If you started at zero. No skills, no money, no education, no connections, and you wanted to build a business, here are the things you would probably discover you NEED to do.Build a websiteStart growing a social media followingWrite a book on your to...
Take action.It’s incredibly common advice, and it’s generally useful.Unless of course the direction you're going leads you to fall off a cliff.What most people don’t say…The lessons I’ve gathered from reading biographies of people I consider great fo...
What do you think an Indie Hacker is?Someone who hacks into databases listening to fringe alt-rock?No. An Indie Hacker is not what it seems at first glance.They are a community of independent developers, building one-person software businesses.I foun...
In 2022, I took the COO (Chief Operating Officer) job at our company.I had never had a job in operations before. I was and still am, horribly underqualified for the position.Over the past 5 years, I had been doing everything I could to learn how to b...
One has a simple offerThe other is customized for each clientOne can close a new client with a few sales emailsThe other needs 3 or more sales calls, a presentation, a negotiation, and a project plan to close a client.One gets paid every dayThe other...
At K&J Growth, potential startup customers come to us with seemingly the same story every time.“We are almost done with our product (or we have our beta, or have a creative idea) and we want to GROW.”Grow is in caps because that’s where the empha...
AI (artificial intelligence) has been usable to the common person for over a year now. The main use I saw for it in the marketing world was AI copywriting.Softwares like maker.ai, jasper.ai, copysmit.ai, are all using AI to help people write better c...
It’s no longer a myth that you can start a business that makes $1M a year, with literally zero expenses. If not zero, than at least next to zero.I have a few examples for you here, then we will go over what they all have in common.Sahil Bloom quit hi...
Over the past 5 years, my digital marketing agency, K&J Growth, has run 200 custom marketing campaigns for companies of every color and creed. We’ve spent tens of millions on advertising channels of all types and had 10s of ‘growth hacking’...
The internet allows anybody to build a business that scales without any capital or employees.Take The Joe Rogan Experience, for example. His whole operation is 4 or 5 people, yet the organization, if you can call it that, is worth hundreds of million...