The startup I worked for shut down in April, and I was rattled.
- I needed to provide for my family
- My self-esteem was hurt
- I felt like a failure
It took me a long time to get my sh*t back together. 🧵
(This is a giveaway. Reply and I will DM you the link)
@thejustinwelsh
LInkedIn are owned by Microsoft, who also own 49% of OpenAI (ChatGPT). It's only a matter of time before they filter AI generated comments.
Most of these are also triggered automatically so recognizing the automator (Zapier, make) footprint should be easy enough.
I was involved in a near-fatal car crash 3 days ago.
We were driving back home from Passover family dinner. I was standing at a red traffic light.
When it turned green, I started slowly accelerating when I heard a huge BOOM - another car had smashed into us forcefully, sending
I'm 43 and just started my first business.
I have no regrets.
Everything I've done until now has prepared me for this.
→I'm doing it at my own pace.
→Less stress.
→Less pressure.
→Higher closing rate.
Spending time doing what's important.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
Not everyone will get this:
Find out how pro wrestling has changed my perspective and helped me close high-ticket deals.
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Never good enough
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Forget fancy tactics. This is how you grow your biz.
You made something cool. People pay for it. That's big.
But growth's slow. You're trying to figure out why.
Here's what's up:
Had a great time today calling with the OGs.
Being an entrepreneur is hard and lonely.
A community is the best hack to boost your game.
And this is the best community I could ask for.
Thanks, legends!
@ItsMeBenChan
Yesterday someone stole my post. Straight up copied 15 lines. And it went mega viral 20x his likes. 20x his views. 20x his comments. It’s now his most viral post. I don’t even know what to say… All I know is that My methods work.
Here's how you make THE BEST HUMMUS in 4 simple steps:
1) Buy the beans
2) soak them for 24H
3) Cook them for 3 hours
4) Let them cool down completely
5) Throw them in your food processor
6) Add tahini, lemon juice and some salt
That's it! Serve with Pita & Onions.
WTF am I doing wrong???
It's 2004, and I just bought this van for $2,400.
I'm about to go on a road trip around Australia.
It's a 1984 Toyota Tarago with a fair share of adventures.
I am stoked.
Over the next 4.5 months, I drive nearly 40,000km. Through the desert and
A question I asked my client the other day:
If you were to start a competing business against your current one, what vulnerabilities in your business would you exploit?
Think hard.
Imagine a single introduction transforming your career.
That's the power of networking – far more than a buzzword, especially in B2B and on 𝕏.
Let's break down how this lifeline of success works and learn to master it for your growth: 🧵
I shouldn't post this.
This SaaS guy hopped on a couple of 1:1 calls with me about 2 months ago.
I helped him clear his strategy, optimize his landing page and onboarding sequence, and land a couple of high-ticket clients.
Then he said he was hiring a sales guy and ghosted me.
Imposter syndrome is a liar, and I'm done listening to its bullshit.
Here's the truth: You are exactly where you need to be.
Your unique experiences, skills, and perspective have prepared you for this moment.
Drones are exploding 20 minutes north of my city.
Sirens are howling.
I'm launching this f*cking course; I don't care. 🚀
There will always be amazing reasons why not to do it.
@alexforbes__
I hear you.
Getting reliable contractors is so hard.
I usually go for a reviews website if I don't know a guy.
90% positive reviews and upwards.
Haven't missed yet.
I spent a month working at a sewage treatment factory, so you won't have to.
Here are the 5 most important lessons I've learned from that stinky experience:
1) There are different types of hard work. Scraping shit off a giant filter is a very different experience to sending 30
I built an AI-leveraged consultancy for B2B ecomm startups. But before that:
⇀Failed at running a Shopify store
⇀Struggled with PTSD after military service
⇀Faced career uncertainty during Covid
Success stories often hide a trail of setbacks and pivots.
Here's how I took over a dive shop in Mexico in just five simple steps:
It was 2008, and I just left a very challenging position in an NGO and decided to get back to basic - Teach SCUBA diving.
And so I found a job in the Yucatan in a 5-star all-included resort.
