Builders Build

After a year of building and taking time off from Builders Build, the 3 internet entrepreneur bros you missed, gathered together to bring back the top 10000 business pod you all missed so much. The team dives into everything you wanted to know… And a bunch you didn’t. Colin, Oren, and James cover the weird esoteric supplements they are all taking, Orens passing of Epstein's island on his yacht adventure, Russell Brunson beating up 10 year olds, and the rise of niche communities for service businesses to start. As well as monetizing content sites, fundraising through a jogathon, Twitter premium and ad credits, Cut 30, Google Analytics and internet weed. Tune in for all the alpha, and welcome the crew back, for the return of Builders Build. Chapters 00:00 The Return of the Podcast 03:00 Diving into the Supplement Space 08:00 The Godstack and the Esoteric Supplements 14:50 Epstein's Island Rebranding 19:00 Russell Brunson and Hermosy 23:50 Building Niche Communities 30:00 The Rise of Service Business Communities 31:22 Monetizing Content Sites 32:03 Flooring Industry Success Story 32:31 Expanding to Other Industries 33:12 The Value of Communities 34:19 Jogathon and Fundraising 35:02 Predictions and Speculations 36:06 Twitter Premium and Ad Credits 37:24 Changes in Twitter Algorithm 38:01 Twitter Ads and Conversion Tracking 38:35 Selling Internet Weed 39:08 Twitter Ads for Webinars 40:08 Twitter Ads for Cut 30 41:20 Google Analytics and Internet Weed 43:34 Branded Merchandise 44:03 Mechanical Keyboards and Swag 45:13 Desktop Accessories 46:12 The Rise and Fall of Mischief 47:21 Mimes in Campaigns 48:31 Sign-off and Stay Rich Money Twitter Check out more episodes at https://builders.build And follow the gang on their social media Colin: https://www.instagram.com/landforce/  Oren: https://www.instagram.com/orenmeetsworld/ James: https://www.instagram.com/thejamescamp/

Lil Pod #1 It's 2022, and the venture capital industry has NOT had a good year. The money has dried up a bit, and it looks like being profitable is cool again. With that  said, there are, without question, tons of businesses that would never have made it without the steady flow of capital from VC firms over the past decade. On this pod, the team dives into: James mentoring at Techstars What kinds of start-ups need VC money The insanity that is Byrd and other scooter brands And more Follow us on Twitter: Oren: twitter.com/orenmeetsworld Colin: twitter.com/landforce James: twitter.com/jamesoncamp Bookmark our sites! For great ideas on making and selling products and where to source suppliers, head on over to Oren at https://www.productworld.xyz/ For rock-solid intel on owning your own cannabis biz and where the opportunities are, check out Colin‘s curated list of Twitter threads at https://landforce.co/threads/ Get expert tips on buying a website to jump-start or expand your business. Sign up with James at https://nanoflips.com/

This episode of Builders Build covers our favorite CMS (content management system), Wordpress. WordPress' market share is 43% of all websites on the internet. With that amount of market share, all builders should know it. We cover all our favorite plugins that you need. We have tested them all and put together a ist that will save you A LOT of time and money. Take our combined 30+ years of experience with building websites and businesses using wordpress as the backbone, to help you jump right into having a fast, secure, SEO friendly website. Check out the sections we cover, and links below: Analytics GT Metrix Google tag manager for wordpress Google Analytics Search Console Hot Jar (heatmapping, screenrecording) Security Wordfence SEO Yoast Rank Math Speed WP Rocket Cloudflare Smush Languages WPML Lead & Email Gravityforms Optin Monster Convertkit Klaviyo Privy Hubspot Memberships Memberpress LearnDash Themes Salient Revolution Kadence Make sure to to check out our past episodes and get access to more tools and tips to build your business at https://builders.build

Welcome to Builders Build episode 2! We dive in and break down Digital Assets, a topic that's near and dear to all 3 of our hearts. We cover everything from niche content websites to social media profiles to newsletters to Saas’ to domains. (As well as a litany of other things we love in the digital asset space). What are they? Who are they for? How do they make money? Is this real? What is Flippa.com? What is Nanoflips.com? The answers to all these questions and more are just a click away. So take a second, sit back, get your notepad and press play. You won't be disappointed. Don’t forget to share the pod and subscribe!

In the first episode of the newly renamed Builders Build podcast, Landforce, James Camp and Oren Schauble dive into personal stacks-- the tools, software and processes that help us execute as modern entrepreneurs. - Task tracking - Project management - Email marketing - Fitness tracking - CRM - CMS - Extensions & more.

Season 1 is done, long live Season 1. The gang talks about our plans for Season 2.   We apologize in advance... you'll never get this fifteen minutes of your life back. 

