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The gang is back to do a 1 year recap on Colin’s wife’s eCommerce acquisition, Glowless. Our first episode about this was in the early days of the podcast, but it remains one of our most popular.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/tab-talk-buying-an-online-business-and-escaping-the-9-5/id1587529071?i=1000541235206

On this episode we recap where the business started, what was executed on in the first year, and where it’s going in the next 12 months. Topics include:

Alex Friedman is a quintessential builder and content creator whose making a ton of noise on Tik Tok these days. She's built in CPG, SaaS, and with a couple projects in the works right now she's been building her Tik Tok presence with content focused on making tech and business easy to understand. One of Alex' most recent projects Founder Gigs was acquired in only a few months after she built it with no code over a weekend.

In this episode we talk about:

- Her first forays into physical products

- Evolving into full blown CPG

- Bringing products into retail

- Building tools and products with no code

- TikTok content

- More more more

Find and connect with Alex on TikTok and Twitter:

https://www.tiktok.com/@heyalexfriedman

https://twitter.com/heyalexfriedman

For ideas on making products, head over to Oren at https://www.productworld.xyz/

For tips on buying a website to jump-start or expand your business, sign up with James at https://nanoflips.com/

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All 3 of us have dabbled in selling on Amazon, but are far from experts. So when we wanted to learn more about the ins and outs of the platform, we tapped the one and only Lesley Hensell - co-founder and co-owner of Riverbend Consulting, where she oversees the firm’s client services team.

Shes been a seller on Amazon herself for over a decade personally has helped hundreds of third-party sellers with everything from selling their businesses, to getting their accounts and ASINs back up and running.

Crazily enough her clients range from small mom and pop brands, all the way to companies doing over $1 billion a year.

She shares more tips and alpha then we were prepared for, and left all of us hungry to take a shot at building a brand on Amazon ourselves.

This episode covers:

- What products are good to sell on Amazon

- What are the tools you need to build a business on the platform

- Is walmart coming for Amazons lunch?

- How has the industry changed in the last decade…and more importantly…where is it going?

- Pitfalls to avoid for Amazon sellers

- Is Amazon going to steal your product and sell it themselves?

- and wayyyy more

Needless to say, the Builders Build group chat was buzzing as soon as the recording ended. All of us saying we needed to take a stab at this.

Give it a listen and see for yourself and make sure get all the alpha at https://builders.build

If you want to learn more about Lesley Hensell and her services, head on over to https://riverbendconsulting.com/

For ideas on making products, head over to Oren at https://productworld.xyz

For tips on buying a website to jump-start or expand your business, sign up with James at nanoflips.com

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So look, we surveyed the magic eight ball along with thousands of listeners on who you wanted to see as a guest on Builders Build…and the overwhelming response was former president Barack Obama.

Sadly our schedules didnt align with Oren’s daily paddle boarding session, James’ frequent jet setting to Miami, and Colin’s relentless mission to win Portlands coveted father of the year 2022 award…

So? We went with the second most requested, the king of writing online himself, Dickie Bush.

A former BlackRock trader turned digital builder, Dickie has helped over 4,000 people start writing online with his incredibly well respected program, ​​Ship 30 for 30. In addition, he’s a founder of TypeShare, an amazing tool to help you write online.

In this pod we cover:

If you want more alpha then we can fit in this description? Make sure to check out https://builders.build and subscribe while you can.

Check out Dickie Bush and his projects at:

https://twitter.com/dickiebush

https://www.ship30for30.com/

https://typeshare.co

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In this episode the gang discusses all things related to building a personal brand on Twitter. Discussing why they each decided to build brands in general James, Oren and Colin choice why they chose Twitter as a primary platform, the benefits of being social on the internet irregardless of audience, how their goals with social have changed over time, and of course how to tactically grow an audience.

This episode covers:

Personal brand goals from networking to leverage and beyond.

Choosing Twitter over other platforms for itss longevity.

The power of building relationships and connections independent of audience size.

How to chip away at building on Twitter day by day.

Using tools like Writehouse, Twemex, Tweet Hunter, and Hypefury.

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Newsletters are hot right now and as of list week, with the launch of Free Smoke, James, Oren, and Colin are all building email lists in different niches. Selfishly, they had to bring Jack Raines of Young Money onto the pod to talk all things writing, building email lists, and developing relationships for distribution. Jack and YMCMB are on a remarkable trajectory right now so he’s the perfect guest for an inaugural email list deep dive on this topic.

In this post you’ll hear about:

Getting started building a newsletter

Metrics to keep an eye on

Leveraging relationships

When to monetize

Pandering to T. Ferriss the god

As the only truly owned channel for a creator, email isn’t going anywhere and you’ll hear the guys talking about it for years to come.

twitter.com/jack_raines

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This week the team dives into content marketing. In retrospect, we are going to need several more podcasts to get deep into it but if you have no idea where to start, this is the pod for you…heck even if you do…this is the pod for you.

We cover everything from social to SEO to how to create content and where to distribute it, so give it a listen share it around, this is a intro to content marketing from 3 guys who somehow kind of found themselves making content for a living.

In the pod you will find: 

What content should I make?

How do we make content?

Candidly…theres a lot more that we meant to get to, and will be sure to in the future. For now, we put together a beautiful chaotic hour of learning for your ears.

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This episode of Builders Build we switch up the 3 musketeer format and bring in an amazing guest, Joe Valley. Joe is a serial entrepreneur, EXITpreneur, M&A Advisor, Podcaster and Partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, one of the top online business brokerage-advisory firms in the world.

Joe has also built, bought, or sold over half a dozen of his own companies.

We cover everything from setting goals for your business, tools and strategies to help document your processes and resources from the start (SOPs, metrics, accounting, etc), picking metrics for your business, valuing businesses, where to sell, and more.

Want to learn more about Joe Valley, his book, or some of the links we touch on in the pod? Check the links below:

Joes Book - The EXITpreneur’s Playbook

Places to sell online businesses

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

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

Security

SEO

Speed

Languages

Lead & Email

Memberships

Themes

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

This episode of Builders Build covers crucial organizational concepts and tools that actually make businesses run.  We cover sales forecasting, manufacturing planning, manufacturing efficiency, financing inventory, warehousing methodology and tons of crucial alpha for people actual building businesses.  It’s not just physical products either, we make sure to hit similar planning cycles for software and content.

This might not sound like the most glamorous topic but this is probably the most tactically useful podcast we’ve ever done.

Links

Shopify & Amazon App:

Coda

3PLs

Simplesheets

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