Gavin McConnon
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Gavin McConnon
@gavinmcconnon
🇮🇪business-y things. Now in Portugal. Payments, tech, telecom.
Dublin/Sydney/London Katılım Haziran 2009
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Did a pod with @harvey_carnegie
He's doing $17M+ a month.
Hitting $1M+ days...
We went deep on:
- Subs
- Funnel strat
- What it takes to exit
- Spending $280k/day on applovin
- Becoming #1 spender on Taboola
This is a must watch.
Like + RT + Comment "LINK" and I'll DM it.

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@asingh7288 @torqmrr With Paysight (we use) you own the tokens and can bring then to any gateway/bank. This is super-important so you never lose a billable customer. Talk to @Big_Hass8 who can help.
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You should NEVER be match-listed.
We cap our corps to 3 years life-time maximum.
When it gets to 2.5 years, we stop acquiring on those MIDs.
Mitigate risks.
We just deal with the chargebacks, keep the MIDs healthy and let the existing subs bill for the remaining 6 months.
(And then at the end of it we do something else that I can't share here.)
Once the 6 months is over, the 3 years is up.
We close everything down for the corp.
Running a corp with MRR for 10 years straight is not the move.
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Another great partnership for Paysight. Failed payments is the biggest cause of subscriber churn. Paysight X Paymend can lower this. 💥
Paysight@paysight_io
Paysight is partnering with Paymend to strengthen failed payment recovery. D2C Merchants already use retries, cascading, dunning, and rebilling logic — this adds another recovery layer on top. Read more: paysight.io/blog/paysight-…
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@torqmrr Or use a platform like @paysight_io which will detect if transactions are failing and roll over onto another MID or gateway, while also sending you notifications.
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This was a brutal MRR lesson for a lot of people:
A few years ago, TSYS got hacked and was taken offline.
TSYS should NEVER ever be offline.
It's is a payment processor that works on the back end infrastructure side for card payments
So TSYS being offline meant that any MIDs that used it would not be able to process payments.
Customers would try buy something and it wouldn’t work.
But everyone is still spending money on ads for that traffic...
You see the problem?
It’s basically paying for traffic that can’t convert
So the adspend is wasted.
Thousands of MRR merchants went hours spending big budgets on ads without noticing that TSYS was down.
All wasted adspend.
I caught it instantly, and turned all ads off in less than a minute.
I had a script on a server that constantly checks downdetector for all important software infrastructure we use.
TSYS, payment gateways, our servers etc
And if somethings down, it would send a message in our emergency gc
Then we turn ads off immediately.
With only the lost potential revenue for that day
But it's better than losing 6figs on wasted adspend.
But other people weren’t as prepared.
They had to rely on someone telling them TSYS was down, which often took a few hours, and in some cases longer
Instead, I was prepared, with a healthy dose of paranoia about everything.
You guys should implement the same systematic checks.
DownDetector is great for it.
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Onboarding MIDs always an admin process? New Paysight update will make that much easier and remove room for error. 🚀
Paysight@paysight_io
Hope everyone had a great Easter holiday (we definitely did). But before the break, our chefs in the internal kitchen cooked up a seriously juicy batch of updates, starting from MID defaults: You can now set account-level default settings for MID Accounts for faster onboarding
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For people on Checkout Champ:
There’s a better alternative that will make you a lot more money
Everyone i know is switching
If you do subscriptions/mrr at volume DM me🤝
Sim@SimScaler
Or just get off of Shopify Payments and use a FULLY customisable checkout lol
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@nichdo_ If you are using a billing platform like Paysight you can.
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I’ve spent over $100k/day on affiliate traffic this year.
Here’s what actually works (and what nobody teaching “Meta hacks” will tell you).
I’ve been in affiliate for years now — sweeps, leadgen, casino, ecom funnels — and our campaigns consistently push 7–8 figures a month across multiple verticals.
And I’m tired of watching new affiliates get wrecked by outdated strategies from 2019.
So here’s what’s actually printing right now in 2025:
Cost caps are undefeated.
If you’re still raising budgets manually like it’s the golden era of ABO, you’re fighting the machine. At scale, cost caps handle volatility better than any human. My days of staring at dashboards ended the moment I realized Meta respects consistency more than “clever” optimizations.
I used to stress when spending $500/day.
Now I’ll push $100k+ and barely check the account some days.
Why?
