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Built an Ai Replicant of myself and teaching him to make me $10k a day.

Bali, Indonesia
Joined November 2010
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James Kemp retweeted
This is going to be the info marketer's decade in software. Here's my prediction: the indie hacker is about to get crushed by the direct response marketer who learned to ship software. When I came up, direct response marketers sold ebooks and courses. Not because we loved it. It was the only thing you could build without engineers. We all wanted to be in software. That's where the leverage was. The wall was never talent. It was operational. Hire engineers, manage engineers, retain engineers, become a real company. So the best marketers of my generation stayed put. That wall is gone. Now a guy who's spent twenty years learning how to make strangers care can ship a product in a weekend. You cannot compete with that person on offers. On hooks. On positioning. AI does not hand you those in a tab. The engineering advantage evaporated. The marketing advantage didn't. For twenty years marketers wanted what engineers had. Now they have it.
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James Kemp retweeted
Someone is praising you @jaaims 👀 My favorite business mentor out there.
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James Kemp retweeted
This Is Not A Real Business: I sell info. I coach, consult, mentor, offer services, and licence software. There's been this slur thrown at the "industry" for years. "It's not a real business" And it's completely correct. And that's the point. It's getting paid to yap. I had real businesses. Three of them. I worked and exited a real business with 195 people. Real businesses are hard. Some very clever folks got into this gig over the years. And started making it hard. Hiring managers and CEOs and chiefs of staff. Hiring big agencies to manage tiny marketing budgets. Being a biznas man or biznas woman. They go to conferences where people clap them on the back for how many staff they've hired. All so very serious. So let's get this straight. You're alive during the biggest communications boom in the history of humanity. Allowing you to pretty much just yap on the internet and get paid millions of dollars. And you think it's a good idea to make it complicated and into a real business? Bruh. In an hour, I'm going to yap on Zoom with some folks in the Society. And I've got six folks at my office. We're jamming on the Sovereign Model and the Sovereign Path today, and then going to breathwork at 2:00. We yapped over a lovely dinner last night. Miss 1 is rocking around the place, stealing people's phones, and the dogs are claiming spaces on the sofa. No HR to get involved In two weeks, I'm flying to Rome to hang with eight folks from the Society to Yap. All me. Yapping with people I like. I've yapped so much that I've built an AI Replicant of me that's trained to yap 24/7. No CEO. No COO. No closers. No agency. Why on earth would I add those things that just get in the way of me yapping? I work something out. I offer to help someone Work it out with me. Put the details in a Google Doc. Write and record content about the thing I've worked out. Then send people the Google Doc who are interested Then help them. That people both think it's any more difficult than this and don't do anything with the things that they know, Or make it much more difficult than this by building a a big, unwieldy business around the things they know, Still boggles my mind Yap packaging. It's all it is. When I'm not yapping, I'm testing new things to yap about in the future. Even the people who have built these businesses complain about the businesses themselves. You don't have to. It's a choice. Yap.
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James Kemp retweeted
I already tried ads repeatedly and ROI was always negative I hired the best people in the industry and ROI was still negative I think the reason is basic economics: I compete with VC-funded companies with $100M balance sheets who happily enjoy negative ad ROI if it means growing their user base They can pay $1 per ad, lose $0.10, make $0.90, and it's still good because it means GROWTH. And growth means being able to raise another $100M for the next round. Then at some point they try push to profitability and IPO! I can't do that cause I'm self funded, so everything I do has to be profitable If you're competing for the same ad slot with those companies, you can't economically have positive ROI for very long. For a while yes, not for very long.
Replying to @levelsio @linode @fal
If you invested in ads, your revenue may double or more and profit way up. Profitable paid ads are incredibly scalable, never skip testing that part.
