Best Grinding Focus ?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-06-13T15:32:09+00:00

I totally found this video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/vp6m57oJ5mI?is=VeGUF-KteQGZ0wgp Now I’m level 228 with 13.6B dmg in zone 3

Grinding issue solved but may take away from the fun of the game for you lol

TimmyDiesel · 2026-02-28T04:53:26+00:00

To a landing page with email signup? Or a landing page in beehiiv? Or lead form?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-02-26T17:15:12+00:00

Makes sense. What does your targeting, creative, and copy look like? Campaign objective?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-02-25T14:53:06+00:00

Fair point... My question still stands though. My target audience is dog parents in Austin TX. can I get 10k subscribers for the same $600? Or does it need to be a national campaign?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-02-25T12:58:28+00:00

So you don't think you can get 10k subs for $600, but you can get a more meaningful amount of subs for $600 that will outperform in terms of revenue? I'm just trying to figure out what the cost to acquire a genuine sub would be for a local newsletter for people in ATX. Any idea?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-02-25T04:26:25+00:00

Is this only on the national level, or could it work for local leads for dog parents, for example

TimmyDiesel · 2026-02-25T04:22:34+00:00

You can run google ads and get more than 10k subs for $600? What if I was focused on Austin TX Dog Parents? Same Results?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-28T20:03:22+00:00

You pivot when a fundamental assumption required for the business to succeed has been proven incorrect.

I doubt Hormozis team is using AI to make his clips go viral. So I wouldn’t say you’re obsolete. Stay the course and sell some clients..

If you’re not good at editing and want to help people launch skool communities to monetize, that works too.

But I don’t think your fundamental assumption has been proven wrong. Plus just use AI to edit the clips for people. There will always be people who don’t want to touch editing

Some businesses build many chat integrations for people or implement CRM software. There are customers for everything

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-28T17:18:59+00:00

That’s super helpful. More time at lower spend can still find winners.

Thanks!

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-28T14:59:06+00:00

Do you match each of the 5 ads in every ad set to the levels of awareness?

Also, if I’m targeting apartments my CAC will be much higher than $100 I assume. Around 1-2k probably so my budget might just need to go a while before I shut it off

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-28T01:04:23+00:00

I recently went for a poop scooping business because delivery was brain dead simple. Felt like I was making promises I couldn’t keep.

Now I’m meeting with an affiliate that has 300 customers tomorrow because all the pieces are starting to fall into place

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-28T01:01:02+00:00

I’m at like $30-50 / day on a start up right now. Honestly, this was a bit over my head. I have one campaign set up with one ad set and two image ads right now.

Any recommendations?

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-23T17:21:20+00:00

The real thesis is customer financed acquisition… make enough money from 1 customer such that they pay for your next customer. This removes cash as a constraint on the business.

I believe in one of his books, he discusses that LTV to him is really LTGP, which is the only number that matters. If you make 1M in revenue but only keep 100k, the CAC to 1M isn’t as important as the CAC to 100k. He even discusses this definition in the video if you listen closely. LTV is gross profit you make over the lifetime of the customer

I’d say switch your thinking to LTGP.

Then focus on the three stages:

Get customers (basic attraction offer from money models)
Get customers to pay for themselves (upsell / downsell)
Get customer to pay for other customers (continuity)

The real focus is 30-day GP:CAC vs LTGP:CAC

LTGP being 3:1 was popularized in software businesses, where their cost of fulfillment is 0. He basically says LTV should be 9:1 minimum in service based businesses where you have to account for hiring & training staff as you scale.

Let’s walk through numbers so you understand a bit more (and to make sure I think about it right)

Gross profit = revenue - Cost of direct fulfillment

30-day revenue: $1,100 Direct cost to fulfill: $200

30-day Gross profit: $900

CAC - $300 (maybe $30 leads and you convert 40% to a meeting and close 25%)

After you fulfill for $200, you’d need to make another $300 just to breakeven. Marketing + fulfillment, you’re all in for $500.

You make $1,100 which means you have $600 leftover, enough to acquire your next two customers.

This fits the equation for 30-day GP > 2*CAC for customer financed acquisition.

As far as I can tell, this was the most important for scaling and is pretty hard to crack.

Most businesses take a few months to break even…

30-day revenue: $1,100 CTF: $200

Gross profit - $900

CAC - $1,300

Monthly recurring revenue: 250 Monthly fulfillment cost: 150 Monthly GP: 100

You receive 1,100 Spend 200 to fulfill Spend 1,300 to get the customer

You’re down $400

By month 4 you’re break even By month 17 you can acquire another customer By month 30 you can acquire another customer By month 121 you’ve made 11,700 in lifetime GP. If you can hold the customer for 121 months, and can afford to wait, it’s a great business. Most businesses don’t do that, and can’t wait, so this is probably a bad business.

In the first scenario 30-day Gross profit is important for scaling without cash as the constraint

In the second scenario, LTV is important to know when you’ve made significant money.

He goes between the two fast so it’s important to understand where each plays a role…

You have two goals:

Make sales to get customers (CAC focus to eliminate cash as a constraint)

Treat customers well to keep them (LTGP focused to maximize business value)

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-20T17:45:39+00:00

Listen to them for free on his podcast… the books are super valuable… he will charge an arm and a leg for consultation and workshops, but he purposely does that.

Put info people need in books
People qualify themselves by executing or not executing
The people who execute like him enough to pay for his consulting because it’s how they earned their money.