With everything from 3D rockets, to NFTs and custom-made songs, episode 19 of Tab Talk is sure to have something for everyone. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/tech/relativity-rocket-space-feature-factory-scn/index.html (Colin) 3D printing Rockets $1.2B raise in 8 months Largest 3D printer in the world https://www.winbg.com/ (Oren) House of Brands Ecom brands are being started in with multiple lines Ecom brands being acquired by houses Ecom brands banding together to share resources and community https://www.songfinch.com/ (James) Songs on demand Reminds us of the podcast one from last week, tales.com What other opportunities are there for on-demand custom content? Can this scale? http://landforce.com (Colin) Let’s talk about domains https://maxread.substack.com/p/mapping-the-celebrity-nft-complex (Oren) This is getting out of hand...Bonecoin? NFT show with Aston Kutcher and...Vitalik Buterin? Tony Hawk? The true wild west https://www.onewrk.com/ (James) Pickaxes and shovels of creator economy Super needed for podcasters and YouTubers What are the other pickaxes and shovels the industry needs?

We made it to episode 18, and made sure to bring just as much enthusiasm and alpha as we did in all the others leading up to it. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/29/business/cvs-receipts-long-extracare-rewards/index.html (Colin) - 5 years ago... CVS switched from OOH and circulars to...receipts that are miles long https://www.pcgamer.com/so-if-its-not-about-exclusivity-why-exactly-did-sony-buy-bungie/ (Oren) - Console Wars are Heating Up! https://www.tales.com/ (James) - New tech solves an old problem, maybe a good use case for Alzheimer's. - A great gift to a loved one https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/01/29/long-island-nurses-charged-with-faking-covid-jabs-to-earn-more-than-1point5-million.html (Colin) - 2 Nurses go to Jail for selling fake vaccine cards https://www.expowest.com/en/home.html (Oren) - You know we want these natural products - The consumer products revolution that is coming at scale is an absolutely massive opportunity for the entrepreneurial class https://milled.com/ (James) - The FB ad library for emails - If you don't know how to make email campaigns, copy and iterate - Great examples from top marketers in the world

Pirate Stock Exchange https://www.bosshunting.com.au/hustle/pirate-stock-exchange/ Harardheere Pirate Stock Exchange Anyone can put up cash, info, weapons food for a job - get returns One lady RPG-7 returned $75k USD Pirating costs the global economy $12B/yr White Label Cosmetics http://www.manaproducts.com/ White labelled cosmetics and bath goods Everything we buy outside of major brands in this industry is made by one of a dozen wholesalers The only difference is marketing, connections, niche If you have a niche, roll with it Let them consult with you The major alpha is hot substances Newsletter Advertising Marketplace https://swapstack.co/ Anyone can monetize a newsletter Anyone can build a newsletter about things they love What other opps should be made for creators like this for monetizations? Pet Cloning https://www.inputmag.com/culture/instagram-influencers-viagen-cloning-pets-cats-dogs? Shopify as a Bank https://www.shopify.com/balance Tools for the DTC economy Micro-business CPG will take down Macro CPG Good for the entrepreneurial class, more 1%ers. Potentially bad for the working class, but so is everything? Contemplating the dark fragility of life https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/volcanic-explosion-in-tonga-created-many-mysteries

16 episodes or pure alpha breaking down our favorite tabs for your listening pleasure. https://twitter.com/i/events/1482753562794885122?s=10 (Colin) Train thieves are destroying supply chains Union Pacific is a racket https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers (Oren) College in the future, or is it going to die? 1m less students now, but still 1.5m more than the early 200s What will remain https://www.yepic.ai/ (James) AI is getting scary great to see it used for marketing it will replace more and more jobs AI isn't perfect but soon will be arent there some truly scary implications? https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/spider-man-black-suit-comic-3-million-cec/index.html (Colin) Spiderman’s first appearance in black suit Comicbook page $3.36 million https://blockbar.com/ (Oren) NFTs are back baby! Or did they never leave $200k bottle of Henny sold, with physical as well http://www.articlevideorobot.com (James) is there an arbitrage opp people used to take books and sell pages as articles to get paid online in early internet days with books that hadn't been put online yet, is there an opportunity for that with the video?

