Research and recommend Level 4: Decide & tell me Level 5: Decide and do without me
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
5 years
I will give $1,000 per month for 3 months to one person with an idea for a business they want to start. 1. Comment with your business idea 2. Retweet this and follow me I’ll pick winner on July 19th and post it here. CREATING THINGS IS FUN!! 💥💥
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4 years
6 elements required for a company to run well: 1. Core belief 2. Problem to solve 3. Solution to build 4. Strategy to follow 5. Goals to make progress 6. Tasks to perform Who does what? This is how I think about it...
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
4 years
Quit my job 7 years ago today! 🙏🏻 Results: 1. Started Growth Tools 2. Launched 4 courses 3. ...17 software products 4. ...3 coaching programs 5. Wrote 100s blog posts 6. Past $15m in revenue 7. Employ 20 ppl Best years of career. Time of my life! It started with quitting...
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
4 years
Economics of a daily newsletter run on sponsorships: - 118,000 subscribers - 36% open and 8% click - $1,000 per email - Run by @tldrdan That’s a $350k+ year business run by 1 person with nearly no infrastructure cost. Intrigued? 5 markets you could do this in...
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
5 years
🔥I just finished one of my all time favorite books... The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard Big Idea: 3 simple 1-min tasks to be a world class leader. They aren’t hard and don’t take much time. 1. One Minute Goals 2. One Minute Praising 3. One Minute Redirect A thread 👇
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Bryan Harris
5 years
Unpopular opinion: Multiple monitors is a distraction.
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@Harris_Bryan
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6 years
🔶 This is your annual reminder 🔶 Remember that app you tried out 2 years ago? It's owner can still read all of your email. Go check on all of the things that have access to your Google account here:
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Your product needs to answer 3 questions in < 60 seconds... 1. What is it? 2. How does it work? 3. Will it work for me? If not, your losing customers because your offer isn’t clear. Fix it. Today.
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4 years
Only 3 ways to grow a business: 1. Get more customers 2. Increase order value 3. Increase buying frequency Focus on moving one by 10% every 90 days and big things happen.
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Bryan Harris
5 years
My buddy @grantbaldwin taught me to ask for an upgrade every time we book a hotel. 1. Find the GM 2. Find their email. 3. Send them an email w/ reason for stay 4. Ask for them to do something cool 100% success rate Last time we got bumped from a $1500 per night suite in Kauai
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@Harris_Bryan
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4 years
Do you have an online course? Please reply with the URL. Let’s make a list. Name. Link. Problem it solves. Who it solves it for.
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Amazon has a Competitive Inteligence department How it works: - Buy competitors products - Lots of them - Measure quality - Speed - Experience #1 thing they are after is an answer to this: “Is any rival doing a better job than Amazon?” Findings go straight to Bezos and board
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Bryan Harris
5 years
For the last 2 years I've been figuring out with how to sell high priced products (totally different than $500 courses). I just wrote an extensive summary with everything I've learned. Includes: 1. sales scripts 2. booking pages 3. followup emails
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@Harris_Bryan
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4 years
You have 48 hours to make $5,000 on the internet. How do you do it? (Challenge: No existing email list can be used)
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Bryan Harris
6 years
Giving 1 person who RTs this my pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 noise cancelling headphones. 🏆 ▪️Open for 24hrs ▪️Will ship anywhere in the world
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6 years
10 months ago; “Let’s have a 3rd kid. Maybe We’ll get a girl this time!” 10 weeks ago: Wife takes a blood test. It’s a boy! Dang. I guess we’re an all boy family. 10 days ago: I’m pumped to have all boys. I know boys. I got this! 10 hours ago: Ultrasound tech. “Uhhhh....”
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4 years
Done is better than perfect.
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5 years
👋 Curious: Who here offers coaching or consulting services? 1. What is the service 2. Reply with a link. I’d love to hire you if it makes sense, learn from how you position yourself and maybe a potential clients will read this thread and hire you.
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4 years
There are two ways to sell your product: Way #1 : Great marketing Way #2 : Great product Major issues with both... 👇🏼
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@Harris_Bryan
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4 years
Two ways to think of your business: 1. Tool Thinking 2. Problem Thinking Tool Thinking is dangerous and backwards. Short term. Doesn’t endure. Ex: “I want to start a paid newsletter” Thread 👇🏼
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Your product probably has 1 of these 3 Issues: 1. Seems to complicated 2. Problem isn’t acute enough 3. Price seems too high How do you fix it? Rearrange peoples perspective of the product so the issues naturally go away. Examples 👇
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
4 years
Today is the seven year anniversary of starting Growth Tools! Summary: 2013: Try everything 2014: How do I sell product? 2015: 1st product (course). 2016: 2nd product (Saas). 2017: What do we want to be? 2018: Now I know! Focus. 2019: Hire leaders. Gas pedal! 2020: TBD
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Simple to do list method I’m trying: 1. Divide the day into 3 sections 2. Morning. Afternoon. Evening. 3. 5 or less action items per 4. Execute & cross off Simple tweak. But it’s helped my feeling of accomplishment and kept overwhelm away.
