Hey team. Do you know anyone with a newsletter or substack in the digital marketing niche? I don't have a LeBron James/Nike sponsorship budget... But I'm looking to strike up some conversations for some email newsletter sponsorships. Does anyone come to mind for you? DM me.

Let's go back to 2013. The internet is drowning in a sea of cat videos and memes. But something's missing. Something... animated. Enter Alex Chung, a dude with a vision bigger than Kanye's ego. 💡 The Lightbulb Moment Alex is chilling with his buddy Jace Cooke, probably arguing about whether a hot dog is a sandwich (it's not, fight me), when BAM! They realize finding the perfect GIF is harder than finding a needle in a haystack made of more needles. Alex turns to Jace and says, "Dude, finding GIFs is harder than finding a needle in a haystack made of more needles. What if we made a search engine just for GIFs?" Jace, being the supportive friend he is, probably said something like, "Dude, that's genius! Pass the Cheetos." And just like that, Giphy was born and our dynamic duo stepped into the wild world of IP licensing. But creating a GIF search engine is the easy part. Getting the rights to use and distribute all those GIFs? That's where things get stickier than a Post-it note convention. 🎭 Putting on the Licensing Hats Alex wasn't just wearing the Talent and Connector Hat, he was bedazzling them. This guy had to create the platform AND figure out how to connect GIF creators with GIF users. He was reaching out to content creators, TV networks, movie studios - basically anyone who'd ever made something move on a screen - to get rights to license their vids and stuff. I imagine it was like trying to herd cats... animated cats. Jace started coding faster than a caffeinated cheetah, making sure those GIFs were loading as fast as Alex could bring them in. Then they brought a third on board, Julie Logan. She was the one translating "legalese" into "GIF-ese", making sure Giphy wasn't just popular, but legal too. At first, Giphy was handing out GIFs like Oprah hands out cars. Free for all! But soon they figured out real quick the value of IP. And started cooking up licensing deals tastier than your grandma's secret recipe: 1. Monetary Royalties: Giphy struck gold with API partnerships. Every time a big platform like Facebook or Twitter used their GIF library, cha-ching! 💰 We're talking millions in licensing fees faster than you can hit the "like" button.

Got tinkering over the weekend and made my first AI tool. Mostly for myself. But thought rockstars might get a kick out of it too? I type in a bit of work life experience and some of my interests. It pops out niches I relate to, with pains to solve now, and simple AI tool suggestions to solve them… AI tools simple enough to build in a couple of hours and rent out to them. It also gives me a few NEERs who would benefit getting this tool to their peeps. Not gonna lie, this AI stuff got me more excited than finding the house with unguarded bowls of full size candy bars on halloween. I got a few more tweaks to make on it. But wondering, when it’s ready would you like to take it for a spin?

I’m a butt hair (or two) away from having AI close $500 to $20,000 sales for me. I don’t mean “set appointments.” I mean enroll, take payments and the whole enchilada. Then I can build it. Clone it. And rent them out for a percentage of the sales. IMO this may be the fastest, most hands off road to recurring royalties ever. It’s an exciting time to be alive! Would you like to come along for the ride?

$1k a day... I’ve been tinkering again. Over the last 18 months... I’ve been using Polls + DM in Skool groups and cranking out $200k plus in small groups of less than 500 members. (No phone calls - no webinars - no VSLs- and selling offers from $500 to $20,000) Averaging well over $1k a day with small Skool communities...with 3 Question Polls! (It’s nearly impossible to do with FB groups.) Plus… It’s so simple I’ve got peeps doing the tapping/selling for me. I've lovingly put it all in a training roadmap for you called 6-Figure Poll Tapping. 👉For a few days, if there's interest, I want you to have it ON ME! 👇Are you considering starting a small Skool community at all?👇