Episode 15 is here and we dive into all the things you didn't know you needed to know. From the mocktail nonalcoholic wave to the opportunity to buy the royalty rights of K Pop superstars. https://snaxshot.com/ (Oren) Dry January is now... Dry 2022 Alcohol is poison People still want something for the experience Massive market, fun branding https://twitter.com/i/events/1478776050263887874 (Colin) Jessica Simpson Licensed her name for a Non-luxury brand As big as Michael Kors Partner started tarnishing the brand Buying it back for $65M https://www.tiktok.com/@jtbarnett/video/7050956264662158639 (James) JT Barnett shows a great workflow for creators 75% of being a creator is consistency and science 25% is art, we cant all be good at art where are agencies for creators back ends creators taking over the world https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/gain-35lbs-in-6-weeks-naturally (Oren) 35lbs in 6 weeks, 6000+ calories Gym Jones and fitness standards All men should consider training for an Olympic sport https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/32988992/fanatics-acquiring-topps-trading-cards-collectables-businesses-sources-say (Colin) Fanatics sports merch They acquire Topps trading cards $500M deal for Topps https://www.royaltyexchange.com/ (James) We love all ways of making money online that arent obvious, this is one of them Some worthless, some worth tons Kpop seems to be where the money is NFTs are the obvious next step here What other royalties can be sold?

https://www.commitaction.com/ (James) most people just cant be motivated maybe good for soloproneurs $300 a month can check in on you if you cant keep motivated yourself https://www.theschooloflife.com (Colin) Printed DTC product - not some whitelabel products Books. prints, games Generally trying to get deeper https://www.web.archive.org (Oren) Anything on the internet, with screenshots Great for banned websites, websites that had redesigns, and old tumblrs Nice to show copyright infringement as well Nothing on the internet really dies https://lempod.com/ (James) Does this help you grow on linkedin? Is linkedin even a worthwhile channel?

Welcome back to episode 12 of Tab Talk Get Ready for a deep dive into everything from the house of cards that is the airline points industry all the way to plant hoarding. First up is Duuce, the marketplace for buying and selling newsletters online. Some are overvalued and some are a steal. https://duuce.com/ New Zealand is banning Tobacco. They are raising the legal age every year until people born in 2008 can never smoke. Is it people's right to consume tobacco? https://twitter.com/i/events/1470506809634942977?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely A menswear company that makes award-winning clothes out of copper? Oren brings another deep dive into a fascinating piece of fashion. https://www.vollebak.com/gear/?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely Solid Basics is a blanks company that provides blanks to your favorite streetwear brands, Colin discovered them through a niche tik toker. https://solidbasics.co/?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely Plants are sick...and people are hoarding them? Oren brings a tab nobody saw coming. The underground world of plant hoarding is blowing up all over tik tok. And people are going into debt to buy them... https://www.inputmag.com/culture/online-houseplant-community-hoarding-problem?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely Many airline points programs EXCEED the value of the actual airline. Operating flights have become a loss leader for their points program. Believe it or not, some airlines points programs are worth 5x what the entire market caps of the busineeses are. https://twitter.com/jayvasdigital/status/1471839155256709126?s=20 Plus as always James Explains what a "Tiger Team" is and the guys talk about their yeild farm of the hour

Tab Talk episode 12  is dominated by Twitter threads and parenting advice you didn’t ask for. My Race Horse via James - Fractional race horse ownership is exactly what it sounds like. For as little as $36 you can get .01% of a race horse that has earned around $1,000 in it’s career. https://myracehorse.com/ $250M Battery SPAC via Colin - another god damn paywall from Bloomberg, so the actual tab is the Twitter thread they did about it. The battery supply chain is the opposite of diverse, and this group is aiming to bring some battery manufacturing home. Interesting: battery cell manufacturing has hardly changed in years. https://twitter.com/i/events/1467587887415758852 Landforce’s Writehouse Thread via James - James brings out a thread Colin did this last weekend on a little web app he built. Builders build, truly. https://twitter.com/landforce/status/1467170550539710468?s=20 Sahil’s Thinkboi Parenthood Thread via Oren - Sahil caught a lot of flack for all his all this good stuff he wants to teach his future child about. Seems like a weird thing to get mad about, but it definitely sent Oren and Colin down a rabbit hole. S/o Cece and Kingston. https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1467136783083261965?s=20 The Brick Armory via Colin - Originally intro’d to the group chat by Oren, this is a knockoff lego brand that specializes in sets based on every military force you can imagine. From the Spartans to modern swat teams and all the vehicles and equipment in between. Sick. https://thebrickarmory.com/products/playset-with-2152-pieces

