What a fucking year
2023 Recap
• down 30 pounds
• dropped body fat 25% to 13%
• $89,420 in wifi money revenue
• W2 compensation at all time highs
• met some fantastic anon friends on X that objectively changed the course of my life
2024 Preview (at least for the first
My goal with amazon is get to 250K net profit ASAP (by late 2024, early 2025) and then that’s the inventory capital I play with.
That effectively gets you 200K+ income for as long I stay in AMZ game. How?
Oversimplied math but:
• 250K turned over 4x a year = $1 million
•
.
@InsidePMI
you guys have a once in a lifetime opportunity to do what any brand would kill an opportunity for
Embrace the crypto culture
Don’t fumble this.
Ask your board, shareholders, and customers what they want. Not your legal team.
$ZYN is IN
Not sure why 10K a month (Revenue) is so glamorized - you’re making the same amount as a wagie and putting in wayyy more work and stress.
Remote jobs are so easy these days. Plus you actually do learn skills and knowledge in the corporate world unlike what Twitter has you to
@BowTiedIguana
Some guy in Africa did the whole retina scan for world coin thing. It was $50 of world coin and he bought a goat with it
Now people keeping asking for his contract address and sending him money to buy more $50 Goats
The goats are being named things like “higher” “based” as per
@BowTied__AI
10,000 steps a day.
That’s an extra 500 calories that either..
1) acts as a buffer if you eat a cookie or something and go over your target calorie intake
2) melts fat faster if you are disciplined because…
500 calories x 7 days = 3500 calories which is a whole pound of
If you work remotely you need be virtual background and HQ audio maxing. Pick one background and ALWAYS have it on.
If you don’t tell them, they will never know if you’re in the office, at home, in a different country, out having side hustle biz meetings.
The key - ALWAYS
Just do one of the GOOD courses (
@cleartheshelf
’s OA challenge if I had to pick one).
Before you do that watch some of the free content from
@SerendipityOA
@SASHATEED
on YouTube too see if you actually want to do the AMZ. Those 2 are are Canadian and give you more behind the
Starting a biz venture, losing a few grand and months of time, failing or realizing it’s not worth it, and then shutting it down is a net positive.
You’ve freed up brain space to think about other things. Learned some skills and met people a long the way. Have something
Hit the phones people! I got more alfa from one 15 minute phone call today then months of googling would.
A short story: Spoke with a F500 brand and simply asked "looking to buy in bulk can you connect me with your distributors" and the blessed rep dropped like 10 massive
No matter what anyone says
Finding Money Twitter is a blessing
There is a ton of legit advice
Connections you can make are priceless
The problem is skipping through the beginner phase
Full of fake screenshots and ridiculous claims
After that phase
Things get much better
If you’re not going to update content regularly sell an e-book instead of a MRR. You can extract all the CLTV on day 1 and customer will likely be very happy if they get a bunch of value.
And don’t have to deal with the mental burden of another subscriptions. Or you have
@yazuM1021_
@ZssBecker
Bro I was born and live in Canada it’s going to trash because cost of living is through the roof and majority of jobs (for software engineers too) suck.
I agree more opportunities and degree will help you get visa (which regardless of what Twitter says you should still do. Gets
@thebeautyofsaas
They announce with so much pride that they are going to be poor and make like 50K a year for the next 4 years
(ofc in different words - “I’m going into Audit at Deloitte”)
Big PsyOp by b-schools of what a “good job” is in exchange for 100K tuition
@BowTiedBull
My parents live in a WoRLDClaSs city an hour outside of Toronto and their house is worth 1.7Mill and they make like 40K a year.
You go two hours away and might get an 800K townhouse if you’re like or a 650K 1.5 500 sqft bed condo.
It’s fucked up here bro
We also only have 5
I need to create a 3D model of a product to make some ads with it.
Is it possible to that with an iPhones these days easily (and is it of quality) or I gotta hire somebody?
Any recos for apps or freelancers would be awesome?
Holy fuck. I filled out the contact us page on of the really big distributors and they called me back already. They're "happy to work with me" and sending over application docs now...
