Posted this to Twitter / LinkedIn today. **Cheat code for entrepreneurial success** DO NOT invent a brand new business model. Instead, COPY existing businesses. Why? There’s proven demand. Just be sure to change this one thing ↓ You MUST find a way to differentiate. Two ways to accomplish this: - Price - Market I DON’T recommend competing on price. This results in a “race to the bottom” and will cut your profits razor thin. I DO recommend differentiating by market. AKA, sell your offer in an underserved market. I’ve launched 4 startups in my 26 years. My two successful startups differentiated by market: - Greenbox Storage: Summer storage service for college students - FounderBrands: Content agency Greenbox Storage succeeded because there was little competition at my alma mater. FounderBrands succeeds because I niched down and chose a hyper-specific Ideal Customer Profile ↓ Founders who want to drive leads from Twitter. (And by the way, I didn’t invent those business models. I copied them) My two startup failures: - Air mattress rentals for college students who had friends come visit - Business consulting for college students Both original ideas. Both failures. Here’s the lesson: 1. Competition exists where demand lies. 2. No competition is a red flag. 3. You can succeed by selling in an underserved market.

Some Paylente members requested an early release of my brand new podcast called Business Blitz. @Brad Smith was one of my first guests! It will be released to the public Friday, but you can get early access here. Brad drops a ton of knowledge in this one!

If anyone is around I'm showing the new X ads update on Zoom in 5-minutes: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86028436886

Hey team, we have some amazing people in this community already and we just started. I want to put something like this together with our team for next month. We all giveaway our best stuff for 10-minutes each and we'll donate all the proceeds. Let me know if you are in for November! Have a great weekend everyone.

My number one goal is to provide as much value as possible. I've been an entrepreneur since my junior year of college where I started Greenbox Storage. 5 years later, we provide summer storage solutions for college students at 23 universities across the United States. Since it's a seasonal business, I decided to build my personal brand on social media (Twitter most notably, ~10,000 followers). In my experience, there are two main benefits to growing on Twitter / social media: 1. Networking (I've met amazing people, like @Brad Smith online) 2. Distribution I also run a ghostwriting / content agency to help others experience the same success I've had driving leads from Twitter / social media. Super excited to be a part of this community and provide value to as many people as possible!