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Bryan Harris
3 years
Seen a good Black Friday deal (or have one you’re running)? Drop a link 👇🏼
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Bryan Harris
4 years
What is a newsletter or blog that you NEVER miss reading?
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
2 years
🚨Giveaway of $500 grow or start your business. Starts….now! Use it to buy a course, ads, coaching or whatever you need. 1. Reply with how you’ll use 2. RT so more see 3. Join newsletter (in profile) Winner picked in 24 hours. 😍🎂🚀
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Bryan Harris
4 years
💡 My favorite way to brainstorm content ideas: Use this Twitter search parameter to quickly surface any accounts most popular tweets. “from:harris_bryan min_faves:100” Then ask 2 questions: 1. What made this work? 2. How could I model It? Then I write immediately.
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4 years
What if every book had a 10m Ted Talk? 1. Sell me on reading the book 2. Hook me in with the core concept 3. Drive up desire to dedicate 8h+ to read Like a trailer. But better. Simon Sinek accidentally did this with his golden circles and it's so effective.
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4 years
The #1 habit I built in 2020 was reading for 30m to start each day. Realized that learning was my top motivator. So I prioritized. And, not surprisingly, it was my biggest year of personal growth. Here are 10 of the best books I read 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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4 years
✍️ Writing Tip: Act like someone is paying you $100 per word you remove. Focus on: 1. Adjectives 2. Adverbs 3. Indirect sentences
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4 years
My 4 year old made his first $1 this week (it was awesome) - Wanted a toy robot - Told him to buy it - “How?” - Make money - “How?” - Sell toys you don’t use So he picked out an old Harley Tricycle he doesn’t use. We posted on marketplace. Sold for $5 And his career begins!
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4 years
Things people are persuaded by: 1. Visuals 2. Simplicity 3. Repetition 4. Emotions Not persuaded by facts and details.
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4 years
🔥The #1 marriage tip I've gained from 8 sessions with our new counselor... Process the emotions you experience real time. Why? It keeps the smallest and most innocent of encounters from becoming cyclones of emotion. Example 👇
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Bryan Harris
5 years
⭐️Marketing Idea To Try⭐️ Turn you most popular email from the last 90 days into a FB ad 1. Look in your ESP and find most clicked email in last 90 days 2. Use it as your Facebook Ad copy 💰30%+ better CPL ⏰ <20 minutes
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Most critical thing to answer before writing ad & email copy: “What do my prospects know?” 1. About my product? 2. About the problem I solve? 3. About their need to solve it? This dictates everything that you’ll write in the ad 5 Examples👇🏼
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Client wins from this week 🔥 ➡️ $7,000 from 2 webinars ➡️ Grew email list to 4,000 subscribers from scratch ➡️ 400 new emails from 1st partnership ➡️ $5,100 from e-book launch ➡️ Biggest month ever ($12k) and quit their job BOOM!
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Bryan Harris
4 years
How would you explain “first principles” to an 8 year old? (I’ve never heard an explanation that’s crystal clear and makes immediate sense)
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4 years
15 days of eating one meal a day. Takeaways: 1. Much easier than expected 2. Mental clarity & body feel good 3. Hunger is minimal to none 4. Blood sugar levels never <80 5. Down 7# and weight loss slowed 6. I’ll continue indefinitely 7. 1.75-2.25k calories day It’s less work
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@Harris_Bryan
Bryan Harris
4 years
🔥Writing everyday has been a rediscovered passion. 1. Tweet 2x per day 2. Take top tweets and expound 3. Write as emails 4. Publish internally to team 5. Team can reuse in their areas Very high ROI on this. Maybe best thing I’ve done in 2020. Here is the queue:
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4 years
Hiring Tip: Look for the most enthusiastic person. Not necessarily the most qualified.
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4 years
The Hershey Kiss Business Model: - Start premium - Few customers - High profit - Use profit to fund development - Work way down market It’s the reverse of the $7 trip wire ethos. And I love it. (Graphic by @waitbutwhy )
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4 years
Every 3 months we stop and reflect on a few things: 1. Restate mission of the company 2. Update and share 18mo vision 3. Share highlights of previous qtr 4. Preview top priorities for this qtr 5. Brag on the team 👆🏻One of the highest ROI habits we have at Growth Tools.
