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    I've spent $26M this year alone on paid ads so far... AMA about paid ads

    People have been burnt by diet pills and diet fads for going on 3/4ths of a century or more now, looking at modern advertising. Longer if you look at the snake oil salesmen of the 1800's and Im sure this went on in Ancient times too back with Cleopatra, etc. They still buy into diet fads today...
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    I am planning to launch my new product on ProductHunt, what's your feeling about it?

    I feel it's a croc of shit. We launched SerpWoo on it and I actually got to the point we had the highest votes for it for the day I set it up, during the day. At the end of the day, we were no where to be found on the list though, even though we had the most votes. It was like they decided at...
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    I've spent $26M this year alone on paid ads so far... AMA about paid ads

    I'd say it depends. Interests were never what people thought they were. Not ever. People always thought interests meant, people were a positive signal for that interest group. But it wasn't Go leave negative comments on posts about cats. Pretty soon you will be in the "cat" interest group (...
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    What to do; post business sales? Sigh.

    You mention a few things here. As an entrepreneur, your job is to solve problems. Initially, this is why I built SERPWoo.com. I was ranking organically back before SEO was even a thing when I was a Yahoo Directory editor and DMOZ editor. Then I did it with Google too. But I got out of SEO to...
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    Google AI Overviews Now Appear in 47% of Results - Gemini 2.0 to Expand AI Overviews to More Queries

    Google offering buyouts to it's employees that work in the Ads unit. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/google-buyouts-search-ads-unit.html I know 100% for a fact Google is hunting for more money in their pockets atm based on other events, and now this?
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    I've spent $26M this year alone on paid ads so far... AMA about paid ads

    I'm on my way this year ( the $26M was last year ) to hit over $60M+ in ad spend this year alone. Prior years I have done more than $200M in ad spend, but COVID really took a toll on a lot of advertisers and those types of spend years vanished for a lot of marketers who had clients. Good to be...
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    I've spent $26M this year alone on paid ads so far... AMA about paid ads

    1. Anywhere from free ( samples ) to $50k+ This ranges from companies like your local HVAC and plumber, to Alibaba, TeamViewer, MalwareBytes, Virgin, John Deere, PGA, etc 2. Yes 3. Yes, but finding someone like me is gonna be tough. Trust = yes, skillful as me = idk. There are plenty of good...
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    I've spent $26M this year alone on paid ads so far... AMA about paid ads

    @Unngabunga 1. I think for your example, with or without you, this happens with the ROAS and profit example. Even if I wasn't running ads and I did nothing ( like you said ) - it would happen. Based on that, I don't think about it. If it can happen without me, it will happen with me so a lot...
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    Youtube Organic Analytics AI tool

    Can you export data to CSV or Sheets? I don't do YouTube Organic much, so I don't know if you can get "reports". But I take my YouTube Paid ( from Google Ads ) and export data as CSV and then upload the CSVs to ChatGPT. I even do multiple CSV's as time series and compared the uploads.
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    Can I ever go back to a 9 to 5 job?

    I's say stick with the Ai, but learn a secondary skill. The Ai route will take a while. I'm working with some big names, who are true authorities in SERP results ( pre Ai, and currently ) and they have horrible results in Ai. I'm talking people who dominate SERPs organically, have huge social...
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    Anyone here running decent sized PPC spend on video?

    I firmly believe $0.80 of every ad dollar should be spent on the headline/hook. IYKYK Because of this, I have always been more focused on hooks and headlines than other parts of my ad. And seeing how Google and Meta are shifting us to more to CTV and Linear type of targeting, this focus has...
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    Getting into Bank Portals for Ads

    Just updating here - By far the easiest or quickest one to get into was Cap 1 - I'm not saying it's the best, but speed and ease here. Chase - They basically want to see how much you are running through them atm. They wanna see $30m and they take a long ass time for no damn good reason...
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    How Does Reddit Detect Previously Banned Users?

    I use to just keep a spare dial up internet account ( yes 56k ) and an old laptop with a fingerprint adjustor on it ( fingerprint of browser and OS, etc ) for doing this. Yes I also made new email accounts too. If doing this for an ad account, a lot of banks have "employee" cards but that is...
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    Getting into Bank Portals for Ads

    What I found out - - Depends on bank - Capitol One - runs much like an affiliate set up. They specifically ask which affiliate network you are running on and what commissions you pay. Not sure if this will be an affiliate setup, but that's how the onboarding goes. JPM Chase - They want a...
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    Which tool is your most valuable?

    Youtube
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    What's the biggest risk you took with ecom?

    The 1st million? I bought a modest house in semi rural Kentucky ( 30 minutes from a major city ) on some land. We're talking 3 bedrooms, 3 baths and 3200 sq feet on a few acres - Not some mcMansion with 6+ beds and 6 baths that's 10k sq ft on a beach somewhere. I also bought it in 2008 when...
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    What's the biggest risk you took with ecom?

    Yes - The one from 2008, the affiliate stuff... I pretty much helped spearhead the whole negative billing option and 2-product fake blog/fake new article craze that launched thousands of affiliate careers. While I didn't invent negative billing, I did invent the LP many still use today - back...
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    Artificial Intelligence Tools

    Who's using DuckDuckGo's Ai? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1
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    Getting into Bank Portals for Ads

    It could end up being affiliate-ish I ended up contacting via LinkedIn the people/department who run this on Amex and also reached out to the Chase team via a form I find online. Next up BofA and a few others on the credit union side.
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    Getting into Bank Portals for Ads

    I think I've figured out the Amex part of this. Prob going to be the same for Chase and BofA and a few other banks I know that have this portal setup. It seems to be a play of indiv reach out and not a network though, from what I see atm.
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