You Can Run Paid Ads

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.

[affordablecoveragenow]

Alex you’re the man! Great video, great reminder to stick with it! 🎉🎉🎉

[YourUnivisionmanifest-viral]

This is reassuring. I did 2 ads and don't know what to expect. But I'm committed and I will not stop!

[simoneanne]

Thanks for this. I've never just stuck with it. I know it will work if I do.

[Caelin.Kompass]

If it were easy, everyone would be doing it

[angelomendoza]

Fuck yeah. People quit before they win big

[RenCarDynamics]

Great advice.
Any advice for ads to help conversions and target audiences on fb.

[nichita_moraru]

Bro, don’t steal my clients 😀I have an agency specialized for that

[jenninemorel]

People don't realize how many moving parts there are

[Kafufflez]

What do you do when you’re just an average Joe Shmoe and can’t run ads at a loss for months though?

[MrScottSenior]

Amateurs expect it work first time, record redirect to learn how it doesn't work until it does

[JPowerMMA]

Or u dont have the money to run ads for 6 weeks with no results

[MichaelHenryGomes]

The nose bridge kills me. Cant he get that fixed. He’s got money? I guess? Maybe he doesn’t? Maybe he can’t afford the surgery?!?

[nichita_moraru]

Now imagine you as a business owner being half of the time a marketer just because you “can” run ads by yourself. Rather thinking how to develop your business, you waste your time on figuring out why your ads aren’t working. Yes you could run ads and successfully, but are you ready to be a marketer or business owner. This is why marketing agency are for. For god sake, this is why you get services from other businesses, makes your life easier

[jablackswan]

Who do you think is the most effective teacher of running paid ads? Please don’t say “time”. 😂Looking for a book or course to devour stat.