TAB TALK 10 https://www.starlink.com/ The future of internet? When bandwidth is ubiquitous what happens to telecom? https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/21/business/inside-frenzied-used-car-market-stuck-overdrive/ * Inflation up 7% * New cars up 11% * USED CARS UP 43% http://nft.poolsuite.net/ * Hard to tell what degree of corny is gonna pop  * Getting eviscerated in the comments about NFTs * Miseducation about NFTs and energy (particularly Solana) is going to kill this space * Know many projects facing this * Need an industry strategy of kind response, education, or a version of Eco plugin for NFTs (https://apps.shopify.com/ecocart) https://lists.heywith.com/ Curated list of projects to monetize your social audience https://www.businessinsider.com/spring-health-april-koh-mental-health-startup-culture-burnout-quitting-2021-11 Startups are hard, journalists are soft? https://rumfoords.com/ * There is huge money in helping brands navigate Web3 * Always massive room for money in niche agencies * Getting into niche agency a. extensive research.  b. curation.  c. expertise publishing.  d. constant outreach * The same services, plus a knowledge layer

Crypto.com Staples Center Naming Rights https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32650662/staples-center-become-cryptocom-arena-rich-naming-rights-deal Lux Q3 2021 Letter to Partners https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L-UaZ0fwbFuYnxPPLNYikM-rK1BWPilg/view Blackhatworld https://www.blackhatworld.com/ DAOs, a Canon, from a16z. https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/ Fantastic Texts https://fantastictexts.com/ 500k lbs https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/21/us/oregon-illegal-marijuana-seized/index.html

VC cuts a YouTube creator a check for future earnings via James Camp love the ideas as creators as new media what type of support is offered hit reader view on mobile call her daddy had similar deal who make the back office support for creators when is the line drawn on creators IP in regards to what they own https://www.businessinsider.com/vc-firms-are-buying-equity-directly-in-influencers-youtube-creators-2021-11 DTC Cross-Selling via Oren Schauble DTC Cross-selling On checkout Submission based Curated DTC inspo/stacks Super simple software business https://www.thecoopcollective.com/ Hyandai Grandeur Retro Concept via Colin Landforce !! Big Retros Interior is crazy Def will not be for sale Grandeur was their flagship in SK Later turned into the Genesis for US > own brand https://www.motortrend.com/news/hyundai-grandeur-heritage-series-ev-restomod/ Taxonomy of Design via Oren Schauble Archive of Aesop stores and interior elements Materials Quotes Films http://taxonomyofdesign.com/#!/ Social Blockchain via Colin Landforce God dammit another blockchain BitClout = DESO test app Decentralized network and content for building apps on https://deso.org/ Universal Creates Bored Ape Supergroup via James Camp I can’t write the bullet points about this stupid band. - CL https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-11/the-world-s-largest-record-company-is-creating-an-nft-super-group

A pod about a thread, which is really more of a journey... The Tab Talk team deviates a bit from the normal format to dive deep into how and why to buy an online business, including tools and tactics.  Enjoy! https://twitter.com/landforce/status/1456633899312836609 Business Buying Directories, Courtesy of @JamesonCamp flippa.com empireflippers.com feinternational.com quietlight.com investors.club exchangemarketplace.com microacquire.com

Destruction by duplication - Museum of Forgeries via Colin Landforce 1 $20k Warhol mixed in with 999 perfect duplicates $250 for a “Possibly real Warhol” Destruction by duplicate https://moforgeries.org/ Yang Ming Mt Lab on Behance via Oren Schauble Behance as a social media replacement Art direction & Brand sourcing https://www.behance.net/gallery/126790983/-YANG-MING-MOUNTAIN-LAB? Vidtao Youtube ad library via James Camp Ads libraries Clever back-end is they own a YT media buying agency https://vidtao.com/ Colin’s F1 Rant via Colin Landforce F1 is completely unfair DRS and KERS https://www.formula1.com/ How to build a small town in Texas via Oren Schauble Grids, character and materials. https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-small-town-in-texas Meta via James Camp Bullish on the space? Can oculus be it? A web2 giant stepping into web3 https://about.facebook.com/meta/

2000 Unique 2000 word SEO pages with GPT-3 via James Camp Longtail energy All you need is 1 hit a day When does it go so well we cant tell? Mackgrenfell Futurism Tumblr via Oren Schauble Tumblr futurism Pre-nft Cyberpunk vibes, etc Robotic Network A neighborhood of 500 abandoned castles via Colin Landforce Started 2014, $200 million luxury community for foreign buyers 500 homes $4-500k each Insider Phantombuster via James Camp Can build anything Better, supped up zapier No code is the future Phantom Buster Brand Loyalty > Customer Acquisition via Oren Schauble The mistake is starting hustles not brands Brands are perpetual Forerunner Ventures County in Oregon declares state of emergency over illegal cannabis grows via Colin Landforce One in WA county: 5700 indoor plants One in Josephine Ct: 76k outdoor plants Jackson County - 700 cases of code violations Est 50% of hemp farms growing marijuana 25% of registered hemp farms refused entry to inspectors KGW Tabtalk.io -- LFG