Chris Meade 🏐
@thechrismeade
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Building The Founders Club - The Best Community for Entrepreneurs | Co-Founder of CROSSNET | Forbes 30U30
Miami, FL
Joined April 2015
DAY ONE of owning a pilates studio:. 🤯 122 paying clients came in.🥵 Average class temperature 96 degrees.📸 78 Instagram tags/posts.📈 Over 5M impressions . Today we get to start charging $5 for mats & $4 for water! 💦 . This is fun!!!!!
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Eight Things to Remember for 2024 💡. 1) Stop caring what people on the internet think. 2) Sweat once a day, you'll never regret it. 3) Its okay to disconnect & take time for yourself. 4) The best ideas happen when you step away from your work. 5) You'll never hear a "yes" if you.
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I went $200,000 in debt to get a film degree that paid me $13/hr when I finally landed a job on a film set. I would have had to work 20+ years to pay off the crippling debt my 18 year old self got into. Who would have known selling a four way volleyball net would allow me to
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🚨💰 Over the past 12 months we've shrunk our payroll from nearly $1M to $150,000 with the help of fractional hires and MarketerHire. The crazy thing is we are seeing the same level of efficiency!.
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Let me tell you something that others probably won't. Your life isn't going to magically get better tomorrow. You're not going to wake up with abs or a million dollar business. Your life will not improve unless you put in the work. Start today. Not tomorrow.
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Hiring is one of the most time consuming things I’ve ever done 😔. Digging through thousands of resumes, paying top dollar for candidates, and then knowing you potentially missed the best candidate at the bottom of the pile. Lucky I found a way to solve this👇🏼.
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Got fired from my job in 2016. I remember having less than $1700 in my bank account. I wandered up and down this street crying, calling my mom, and not knowing how I was going to pay rent, loans, or make it the next 60 days. Life throws shit at you some times just so you can take
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My biggest 2023 goal is to fall asleep every night with my phone outside of my bedroom. Seems so simple but time disconnecting is the most valuable thing I can give myself this year 💯.
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One of my best friends just quit his cushy $ 150,000 a year job and I'm so damn excited for him! He's going ALL IN on his startup that he co-founded this year with his wife. They've agreed to lay it all on the line and give it everything they got. I asked him the #1 reason why.
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Massive day! Met with the big dogs for one of the biggest meetings of my life. Thank you @Costco 🤝
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Shit day. Couldn’t sleep. Woke up at 4. Hurt my foot. Got sued. Got hit with a $217,000 bill. Dog got cancer. Apartment rental offer got declined. Might have to recall a product. It’s not even 6PM. Entrepreneurship sucks. Time to do it all over again Monday.
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I’ve fucked up. Thought I was crushing it. Hired too fast. Bombed at retail. Overspent on inventory. Been sold out for months. Missed payroll. Entrepreneurship is a game of inches. Two steps forward, one step back. Go fast. Fuck up. Learn. Just don’t make the same mistake twice.
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The most slept on growth channel for us reaching 8-figures was…. Word of mouth. Let me explain 🧵.
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Being married is dope af. Was at a pool party yesterday just watching people intoxicate themselves to work up the courage to strike up a conversation. I’ve never been more focused. Never been more productive. Being in the right relationship is a super power 🤝.
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The best thing about meeting Twitter people in real life is finding out 99% of the people who are good at tweeting can’t hold a conversation in real life.
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Fuck all those screenshots. For every crazy Shopify dashboard you see, there’s a hundred people like you going through the grind of just figuring shit out. Just keep going.
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Nobody makes it in business without some nasty battle scars. Here are my 20 favorite quick tips 💡.
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Big Gmail Hack:. Create a filter for any email with the word "unsubscribe" in it. Watch your inbox go from 10k to 10 real quick.
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What's your take on building a business with your best friends? Six years in and lost two of them.
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My cold plunge broke today. I called customer service. The founder called me back and Facetimed me for 20 minutes until we figured it out. Do things that dont scale. Even on a Sunday
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We paid off a $1M personally guaranteed loan this morning. Sleeping a bit easier tonight baby 🥂🎉.
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MASSIVE NEWS 🔥 🚀 . Just six months after launch, SmashNet will be available at Walmart this June. This is our fastest selling game of all time and we’re so excited to see it displayed on its own pallet in the middle of their stores.
