EP 84: Dave Snyder | Being Ahead of the Market, Figuring Out Your Identity, Starting Slow, Throwing It Away, Survival Vs. Confidence, Money Begets Money, The Impossibility of AI
Update: 2023-03-13
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My story of failure: Not correctly tying my shoes and tripping over them.
Dave Snyder is the CEO of CopyPress. His background in SEO, social media, and content marketing led Dave to look for a better way to scale and create content and market it. That search led to the formation of CopyPress. Today CopyPress is one the most trusted content marketplaces online working with brands like Sears, Macy's, Linkedin, Zenefits, and IHG.
In today’s episode Dave talks about:
- getting a creative writing degree
- teaching and starting a website
- doing fantasy sports writing
- learning SEO
- faking it till you make it
- tripling revenue in eight months at 28
- starting his first agency
- building the original blueprint for Copypress
- getting kicked out of Bluegrass
- struggling for ten years out of the gate
- being ahead of the market
- penny a word content
- figuring out their niche
- needing time to figure out your identity
- how AI effects businesses
- why AI can’t think of new things
- an inherent issue with capital
- figuring out what products people want
- not letting your eyes fool you
- scaling up but having money issues
- start slow and perfect as you go
- going after the premium market
- having enough humility
- do it, fail, and then do the next thing
- structure chaos and building on what works
- the only reason Dave had a partner in business
- not being the grind guy
- not wanting to let everyone down
- confidence vs survival
- why Dave developed into a good salesman
- being genuine and transparent to a fault
- not trying to sell people
- not a one size fits all solution
- the biggest failure for Dave with cashflow
- cashflow problems
- merchant credit account loans
- predatory loans for businesses
- floating loans revolving for five years
- being concerned with the interest rates and people taking loans
- having to personally guarantee short term loans
- figuring out cash forecasting
- having to cut expenses and getting profitable
- three years to pay down loans
- building his own software to forecast cashflow
- making sense from a risk perspective
- AI not being creative
- AI not creating anything wholly new
- how AI could potentially replace developers
- spammers and AI
- kids using ChatGPT to do homework
- moving apart socially
- some form of this has always existed
- outsourcing tweets and social media to Fiverr
- capitalism will figure itself out
- burst of people doing dumb stuff and then fading out
- the end of social media?
- an exciting time for business owners
- automating tasks
- AI sourcing and plagiarism
- NFT’s and copyrights
- people suing over lack of accessibility
- why you have other cryptocurrencies
- the stability of Bitcoin
- only worth what someone is willing to pay for it
- nothing that keeps Bitcoin from going to zero
- the lack of utility of Bitcoin
- every investment carrying a risk
- FTX and the exchange being gone, and being too wild west
- regulating Ripple and why it would stabilize the market
- why you might as well gamble
- why Dave likes building product
- how he’s going to help his employees grow and make more money
- creating cool product
- giving up social media and why
Dave Snyder is the CEO of CopyPress. His background in SEO, social media, and content marketing led Dave to look for a better way to scale and create content and market it. That search led to the formation of CopyPress. Today CopyPress is one the most trusted content marketplaces online working with brands like Sears, Macy's, Linkedin, Zenefits, and IHG.
In today’s episode Dave talks about:
- getting a creative writing degree
- teaching and starting a website
- doing fantasy sports writing
- learning SEO
- faking it till you make it
- tripling revenue in eight months at 28
- starting his first agency
- building the original blueprint for Copypress
- getting kicked out of Bluegrass
- struggling for ten years out of the gate
- being ahead of the market
- penny a word content
- figuring out their niche
- needing time to figure out your identity
- how AI effects businesses
- why AI can’t think of new things
- an inherent issue with capital
- figuring out what products people want
- not letting your eyes fool you
- scaling up but having money issues
- start slow and perfect as you go
- going after the premium market
- having enough humility
- do it, fail, and then do the next thing
- structure chaos and building on what works
- the only reason Dave had a partner in business
- not being the grind guy
- not wanting to let everyone down
- confidence vs survival
- why Dave developed into a good salesman
- being genuine and transparent to a fault
- not trying to sell people
- not a one size fits all solution
- the biggest failure for Dave with cashflow
- cashflow problems
- merchant credit account loans
- predatory loans for businesses
- floating loans revolving for five years
- being concerned with the interest rates and people taking loans
- having to personally guarantee short term loans
- figuring out cash forecasting
- having to cut expenses and getting profitable
- three years to pay down loans
- building his own software to forecast cashflow
- making sense from a risk perspective
- AI not being creative
- AI not creating anything wholly new
- how AI could potentially replace developers
- spammers and AI
- kids using ChatGPT to do homework
- moving apart socially
- some form of this has always existed
- outsourcing tweets and social media to Fiverr
- capitalism will figure itself out
- burst of people doing dumb stuff and then fading out
- the end of social media?
- an exciting time for business owners
- automating tasks
- AI sourcing and plagiarism
- NFT’s and copyrights
- people suing over lack of accessibility
- why you have other cryptocurrencies
- the stability of Bitcoin
- only worth what someone is willing to pay for it
- nothing that keeps Bitcoin from going to zero
- the lack of utility of Bitcoin
- every investment carrying a risk
- FTX and the exchange being gone, and being too wild west
- regulating Ripple and why it would stabilize the market
- why you might as well gamble
- why Dave likes building product
- how he’s going to help his employees grow and make more money
- creating cool product
- giving up social media and why
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