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@Shwinnabego

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Branding and marketing insights from working with consumer brands running: and building my own

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the last of their kind
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the new kia logo is so unreadable that at least 30k people a month search for the "KN car" ever since its debut
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4 months
Emailed the CEO of Amex after this tweet. Going in to Amex HQ today. Quarterly reminder to shoot your shot
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5 months
the last of their kind
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This product launch video was bad. 6 years to build a product, only to create no hype
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@colejaczko an impossible assessment
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updating y'alls linkedin this yr:
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11 months
3h ago Stanley replied. They’re gonna replace her car, which will maybe cost them 35k? Their vid has 1.1m views already and will rack up at least 10m + press. Insane reach + goodwill for spend. They moved fast and executed well on this
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11 months
Posted a day ago, 17m views. Stanley should be using this as an ad
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@SeanEcom ppl stunned at doing something for more than 18 months to get a bag
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10 months
With mark cuban leaving shark tank, it’s time we switch up the whole roster. Here’s the new lineup:
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1 year
met a guy who has a 1 yr old brand selling blunt wraps and doing $4m/mo in wholesale lol
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on this week of fuckaround Friday, how I met the ceo of vanguard
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5 months
He’s 71 but still got that hustle in him
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What GREAT customer service looks like - a good lesson for brands
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2 years
fixing how this brand explains what they sell
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1 year
Eataly but for Indian food (I will tweet this annually until it happens)
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Cold drinks are 75% of Starbucks bev sales - wild stat
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@kafkaesql Clarke Davis can only aspire
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chipotle's marketing 🤌
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4 months
How do you launch and grow a brand? A breakdown of the process, budgets and resources typically needed 👇
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11 months
Posted a day ago, 17m views. Stanley should be using this as an ad
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2 years
Brands that do a bad job explaining what they sell and how I’d fix it
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1 year
what people miss about design
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4 months
In 2022 Dave Portnoy lost 3.7m to two guys on the internet who called his watch co. for what it was 🚮
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In 2022, Dave Portnoy spent $3.7M to launch a new company called Brick Watches, through which he tried to sell $2,400 watches. I said on Twitter that they're a ripoff and they're built with $40 quartz movements. He then filmed an 8 min video about how I'm a moron.
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If you want to be *actually* good at marketing, this is the only resource and person you should study:
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1 year
This video did 6.4m views and drove zero sales for brick watches, so john may be on to something here
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John Fio
1 year
Tik Tok numbers are 1000% faked and inflated. My video just got 500k views and guess how many website clicks it drove?…… 3 3 full clicks. The views aren’t real. They are pumping view count to keep you addicted. This is obvious.
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1 year
distribution > ideas
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Invited to be on a panel at Harvard, mom still requesting I get my MBA
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2 years
had an idea for a skincare brand
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5 months
The MKBHD / Humane discourse has highlighted that some people worship so hard at the altar of ‘innovation’ that they can’t comprehend any form of critique — weird energy
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3 years
a random dm to @ShaanVP led to a mention on his podcast, which led to a few people reaching out about work and consulting, which led to at least ~$80k of additional work this year...all from a DM saying i liked his podcast
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How did celcius blow up?