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Lets fuckinggg gooo!!!!! Just got the call. Costco Canada Spring 24 nationwide for CROSSNET 🇨🇦 🚀.
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Just hired a new marketing person to essentially replace me as CMO. Holy fuck I’m stoked. This dudes so smart.
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CROSSNET just got its largest order in company history! We’re going to be in Sam’s Club baby 🚀🏐.
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Our first ever “founders” Facebook ad. How’d we do? 🎥 🏐
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Getting my girl her first NFT. Gimme the best projects under .3 ETH 👇.
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Everyone talks about product seeding and influencer marketing. Anybody care about their margins? 🤷🏻♂️
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Entrepreneurship is funny.9am - shit how many emails do I need to answer.10am - wow that call sucked.11am - omg lfg amazing news.Noon - boys massive deal.1pm - are you kidding me?!.2pm - okay i can get some work done.3pm - another call.4pm - jeeze .5pm - time to actually work.
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PayPal is funny as hell. They are holding $31,000 but we owe them $89 because of a chargeback?! Fuck off. Worst payment provider ever 👏
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Just starting in ecommerce? Be patient. A lot of shit can happen in a few years. Time to make June 2021 CROSSNET’s best month ever 🚀🔥
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To read more hot takes on my burning hatred for Sallie Mae praying on innocent teenagers, sign up for my free weekly newsletter here -
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For the next 6 months:. Take extreme accountability.Master your own mind.Lean into challenges.Cut out toxic people.Go all in on yourself.Train like a warrior.Work your ass off.Eat like a king.Read more.Sleep well.Train hard.Upgrade.Create.Thrive.Win.
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YO - I want to build a Slack integration that reports to the entire company daily sales, profit, and % to monthly rev goal. I don't want to spend $900k on this shit. How can I do it?.
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Am I really supposed to tip my barista when I pay $8.36 for a 16oz matcha?.
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If you struggle with consistency, read this (thread):
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I have a badass overseas Shopify coder who is SUPER affordable, looking for some new work as he’s behind on some family bills. Anybody need some work done?.
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Crazy day! Landed a meeting with Target after five years of trying and got us in for 2025 🚀🎯.
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Startup founders: I built a brand from zero to $40 million. 5 massive pitfalls you NEED to dodge if you want to do the same:.
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She ran through the NBA and now an official partner. Started at the bottom 💯.
Kim Kardashian’s brand SKIMS is now an official underwear partner of the NBA, WBNA, and USA Basketball. Not a collaboration I would have expected
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Why do I gotta clean the Airbnb if we paid a $500 cleaning fee.
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Content deficit? The best thing we did was put 20+ content creators on monthly retainers. They get guaranteed pay checks & we have fresh ads every month 🤑.
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Here’s how we woke up with a video about our company from Codie Sanchez, one of the internet’s most famous entrepreneurs👇
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Pro Tip: We changed our company email to a GIF of a rotating volleyball. Now when you get marketing emails from us the email stands out even more in your inbox 📥.
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new year, upgraded stack:. ✉️Email: @klaviyo .📲SMS: @Recartapp .📈Data: @triplewhale .🤖App: @tapcart_app .😃CX: @gorgiasio .⭐Reviews: @MyReviewsio .📝Surveys: @KnoCommerce .❄️Affiliate: @_socialsnowball . anything else you’d add?.
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I am so damn lucky. Can’t wait to spend forever with you 💍❤️
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MASSIVE NEWS⚡️ We just launched Good Sport, the world’s first creator led sporting goods company, with co-founder & Youtube legend @DannyDuncan69 .
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CROSSNET launches in Sam’s Club is less than a month. Production & financing was crazy for this run. Still self funded 😃
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It’s okay if you don’t have a Rolex. Don’t have a house or that flashy G Wagon. Or your life figured out at 30. Or even your own business. Stop setting unrealistic expectations from strangers on the internet.
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@denk_tweets Ahhh hard disagree. I’d spend so much time swiping my g, now I’m more focused than ever and building with the right one.
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Im deadass convinced Uber drivers have a secret network of people they just call to mumble on the phone and talk to during their drive. I’ve never been in an Uber where the driver wasn’t mumbling into an airpod for 45 minutes to someone.
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I’m so sick of being asked to tip for bullshit that doesn’t require tipping.