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I had always thought the self-help mantra of "put a specific timeline on your goal!" was bullshit Until I learned that it WAS actually bullshit Specific goal = massively important and absolutely mandatory BUT... Specific timeline = unnecessary & does much more harm than good IMO The reason then "when" should be abandoned is 3-fold: 1) The "when" is completely outside of your control 2) Your mind can only think linearly and cannot incorporate quantum leaps or unknown-future leverage into its current calculations 3) Parkinson's law. Work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion. Deadlines can cause procrastination or even prompt people to fill their time with trivial matters So not only is placing a specific timeline on your goal genuinely impossible - but it also could potentially be a LIMITER for how high you could ACTUALLY go within the same timeframe (especially if you are someon who procrastinates or self-sabotages) So what is the alternative? Replace your SPECIFIC TIMELINE with a SPECIFIC PROCESS. Meaning instead of worrying at ALL about "how long" - worry only about what you are doing into your day-to-day actions. And then maximize the amount of effort you expend onto these actions DAILY. So if your goal is to hit $10k/month in your agency... Ask yourself "what highest-leverage actions do I need to do on repeat to hit $10k/month in my agency? And the answer is SEND COLD EMAILS AND CLOSE DEALS. How long will it take you to hit $10k/mo? You have no fucking clue. Also who cares. Just send a fuckton of emails DAILY and close those MFs till you're making $10k/month & procuding beautiful offspring with French muses on the beaches of Normandy. TLDR: 1) Choose specific goal 2) Create gameplan with specific actions 3) GASPEDAL
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Pod with @jaaims is out: • Lead Nurturing is BS • Turning 10k email list into $10 million • At what $$$ number can you truly be free? Loved this one. Hope you love it as well: youtu.be/ofaRZhBwIyU?si=WQcf…
Interviewing the CMO of a $121M company today. Sold $8M of his own stuff too. Turned a 10k list into $10 million. Pumped.
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IT’S HERE 🔥 This podcast has been years in the making, and it didn’t disappoint. If you already know James, you know this episode’s a must-watch (link is in the comments) But for those of you that need a lil tease, here’s some of the highlights: 🎙️ James’ first business crumbling during the ’08 financial crisis 🎙️ Why leaning into your strengths and ignoring your weaknesses is the KEY to being successful 🎙️ Meeting Sam Ovens and launching his first course in 2014-2015 🎙️ Marketing isn’t complicated - here’s how to make $1M/yr 🎙️ Why funnels are out and Personal brands are in 🎙️ Entrepreneurial pain tolerance - the good, the bad, and the ugly 🎙️ You will feel pain until you stop pretending to be someone you’re not 🎙️ How to leverage AUTHENTICITY as a superpower to scale Just two dudes chatting after making millions in the online coaching/creator space, reflecting on the ups, downs & lessons along the way. We clocked in just under 2 hours. James was top form. Tons of gold. Link is in the comments for the full pod!
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At some point you listen to so many people that you can't hear yourself.
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Entrepreneurship is self-improvement disguised as business
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Friendly tip: If you get a sinking feeling in your gut when you see a client's name on your cell phone... It's time to let 'em go. No amount of money is worth that emotional drain. Cut them loose and move on. Your future self will thank you.
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“Today women, especially, are sincerely frightened by the idea of becoming just a wife and mother. Women willingly run from the home, from the spectre of becoming a "glorified prostitute" into the open arms of the corporate employer. Laughably, we call this process freedom.”
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James Kemp retweeted
The one form of equality a journalist will always resist is the idea that everyone is now equal to a journalist.
Replying to @kylegrantham
You represent the problem: journalists who think they are the only source of legitimate information. That’s the big lie.
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Do you know a brilliant sales leader who wants to make an impact but is stuck on a hamster wheel trying to hit the next quarterly target? If so, please share this @joinprisma job description with them 👇 joinprisma.notion.site/Head-…
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James Kemp retweeted
for every 100 RTs I'll make Putin's table longer
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The Industry Creating Tomorrow’s Billionaires Hint: None of you reading this will have an excuse not to be rich THREAD
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James Kemp retweeted
The big pricing mistake most small business owners make @lisamax bit.ly/1JBycfI
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“What the world craves most is authenticity, emotion and connection…” — @BeliefSchool medium.com/the-lighthouse/ce…
I laughed. God knows why since I have kids
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5 email campaigns all eCommerce companies should send - @CampaignMonitor buff.ly/1K11nnC