Money loves speed
Hit the phones people! I got more alfa from one 15 minute phone call today then months of googling would.
A short story: Spoke with a F500 brand and simply asked "looking to buy in bulk can you connect me with your distributors" and the blessed rep dropped like 10 massive
@BowTiedUM
Truth.
Lost 23 pounds in last 3 months to get to just under 20% bf.
I know look much better (looking back I actually feel embarrassed for my old self at the start of the year) but gonna monk mode a few more months to get absolutely shredded.
Finding distributors used to be a challenge but not anymore. Found an approach that works even better then google…
You literally just call the company that manufacturers the product and ask them for a distributor close to your prep centre
Then you reach out the distributor
We need to blow up more professional service chads like
@Abir_CPA
@thelawshorts
@ChrisPotter361
@sunburnfirm
in 2024 and peer pressure them to share their alfa
Talking chads that know things like legal, finance, compliance, tax, regulatory compliance, etc
Tag your favourite
This is a very important slide. This is all the capabilities you need to have/work toward/ or hire for your business to be super successful (even your online marketing small biz/freelancer gig if you want to make it a real business) Sure, it’ll be at a smaller scale but having
1/ ASSOCIATE'S GUIDE TO THE BOARD ROOM - THE 12 ARCHETYPES
New in the board room... Here's what you need to know about the players, why they get hired and what role they are used for.
TOPIC 1 - Gaining Trust from Board Members as a New VP
@StBoujee
@itswithinme_
Lmao imagine advising someone young to spend 4+ years and bunch of student loans to get a “prestigious” $50K entry job at DeloiTTE with a limited set of exit ops (which also pay mid)
Only time CPA makes sense (which most won’t do) is if you open your own firm after but that
Time and time impressed by
@BowTiedFox
's writings.
Clearest thinker on all of Twitter.
His ability to explain complex topics is simple terms is unmatched.
@itswithinme_
Alpha tweets aren’t liked cause
(1) gatekeeping by those that will use it. Don’t want it to go viral. Bookmarks only
(2) too much text. Short attention span. Saved in “read later” bookmark graveyard never to be looked at again.
Most fall into
#2
Being on the buyer side of big tech, holy there are some bad enterprise sales people and sales orgs.
You are doing a disservice to your customers and the rest of you company if you don’t have a sales motion, messaging, and sales assets on lock.
Your product could have solved
@BowTiedBroke
Your account/stories have been a big motivator and I did spin up an AMZ biz. Starting was rough but it’s really clicked last 2 months and now just need to scale. Should be 100K sales by December end, Jan for sure.
My life has actually changed now cause I have very clear line of
I’m not buying any inventory on Black Friday
I over-levered myself in November and bunch of it is still checking in.
December will be decent but not as huge a banger as it will be for others. But that doesn’t concern me.
Instead I’m focusing on building my systems,
.
@ColdDmCarson
and [the twitter equivalent] can you please release a feature where I can be added to a do not contact list.
I would be willing to pay a $20-50 one time fee for this so this also becomes a new revenue stream for you.
Win-Win
Lmao what kind of DCF sensitivity table is this
@vaneck_us
.
Outsource to
@BowTiedNightOwl
or
@BowTiedIguana
next time.
It’ll cost you $10 bucks a month instead of the $150K you’re paying to the analyst that put this together. And the range will be tighter than 0 to infinity
@nightscaler
Honestly man it should be fine. Just file them and then be like “I have no money” and work with the gov to set up a payment plan and spread it over few years.
Sounds like something gotta talk to a professional which will cost you some shekels though
my dms:
- (life story trilogy) what do i do
- how 2 evade tax
- help me launder my drug money im an albanian dope pusher in england
- please hire me im 19 and unemployed but only if $100k/yr
- invest in my startup idea
- what do you do ??
- give me your top 150 books now
These AI repricers are annoying when you’re trying to liquidate.
It’s a 3 seller listing - like dude just let me sell out my last 7 units at this fire sale price. I’m never coming back to this ASIN. Stop undercutting me by a penny and ruining your margins well you’re at it .
