Alex Friedman is a quintessential builder and content creator whose making a ton of noise on Tik Tok these days. She's built in CPG, SaaS, and with a couple projects in the works right now she's been building her Tik Tok presence with content focused on making tech and business easy to understand. One of Alex' most recent projects Founder Gigs was acquired in only a few months after she built it with no code over a weekend. In this episode we talk about: - Her first forays into physical pro...
Jun 07, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pod description: All 3 of us have dabbled in selling on Amazon, but are far from experts. So when we wanted to learn more about the ins and outs of the platform, we tapped the one and only Lesley Hensell - co-founder and co-owner of Riverbend Consulting, where she oversees the firm’s client services team. Shes been a seller on Amazon herself for over a decade personally has helped hundreds of third-party sellers with everything from selling their businesses, to getting their accounts and ASINs b...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pod description: So look, we surveyed the magic eight ball along with thousands of listeners on who you wanted to see as a guest on Builders Build…and the overwhelming response was former president Barack Obama. Sadly our schedules didnt align with Oren’s daily paddle boarding session, James’ frequent jet setting to Miami, and Colin’s relentless mission to win Portlands coveted father of the year 2022 award… So? We went with the second most requested, the king of writing online himself, Dickie B...
May 24, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pod description: In this episode the gang discusses all things related to building a personal brand on Twitter. Discussing why they each decided to build brands in general James, Oren and Colin choice why they chose Twitter as a primary platform, the benefits of being social on the internet irregardless of audience, how their goals with social have changed over time, and of course how to tactically grow an audience. This episode covers: Personal brand goals from networking to leverage and beyond...
May 17, 2022•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Newsletters are hot right now and as of list week, with the launch of Free Smoke, James, Oren, and Colin are all building email lists in different niches. Selfishly, they had to bring Jack Raines of Young Money onto the pod to talk all things writing, building email lists, and developing relationships for distribution. Jack and YMCMB are on a remarkable trajectory right now so he’s the perfect guest for an inaugural email list deep dive on this topic. In this post you’ll hear about: Getting star...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week the team dives into content marketing. In retrospect, we are going to need several more podcasts to get deep into it but if you have no idea where to start, this is the pod for you…heck even if you do…this is the pod for you. We cover everything from social to SEO to how to create content and where to distribute it, so give it a listen share it around, this is a intro to content marketing from 3 guys who somehow kind of found themselves making content for a living. In the pod you will ...
May 03, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Builders Build we switch up the 3 musketeer format and bring in an amazing guest, Joe Valley. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, EXITpreneur, M&A Advisor, Podcaster and Partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, one of the top online business brokerage-advisory firms in the world. Joe has also built, bought, or sold over half a dozen of his own companies. We cover everything from setting goals for your business, tools and strategies to help document your processes and resources from the st...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Builders Build covers our favorite CMS (content management system), Wordpress. WordPress' market share is 43% of all websites on the internet. With that amount of market share, all builders should know it. We cover all our favorite plugins that you need. We have tested them all and put together a ist that will save you A LOT of time and money. Take our combined 30+ years of experience with building websites and businesses using wordpress as the backbone, to help you jump right in...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast This episode of Builders Build covers crucial organizational concepts and tools that actually make businesses run. We cover sales forecasting, manufacturing planning, manufacturing efficiency, financing inventory, warehousing methodology and tons of crucial alpha for people actual building businesses. It’s not just physical products either, we make sure to hit similar planning cycles for software and content. This might not sound like the most glamorous topic but this is probably the...
Apr 12, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cannabis is a generational opportunity, and building brands inside of the strange infrastructure of partial legality the industry exists in is a unique challenge. The gang discusses What it takes to make a “premium” brand, and why that’s not always the look James past life as a cannabis stock data aggregator Brands created in boardrooms versus born in the streets Dispensary branding Celeb partnerships The weird world of strains We touch on Cannuka - https://cannuka.com/ Sticks - https://sticksro...