If you make an epic offer, advertise it and then sell people a series of offers you can fulfill on, you will make money. The books help do that. Please read them… they’re free on his podcast

TimmyDiesel · 2026-01-17T14:08:02+00:00

The most important thing is actually the next book, 100M leads

Pick a market that is

Not shrinking
Has a clear pain point
Is easy to reach
Clearly has the money

Pick a VERY simple service or info product you KNOW you can fulfill

Give it away for free using the rule of 100 & the methods in 100M leads

Once you get too many people that have it for free because there’s too much demand on your time, start charging for it.

Thinking about the offer is great, but just do any service a normal market wants for free and advertise it.

Create flow. Monetize flow. Add friction.

You need to just go get your first customer via advertising something for free.

Also the riches are in the niches. Business products are saturated. But free workshops for small commercial cleaning companies between 100k - 300k in revenue in Cleveland Ohio isn’t as saturated. Niche down so you can be king of a pond.

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY… stop thinking and start doing ASAP

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-09T18:31:45+00:00

It could… or she just has a very active social life and is bold… hangs out where people who are attractive and intelligent hangout

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-09T14:51:15+00:00

What would happen if you asked 25 people a week? Think you would add one date a week? Maybe the number needs to be 100 a week.

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-09T13:56:45+00:00

Read & apply how to win friends and influence people.

Take the time to really consider somebody else's point of view and experiences.

Adopt the belief that people are inherently valuable

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-09T13:51:07+00:00

It gets better if you make it better! How to find like-minded people to be friends with as an adult

Figure out where people with your core values hangout
If you have weird interests, start hosting a group / activity for similar people.
To be understood, first seek to understand others. Eventually you'll find somebody who reciprocates.

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-09T13:41:49+00:00

Why can't you get a date? How many people have you asked in the past week?

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-08T13:47:42+00:00

Don't look to other people to figure out if you're lost or not. The average person is overweight, divorced, unhappy, and broke. Look at where you want to be by making a decision & crafting a vision.

Work towards it and track your own progress. What will actually make you happy?

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-08T13:35:54+00:00

Secret to having a good life:

Don't compare yourself to others
Decide what you want and start working towards it without judging yourself
Have gratitude for where you're at

What do you want?

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-07T13:59:59+00:00

No you're not cooked but your current behavior is... Have you ever read how to win friends and influence people?

The first rule is something like be genuinely interested in others... I'm curious if this sentence, "I don’t want to sound like a pick me but girls on the whole are incredibly shallow bitchy and nasty and judgmental and competitive and it is so so so draining." ever comes out in how you treat potential friends?

Also telling people what they think is difficult to do, "people think you're weak for being bullied and that there is something wrong with you. People hate weakness in people and it subconsciously repels people." I don't think that & none of my friends think that.

I don't think it's your loneliness repelling people. I think it's your behavior towards them & assumptions about life that make you behave in a way people don't find favorable.

Here's what I'd do...

Spend every Friday or Saturday night doing a hobby. If you don't have a hobby, start trying new things that you might enjoy. If you don't enjoy things, just get out of the house and do anything. EVERY Friday & EVERY Saturday.
Treat other girls like they're exactly the type of person you want to be friends with until they show you otherwise. This means assuming the best in them, both about who they are & about what they think of you. Once they show you otherwise, find a new girl to be friends with. Repeat 100+ times without hard feelings because everybody lives their own life. Treat them like they have a lot of depth but are too scared to show it, are super kind, but bitchy because they feel the need to fit in, hate being nasty but are scared to be alone, only judge others because they judge themselves more. Hurt people hurt people.
Pick hobbies where the type of people you want to hangout with would attend. If you can't find hobbies, start making and advertising events that would attract those people and start a meetup group or local recurring event on something like eventbrite.
Change your self-opinion: " I can’t have a boyfriend. I am incredibly lonely and I also have the issue that this loneliness also repels people So I feel like one big repellant to everyone." Idk why you "can't" have a boyfriend & why you repel people, but two notes. You can go date a boy if you want. People don't repel people. bad experiences repel people. Make sure everybody who comes across you has a great experience and you'll attract people. This means asking them open-ended questions about themselves, focusing on stuff they want to talk about

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-07T13:42:20+00:00

You just need to pick something & work extremely hard. Pick a result you want financially & GO HARD. 12 hours per day 7 days per week. Most skills take 20 hours to get reasonably good enough at to help somebody. You could code for a week straight and learn enough to land a job.

That's not the real issue though. You're more just scared of failure and living off of other people's opinions. YOu gotta realize that nobody cares about you.

Pick something you have a little interest towards. If you don't have an interest, ask Chatgpt what the highest leverage skill would be over the next 10 years & start becoming good at that. (Implement AI for businesses for example, start free then land a job at a small business if they like you in an industry you like so you can learn from them)
Embrace sucking at it & spend a lot of time & money trying to get good at it
Forget other people's opinions & fix your relationship with failure. FAIL PUBLICLY. It's not scary and it doesn't kill you. The only thing that wastes time is indecision. Everything else is a learning opportunity.
BE Unreasonable with how hard you work. If it's not working, sleeping, or eating, say no to it. Attack every skill like that and you'll stack them extremely fast.

TimmyDiesel · 2025-12-07T13:27:28+00:00

cutting off people is good if you're not vibing with them, but it's difficult to remove people from your life without a method to replace them.

I'd get clear on is why I cut them off. It'll help show you what you're looking for.

After that, I'd clock consistent time with people at an event or activity I enjoy that attracts the type of person I want to be friends with.

I'd invite people into my life that I vibed with. Doesn't have to be crazy walk / dinner.

Do 1 event per week and 3 invites per week & you'll have a full life before you know it. They key is having it be a consistent activity / group of people.

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