From $200 a day to a six-figure day in ten months, by giving everything away.
Carter's come-up, the three principles he pulls out of it, and how to start from zero today.
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January 2020
A newspaper-subscription salesman finds a Reddit post claiming $1,000 a day.
His account of the messages he sent on Reddit. One said yes, but only in person, in Thailand. He sold what he had and bought a one-way ticket.
- BeforeSelling physical newspaper subscriptions, Googling "be your own boss" all day. share
- JanFinds the Reddit post. Messages strangers offering free labor. share
- JanOne-way ticket to Thailand. "very much like a mr miyagi karate kid come up" share
- SpringNobody shares anything. He does the opposite. share
- OctFirst six-figure profit day, ten months in. share
The flywheel
Everyone else guarded their one $100-a-day thing. Carter gave his away to a hundred people and collected a hundred things back.
a guy who started with a red paper clip and over a year like traded up to a house i did the same thing just with information
What actually made the difference. Three things.
The top 50-100 people are at every conference. One bar conversation can hand you a whole business model. He says helping people paid off tenfold.
A goal of $100k profit a day calls for a different answer than $100 a day. Miss the goal and still land far higher.
The space is small and shrinks as you go up. Reputation gets checked before anyone works with you.
when you ask bigger questions you get bigger answers
every hand you refuse to shake on the way up is attached to an ass that you'll have to kiss on the way down
Go alone. It's awkward. Go anyway.
First conference, January 2020: knew nobody, making about $200 a day, privately convinced the guys in suits were the broke ones. One or two contacts became a party invite, and the circle grew by association.
He jokes that this explains his appearance on a free call with 100 people. share
every business 90% of it's just showing up and doing the stuff other people are afraid to do
Give it away when you're winning.
Jason's version started in 2003 with forums and ICQ, then WickedFire, then STM, then walking into an eight-booth Affiliate Summit and realizing “This was like a real business. Holy shit.”
An attendee who started in 2007 at a few hundred dollars a day met Jason at his first show. “if I never left the computer and went there, that never would have happened.” share
- 2003Jason buys a biz-op ebook; the forum that came with it is the real product. share
- 2008First Affiliate Summit: eight booths, “This was like a real business. Holy shit.” share
- TodayThree CMOs at large law firms were A4D affiliates in 2008-2010. share
- Always“you will not be on top forever” Trade information while you can. share
you will not be on top forever you're going to be on the bottom at some point and you're going to need somebody to call you
Starting from zero today
Carter's order of operations if he had no money and no network.
- Network.
- Affiliate first.
- Low-payout offers for cheap feedback.
- Profit-share media-buying job.
- Tribe.
Build a tribe.
Find peers at your level in groups, do calls, make a group chat. Bigger than 15 and the value dilutes.
Ten people testing the same vertical, sharing everything that works.
He started with ten small operators, then a group doing $1k profit a day, then $10k. Repeat the cycle.
“i wouldn't talk to another human for a week i'd have to go sit at the library and you know just be around people while i was working” share