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John Cocktosen

@indiewhacker

Learned DR marketing, sold $90mm in digital products. Semi-retired now acting as a coding assistant to our AI overlords 🤖

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Founders go way harder when the rent money is on the line. Definition of all-in. Anyone can take a comfy check from someone else to grow at all cost and "figure out" the economics later. It takes a real G to figure out how to start printing money out of thin air.

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Las Vegas 2009ish. 7:00am * ring ring * phone, skype, text. Woke up all lines blown up. Phone rings again. "Yo. Wake up. [REDACTED] just did $40k overnight. We're doing one for you" I'd only slept 2 hours after a 2-day bender or I probably would've been more excited. But

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If you are not taking advantage of multi-billion and trillion dollar companies competing daily with eachother to make you better and faster at building literally anything you can dream up, I feel bad for you.

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"Its only 720p?" "Great, more slop" "Meh this is mid" "The voices sound grainy" Some of you mfs just don't seem to get it. Hollywood is cooked. If you can't see the parallels here to the napster era for music, then you are cooked too.

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"We spent a million on the campaign so hopefully someday society might accept the overall idea of this, and then remember that poster they saw in the subway once"

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It takes a special kind of psycho to be firing thousands of dollars an hour at an offer where the time from 1st click until they even see a buy button is ~53 minutes and 3 sepearate pages with infinite variables that all affect eachother. Sure you wanna try cold traffic, ser?

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There are people scared of AI, people who hate AI, and people who are using AI to help them build genny wealth. Who do you think will be ahead in 5 years?

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You need a lot of ads to scale from $10mm to $100mm. How is this even a "debate" 🥴 Once you hit your winning framework you'll be running 100s of tests alone on just first 3 sec variations. Not to mention constantly trying to beat your best angle(s)

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All this talk in the ecom space about how *many* ads you need to scale. Not nearly enough talk about what KIND of ads are best for scale AND SUSTAINABILITY. You can cook up a new batch for every real and made up holiday or trend and be on the hamsterwheel of always needing

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Just try it bros Sit there and stare at a picture of your customer. Close your eyes, and become them. Let the Source lead you down into their world and show you their deepest fears, insecurities, and desires. Its all already out there in the ether. You just gotta tap into it

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Anyone who thinks this has never run any serious volume. I have no idea who the person in the screenshot is or their business practices, but at high volume especially with recurring and traffic fluctuations, its very hard to stay under 1% and most of it is from the scam that is