There was no
The algo crushed a ton of creators in the past 14 days.
My impressions dropped 62.5%.
So, I decided I was going to enjoy these hard times and post whatever I felt like.
-I had a blast!
-Engagement rate went up 36.1%
-Profile conversion rate went up 23.7%
These are all
Entrepreneurship is hard. An uphill battle.
In my 23-year career, it's the loneliest I've ever felt.
These are the top 3 things that helped me the most:
1) Surround yourself with like-minded people.
2) Seek community.
3) Get on calls as much as you feel comfortable.
Nothing went right this morning.
My daughter's nanny stood us up
My dog tricked us to think he was dying
My wife stayed at home instead of going to work.
So we took our little girl to the zoo to watch Giraffes for the first time.
I love owning my time.
There are many tire-kickers out there who may purchase your low-priced item only to copy and reuse it, then request a refund.
On a larger scale, this behavior can be devastating for a creator who is not prepared to refund around 30% of their earnings.
Freedom is the absence of restraints.
Autonomy is the power to make decisions about your time.
Freedom is for children.
Autonomy is for successful entrepreneurs.
That's how you win.
True freedom comes from having both the liberty and the self-discipline to use your time
@TheKing09200133
מאה אחוז. אני למשל לא מוכן לעבוד במקום שמכריח אותי כל יום לנסוע למשרד. אחד הדברים המגוכחים בעת הזו הוא שאדם קם בבוקר, מתלבש, נכנס לרכב ונוסע למקום אחר כדי להוציא את הלפטופ שהביא עימו בתיק ולשלוח אימייל.
If your affiliate program feels stuck, read this.
Here’s how I turned ours into a 7-figure recurring revenue machine.
You better bookmark this fat puppy if you know what's good. 🔖
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1. It's not about the money (but it is)
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You'd think it's
I had a client call lately with a SaaS that has close to 1,000 paying users.
I asked them what are their most popular features?
They dont know.
What percentage of their users use their ready-made templates?
They don't know.
What features do their customers want to see next?
Nobody remembers your content like you.
85% of your followers never saw that post.
90% of them won't remember it.
Repurpose often.
Get those eyeballs on it.
Prioritizing tasks is very hard.
I don't know what to do first,
and it throws my entire day into chaos.
Luckily, AI can automatically prioritize my tasks.
For eight years, I've had my hair cut by the coolest barber in town.
My barber is a super cool lady with tattoos and crazy art on her walls.
Today, I helped her brainstorm ways to overcome her biggest challenge—making more money.
Just like that, I found myself in a
If you want to grow your business, you don't need another course, ebook, or webinar.
Just start daily networking.
You'll learn 100x more by building relationships than by reading about it.
The
#1
offer mistake I see entrepreneurs make?
Trying to please everyone.
But when you talk to everyone, you connect with no one.
The offers that sell are laser-focused on one specific customer.
Understand your audience, and speak their language.
My client's about to get a huge investment that will change his family's life.
I'm stoked for them.
Soon, we start working in faaaaaaaast-mode.
Want to scale without burnout and stress?
DM me "IMPACT".
What you're doing with your sales strategy is the equivalent of throwing a bunch of small pebbles in a general direction.
This is why you have high churn.
If you work with me, you'll be throwing a large rock instead.
Up your game.
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."
I get frustrated when I give good advice, but the client ignores it or doesn't follow up on it.
I hate it when they fail.
There are some things you can do to encourage the horse to drink more water:
1) You can
Shameless plug here for Senja.
You click the link, get (maybe) a ton of cool stuff, and help me improve my chances of getting them.
BUT ALSO - Senja's my favorite tool for testimonial collection.
If you're not collecting testimonials, what are you even doing, bruh?
If somebody's talking to you about making money
but doesn't expressly state the following in the first 2 minutes:
⇀What's the offer?
⇀What are the challenges?
⇀What are the tangibles (what do you have to do)?
Then, this is a pyramid scheme, and you should run.
Skool games 🧐
Prioritize your health.
