How I Got $1M+ in Ad Funding, a Celebrity Partner, and 174 Leads for $500โฆ Without Losing Equity
"๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ - ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ - ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ - ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง If youโre constantly broke, itโs typically because you lack one of those 4 things." Iโll never forget the day when @Travis Sago posted that on one of his Facebook posts. I was having a rough month, as a series of bad events had happened in my life within less than a 30โday spanโฆ #1 My dad had ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฒ. #2 ๐ ๐ก๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐, since foreigners were having a hard time there due to the political situation. #3 My vehicleโs ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง and almost exploded. #4 My niece, who Iโve raised like a daughter, ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ก๐๐ง๐. #5 When my ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ came back to the country, the first thing that happened to her was that she fell down the stairs and ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐ , limiting her ability to work and giving her A LOT of pain. And the worst part? ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ any of those things, so I had to practically cover ALL of those expenses. Fortunately, I had the means to respond, but damn, I left my bank account waaay emptier than I wanted. It was a wakeโup call to realize how life can change in a second if you donโt have the financial means to deal with emergencies that might occur at any time. And ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ? Because this realization made me remember that post I mentioned at the beginning, and how I was missing one of those without realizing it for a loooong time. In my case, the one that was missing the most? The โ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ aspect. Historically, every time I had a new business idea, I would do the following: โข Spend several ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ saving money (or sometimes using a bit of debt). โข Spend a massive amount of time on ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ง๐ โ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ .โ โข Only to realize that by the time itโs ready, the idea wasnโt as good as I originally thought, since it wasnโt solving a deep enough ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ง and/or the market conditions had changed. (This is what happened to a blog I created a couple of years ago called https://yourdominicanguide.com/, which by the time it got ranked by Google, the AI stuff came up, and Google started giving AI answers, drastically reducing the traffic and making the blog less needed.)