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7 months
waging war against Verizon
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Also quarterly reminder that no matter what you do your Indian mom will still want you to have a Harvard MBA 😂
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4 of the last 10 vids hitting 1m+ views...we are cruising
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Eras of post-MBA goals 2009 - 2013: banking / consulting 2013 - 2016: product manager 2016 - 2021: DTC founder 2021 - Now: buy local services business
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A website stole my designs, so once again I’m going to war
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A theory on why most marketing is bad
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“Webinar” is in dire need of a rebrand
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1 year
someone hacked my grubhub account and ordered $134 of Mexican food. I have their phone number and address, so I had to obviously ruin their meal with this text:
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3 months
Book recs: how to get “good” at marketing
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8 months
Ignore everything I’ve ever said about branding as this has sold 300k units on tiktok shop
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1 year
Why does everything look the same
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A 1 minute redesign of a bad oura ring sign
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1 year
VERY cool byproduct of putting content out there
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Emergency analysis: big corporate marketing must be stopped immediately
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9 months
A rebrand that likely turned the business around
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5 years
A few people have asked me about getting clients and cold-pitching. I’ve done ~6, and think they’re really effective ways of getting someone’s attention and opening doors for conversation. A thread with emails + examples:
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1 year
are cpg investments tax deductible since its a donation to a nonprofit
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@noahsfriedman @Equinox 8am weekend open time is also criminal
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2 years
How Id think about launching a new ice cream brand
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1 year
my issue with packaging like this (solid colors, some abstract shit, trendy fonts, etc.) is that it communicates virtually nothing about what the product IS inside for a dtc product you can get away with this to some degree, but on store shelves this is a bigger problem
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Gym sharks new ad campaign and why it’s good to own one idea:
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@pitdesi This is literally what ppl want to see from Olympians. Very hard to comprehend how fast you’re swimming relative to all of the world’s best swimmers. But this, an absolute feat
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Brand strategy vs branding
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how my wife conned her husband out of 10s of thousands of dollars
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One way to create good content for boring brands
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1 year
I need an associate. Someone who can just learn all the shit I’m doing and help me do it better across multiple work streams. Not a VA, not a remote assistant, someone IRL working alongside daily. Putting this out as a half baked thought
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How chomps is growing the market for jerky through clever branding
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if i had one lesson for a brand making social content:
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9 months
For this weeks f*ck around Friday, Snowbird hooked me up to 🏂🌨️ — as a longtime fan of the mountain and their branding and advertising, I thought I’d add on to one of my favorite campaigns of theirs: One Star
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@colejaczko I don’t think there’s a singular “thing” you can predict to work on for 40 years, but you can stay in a relatively narrow space (industry, skill set) and compound progress, insights, etc.
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this year I’ve been running agency, running a brand, launching new brand, made a course, content daily across TT and IG (and add a 1 yr old to the mix) I toggle between this is completely inadvisable and the idea that your capacity to do more increases by…doing more
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woke up to an @alexisohanian shout and an invite to speak at Stanford - thank you IG and tiktok algorithm gods
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How to grow as a new creator on social:
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an under-appreciated point about scaling is that it helps if you sell a drug: caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, THC or sugar. this is both a joke and not a joke
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Aesops $41 soap and luxury positioning
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Marketing to situations, not markets or personas
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The underrated value of a good brand name:
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10/10 read for anyone running a cpg brand
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why do people talk the way they talk..at work. Can we just, speak normally
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the hailey bieber lip-balm phone case
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This has been one of the most rewarding videos I’ve made. 600k views in a day that has driven $20k+ in sales for an incredible resource, put together by an amazing creator who has been working on it for the past 7 years. No affiliation or promo, just trying to spread the word ☺️
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North Face's new brand manifesto is a beautiful example of horrible copywriting
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if you've ever questioned the impact of tiktok, just a reminder that guru nanda oil pulling is the #2 best seller on amazon ahead of Bounty paper towels
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brands will really put their logo on an alibaba product that’s $3 and say ok now it’s $50
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Good social content and why 👇
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Wagner Group sounds like a middle market PE fund
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@Roy_Bntz stunning with a team that spent 20 years at apple — did they not absorb the ethos of their marketing??
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a theory on skims nipple bra launch
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also real ones will remember the '09 ted talk showing off this tech. underwhelming product too as it stands
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reminder for how brands should be thinking about social content creation
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2 years
When I’m on banana republics website which has $400+ clothes I don’t want a reminder that the parent company operates old navy and gap as well. Same reason you don’t see VW branding when you walk into a Porsche dealership
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if i'm a ski goggles brand i'm gonna have some fun w/ this apple vision release:
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building a $100m/mo ecomm brand but I cannot reveal what it is. all I ask is that you buy my course and I’ll show you how to do the same
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why Zara’s website is very bad
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Incredible brand content
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looking for a man in finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes
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Thinking about where your brand can and cannot live
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The main regret I have now is knowing that I could have 10x’d my output when I was in my 20s Now doing 10 different things on top of having a child and still far out working my younger self If you’re single and working on a single thing, you’re probably at 50% of what you think
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consumer hardware brands getting this man involved at every stage of the process out of sheer terror about what he might say about them
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I recently got to visit some Apple labs where they durability test new iPhones before they come out, and learned a few things (🧵THREAD) #1 : Have you actually seen how they water test phones for IP ratings? (video)
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This week on fuck around Fri: ideas that should exist
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Getting creative with product awareness — how Siegleman Stable got NBA players to rock their gear:
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what a great ecomm experience looks like.. s/o to @jackybh
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I call this anti branding and here’s why I think it’s so effective
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1 year
Julia fox is here for my takedown of portnoys watch company so that’s nice
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Is this style played out?
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