I caught a cold yesterday. Nothing big.
⇀ Can't breathe
⇀ Can't think
⇀ Can't work
It's easy to forget, but we have to.
Your health is everything. Without it, nothing works. Prioritize self-care, and watch everything else fall into place.
A great consultant helps you earn more by telling you what to do.
An amazing consultant saves you years by telling you what NOT to do.
You can't get a refund on your time.
Don't sleep on hired help.
I'm starting to hate that word. "Brand."
Every 20-year-old you ask says, "I'm building my brand."
You're just posting on social media.
Why not start by actually creating something real?
I did not expect my rant to blow up this much. I appreciate all of your kind words.
I need to rest up this weekend, so I'll schedule some silly posts to avoid breaking my three-month posting streak. See you on the other side.
Bless you all.
In the end, people connect with people, not "brands".
Be human.
Be relatable.
Be someone you'd want to do business with.
That's the secret to engaging without selling out.
Busy but not productive? Try Warren Buffett's 25/5 rule:
1. Make a list of your top 25 projects
2. Rank them by importance
3. Do the top five only
4. Ignore the rest
Respond with a GIF if you like this.
I bought a new app today called "Forest."
It gamifies the Pomodoro method—you set time blocks, and your social media is blocked.
It then grows a tree.
◆ If you quit the app or use one of the blocked apps, the tree dies.
◆ If you focus, you plant a new tree.
◆ It syncs with
The biggest barrier to creating a successful offer on social media?
It's not the algorithm. It's not the competition. It's not even the product itself.
It's CLARITY.
Clarity on who you serve, what they need, and how you can deliver it in a way that's unique and valuable.
Don't hit yourself on the head for not starting earlier.
You were procrastinating because of emotional reasons:
- Fear
- Self-doubt
- Lack of confidence
- Impostor syndrome
Then,
I've noticed something interesting.
The more I write, the more my Typefully Drafts folder accumulates.
I publish more, better content.
But I also hold back more content.
Not because I don't think it has value,
But because it's still not ready to be used.
Can you relate?
We've been looking to buy a new car after we lost our car in the accident.
I've been browsing the web, looking at car dealerships, and talking to many salespeople.
This is a great lesson in sales and in garnering trust.
So far, 99% of them failed.
Entrepreneurship is hard.
An uphill battle.
In my 23-year career, it's the loneliest I've ever felt.
Here are the top 3 things that helped me the most:
1) Surround yourself with like-minded people.
2) Seek community.
3) Get on calls as much as you feel comfortable.
Two client calls.
Two vastly different experiences.
The pro vs. the amateur - who would you rather work with?
I had two client calls today:
1. A multi-million dollar 3PL
• Cordial, efficient, prepared
• 15 minutes to understand each other and plan next steps
2. A small
Growth isn't comfortable. It's meant to be tough.
Think of it like this:
⇀Comfort zone = No growth
⇀Slight discomfort = Slow growth
⇀Big challenges = Big growth
Why? Because new situations force you to adapt.
Next time you're scared to try something:
1) Remind yourself:
I spent six hours commuting in public transportation today.
It wasn't as bad as you'd think.
I had hormozi's book and
@jayclouse
excellent podcast to keep me company.
There IS such a thing as too much stuff.
You can't rely solely on templates.
Creating original work is essential; without it:
- You won't improve
- Things won't become easier
- You'll eventually get bored and burn out
Ditch the templates. Think creatively about fresh perspectives and solutions.
What a great weekend.
You know you've had a good one when your muscles are sore and your spirit is high!
(yes, there's a hidden lesson about persistence in the photo)
𝕏 really should allow us to filter DMs.
Here's how I would go about it:
1. Only receive DMs from people who are following me.
2. Filter the keywords (mark as spam): bro, leads, $10,000, growth, journey.
3. What would you add here?
Most businesses focus on the first sale, ignoring 92% of their revenue potential.
Someone paying you money is only the beginning of your journey.
You need to ask yourself this:
✦ What can I offer them to make them want to pay me MORE?
✦ How can I make sure that they want to