Ellis | DTC Alchemist 📈

5 Pieces Of Wealth Wisdom 1. Get rich slow or stay poor 2. Being a millionaire is not evil 3. Don't tell people about your goals 4. Compound everything 5. If you’re debating, don't go out tonight

@RomanEcom @VijarKohli Curious if you found the one by now

@VijarKohli Cost per ticket = Total cost of customer service team per month / # of tickets per month Then just benchmark this against what the AI providers quote

It's pretty crazy. I've talked to 3 prospective AI customer service providers the past week. All of them are more expensive than actually hiring offshore on a per ticket basis. Makes no sense. AI Agents is a feature not a moat. Not sure why all the legacy customer service platforms are moving so slowly (Zendesk, Gorgias etc) - they have the customer already (?) and its a nice way to grow MRR.

The only AI thing about this is the woman being excited about the existence of such a product..

@mikefutia NANO

Nano Banana Pro is the GOAT for static ads. But it only generates one image at a time. So I built an n8n agent that generates 1,000+ ad variations from a single product photo. Fully automated, zero manual prompting. Perfect for e-comm brands & agencies who need creative static volume without the grind. Here's the problem: You're testing static ads at scale. You need 50, 100, maybe 500 variations to find winners. But you're sitting there prompting one image at a time. Downloading, organizing, repeating. That's not a creative workflow. That's a part-time job. Here's what the agent does: → Upload one product image via n8n form → OpenAI Vision analyzes your product automatically → AI generates custom image prompts (you set how many) → Nano Banana creates every variation on autopilot → All images auto-stored in Box for instant access No manual prompting. No one-by-one downloads. No folder chaos. What you get: → 50, 100, or 1,000 ad variations from one upload → AI-generated prompts tailored to your product → Every image organized and ready to test → Hours of work compressed into minutes Built 100% in n8n. Want the n8n template for free? → Like this post → Comment "NANO" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

@msftClarity Very curious who leads the product team at clarity and who's idea this was. Like I said, certainly did not expect, nor needed. But in reality it works better than the standard one. Seems more to the point, not as surface level as the traditional insights.

@ecomlion Thanks for vibing with our gen Z insights, Ellis! We're glad we were to bring a pinch of fun to your user insights! 🤩

The Slang on feature from Microsoft Clarity is jokes.. @msftClarity kinda like it, seems more insightful at times. And I am not a Zen Z

@rom1trs Editor

@cbassg16 I've got a spare I can ship to you.. bonus: you can even hammer nails with it

Im so sick of my phone I turned it off earlier today and instantly felt relieved. I haven't turned it back on yet and I don't want to for a while. I bought a Nokia flip phone for 20 bucks and I'm gonna use that for now. If you are a close friend reading this I'll text you my number when I activate my minutes.

@IdrisEcom_email coffee

Javy Coffee is absolutely world-class in Email Marketing. Do you want to see their email campaigns, welcome, abandoned checkout and post-purchase flow? Then like + comment "coffee" & I will DM them to you for FREE. Must be following.

Do I expect ALL digital platforms to have an AI agent for quick questions, when browsing their platform? ABSOLUTELY! It's Aug 2025. Tech moves from a month to another, not Year to Year.

The @AlexHormozi book purchase SS will be as big of a status symbol flex, as the iPhone mirror photos in 2010 or the airpods max in 2020.

@therobertleonar But buutt.. it's dOnaTiOn

From “I have nothing to sell you” to “just $5,998”

@MichaelRathman7 I'll trade you fake coffee for one 😁

umm I now have 199 Free books to giveaway...

@Dekofromportent If anyone is in doubt if this is BS, I manage $10M in spend annually. He's 100% right!! At scale you can play with cost controls.. but for 90%, this is the 100%.

A lot of you over complicate meta ads. All you need is 1 CBO campaign inside of the CBO have one ad set per angle and put all the creatives for that angle in there. If it gets spend it gets spend if not keep making new creatives and throwing them into the campaign. 90% of your issues inside of the ad account can be fixed by creatives & funnel not by switching bidding strategies or interest testing.

@aryehMaxx By the graphics it looks like you comparing 2 days vs 4 days in 2025..