Apr 05, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast The team dives in on everything you need to know to create your own physical products--from white-labelling to dropshipping to full product creation. We go through concrete examples, and talk about supplementing your launch by buying websites and social accounts. You can grab the free Entrepreneurs Guide to Alibaba Sourcing at builders.build/cpg The process to create a product https://asana.com/resources/product-development-process White Labelers for supplements and cosmetics https://www.cpgacad...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast We heard ya loud and clear, you like the deep dives. So for this episode we did a follow up to Episode 2 of Builders Build, where we discussed buying a digital asset. And don’t worry, Colin Landforce is back from his corporate life and back on the Builders Build team. The plan was to break down growth levers AND to dive deep into monetization of these assets BUT THERE WAS SIMPLY TOO MUCH ALPHA. (We only had time to dive into growth) So check out Episode 5 of Builders Build where we dive into: Wh...
Mar 22, 2022•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's true, Landforce was TOO CORPORATE for this episode. He has been removed in post processing. James and Oren hit quite a bit - starting with a full dose of LA lifestyle action. We're talking steaks, we're talking grocers, we're recommending you go to Maru. After that it's success tips for nightclub promoting and general stories about being young and blessed in New York. Somewhere in there we get serious cover a head to toe on ETFs including fund structure, basis points, whit...
Mar 15, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast The team talks about modern entrepreneurship, the ups and downs of that term, investing, building audiences, working together in cohorts and much more. Important pod if you're building businesses in 2022!
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to Builders Build episode 2! We dive in and break down Digital Assets, a topic that's near and dear to all 3 of our hearts. We cover everything from niche content websites to social media profiles to newsletters to Saas’ to domains. (As well as a litany of other things we love in the digital asset space). What are they? Who are they for? How do they make money? Is this real? What is Flippa.com? What is Nanoflips.com? The answers to all these questions and more are just a click away. So t...
Mar 01, 2022•58 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In the first episode of the newly renamed Builders Build podcast, Landforce, James Camp and Oren Schauble dive into personal stacks-- the tools, software and processes that help us execute as modern entrepreneurs. - Task tracking - Project management - Email marketing - Fitness tracking - CRM - CMS - Extensions & more.
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Season 1 is done, long live Season 1. The gang talks about our plans for Season 2. We apologize in advance... you'll never get this fifteen minutes of your life back.
Feb 15, 2022•15 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast With everything from 3D rockets, to NFTs and custom-made songs, episode 19 of Tab Talk is sure to have something for everyone. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/tech/relativity-rocket-space-feature-factory-scn/index.html (Colin) 3D printing Rockets $1.2B raise in 8 months Largest 3D printer in the world https://www.winbg.com/ (Oren) House of Brands Ecom brands are being started in with multiple lines Ecom brands being acquired by houses Ecom brands banding together to share resources and community ...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast We made it to episode 18, and made sure to bring just as much enthusiasm and alpha as we did in all the others leading up to it. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/29/business/cvs-receipts-long-extracare-rewards/index.html (Colin) - 5 years ago... CVS switched from OOH and circulars to...receipts that are miles long https://www.pcgamer.com/so-if-its-not-about-exclusivity-why-exactly-did-sony-buy-bungie/ (Oren) - Console Wars are Heating Up! https://www.tales.com/ (James) - New tech solves an o...
Feb 01, 2022•51 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Pirate Stock Exchange https://www.bosshunting.com.au/hustle/pirate-stock-exchange/ Harardheere Pirate Stock Exchange Anyone can put up cash, info, weapons food for a job - get returns One lady RPG-7 returned $75k USD Pirating costs the global economy $12B/yr White Label Cosmetics http://www.manaproducts.com/ White labelled cosmetics and bath goods Everything we buy outside of major brands in this industry is made by one of a dozen wholesalers The only difference is marketing, connections, niche ...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 16 episodes or pure alpha breaking down our favorite tabs for your listening pleasure. https://twitter.com/i/events/1482753562794885122?s=10 (Colin) Train thieves are destroying supply chains Union Pacific is a racket https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers (Oren) College in the future, or is it going to die? 1m less students now, but still 1.5m more than the early 200s What will remain https://www.yepic.ai/ (...