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I used to work with a freelancer who I paid a couple hundred bucks a month to get me on 20+ podcasts a month. Telling our story was so important early on. Anybody want the intro?!.
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Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. Shits a fucking headache I’ll tell you that.
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Last night was the best night of my life. So blessed to marry the love of my life @lyndseytownsnd ❤️ 🇮🇹
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Speaking in front of the largest crowd of my life today at 10am 🙏
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CROSSNET starts its run in 1,000 Walmart stores today. The boxes have been picked up and we’re shooting for nationwide distribution 🛻📦.
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Wife cancelled Valentine’s Day dinner to order Five Guys and watch Netflix 😍
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We make about 4x more on Amazon than we do on Shopify. Owning "your audience" is important, but if you're a limited LTV company put your ad dollars to where your customers convert the best. Got the dopest Amazon agency in the game if anyone wants an intro.
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Shopify sales & business growth > being in the DTC Twitter clique.
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FaceTime should allow you to leave video messages like voicemails.
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We are hiring a DTC Marketing Manager. We are hiring a DTC Marketing Manager. We are hiring a DTC Marketing Manager. We are hiring a DTC Marketing Manager.
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I used to have a boss who emailed me whenever my shirt was untucked. Fuck that guy.
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Flooded with DMs about why we’re switching to @Sendlane. Tbh its simple. I’m sick of overpaying for name brands. Why spend $700 on a black Gucci tshirt when I can get the same thing at TJ Maxx? As long as the emails are sending, look the same and deliverability is unaffected I’ll.
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Stolen from this week's newsletter but damn I'm proud of the team 🔥
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DTC brands working with big-box don’t get enough credit. Floating cash for Net 60-120, while paying employees & having enough to spend on marketing is tough af.
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Lost my dad twelve years ago. Didn’t get to see me graduate college. Didn’t see my wedding or marrying the girl of my dreams. He has no idea about CROSSNET or us taking care of our mom. There’s so much more to life than business. Love your parents even more today ❤️.
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Honestly might have to go and get a job at Meta to just unlock my own damn Facebook ad account. Going on nearly 50 days without being able to run ads for Good Sport.
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Get rich enough to live on a ranch in Wyoming and never check Shopify ever again.
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Do things that don’t scale. We hire somebody 10 hours a week just to leave comments on the biggest meme and sports pages. Top comments = mass brand exposure.
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This is massive! CROSSNET is an official partner of USA Volleyball 🥇🏐.
USA Volleyball has announced an official partnership with CROSSNET, a four-square, recreational volleyball game. Read more |
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Our ambassador program has sucked for four years. Last night we decided we are going to start rewarding promoters $50 per sale. If I’m happy with a $50 CPA on FB, why not build an army of college kids trying to be entrepreneurs?! 🤔.
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Oh hell ya! CROSSNET appearance on Sunday NFL Countdown!!!!!
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Y’all really don’t know about big box challenges until you get a $65,000 chargeback for labels being placed in the wrong spot 💯.
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We just sold CROSSNET. I’m so incredibly proud of the team for the most epic seven years. Excited for the next chapter 🚀. Newsletter with all the details now live!.
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Jeeze I just fucked up forecasting again 😡 😂. Launched SmashNet in Australia and I thought 150 units would be okay for a test for a few weeks. We started selling 200+ a day, 48 hours after launch. We now have 5000+ backorders.
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Six years ago we designed the original CROSSNET on this balcony. We took all the money out of our 401ks ($14,000), met a supplier on Alibaba and decided to move to Miami to start a business.
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Just made a $15,000 investment into a company I truly, truly love. Life is crazy. Four years ago I barely had $800 to my name 🙏.
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Remember: Owning & operating a profitable, growing business > DTC clout and twitter love.
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Lotta petty ass dickheads quick to shit on 30u30. Would be in your bio in half a second if you got it.
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Alot of shit talking on having a personal brand lately. Sure it takes away you away from the business but also:. - Closed Walmart & Dicks via LinkedIn.- Hundreds of free articles & a 30 min special on ESPN .- Partnered with one of the largest Youtubers to create a super company.
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Big news! After five years of building in public I’m starting my own podcast called My Biggest Lessons! Each week some of the biggest names in ecommerce will join me to share their biggest mistakes. I hope this helps ❤️
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