André Falk

Most great eCom operators/growth marketers that I've worked with all come from dropshipping. Coincidence?.. I've invested close to $25k or so of my own money into courses, paid ads, sourcing products and trying to start my own eCom brands. I'm 23 now, started when I was 19-20. Back then I was working minimum wage jobs in Uppsala, Sweden. A city of 150k people where nothing ever happens. The main thing Uppsala is known for is it's University (I never went so idk why xd). I graduated high school during the pandemic so I had to take whatever jobs I could get. One of which was a job at a grocery store in Stockholm (another city), which meant I had to commute 1.5hrs to and 1.5hrs back from work everyday. Just to stock shelves all day. I was making $1.5k p/m after tax, living with my mom. Saved every penny and invested everything into eCom. I did this through various jobs across probably a 2 year period. I would wake up at 5AM, take the bus 5.30, train at 6 and at work by 7AM. Work from 7-4, train at 4.30, home by 6. Gym at 6.30-7.30, then dinner, shower & eCom for the rest of the night. I sacrificed everything, EVERYTHING. I have no idea what the insides of any of the night clubs or bars in Uppsala look like, and whenever I come back here it feels like I never even really 'lived' in the city. At 22 I just had enough of everything, nothing was working. I was slamming my head against the wall, and getting nowhere. I had tried dropshipping a bunch of products, I had tried sourcing my own products and starting a brand by buying stock... Nothing to show for it. I had $5k left in the bank with little to no hope left that anything would work in the near future, and needless to say I wasn't enjoying my life very much. So I just said "fuck it". I quit my job in Sweden and flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My thought process was that if I could go someplace halfway across the globe, where I don't know anybody, lock myself in an airbnb and just apply for 100s of online jobs everyday. Then at least I'd be able to get a remote job and have some level of freedom to the point where I could get out from Uppsala, but still work in this industry so that I could learn from others and build my skillset along the way. My plan worked. That was almost 18 months ago now that I made that hail-mary decision. I ended up getting a job at Adcrate, where I learned a lot and worked for a year. And in August of this year I transitioned to work at DigitalRide as a Growth Strategist. None of my brands were ever successful, I think I had one store do $1k in revenue before that too came crashing down. I'm not some guru or super smart eCom genius who can snap his fingers and SKALE anything under the sun. Nor will I ever claim I can. I'm just a young and hungry hustler who has learnt, and still is learning everything from the trenches. Today I work with some of the smartest people in the industry, I get to see under the hood of some of the fastest growing brands in their respective markets. And I'm learning faster than ever before. I still don't run my own brand, but that is very much the goal. All I want to do with my career is to build things with cool and smart people. It feels like I've learnt more in the past 4 months at DR than I did the first 2 years of me trying to figure shit out on my own. So I'm hopping on here to connect with people smarter and better than me so I can continue to increase my rate of learning. I'll only post if I think it's going to be helpful (or funny). I'm André, nice to meet you :) MERRY CHRISTMAS

hey if your performance is shit have you tried making it good maybe that will work

@Co1eem I bet you this crushes, bang on the target audience too because people who randomly fall asleep on bathroom floors is usually because of some damn kids.

Bruh.

@germanecomking I hope you nail em and get your money. Scumbags shouldn't be in business

@drexfalk We agreed on a higher adspend without retainer.

Scaled a client from 1k/d to 50k profit within 45 days and he refuse to pay me for mediabuying. Later I found out they are scamming multiple people and are known for such activities. Ungrateful people who should not be allowed to make business again.

@briannjho ok i'll apply

If you want massive growth in your own career this is the place to be

@HireFireTeam @thedanielokon I think this is exactly what Brian was referring to when he said "ecom bros crushing the old dawgs who haven't caught up with what is working yet", but yes.

@thedanielokon lol... "AI doctor ads"... pretty good indicator of what type of clients those are.

Imagine trying to dunk on one of the legendary marketers in the space and feeling good about it. Think about an insane amount of daily spend, then 10x it. That's probably how much David manages/oversees. Master marketer.

@briannjho no sports car = no skill

The top spenders of brands like Wuffes, and Pet Lab Co are AI Pixar / Claymation ads. So they definitely know how to make good AI UGC ads too. If this post were true 100% they will have AI UGC as their top spenders as well but they don't so this is bullshit 🙃

Quick PSA for anyone looking to buy a course or coaching program: In order to make a lot of money with X skill, you have to be really fucking good at it. And becoming really good at something takes a long ass time. This comes from someone who's very much a product of the online information space. I love courses, content and coaching. But getting good takes years. I managed $6m in profitable Meta spend in Q1, yet there's still no lambo in sight.

@paulhan_23 digitalride.io

Best growth agency in the space? Is it EasyaMedia?

@NoahRyanCo The delivery here is S-tier I must say.

Re-downloaded Instagram as I wanted to start posting there and am astonished with the sheer amount of goyslop on that platform. Minimum 2 standard deviations of IQ differential between IG and X. We forget how good of a filtering mechanism being able to read is.

Consistency, patience and persistence helps a man turn his vision into existence.

@matthucius there's mushroom for growth

Fired myself today 🙏

@briannjho @ecom_cork so no more "fighting the big corporations", now we're just eating their processed gmo food? guys wtf

My man has NEVER tried Raising canes and told me there was better food here in Austin. Yet finished EVERYTHING at then said it was Not bad 🤣 @ecom_cork

@conortrains LFG

Hit our first $2k day 👍

What do you do while taking a shit? I am now to the point where I read books instead of scrolling on my phone. I uninstalled IG from my phone but I still find myself checking it at least once per day on my computer. As soon as I enter it in my browser and I'm there for 2 seconds I think to myself "wtf am I doing here" - and I click off. Same thing with X, LinkedIn or any other social media platform. Unless I'm posting something, I just find it useless. But somehow my body is still wired to check it everyday. My brain is definitely cooked from owning a smartphone since I was 14 but at the same time I think social media might be cooked too. YouTube is the only useful resource I would say. But even then I don't use it for more than 30mins per day.

@ChadwKeller bruv how tf did you bootstrap something to 9 figures in 9 months

Went from running an agency to building one of the fastest growing DTC brands of all time. $110M in 9 months. No outside funding. What do you want to know?

@DTCMidas I second that

Please stop worrying about your ad acc structure and focus on your inputs

@MaxxingDelusion omg i have to go

Sevilla looks like it was built for people who know how to live

@buffalofink What are renewal yikes?👀

@drexfalk New flavors, stick packs vs bags. Testing renewal yikes for LTV changes Dialing the fuck out of the lander Dialing in creative flywheel

It's almost NEVER the ad account. This brand was cooked before coming to the Buffalos. Now it's thriving, has a winning offer and will hit $30-50M in the next 12 months PROFITABLY. Before you can get a brand to $50k+ day of spend your offer and CLTV needs to be able to support it.

@buffalofink What are you doing next after validating the offer?

@drexfalk Yeah slow at 100 subs a day but once rebuild start hitting will start cranking over here. Finished last month $457k on $211k spend.