My Message to GaryVee

Sup Gary!

Just thought I should write you and tell you how your influence/advice can materialize in someone who has the drive to execute. Been strategically listening to your AskGary/DailyVee Vlog on weekends for last 4 years because about every 15 or so shows I hear something that clicks and we figure out a way to execute and the following is what happened starting from 2014 when I only had $1,000 in the bank at age 23:

Context- I am 27 yrs old now, from Stamford, CT and it's only the beginning!

1.  You said go and sell shit online so my friends and I used all the money we had and bought everything in clearance at Target with Amazon App and sold on Amazon for 3x the cost. After 3 months of clearing out every Target store in northeast we built up over 15k in cash.

With that money we then built a a private label art supplies brand on Amazon and made our first orders and scaled it into a 6 figure brand within 8 months creating 5 different products.

2.  You said you were building a marketing agency and had good advice on how you built it and priced out clients so we built out a niche agency specializing in managing and growing Amazon/Walmart/Jet/Ebay/Etsy accounts online for Fortune 1000 brands. We will do 7 figures in 2018 at a 80% profit margin! Our revenue/incentive structure give us the ability to go above and beyond for our clients and do whatever it takes to bring them value and grow their businesses YOY.

3.  You said Snapchat geofilters are a good arbitrage back in 2016 so we immediately hired a designer and started mapping out eCommerce trade-shows throughout the US and bought the geography border on Snapchat for those dates for less than $100 each time. We received tens of thousands of views and some new clients over a period of 6 months as a result.

4.  You said reverse engineer your end consumer so we started a blog 2 years ago creating articles solving the main problems that most Amazon Sellers have and new applications Amazon launches so we can be first page on google when those questions are searched. We have over 100 blog posts now and have gotten over 100k hits on our blogs since which has resulted in 70% of our lead generation and how most of our prospects find us. Took almost a year for our blogs to start ranking. We boosted them for $30 each with Facebook Ads.

5. You said keep costs as low as possible so we built our business remotely and I travel/live in low cost countries like Mexico, Spain, Nicaragua etc. and we are able to write off almost everything. We have almost 15 remote employees now! I am currently living in Mexico for a couple months and my only personal expenses are international insurance/gym membership/restaurants totaling $300/month and everything else our businesses pay for. I save about 95% of my monthly income.

6. You said video is the future so we built a video solution for our clients and Amazon sellers building short product videos to add to amazon listings/Facebook ads.

7. You said Australia was a cheap place to advertise on Facebook so when I found out Amazon Australia was opening up 6 months ago I started advertising to brands in Australia and creating blog posts there and now that Amazon AU has just opened this month we are getting hit up by AU brands almost every day.

8. You said AI is the future so we hired a team in Mexico to build out AI applications for our clients and eCommerce brands which will be available in a couple months.

9.  You said B2B SaaS is a huge opportunity for companies so we hired developers and built software tools for eCommerce sellers and are currently building 2 more available in a month. Currently they are only available for our clients but our launch plan is badass!

10. You said Podcasting will continue to grow and explode over the next decade so I am in process of putting together a passion project interviewing 70+ yr old people about their stories, regrets, failures, advice etc. to inspire young people instead of me trying to (cause I am just a stupid 27 yr old). I will be adding it to every podcast platform you have recommended along with Facebook Watch and it will launch in February.

11. You said you have launched your books on Amazon which became Best Sellers so my partners and I decided to create and publish 3 books last year in our category on Amazon in both kindle/paperback form which became top sellers in those searches although Not Best Sellers :( but it has been a great lead generator for us ever since (and the royalties are a nice little bonus).

12. You said promote your personal/business/brand/link in your signature so I created a signature about a year ago doing just that and letting people set calls with me right there as well.

13. You said that regret is your biggest motivation so I adopted that mindset over time and now make all my business/personal decisions based on what my 80 yr old self would choose to do. This has been the biggest shift for me.

14. You ALWAYS say focus on what your good at (for me its sales/closing deals) so I have created a system where all my other tasks including: content, email, blogging, social media, account management, lead gen etc. have been almost totally outsourced to our teams so I can solely focus on BizDev calls (my lead gen finds the leads and puts them in my calendar) and closing them.

*****My motivation stems from growing up having most of my immediate/extended family working in the funeral business. I've heard soo many families talk about their loved ones regrets and have seen way too many people die young from all different causes so I'm trying to make the most of every minute I have whether that is 5 more years or 60.

*****Although we are doing well now I am never scared of having to start all over again if I ever had to because I love the process and not scared of "failure". Entrepreneurship is a loooong journey and my 2 best friends (partners) and I are having a blast every step of the way regardless of how much money we make.

*****I just wanted to say THANKS and that I appreciate you for giving away all the free info you do because I know there are only a few of us truly listening/acting.

If you ever need anything just Holla!

THANKS!

Steve Cicalese

Co-Founder, AMZ Advisers

(203)610-0235 | info@amzadvisers.com | www.amzadvisers.com | Skype: Stevecic23 | Stamford, CT

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