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5 years
Looks like we doubled company revenue and 2.5x profit from '18 to '19. Thats fun! Good foundation laid now to continue and speed up that pace over next few years. TONS of foundation work over last 2.5 years.
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Bryan Harris
10 years
This is really cool. The best way to learn something? Teach it. http://t.co/x3nZcRu2Z6
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4 years
Overly simplistic advice... “People don’t want to buy a 1/4” drill, they want a 1/4” hole.” Reality: Not aware ppl don’t buy Problem aware buy holes Solution aware buy drill bits Product aware buy DeWalt Write your ad to address one. Write variants to address the others.
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4 years
Amazon *just* cut affiliate commissions by 80%! 1. MAJOR hit for affiliates. 2. MAJOR oppurtunity for 1 hungry entrepreneur. There is a $10,000 per month business that will be started in the next 90 days that helps these people. How I would do it:
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Bryan Harris
4 years
Example of... Problem Aware vs Solution Aware
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5 years
Know anyone that does documentation as a service? 1. Interview me or a team member 2. Have us explain how something works 3. Hunt down proper resources from the team 4. Create a documented process Would like to hire someone to do this for us.
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Bryan Harris
6 years
5 years ago this past Saturday, I pre-sold my first product for $29, and Videofruit was born.
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4 years
In 2020 I abandoned podcasts. Now I almost exclusively listen to YouTube videos. 1. Much better interface 2. Red allows background listening 3. Much wider selection, better search and suggestions Here are 10 of my favorite Youtube videos from 2020 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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5 years
📊 Two Reports I Look At Weekly: 1. My own Twitter analytics 2. Others most popular Tweets Potential uses: + Ideas for headlines and subject lines + ideas for topics people care about + Figure our how to frame a problem + Inspiration for blog posts and emails + Ad copy
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4 years
Ever done a “best fit customer” survey? If not, make it #1 priority. - Buy quick - Refer friends - Say they’d pay more - Never complain - Never refund Once you’ve identified them. Change messaging to find more. Forget about everyone else.
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5 years
A Gmail plugin that auto delays every email to send at 5pm that day (because hardly anything is urgent) and allows me to override and send immediately when needed.
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Bryan Harris
4 years
🔥 Giving away a copy of one of the rarest and best marketing books: Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz Hard to find. $400+ on Amazon. To enter: 👉🏻 Follow 👉🏻 RT and like 👉🏻 Reply w/ top book rec 👉🏻 Each book rec is an entry #giveaway #GiveawayAlert
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You have 48 hours to make $500 on the internet. How do you do it?
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4 years
Think your business is growing slow? Walmart: 1945: 1 store 1952: 2 stores 1970: 38 stores 2000: 3,000+ stores First 25 years = 38 stores Next 25 years = 1000s Be patient. It’ll come. Stop comparing to others.
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4 years
Don’t know who said it but I love it! “Don't market to change minds. Market to find people who already agree.” ❤️❤️
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5 years
📢 We're hiring again!! Know any marketing nerds? Send them my way. :) 1. They get to build a marketing team from scratch 2. Geek out on spreadsheets, copywriting & funnels 3. Run wild and crazy experiments 4. Be on an awesome team & work remote
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5 years
🔥Best video of 2020 so far: 1. Dude gets rejected by Harvard 2. Makes a rap video 3. He’s incredible 4 100% chance he gets 6-figure job offers and accepted to multiple Ivy League schools This will get 10 million views (at 300k now)
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4 years
🔥2 ways you can act today as an owner: Which do you choose? #1 : Offense Attack. New angles. Rally team. Have best 8 weeks ever. Double ad spend. Book 100 new partnerships. Kill stuff and bring it home. ATTACK! #2 : Defense Save. Layoff. Cut ads. Scared. Hope and pray.
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4 years
How are we handling COVID? We adjusted our March sales goal to: "HAVE OUR BEST MONTH EVER!" We are not victims. You are not a victim. LEHGOO!!
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4 years
Several of our neighbors have Biden signs.... Realized how remarkably similar BIDEN HARRIS and BRYAN HARRIS are. So made these to have a little fun.
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4 years
Copywriting: "Ok, now cut 30% of the words."
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5 years
1. Finds someone super cool on Twitter 2. Follows them and gets excited about learning from them 3. Soon Realizes they talk about politics or other similarly unrelated and annoying topic 90% of the time instead of the thing I found interesting about them. 4. Unfollows
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11 months
@Enezator Excited puppy on couch is a bold move
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3 years
Best marketing book I’ve ever read… $100m Offers A friend recommended it Saturday afternoon. I finished it last night! It’s amazing.
