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I've been running an SEO agency for years now, but don't always share client wins, like... • $500k ARR added • 300% increase in leads • 400% organic traffic increase Here's an ever-growing list of our work and recent client results.👇🏻🧵 (With screenshots)

BREAKING: The Pentagon has failed its annual audit, the eighth year in a row.

One of the craziest loopholes in the US tax code If you earn $150K+, you can no longer contribute to a Roth IRA But, you can instead use a Solo 401k to fund your Roth IRA with $70K every single year Here's how it works:

If your family is near this pin, they got my attention with a mirror flashing against the sun they are okay and we’ve dropped off supplies

hello i would like to report a murder

A young entrepreneur in his mid-20s just emailed me asking for some $$$ advice. He just sold a business and ended up with a couple million in liquid cash. He wanted to know if he should invest it, use it to build a new company, or do something else with it. My advice wasn't what he was expecting. I just said don't lose it. Do nothing with it. Put it in the bank. Something safe, earning a little, but not too much that it's at risk. Money doesn't need to work. It can rest. Leave it be. You're 26 — you can get back to work. A couple million liquid cash is a huge haul. Maintain! Don't lose. Always have that. And add more to that safe pile as you go. That's yours now. Keep it that way.

The city of Austin, Texas likely spent around $1,000,000 for this rebrand. They hired the most famous agency in the world, Pentagram. The only way agencies like Pentagram survive is if there's enough braindead clients willing to place prestige above results.

Dylan Field made ~$6b the other day when Figma IPO-ed. Assuming that grows at the 50 year sp500 average (10.7%), at 100 he has $5.45 trillion. Getting liquidity when young is insane.

the office but its roblox

This is why therapy often backfires

so real

Frank Slootman is corporate David Goggins - I love it.

Sam Altman has said AI would replace 95% of ad agency work, per BI

70% of working with clients is managing their emotions & making sure they don't self sabotage themselves. Only 30% is actual strategic work

I used to work at McKinsey, and since then I've learned that one thing top professional services firms (basically MBB, Bulge Bracket, and Big Law) do (and virtually no one else does) is communicate. That's right. People would make fun of us for being PowerPoint jockeys, but no client ever wondered what my team was doing, and they rarely questioned whether it was worth the cost. Why? Communication. Here is how we did it: 1) Clearly communicate the plan. a) When you start a project, the client might not know exactly what they want out of it. If it isn't done before the engagement, the first week is always dedicated to figuring out what the client will consider success b) Scope out defined deliverables for every week, and stick to those deliverables whenever possible. c) Weekly or 2x per week progress upates -- never go dark, never leave them wondering whether you're making progress or not. this also preempts any issues that might come up because data isn't available, and it helps address scope creep in real time. If a deliverable is slipping, you communicate it before it's late and come up with a plan to get the project back on track 2) Clearly communicate the results. We already defined the problem in a way that we all agree on at the beginning. Now when you deliver results, you start by explaining how you solved the problem, then you walk thorugh the details. If you were doing weekly check-ins, no one is surprised at the end and everyone agrees that you solved the problem. 3) Throw in additional work for free, and communciate that too -- if you defined a very narrow problem, you solve that problem but then you probably will find 6 other related problems. By solving one or more of those other issues, you leave the client feeling like they got more than they asked for. BUT when you do this, you have to communicate and scope what addional work you're doing to make sure that the client will appreciate it. If it solves a problem they don't believe is a problem, it adds no value at all. Even at McKinsey we sometimes failed to do this (especially during covid where communication was more difficult). The bigget failure mode was doing too much work that wasn't directly related to the client's problem, and then the team feels overworked and the client feels underserved. In most other organizations the failure mode is either defining the problem or providing regular updates. If you're providing services of any sort for your clients or customers, use these tips and you will be in the top 5% of service providers.

"So you built a business lending to people who can't afford to buy stuff and now you’re $99M down because they can't pay you back?"

@seanjagermann @eatboldbar dm'd you - let's get bold bar into my gym/clinic!

Cold calling sucks. I’m trying to get @eatboldbar into as many independent gyms as possible. Called dozens of gyms today across Austin, Boston, and Chicago. Same thing every time. Ask to speak to the owner or manager, tell the BOLD story, offer samples. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. I am so convinced that if you’re not willing to do boring, repetitive, shitty tasks you will never succeed. Ever. Especially when you are a team of 1.

Per our contract, we need to mediate and then arbitrate. Once we arbitrate, we have to mediate with a mutually agreeable accountant. We then have to do three games of rock paper scissors. The winner has to do a series of athletic and academic challenges. Then, at public Zoo, we

@MaxLanglois3 @GrantHushek

We're looking for an AI consultant to come into the H10 org for a 3 month engagement. Come in and have a look at our current workflows and processes & see where we can enable AI to our benefit. Tag people who you know who'd be interested or dm directly if this is you 🤝