@BowTiedNightOwl
I bought Defi Academy today cause I move like water not molasses
This line was great “In the world of crypto, timing is everything. Those who act, win. Those who delay, wish they hadn't”
@BowtiedQueenBee
I don’t even have kids and I’m fed up with the system. Gonna home school em when the time comes. Gets worse every few months
What I’m also seeing is a lot of people making these rules don’t even have kids … have a 30 something teacher in my extended social circle who’s pro
All I did was try to open a new account and
@Wise
fucked me. Closed all my existing personal and business accounts and won’t let me access my account or statements (10-20K but I don’t know cause no statements…)
It’s all gone, poof.
Based out Canada and everything is above
15K spend later - done spending money for the month and now going to do the boring (but important) stuff get my systems in check to scale properly. My buy sheet and COGS tracking is almost non existent...
Going to find/build the right automation and software. No VAs those -
My generational wealth plan
1. Gamble 5 figs into memecoins
2. Wait for some to blow up to 1-10B MC and go 10-1000X
3. Sell meme coin into ETH/SOL and expecting a 3-4X repricing to get to its “fair value” relative to BTC
4. Sell ETH/SOL into BTC.
5. Win
Problem:
If you’re 🇨🇦 you know how it’s very tough to get debt that’s secured against the business and not you personally cause Canadians banks take no risk (also why we have 0 innovation here but that’s a separate discussion)
Solution:
The threshold for AMEX to consider you
After the FTC ban on non-competes I am starting a PAAS company - poaching as a service
Drop your target list in my DMs and I’ll fill your calendar list with interviews in the next 2 weeks
@BowTiedOpossum
I used to sell on Amazon and even then people had the wrong address (and it a fucked saved address). Had a high ticket electronic so verified every address. About 5-10% of them I had to manually correct … like how are you receiving any of your other shit you order online???
Twitter has A LOT of good info but you gotta find the right accounts (some are sub 500 followers).
Many of the good accounts don’t care about growing there followings cause they make money off real businesses not courses and just casually tweet out bangers
Here’s how you too
It’s cause nobody studies exponential math/power law after grade 12.
And in grade 12 its taught with 0 context that it’s one of the most important forces of nature
AMZ is more about disqualifying as much as quickly as you can and then go DEEEEEP on winners vs forcing xx$ of spend every days.
It also makes this so much easier/manageable.
I usually have like 2-5 ASINs at any given time and spend like 5 hours a week on this. I try to be
E-comm jungle frens, read this if you are "thinking" of an idea or product to sell (or recently launched but not going so well).
If your product is indeed unique, skip to bottom for alfa
So - is your market sophisticated? (Read DTs tweet below if you don't know what this
Your offer never mattered and probably never will.
Everyone preaches to you online about how important your offer is, like that will solve all your problems.
But it wont.
You see, what you need is a fundamental understanding of how to choose your market.
The most important
If I was going to start a lead list here how I’d do it. Not sure how the lead list guys do it but assuming some variation of this. You can use this to give yourself unlimited leads
Merry Christmas!
1.Go to Rakuten/other cashback site and scrape all the sites. These are your
@lon_peralta
My advice:
- Do the OA Challenge by
@cleartheshelf
to understand and get practice with Amz for a few months. Oa is less risky/easier to get started and understand
- then the Wholesale challenge by
@GanimCorey
Then reach out to her brother to plug her into the electronics and
This will be the third Deal Director idea that I pitch to my W2 CFO/COS as my own genious idea (I am in a senior GTM planning role)
They’re always amazed how I’m on top of all the latest cloud news and the biz implications of it
Thank you DD for the alfa 🤝
In January all the hyperscalers are reducing their listing fees for marketplace transactions, making it cheaper for ISVs to move their business there.
Idk how many times I need to repeat myself, sell SaaS that’s on Marketplace unless you hate money.
Amazon Wholesale and OA has been around forever but can't get it to work? Well here's what I've realized
Most (not all) are just using twitter as a lead gen for there 100+ people discord group or subpar course.
