AS 83: The Battle for Dominance – Amazon vs Shopify vs FB – Interview w/ Jonathan Foltz

Jonathan Foltz shared tons of golden nuggets. This is a definite listen for those who want to explode their business off the Amazon channel and diversify their business. He leverages the Facebook Advertising platform and pulls millions. I will probably be re-watching this a few times.

He is a digital entrepreneur that has started 16 companies and does not intend on stopping.

He has built a couple million dollar companies and his marketing agency, Digital Age Business, runs 4 separate Shopify stores of their own.

As a philosopher and futurist, he has been speaking around the country about the new Digital Revolution that is upon us and how we can take advantage of it.

In this episode, you'll learn:

* How to create successful Facebook campaigns

* Strategies that Jonathan leverages with Facebook Ads

* The future of technology

* Futurism & singularity discussion

* Step by step Facebook strategies that work today

* Testing Facebook campaigns and ad sets

* How much money to spend when testing

* What works better, video ads or image ads

And much more. Transcript coming soon.

Get in touch with Jonathan:

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DAVID ALADDIN:                Great to have you on the show, Jon.

JONATHAN FOLTZ:   What’s going on, brother. How are you? How’s everything?

DAVID ALADDIN:                Good. Good. Take us to the beginning before things got crazy. Where did your journey begin?

JONATHAN FOLTZ:   Well, my journey definitely has been pretty crazy. But I think it first started off when I was a kid, you know, like I think when I was like 14-15 years old that was when entrepreneurship started to come into play. I was lucky enough that I got my father to buy us a computer that had like a CD burner in it, and what I was doing back in that day, just like a lot of kids were I just happen to be one of the first ones to do it. We’re making CDs for other people.

We’re just like download stuff in the internet. At that time, obviously, it wasn’t the right thing to do but like, this was before everything started coming down. Kids didn’t know better. I was 14-15 years old, downloading music and then selling it to our friends for 5 – 10 bucks. Little CDs. And then I was selling baseball cards, basketball cards, and I had a little bit of success then. I had made one specific CD and I brought it to school, and I think this was around 9th grade or something like that, and I brought a boot bag full of CDs to the school and I literally sold out every single one.

Very next day every single kid in school was like going after something that I did, and it showed me like that was my first step of like, man, you know, entrepreneurship is bad a**. You know, like I don’t have to rely upon my parents now for money. I can do this on my own. So that started the whole entire journey that I was on. So, that’s just one thing and as soon as I got in high school, I graduated at Palmetto High School which is the same high school that actually Amazon, what’s his name, Jeff Bezos do. Believe it or not, there’s a lot, it’s crazy because it makes me feel good too about the trajectory because we’ve had actually some incredible technological entrepreneurs come out of Palmetto High School.

There have been a lot of them. So you know, that’s something like, man, that’s pretty amazing. Is it something in the water?

DAVID ALADDIN:                What are they feeding you?

JONATHAN FOLTZ:   What do they feed us, you know, like what the … is in those? There’s some nuclear water in the system or something, but yeah. Anyway, it’s just, it could also be coincidence at the end of the day,