PRIME DAY 2025 v 2024. We pulled data from 3,500+ brands. The numbers tell a VERY different story this year. Here’s exactly what changed, thread🧵 (bookmark this)

@seanfrank oh man.. the moonballs 🥴 stick to posting about D2C

dtc tennis superstar 1b in annual sales on this court

@paoloanzn DIRECTOR

I built an AI Creative Director that generates $10K+ marketing content in minutes while I sleep this is the closest thing to printing money with AI I've ever seen this automated system literally thinks like a seasoned creative director: - analyzes your brand requirements - 3 models parallel generation - iterates until perfection - delivers publication-ready visuals the crazy part? it runs completely hands-free once triggered I wake up to dozens of high-converting ad creatives, social posts, and marketing visuals sitting in my Google Drive clients are paying $2,500 per campaign for content that this system cranks out in under 10 minutes the workflow chain is insane: first it reviews and improves your initial prompt using advanced models then it generates multiple image variations using different AI models simultaneously quality control happens automatically it scores each output and only keeps the winners if something doesn't meet the threshold it regenerates until it's perfect finally everything gets organized and uploaded to your cloud storage another agency owner is now charging premium rates while his "Creative Director" works 24/7 without sick days or salary demands the best part? you set it up once and it becomes your personal content printing machine comment "DIRECTOR" + repost + follow and I'll send you the complete JSON file to import directly into n8n

If one more person tells me it's nice to 'e-meet' me, Imma hot send to spam. CRINGE. Say hi and get down to business.

@neelhome Facts. Act like them whilst building. They deserve it now. You are worth what you have. Do you have 1B? Prolly because you're not worth it.

"Joe Rogan smokes weed daily too" Joe Rogan is worth $200M. You're worth a Playstation 5. Get to work bro.

@MattiSchroder @Trustpilot @judgeme New 'honey scam case' in the works. You copy @megalag?

Wow, @Trustpilot is misleading, predatory, and all other similar words you can think of. I randomly noticed that we average 3.4 on our Trustpilot reviews. Which seemed weird when we average 4.9 over 7660 reviews through @judgeme. So, I did the math. We have 126 Trustpilot reviews: 1 star: 5 2 star 0 3 star: 2 4 star: 16 5 star: 103 Arithmetic average: 4.68 Average according to Trustpilot aka. their TrustScore: 3.4 🙃 Wtf? Their explanation: "The calculation is based on various parameters such as a company's total number of reviews and the date the reviews were created. The TrustScore is also affected by whether a company actively invites its customers to review them or not." Let me translate that for you: Trustpilot deliberately lower the average ratings of merchants using other review platforms and masks it as a proprietary "TrustScore algorithm". In reality, the only way to get many reviews, recent reviews, and actively invite customers to review on Trustpilot - the "various parameters" in their explanation - is... by using Trustpilot. The last Trustpilot quote I got was $400/month. And that's over 5 years ago when we were a fraction of the business we are to day. So, because I'm not willing to pay that, which I wouldn't be surprised is +$1000/month now, they just smudge our brand by giving us a bad score instead. SCAM.

@EcomMame Do you think it happens outside of the US too with VAT?

Last week, I tweeted about how to stop Shopify from sneaking in hidden accounting fees, tbh i saw it from a guy here in X. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and I was checking my orders history more than normal. Then I realized something worse—Shop App orders automatically charge sales tax automatically, and this one is way harder to catch. Their excuse? “Since these are from our app, we charge sales tax. The express Shop Pay method on web may be exempt, but in Shop App, we always collect it.” And it was driving me crazy. Every time I saw a Shop Pay order, my net payout was painfully lower. I just knew I had lost thousands because of this (well, lost is a strong word—we all know dropshippers let our accountants deal with that tax stuff, right? 😅) So, if you want to stop this sales tax leak, just switching your accounting status from Automatic to Basic isn't enough. You have to go to Taxes and Duties, scroll all the way down, and uncheck: ✅ Include sales tax in product price and shipping rate. Before you do it, check your past orders. Look at the ones from Shop Pay and see how you were unknowingly throwing away an extra $5-$10 per order. You're welcome.