Just crossed $100k in cashback earned so far this year from CCs & cashback portals...and that's before the last Rakuten check of the year. I'm expecting to land around $130k by the end of the year. Wild to me!!
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THIS. IS. NOT. A. DRILL. 🚨
I’m spending < $40k a year on tokens/subscriptions from Anthropic, Loveable, Grok Bot, 11labs and a long tail of other products—and getting $2m+ in value @launch and @twistartups
We’ve automated at least seven full-time jobs at this point while becoming 100% faster at the average task we do
If you haven’t used the last 90 days' worth of products for at least 30 hours a week you have no idea how profound this software is
The last 90 days, things have changed more than in the last two years
Many of the things i spent hours on last year now take minutes… and the results are mind blowing
I’d pay 10x more and still feel its a crazy deal. I can directly attribute multiple thousands earned/saved from my usage in just the last 2 weeks and it only cost me $100/mo. Deal of a lifetime, just upgrade
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I’m one of them. This was a no brainer for our family. We got more coverage for half the price of the traditional insurance we had.
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Business processes I previously had to make a 10 min Loom video for walking a VA through something step by step and then following up on their recurring tasks to make sure it gets done …I’m now able to automate forever for basically free with a 30 sec voice note to @bot or by just sharing the old loom. Wild times!
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Massive what these tools are doing to our business.
I have 3 full time VAs and struggling daily to justify the 3rd. Prefer not to cut headcount but these tools have drastically reduced the overall workload, especially for the classic repetitive tasks that are easy to plug a VA into, which is where the bulk of hours were spent.
I’m working towards leveling the team up to more challenging tasks that take real thought, but it doesn’t come naturally for everyone.
If you’re not using Grok Bot, Muse, Dots, etc. at this point to handle a bunch of your admin and data analysis, you’re not doing yourself any favors.
As a slim business structure (1 VA at the moment), agents have comfortably been able to take many things off my plate and allow me to focus on the important aspects of the business with my limited time as I still hold my 9-5.
Yes, when I leave my 9-5, I will hire and train more help, but drastically less personnel than I originally planned due to improved agent functionality. There’s just not much need for people to hire some of the nitty gritty of admin work anymore.
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I've been using Asana task management software for like 2 years to organize tasks within my team. It's been crazy helpful for delegating and keeping people productive. Love it!
But looks like they are gonna start charging me like $45/mo for what's been free the last 2 years. I just built my own in literally 15 min and team will switch over starting tomorrow AM. For like $100/year or less I probably wouldn't have bothered trying to switch....but some software just isn't worth much anymore. This is one of them that's stupid easy to replace for a small operation like mine.
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The one bright side of Halloween costume returns after 10/31, is they sell quick locally on FB marketplace….just gotta hold on to them for 11 months.
Cash money stacking up this week as I liquidate last years returns 😬😂
Just 24 hours later and several new returns. Now down to 26% ROI...this might get ugly in a few more days.
The good thing is I should have no problem reselling costume returns on FB marketplace.....in like 11 months.
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AI is becoming incredibly useful for my Amazon business the last 6 weeks, what else should I build? Who's got new ideas? How are you all implementing it?
Here are some recent things I've done:
- OA order lookup bot: Drop an ASIN or order numbers and it'll tell the status. Ordered 200 units -- 10 cancelled, 185 delivered, 5 in transit - here are the tracking #'s...then follows up on cancels to make sure they get refunded to the card used. Massive for OA
-Order issues bot - scans prep center for items that should be checked in by now or reported issues like missing/damaged items and follows up for refunds/replacements either on chat or over email (phone calls coming soon).
- Automated gift card checks + card portal for organization
- Cashflow model - refreshes daily with full picture of my cashflow, which card to use, what days might be tight, super useful for optimizing credit
- Built some niche sourcing tools for myself
What else is helping??
Important! You hear about too many people who bought 1-2 rentals and got a bad tenant or big repair then quit forever. Game of averages often
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Either I'm gaining so much productivity this week by setting up Muse/Grokbot agents to automate many things within my business, or I totally fell into the trap I hated on months ago where I'm just building useless crap when I really should be hitting the phones growing my business.
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Loving my Muse! First agent I've been able to setup fairly easily and get some serious value from.
I was late to openclaw, never tried Hermes and could never really figure out claude cowork...but I started implementing GrokBot a few weeks back and it's been a useful tool, but Muse is so much better so far. Way quicker to setup/easier to learn, just smarter approach to things and I like how it's all one continuous feed versus all these chats/bots...I'm pouring everything into it right now. It's helping me be so much more productive, incredibly addicting. Claude/Grokbot still used for deeper building/systems/analysis, but Muse is making the biggest day to day impact for me right now.
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The market has been so fun this year.
Luckily real estate is a pain to sell or I’d probably be day trading it.
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Wow this is pretty wild!
The house I just moved into was one of these houses that wouldn’t sell so it got listed for rent
UPDATE: As of last night, Texas continues to lead the country on accidental landlords and this rate is accelerating.
13% of every single family home for rent in Texas right now is coming from people who tried to sell their home first and couldn't.
Just 4 weeks ago this was 11%.
There is so much supply in Texas people are trying all avenues to generate cash flow on their properties.
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This AI cashflow model is now so unbelievably dialed in! It took me a couple months to work out small kinks, and I was still having to manually verify all the info, but it's been weeks now since I've found any errors. It's by far the most useful thing I've built with AI so far.
I start everyday with a fresh reset on all my card and bank info. Its pulling live data through plaid then tells me exactly whats due and when...then tells me how much I can spend today based on the ~55 day float on my best available card. Tells me which day is my trough where cashflow might be tighter and if that amount ever falls below my cashflow buffer it'll tell me how much rev per day I need to make up the gap.
Instead of reacting a week before a card is due, I'm seeing potential cash crunches 4-6 weeks out and can plan accordingly to avoid a pinch. Biggest benefit is just peace of mind to spend freely when it says we got room to run and dial it back when it's telling me to be cautious. Today for example I felt spends been high and cards are pretty maxed, but models telling me we got plenty of room to run on a new card cycle that just reset. Will be able to spend when I otherwise thought I should probably dial back.
Only cost me ~$5/mo for the plaid API. Highly recommend setting this up if you plan to push your spend hard this Q4.
*Leverage responsibily
Recently took this optimized CC billing cycle strategy and made it into an AI dashboard that automatically updates every morning. It tells me the max amount I can spend today and which card to use first for maximum repayment period (typically 55 days).
Every Amazon seller running into capital constraints should have this! It’s allowed me to push my spend so much past what I thought was possible, it’s actually crazy….Act responsibly 📈
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Just like Anthropic, most Amazon sellers are highly profitable when they take out some of their biggest expenses.
This is the key to good sellerboard margins!
30% margin when you take out OpEx
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Did anyone else know Rakuten rates are not standard across the board?
Different accounts have different rates. For example, my wife’s was 6% on a site where mine was only 4%
Then, rates can fluctuate based on the link used to access the site. On this same site I’m getting 8% because I’m first going to the Amazon listing and clicking the 8% Rakuten extension popup from that page versus activating it from the site directly where it’s just that 4%.
Maybe this is a known thing already, but it’s news to me! Big unlock!
Solid week of spend, about to take the afternoon off to go meet up with the legendary @LocdoesFBA