Please save you $50 bucks a month and instead go to the clearance
@BowTiedBull
I stopped by DelMar beach to check it out and got a parking ticket in like 20 minutes for parking to close to the stop sign. Not much real crime happening there for sure
This works. Did this last month at my W2 and I don’t know python…and when you inevitably get error messages, copy them into chat gpt and ask why it’s not working. It literally tells you where to fix your code.
Okay here's the deal, every time I post about automating your day to day with python, or read
@thebeautyofsaas
tweets about it, I see a lot of "What can I automate?" and "How?".
It's not that hard these days. Heres how:
@BowTiedHH
Lmao if someone calls out vlookup I assume they don’t know what they’re doing. Index match or bust
(or the new xlookup if the person is a zoomer and they insist)
Had an impromptu desire to buy a car last Sunday. Went to dealership and it’s closed.
Checked hours and its Monday - Saturday 9-6PM, closed Sunday.
Fine, I’ll go check out option 2….Checked other dealerships in the city and they all have the same hours.
Bro, how tf are 95%
@thebeautyofsaas
I do this. Ppl also hate documentation so I create the page for them.
Now 95% of the pages says “created by *snowgoat* further cementing the allusion I work a lot (I don’t. Most of workdays is spent on my own wi-fi money or twitter shitposting)
And all new employees reading
Very well put.
Hate it when people say “no risk no return” but fail to quantify the left tail risk and what the “risk adjusted return” is
You need to be making asymmetrical bets that don’t won’t wipe you out.
Here’s an example if you have 5K and trying to change your life:
On pain, left tail risks and almost losing an arm.
A decade ago, I fell through a window. The glass sliced through my veins, arteries and lodged itself on in the bone of my wrist. I blacked out due to blood loss and was taken to trainee nursing facility (all there was), as we
Bookmark ratio gonna go off with this one …
If you’re (or your wide/kids etc)
a physiotherapist and want to print money, go to your local retirement home and offer in-person physio to every single person
Medicare pays for the whole thing so $0 cost to them.
You have $0
2023 has been a helluva a year! 🎉
I’d like to share one more product launch with you that has been in the works for over a year now
Being a big tea & coffee guy I was naturally intrigued when I stumbled onto Yerba Mate 🧉 via some content put out by BowtiedBull in 2021.
I
Degen sourcing alfa no one else will tell you to get prices no one else has access too. It’s actually the exact opposite of what they tell you
RT if you want. Or bookmark if you want to gatekeep
Step 1: Find products tanked in price. Normally they tell you to avoid these
@BowTiedWhiteBlt
@BowTiedBull
Been around for a while and trends every few years.
Popularized by the book “buy then build”
Effectively an MBA with no experience (but think they know how to operate a biz cause they worked it mgmt consulting or ibanking) raises a few 100K “fund” from daddy’s contacts and
@lon_peralta
@alloutamazon
This is:
1. Demand increasing (green line in top graph going down = higher demand/higher sales velocity)
2. Supply decreasing (blue line in bottom graph is # of sellers = sellers selling out)
3. so price going up (blue line in top graph because supply/demand in action as a
FINALLY FIXED MY SLEEP!!!
(Important stuff for you at the end)
I’ve always been envious of people that can sleep 8 hours straight. I can operate on a whole other level the odd time this happens for me.
Been trying to do fix for like 7 years now.
It’s been about 10 days now
Ask and you shall receive.
A lot of successful people get fulfilment from mentorship and want to help you if you’re actually putting in the work
🗝️ is to take action and do something with that info
You get what you ask for
Ask for help and advice more often (tastefully ofc), you'll be surprised how generous random strangers on the internet are with their time and knowledge
Ego stopping alot of you guys from making incredible friends
If you were helped by anyone on Money Twitter along your $$$ journey, you have a commitment and blood oath to the community to help younger guys also achieve success.
If you mock, diminish & seek to embarrass young guys for only making a few grand a month: YOU ARE A DISGRACE