Corey P Nicholson

🤯 My e-commerce brand just passed the $500,000 in 2021 YTD revenue mark last week. No venture funding. Year one. And we're profitable. I'd like to story tell a few huge learnings I've gained as a 20 year old dropout who formerly cooked fries at McDonald's. 🧵Here we go

1 week into this campaign 📈

Game changing. No more VA’s needed

Was sitting right beside Tyler in his car when this Apple ban moment happened. It didn’t phase him at all/the way it would’ve messed with me. Before you know it this guy was back on his feet and in an even better spot. Fall forward. LFG

This is going to make us work so much faster 🤯

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toronto founders, where do y’all recommend living (or not living) in the city??

It really pays to have the right people/friends in your network. the type that answer your text in 20 seconds. Last night at like 1:50 a.m., a software company that I just started a week ago was starting to get a bit of viral traction, and no payments had come through for the whole day, which I found odd. a ton of signups but no $. Finally, I figured out that my Stripe API keys weren't functioning properly and I had to fix it I'm not rlly technical by default, and within the same minute of me texting my friend, he sent me a Google Meet. We walked through it live and fixed it in 20 minutes. Twitter/X can be such a resource if you utilize it properly. 🚀

I spend a lot of money on a lot of things for the business, but one thing I refuse to spend a dollar on is Apollo credits.

Friday night activities 🫡

2 creators, posting 1x/day each with view bonuses. This is all it really takes to run a UGC campaign on @sideshift_app if you have the right creator and product. we'll add in more creators now, but if you make good ass content, it doesn't require alot of creators to start.

Been working with and thinking about and talking about vibe coding tools forever but this past weekend was the first time I actually just sat down inside of cursor with Fable 5 for 9 hours straight and no distractions I built a whole product lol More to come

Joining Canada's best gym was the #1 best decision I could make. for years, I was going to the chain gyms and was always annoyed by the long wait times, etc. A week into joining this gym, I met huge fitness creators (like Jeff Nippard), and at the end of a hard work day, now I can go to the dopest gym and just recharge my brain. dont know how i’d cope without gym and running tbh 😅

NYC — FL 🙏 its fun when travelling = networking which = more deals and people i can help

It's incredibly clear to me now that whenever I'm fizzling out and losing that spark of energy I usually have, I just need to change my environment. Being around other people building shit, seeing everyone in motion, and not just drowning alone in your problems (which is very easy to do for entrepreneurs) fixes so much of it. Thankful for the ones around me 🚀 hoping these posts show me to new peeps as well

even when travelling, i’m that guy hitting the gym at 1am for a quick sweat 🫡

i just saved at least $30,000 in annual overhead at my agency by using @viktor_com on Slack. up until now, we still seemingly ALWAYS needed a human to little things like: - draft and send contracts on docusign - update Notion docs accurately - ping creators on Slack if they're not keeping up, etc No longer an issue. Viktor does all of that. Every time. The second I need it. At 2am when I get an idea, I ping him on Slack, tell him to do the leg work, pass out, and in the morning i have data on it Really dope product @frydwia , happy to do user interviews whenever!

truly a unique feeling when you leave your chill hometown and come to a place like NYC. There's an instant 20-25% healthy boost in "oh shit, I need to be doing more" because literally everyone around you is in motion, which indirectly motivates you to push on. Building...