E92: My theory on what's going on at TwitterX that is allowing for the TwitterX Ads glitch. If you don't know, the TwitterX Ads glitch is a glitch that allows people to get millions of impressions and thousands of link clicks for a dollar-per-day ad spend.
E91: Thought I discovered another TwitterX ad hack last night; tests came back negative. + More tests listeners are running. + We think in terms of what we are capable of.
E90: How Geoinfo on TikTok has gone from 0 to 100,000 followers in a month with a Borat-like accent on geography information. + How Gary Vaynerchuk got influencers and billionaires to buy CryptoPunks early, sell at the top, and put the returns into VeeFriends, his own NFT project.
E89: Digging into how Google ranks posts on Reddit. + SaaS Funding Napkin 2023 on Product Hunt. + Fake followers on Instagram - good or bad? + I Tony Robbins'd myself.
E88: After reading "Trust Me, I'm Lying" in 2015, I experimented with lying to the media. What would be believed? How far could I go? Could this benefit me? Here's what I learned from "Trust Me, I'm Lying" and a few stories trying these lessons out.
E87: I launched my startup on Product Hunt the same day as ChatGPT, which ended up being the catalyst day for ChatGPT to take over the world. Here's how we almost beat ChatGPT and my experience on day one of ChatGPT's rise to dominance.
E86: Instagram is one of my favorite channels for community building, and this is a repeatable tasteful hack you can do to continually build on it. Hint: people love consistency.
E85: One of the biggest struggles for new podcasters is getting listeners. In this episode, I share the three ways I'm driving listeners to this podcast, which isn't even three months old. Spoiler, way #2 is very easy and repeatable.
E84: One of the most wild search engine optimization stories I've heard. The author needs to get backlinks to a porn site but has a limited budget. The way he goes about accomplishing this is both brilliant and creative. Bravo.
E83: Moz's On-Page Grader is one of my favorite SEO tools. Here's why. + The call with Elephant VC I had this morning. Great sounding firm. + This week's newsletter was apparently a banger.
E82: How I outranked the NYTimes on Google, showing up #1 immediately after publishing my article - while living in Kyiv, Ukraine. Oh, and I got an expert to write the article for free. This is an 11-minute master class in SEO.
E81: I probably shouldn’t share this story, but will anyway. My friend met two Y Combinator alumni in Miami who lied in their initial YC interviews. Here’s what they lied about, how they pulled it off, and how they ended up winning.
E80: The conversions I get, the settings I use, the copy and creatives I use - everything I know about this TwitterX Ads glitch, which gets me millions of impressions and thousands of link clicks for a dollar-a-day ad spend. This is my most updated podcast on the topic.
E79: Lenny Rachitsky (lennysnewsletter.com) went from no newsletter to one of the most popular newsletters on the planet in only four years. 2019, when he started, was a time of heavy saturation in the newsletter space, but Lenny became a standout anyway. Here's how he did it.
E78: The bad times are fleeting - this is a hysterical fail I had in Berlin. + Meeting teen millionaires last night. + A guy who manipulates the biggest social networks.
E77: I've created an evergreen library of content on TikTok that is now working for me. I've hit a point of compounding growth where I'm growing at a rate of 100-200 followers per day. My minimum view count on videos has increased, and I owe this growth all to consistency. “Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
E76: NYC nightclubs are a beast unlike anywhere in the world. To go to them without paying thousands of dollars, you need either fame, power, connections, or beauty. Back in 2010, I had none of these things. Yet I social-engineered myself going to these clubs anyway. Here's how I did it.
E75: One of my best episodes. How to have recruiters and top business owners REACH OUT TO YOU on LinkedIn to hire you. If you're struggling to get a job, this method works. I used it and had so much demand I was saying no to people.
E74: Credit to roastd.world How any consultant in any niche can make a productized service and get customers. This is especially popular among those who work in technology but can be applied to any industry: hospitality, supply chain, etc. This is an easy and tasteful way to get customers for consulting or contracting services.
E73: This Meetup hack gives you: Clout in any niche. Dramatically increased likelihood of influencers in your niche taking meetings with you. A new email list. And the hack takes under 10 minutes to do.
E72: I heard possibly the craziest marketing hack of my life last night at a hidden restaurant in Soho, NYC. What I share in this episode is SUPER against the rules, and while I don't condone or endorse it, I do find it fascinating. And I can see how it is wildly lucrative.
E71: The story of how my mentor became of Head of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) at the biggest marketing agency in the world, by market cap, and how I became one of the most skilled SEOs around.
E70: My friend was crushing it with daily videos on TikTok. Here's what happened when he took a couple days break. + I'm refining my TwitterX Ad strategy. + What I'm learning about TikTok engagement hacks.
E69: How Interestingtruth on TikTok hacks engagement with simple lines. Brilliant. + An update on my TwitterX experiment from yesterday. + Examples of content creators killing it who wish they had a SaaS.
E68: People are converting from my TwitterX ads after the campaigns have stopped. This got me thinking... people are already sharing my ads while they are running; how can I increase this? Engagement hacking is one of the most fascinating areas of the Internet, and TwitterX ads give me a huge canvas to paint on.
E67: It's a simple lesson - don't get angry, don't be arrogant. If there's somebody you don't like, ignore them. But it's a hard lesson. And the only way to learn it is to make mistakes. While I often talk about networking wins I've had, and how I've done them, networking losses are also important to discuss. So, in today's show, I discuss one of the biggest losses you can make: burning a bridge.
E66: 12 years ago my friend was a struggling actor serving wine at events to make money. Two nights ago he rented out a top NYC rooftop club with an open bar and celebrity performances. This is that story.
E65: TwitterX ads are even better than I thought. They put my websites into the top 1,000,000 most popular websites in the world. This has unlocked all sorts of superpowers for me, the least of which is access to Help A Reporter - one of my favorite marketing tools.
E64: I never expected to learn such an impactful marketing secret during my stay in Belarus in 2019. + I saw Casey Neistat this morning!
E63: A press and email trick you can use for getting in touch with influential investors. Here's how I started email threads with Jason Calacanis, Fred Wilson, Naval Ravikant, Mark Pincus, and Tekin Salimi.
