2 Tips to Working for Free

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[Avwbfit]

Bro is a marketing genius, millions of people gonna start doing this for him 😂

[supah]

Bro just tried to gaslight us into slavery 😂

[BB-xjdo]

Dude just fished for free labor while making it seem like a life lesson

[macncheese]

I took this on board from a past video and it works. I used to pitch for businesses email marketing and had ‘ok’ success, but after hearing this I turned up to sales meetings having already done a rebrand, email content calendar and checklist of top-10 things to change to grow revenue, have worked in some capacity with every client I’ve done this for. Give first without expectation.

[galetteS]

Being proactive in a world where people just wait for being told what to do is a huge competitive advantage

[profusionlifetv]

This is probably one of his greatest lessons. Add value. That is all that matters.

[milfordtmilford]

“all you have to do is work for free for me for a 100 days whether i use the material or not” wow this is actually super impressive and useful advice and not a ploy to have an infinite supply of free labor he doesn’t even have to ask for, yup

[zdrux]

I don't think he's talking to anyone on that laptop

[AnthemTD]

This is so fucking underrated it’s crazy. I see people on r/antiwork who need to understand this. Every promotion I ever got was from doing this in some form or another and it’s what got me out of entry level work in my 20s. This mentality would help so many people elevate their careers

[BNH-dx]

Straight out of How to Win Friends and Influence People. Respect! Thank you sir!😎💯💥

[Mew__]

It sounds like bullshit, but it's kinda true. An example that landed me at least 3 summer jobs: if you're at a university where the professors write their own textbooks and you find a bunch of errors (in correctness or in grammar), don't just ask them "can I correct your textbook", but make a spreadsheet of all the errors you have found, what they should be instead, and why. (This is assuming that you are skilled at language and in figuring out the topic.) Send it to them and don't expect anything from them.

Some professors will ignore you. Some will thank you and integrate the corrections themselves. And a couple will ask you "Would you like to be paid for giving my textbook a makeover?" and boom, not only do you have a job, but now you also have a future reference. Now you can add "Last year I gave professor XYZ's textbook a makeover." in your introductory paragraph.

[Davekoolskool]

I agree to an extent. If you're letting a poor person work for free and you know they're poor don't do that for 100 days. I come from a family with no money and some company requirements are ridiculous. Wear a suit every day, commute to a city, work maybe 11 to 12 hours per day, dry cleaning for the suits, etc. All of this for an unpaid position and the possibilty of no job after 3 months of doing this

[tylersanders]

What he’s describing is exactly how I got my regular editing gig. Just create a channel and do the editing and post it. If it blows up and you get views, they will notice you

[JoeRobisonGFD]

No joke he is very honest and truthful about the reality of this situation.

[sethmudau]

The most real take. I can relate to this. If somebody is good at something, they shouldn't be worried about payment for doing something. I mean, nobody is beinf forced to do anything for free. Is like if you are smart, you can decide to tutor your friends or even a stranger without requiring compensation, simply because you like doing it and you can stop anytime you want. People comfuse passion for exploitation

[fivestarsingh]

I got my dream internship because of this approach, it really works

[samuelcampbell]

"Instead of offering to do work for free, just do work for free!" Headass

[jonathanplanet]

I kinda agreed until he said that someone who is broke should keep doing free, high quality work for 100 days.. like wtf?

[Karl-psns]

Legit, the bro revealed my secret strategy to land any job I want

[Qwerty]

I love this concept. However I struggle with the idea that if someone who has leverage and is getting free services from someone else, why would they ever pay? Once the person who is working for free gets discouraged and gives up, there’s always someone new to try the same approach. You could in theory get free labor forever from people who think showing initiative will actually get them somewhere.