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4 years
What's 1 of your best copywriting tips?
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4 years
🔥Want to be happier today? 1, Drink giant glass of water now 2. Text 1 friend that you love them 3. Drop and do 25 push-ups 4. Go for 10m walk outside 5. Help someome this morning 6. Take 5m to imagine a 5 star future 7. Eat < 50 carbs today 8. Get > 7 hours of sleep tonight
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4 years
Unpopular opinion: Founders who build an amazing company, exit and become VCs are a giant waste of talent. Go make something else!
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The first and most influential course I bought was from @noahkagan . February 8th, 2013. It was $300. I followed it to a T and it directly produced everything I do, the 20 people the company employs and serves 100s of client's per month. Millions in revenue. Today he
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6 years
There are very few things that I find more enjoyable in work than drawing out an ugly sketch and having a great designer bring it to life. Example:
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7 years
Biggest compliment you could pay someone is to buy their product. "Good job" is worth somemthing. "Here is my money" is worth 100x.
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6 months
10 years ago today, Noah Kagan sent my blog post to his email list of 100,000. I only had 100 subscribers at the time. Since then, my company landed on the Inc. 5000, we’ve hired a team of top players, and amassed 230,000 email subscribers. Even coached clients like
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7 years
Quit my day job and went full time at VF 4 years ago today. What a ride!
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1 year
Today I’m 40. I’m sleeping in, getting a massage and eating tacos. Get off my lawn!
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4 years
🔥 Marriage Tip: Every 3 months do a 1-2 night getaway. 1. Get a sitter for the kids 2. Recap highs and lows 3. Sleep in and watch TV We started doing this a few years ago and it’s a priceless investment. Worksheet we use to guide convo:
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4 years
5 questions to ask before you make your next product: 1. What problem does it solve? 2. Who is the best fit client? 3. How to reach 100% success rate? 4. Will it blow clients minds? 5 How will every client bring another?
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5 years
6 years ago today I quit my job!
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4 years
TV show recommendation: The Queens Gambit 👍🏻👍🏻 7 episode limited series. Netflix. Super fun story. Binge worthy.
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6 years
One tricky thing about working remote is there is you lose your drive home decompress time. 1. Finish work 2. Wall downstairs 3. 5 seconds later your in the middle of family life That sudden shift can be hard. Do you have any tricks/tips to help?
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5 years
Just cleaned out Facebook and locked it down. 1. Unfriended 2000+ people 2. Turned all past posts private Goal is to keep kid and family stuff there and semi-private. And business stuff on Twitter. Feels good.
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7 years
"Dads - things done FOR your family are not the same as things done WITH your family." -Dave Barnes
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5 years
1 year ago Stacy and I noticed life was busy and we needed more 1:1. Started doing quarterly retreats together. 1. Keep them simple and local 2. Play tourists in our own town 3. No talk of kids or business 4. Prep list of good thought provoking questions week before
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3 years
📢 I found a cool marketing tool... Lets you find anyones Youtube ads (which are hard to find b/c they are all "unlisted"). 1. See how much they are spending 2. Link to watch the ad 3. Transcript of the video. 4. Really good search Link:
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4 years
I think about this quote often... “Every hour spent writing code is wasted time if that code could be replaced by a human being doing the same task until your product proves itself.” @robwalling
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5 years
🔥 Our #1 core value as a company is “We figure it out”. Meaning you proactively find things to improve and do them. No approval needed. This quarter we have a contest for the best “figure it out” project. 🏆= 3 nights in NYC, travel & tickets to Hamilton. Details 👇🏼
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4 years
“Discipline is doing what you hate to do. And doing it like you love it” - Mike Tyson Quote I’m mulling on this week 👆🏻
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4 years
Lady who just hired us to coach her today: Q: What separates you from other businesses we work with? A: “I’m beginning while at the wisdom age of 79 years.”
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4 years
Most attempts to find shortcuts have bad side affects. Hiring a coach is an exception. It is one of the quickest ways to fast forward results. In the last year we’ve hired: 1. Sales coach 2. PM coach 3. CEO coach 4. Webinar coach 5. Marriage counselor
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5 years
7 year anniversary of being debt free! Started my business a few months later. 🙌🏻
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5 years
Instead of "Angle Investor" and "🦄" in all of these Twitter bios lets make "Paid of Mortgage w/ 12mos living expenses in the bank" the cool thing to brag about.
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@ClayTravis Cam is the only other one that’s close. Joe is better.
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