Cost caps + clean signals = the algorithm does the heavy lifting.
Stop testing with separate campaigns.
This is where every beginner nukes their accounts.
They build giant “testing structures” with 12–20 adsets and wonder why nothing spends.
The truth?
Meta knows if an ad will win within 100 impressions.
Add new creatives directly into your proven adsets.
If Meta doesn’t give them budget, it already decided they won’t beat your currents.
Trust the machine.
Creative volume is the entire game now.
We push 80–150 new creatives per week across verticals.
Not because we’re hunting unicorns —
but because Andromeda literally rewards pattern diversity.
New hooks.
New scroll-stops.
New angles.
New funnels.
The affiliates stuck at $3–10k/day are usually running the same 4–5 ads from last month.
AI is a cheat code for speed.
I’ve launched full affiliate funnels (prelanders, advertorials, hero images, UGC-style videos) for under $300 total.
No studio shoots.
No “creators.”
No $2k UGC packages.
Just AI.
I’ve validated entire offers in 48 hours with nothing but AI creatives + agency accounts.
Is it perfect? No.
But it gets you to the truth faster.
Here’s the part nobody wants to admit:
You don’t need $20–50k to scale.
You need:
• a god-tier offer
• relentless creative volume
• a funnel that sends clean signals
• and a setup that works with Andromeda, not against it
If you’re stuck right now, your bottleneck is almost always one of three things:
1. your offer isn’t strong enough
2. your creative volume is way too low
3. your signals are confusing Meta instead of guiding it
The game didn’t get harder.
It got more predictable.
And the affiliates who adapt fastest are eating right now.
If you want the exact systems we use to scale $100k/day campaigns —
including our creative volume engine, cost-cap structure, signal setup, and AI workflow —
comment BLUEPRINT and I’ll send you the full affiliate scaling manual. (must like + follow)
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going from $25k to $1.3M MRR in 90 days isn't luck...
instead, there's a system to it by fixing:
- payment approval rates
- subscription checkout design
- MID routing orchestration
- decline salvage automation
- retry logic systems
and many more...
i put the entire 90-day breakdown into one case study
like + reply with 'MRR' and i'll send you the full month-by-month playbook with real metrics + systems deployed
(must follow so i can DM)

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@AustinDix0n We see this all the time. You should setup multiple processors and track all the data. You can route transactions to the best performing one. Use a platform like Paysight.io to orchestrate it all.
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What if I told you I can get you:
- Payment processing with no holds, no limits for scale, no reserve… and you get
- Exclusive access to a checkout that’s been boosting users’ CVR by up to 100%
This is exactly what we’ve been building for the past 8 months in preparation for a Q4 launch
If you’re not on our platform, you’re missing out on doing nearly 2x what you would’ve done on our software
Comment below if you want exclusive access
I’m only going to keep this open for a select 100 merchants
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@bkenny @adrianweckler @Independent_ie @MomntumAI Would this replace intercom? Asking cause we just integrated intercom on a new project.
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🧵 Exciting news! @adrianweckler from @Independent_ie just ran a brilliant feature on @MomntumAI and what we’re building with Laila, our AI-powered customer relationship assistant.
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@Nick_Delehanty How much do they charge the state per head / per night / per month. Ie, what’s the average income per month per property?
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Opinion
This company lobbied the most senior politicians and civil servants in Ireland.
Did no one ask the obvious question:
“How is this being financed?" or "Who is making money?”
Or worse, did they know about the offshore structure and wave it through anyway?
This company is now competing directly against Irish first-time buyers, snapping up homes in commuter towns across the midlands....using State money, an offshore tax structure to house asylum seekers.
In under two years, they’ve built a private residential portfolio now worth €7.5 million....There are no obvious limits stopping this company getting to a portfolio of €100 million.
Yes, ending Direct Provision is a legitimate goal. But we are living in fantasy land if we think this type of own-door scheme can scale.
And let’s be honest:
If these people truly had a social conscience, they wouldn’t be routing millions through the Isle of Man to dodge Irish tax on grotesque profits made from State-funded housing.
This is a hill I will die on.
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@adrianweckler That headline is a bit misleading. The turnover figure is for the franchisor in Ireland - not the actual restaurants whose total sales would be multiple times this.
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McDonalds makes a massive profit in Ireland - €42m from €84m turnover
m.independent.ie/business/profi…
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