Get Rich By Giving Away Free Stuff ($100M Leads)

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.

[diederikvisser]

This is so true. This happened to me yesterday. Gave away free work and got a job back from the same place for five times the work I gave away.

[Lockface]

Got my first internship this way: I applied to a position, in order to be recruited, he asked me to do a small review on a page that they have listing all the bugs, issues, ideas of improvements...

I took 2h to make a huge list of stuff whereas other candidates did only some small stuff

Guess who was recruited

[jenlugo]

I would love to know how this applies to product-based businesses! Love your content, Alex!

[CaNdYfLiP]

Tela also and so on. Mcdonalds also everybody my friend.

[THEAPRONGUYS]

I'm literally doing this at the moment with our start up Suppli Me. We have boosted our leads up from just email outreach itself of 32% which for email is insane. It also shows how much you believe in your idea or business.

[Jake]

Who here would be interested in a self-improvement online men's group?

[sportsbettingstar]

Alex I have something so powerful and valuable and I’m terrified to give it away for free.

[BijanIzadi]

Me right now working 9 hour days for free at a luxury car dealership so he maybe uses my creative services. I’m stacking tires and wheels rn lol 😂

[yingghit]

What if I'm selling Luxury watches? do I give away free watch protectors

[preeti_gupta_]

How come your books cannot be delivered to India?

[CaNdYfLiP]

Goldman Sachs does not do that and they make much more than you 😊 Amazon : same!

[alirezashabanian]

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