Jan 18, 2022•57 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Episode 15 is here and we dive into all the things you didn't know you needed to know. From the mocktail nonalcoholic wave to the opportunity to buy the royalty rights of K Pop superstars. https://snaxshot.com/ (Oren) Dry January is now... Dry 2022 Alcohol is poison People still want something for the experience Massive market, fun branding https://twitter.com/i/events/1478776050263887874 (Colin) Jessica Simpson Licensed her name for a Non-luxury brand As big as Michael Kors Partner started...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast https://www.commitaction.com/ (James) most people just cant be motivated maybe good for soloproneurs $300 a month can check in on you if you cant keep motivated yourself https://www.theschooloflife.com (Colin) Printed DTC product - not some whitelabel products Books. prints, games Generally trying to get deeper https://www.web.archive.org (Oren) Anything on the internet, with screenshots Great for banned websites, websites that had redesigns, and old tumblrs Nice to show copyright infringement a...
Jan 04, 2022•54 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to episode 12 of Tab Talk Get Ready for a deep dive into everything from the house of cards that is the airline points industry all the way to plant hoarding. First up is Duuce, the marketplace for buying and selling newsletters online. Some are overvalued and some are a steal. https://duuce.com/ New Zealand is banning Tobacco. They are raising the legal age every year until people born in 2008 can never smoke. Is it people's right to consume tobacco? https://twitter.com/i/events/14...
Dec 21, 2021•52 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Wide ranging tabs today, and only a brief stint in crypto land. Prestigious Home Mud via Oren First up are a range of ultra premium home coffee makers ranging from brutalist slabs of concrete to cold brew meth labs. It’s the finer things, really. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-drip-coffee-maker/ https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-best-coffee-makers https://www.amazon.com/Yama-Glass-Bamboo-Straight-Frame/dp/B00AM7K93O/ref=asc_df_B00AM7K93O/ https://www.kickstarter.com/...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Tab Talk episode 12 is dominated by Twitter threads and parenting advice you didn’t ask for. My Race Horse via James - Fractional race horse ownership is exactly what it sounds like. For as little as $36 you can get .01% of a race horse that has earned around $1,000 in it’s career. https://myracehorse.com/ $250M Battery SPAC via Colin - another god damn paywall from Bloomberg, so the actual tab is the Twitter thread they did about it. The battery supply chain is the opposite of divers...
Dec 07, 2021•56 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast TAB TALK 10 https://www.starlink.com/ The future of internet? When bandwidth is ubiquitous what happens to telecom? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/21/business/inside-frenzied-used-car-market-stuck-overdrive/ * Inflation up 7% * New cars up 11% * USED CARS UP 43% http://nft.poolsuite.net/ * Hard to tell what degree of corny is gonna pop * Getting eviscerated in the comments about NFTs * Miseducation about NFTs and energy (particularly Solana) is going to kill this space * Know many pro...
Nov 30, 2021•48 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Crypto.com Staples Center Naming Rights https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32650662/staples-center-become-cryptocom-arena-rich-naming-rights-deal Lux Q3 2021 Letter to Partners https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L-UaZ0fwbFuYnxPPLNYikM-rK1BWPilg/view Blackhatworld https://www.blackhatworld.com/ DAOs, a Canon, from a16z. https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/ Fantastic Texts https://fantastictexts.com/ 500k lbs https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/us/oregon-illegal-marijuana-seized/index.html...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast VC cuts a YouTube creator a check for future earnings via James Camp love the ideas as creators as new media what type of support is offered hit reader view on mobile call her daddy had similar deal who make the back office support for creators when is the line drawn on creators IP in regards to what they own https://www.businessinsider.com/vc-firms-are-buying-equity-directly-in-influencers-youtube-creators-2021-11 DTC Cross-Selling via Oren Schauble DTC Cross-selling On checkout Submission base...
Nov 16, 2021•53 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast A pod about a thread, which is really more of a journey... The Tab Talk team deviates a bit from the normal format to dive deep into how and why to buy an online business, including tools and tactics. Enjoy! https://twitter.com/landforce/status/1456633899312836609 Business Buying Directories, Courtesy of @JamesonCamp flippa.com empireflippers.com feinternational.com quietlight.com investors.club exchangemarketplace.com microacquire.com...
Nov 09, 2021•51 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 
