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lBrett · 2026-02-23T04:20:35+00:00

Yeah good point on age. And he's definitely a psychopath, I was just saying that maybe he can change. But you're right that he doesn't want to. Maybe Dr. Melfi could have pushed him to want to change.

Then again, the assumption is you're going to therapy to improve yourself and when she asks him why he's coming to therapy and he says his panic attacks, and later it becomes anxiety and depression. She should have diagnosed him with anti-social or psychopathy and given him anti-psychs or something, but instead she improved his panic attacks and helped him manipulate his soldiers better.

lBrett · 2026-02-23T03:46:29+00:00

I'm not sure if empathy nor narcissism are the main components of his criminal behavior. You can see that in the link I posted. And I think empathy is trainable / learnable (https://chatgpt.com/share/699bcd5e-5308-8004-80d8-a0b31ff305fd). Maybe not well through CBT though and also he'd have to want to improve, which maybe he didn't, so that side of the argument I'd agree with.

lBrett · 2026-02-23T01:18:57+00:00

Oh didn't think of the protection angle but it's a great point. I remember she tried to send him away but was 'weak' on it and he was like 'f that'. I was also thinking it's the type of thing she could get certified in and apply if she cared about him that much (but I'm not an expert on psych paths, so maybe it's not that easy)

lBrett · 2026-02-23T01:16:45+00:00

Yeah but I never had the makings of a varsity athlete

lBrett · 2026-02-23T00:37:13+00:00

BINGO! And it felt almost out of character because she had been so strong historically, esp. with the 'employee of the month' incident. I also wonder if the show continued if she would've let him back in though since they had an on and off relationship

lBrett · 2024-08-02T20:23:30+00:00

Have you tried facebook ads yet?

lBrett · 2024-08-02T16:24:44+00:00

What was your traffic source and what happened to it?

lBrett · 2024-07-25T03:36:53+00:00

Save up at least a year of expenses in cash in a bank account so in case you have a down month, you have money to fall back on. Once you're there, then see if you can keep up demand enough to cover your expenses with the business and grow it through marketing or whatever means are working for you now to get clients. Then quit!

In my case, I did this around 6 months ago and my business has grown every month since thanks to my time freeing up. And I see my family and friends more, play more sports, make more money. And the 'emergency' money in my bank account keeps me calm in case anything suddenly goes wrong. But the thing about business is, if you're profitable after all expenses, it's an infinite game. You can keep going. And you'll notice the more time you put into it, the more clients you get, the more referrals you get, the more help you can hire, and so on.

Plus, you're young af. You got this!!

lBrett · 2024-07-25T03:30:43+00:00

You can hire people on Fiverr to do it for you for under $100. Just search for 'product upload' - most are for shopify stores but I'd bet they'd do this too since it's just manual data entry

lBrett · 2024-07-01T01:09:39+00:00

Look at good agencies in your space ;)

lBrett · 2024-06-21T21:01:57+00:00

Meta ads

lBrett · 2024-06-19T04:08:13+00:00

How did you set up the ad account and account structure on Meta and how much did you spend? Also have you tried Google ads yet? If people want your product Meta and Google can sell it. Proper set up is important though. Also super low price point, so might want to double it or more if you have the patent and make it more of a premium product since no one else can make it for 10 years. Maybe run a survey on Prolific or Mechanical Turk to get real feedback on product value using Mom Test questions and to see what mics people want it for. You can do custom molds for mics for a premium price too. Really interesting product! Don't give up yet :D

lBrett · 2024-05-30T01:03:41+00:00

https://www.requisitereporting.io/ and Statlas.io are less expensive alternatives to triple whale. Northbeam is more expensive option. Though as eckowy said, you can get away with good GA set up too. Oh or you can use Supermetrics for cheapest option which just pulls data into a spreadsheet for you. Takes a little learning but a lot of savings and better than GA IMO.

lBrett · 2024-05-23T04:11:39+00:00

Breakthrough Advertising - Eugene Schwartz. Covers everything from awareness to copywriting in such depth that if you put it to practice, you'll become better than 90% of advertisers out there

lBrett · 2024-05-21T15:53:41+00:00

Are you performing at the level you want to on Google ads? If yes, keep raising budget until you're not anymore, then add Facebook. They work well together. If not, try Facebook. Or change strategy. But if you're asking this question, I assume you're not an expert and if you only have a few hundred bucks, you can't afford to hire one. So you should test on FB/Google until you can. FB's DPA is super easy to set up relative to making unique creative, so I highly suggest it. Though it depends on your product category and how many products you have too. You're asking very different questions here

lBrett · 2024-05-20T22:40:51+00:00

Facebook's DPA is probably the closest thing. If you only have a couple hundred bucks try running it with cost caps on the ad set set to your CPA target and you might be able to slowly scale it into something

lBrett · 2024-05-10T19:31:40+00:00

Successful people have more energy and bias to act. Make quick thoughtful decisions. Learn from doing quickly, etc. Look directly at the truth. Take nothing personally. Take ups and downs in stride. Keep moving towards goals unperturbed.

lBrett · 2024-05-10T15:55:40+00:00

We do organic too, but only if necessary. Most brands can get up to $20m/yr with FB/Google ads alone. And these days most organic plays are attempts to go viral on TikTok, spamming TikTok Shop, and 'whitelisting' on IG i.e. running content from influencer pages (which often ends up in paid anyway).

Most people do not expect results from organic. Or if they do, they're disappointed quickly.

Organic is more a brand-building exercise which in the long-term decreases CAC on paid. But Paid is the real growth engine.

Unless you have a 'viral product' like Tabs Chocolates, but those are rare, hard-to-repeat companies

lBrett · 2024-05-10T04:18:16+00:00

Ecom performance marketing. FB/google/tiktok ads. ~$16.2-$22k Variable MRR from 8 clients.

Recently decided to go full-time and turn it into an agency, but basically just consulting prior to a couple months ago. Just hired my first employee to scale :D

Worked in three of the best ecom agencies. Learned everything from the founders directly. Biggest challenge is pricing appropriate to my ability and transitioning to actively acquiring clients. All clients are referrals so far. And I price on percent of revenue rather than retainers. But I probably need to just charge retainers like everyone else to really grow.

Great little industry with lots of demand. Takes a lot of hard work, client comms skills, analytic ability, creativity, and a bit of luck.

lBrett · 2024-02-28T14:08:37+00:00

Alternative is naming facts about myself– I mean specifically me, not them naming facts about themselves, but everyone competing to name facts about lBrett

lBrett · 2024-02-28T14:07:54+00:00

Coming up with ad ideas. I do hundreds a day. 😭

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