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This could be the best thing you’ve written since the WSP days Bull. I now have the perfect article to send to people who are in their 20s

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Lol awesome

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You know how I know you’re absolutely 100% correct about people being more offended and society becoming more rash and degenerate? San Diego, the capital of casual in the United States is having the most insanely stupid and crazy driving I’ve ever seen on my life. People driving like there’s no tomorrow. Before 10 over the limit was the pace of traffic, now anything under 35 mph over the speed limit makes you get ran off the road. People are behaving more irrationally and car accidents are booming. Screen cap & post on twitter for alfa - the way people drive = how the economy is going

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That is crazy if true

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Hah - I have a one person who is a parallel level role as me who stuck their neck out to take on the "more" responsibility to "get ahead".

Told them in earnest - "I want you to get promoted!" and ego stroked the whole way for when they succeed. I'm the niche operator of one of the profit centers, with a team of specialists I hand built - and intend to keep it that way.

Quick Laptop tip - if forced to go into an office and our concerned about bring your own device - just buy the same model as your work laptop as a personal one.

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Reminds me of a family member who volunteered to join the 'ESG committee' at a F100 because he is passionate about the environment and thought it would help him get promoted. lol.

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***lightbulb going off as the long term branding and vision of the jungle comes into clearer view***

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For the site analytics - Pomp??

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The audience BTB is targeting at might be the hardest ones to sell to.

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What about targeting the women associated to “normal men”. For example, my gf sends me Instagram ads of men’s clothes she wants to buy for me everyday. Position say a t-shirt or golf shirt for Men, but target it at the women.

Psychology here is to put the woman in power by refining/cleaning/dressing up their boyfriend/husband.

Thoughts?

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It says right there don't try to sell to men and you're going to create a product selling to men via a woman creating a second filter and reducing returns. Not sure what to tell you

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fair lol

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If you don’t get invited to join? That’s hilarious! It means he never liked you in the first place but you somehow got attached to him (good work!)

Lol! I laughed when I read this part. My rainmaker has left and I never got invited. While he was there, I got all the benefits and highest ratings, and compensations. Even built a reputation for myself in the whole company. Now? I do minimal but still get recognized as "this guy is amazing!". I've always knew that he never liked me. And I didn't like him also tbh. But managed to get attached to him and make it rain. Good work on my part!

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Fwiw I’m in pharma sales, if anyone wants help getting their foot in the door DM me on twitter and I can help you

Also, reach out to BowTiedPharma on the bird app he can help you as well

Job is lucrative and if you do well nobody bothers you

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Any thoughts on new company listing today as Amazon alternative? Public Square

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Just applied to list by business on there (and advertise) but haven't heard back yet. Seems promising depending on your customer profile

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Bell curve -> Long-tailed, the middle is fucked again unfortunately.

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Warsaw city guide would be pretty good. Haven’t been much on the EE side of things.

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Just show up that's it. Unless you're broke or ugly its easy street

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“Learn ads is an absolute must in today’s world.”

How can one start to learn ads? Any reliable sources? Makes sense to start from ai-assisted ads at this moment?

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What have you tried to do before asking that question?

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Yeah this was already covered some 5 million times as well

1) go choose a product to sell - someone elses

2) see ads in same niche that are converting - hint if willing to place it on yahoo/google that is a good ad because its expensive to run and you better convert if placing ads there

3) copy iterate and make better

Part 3 is like telling someone to play basketball after watching videos and most quit because lazy incompetent and unwilling to work

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I'm currently diving into an online workshop by a renowned marketer that a buddy suggested. It's been pretty cool so far, but since I'm a newbie in copywriting and there are plenty of sketchy folks out there, I'd love to hear a different viewpoint.

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Reverse engineer how that marketer convinced you to buy a course on marketing.

Reapply those techniques wherever you can sell a high margin product.

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Lol spoken like a pro

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Quite depressing. Or refreshing. I suppose it depends on how you look at it/ how you're feeling. End of the day I guess there really is nothing you can do about it.

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on the crypto casino topic, I was involved as a writer/marketer/researcher in aDICE/ROUL type of project that never got off the ground after the backer and dev team vanished and I didn't have the network to pull it off. I still have my notes.

Been a subscriber and fan for a while so I'm happy to share my work with you. I hope some of it is of some help to you. Any questions feel free to shoot.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PeBpyMEmG68ir3p406CPZsMNJ7QBKQelm7sXfoVev3w/edit?usp=sharing

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Hey bull - I’m going to go through with a pretty big surgery over the next year. I will adhere to the advice on not telling anyone what’s going on but my company is a medium-sized one (about 250 employees) is there any other way I should navigate it so I don’t get flagged as a big cost along the way?

I am a high performing sales guy that’s made it through every cut since working here (4 now)

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Mr. Bull, what are some other middle/upper middle banks besides Stifel? Currently looking to apply for internships for next summer

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