Sales & Systems, B2B Agencies, Short Newsletters, Productivity

Bom Dias from Portugal 👋 

I just switched to Beehiiv for this newsletter.

I think the format will look better.

My goal: Build profitable companies & buy real estate with the profits. Without compromising health & epic adventures along the way.

Newsletter goal: You leave with one idea to make more $$$ or have a better life. 

📚 1 Business Lessons:

I had a conversation with my buddy David last week.

The man is crushing it.

25 years old and making $200,000 every month with his agency Pneuma (terrible name, I know).

He told me when he was still at his job 4 years ago & starting Pneuma, every night after work he'd throw on Netflix on one monitor & on his 2nd monitor open up Gmail & LinkedIn.

He would literally send 100 cold LinkedIn DM's & 100 cold emails.

Every night.

For over a year.

He even got a response from Mark Cuban.

These days he says 90% of his time is on calls with his team coaching and training them.

Usually my definition of hell = 90% of my time spent on calls

But he had a good point.

If he can make someone on his team slightly better in just 30 minutes every week, that has massive compounding effects throughout the company.

The Lesson:

When you're early, your job is to sell.

When you're making enough money, your job is to build systems & train.

💰 2 Business Ideas:

1. B2B Influencer Agency –

You see the viral Tiktok dancers making millions... 

Well, it's time for some cringe LinkedIn thought leadership to get paid. Lol.

No but seriously, this B2B Influencer Report shows it's a big deal.

I'll save you the 47 pages. Here's the top 3 things to know:

1. Influencer marketing industry is 9.7B (with bulk being B2C)

2. 80% of B2B Companies plan to maintain or spend more on influencers

3. 39% of B2B Companies say the reason they don't today is because it's too much work

Create a done-for-you service here. I'd target B2B SaaS companies to start.

2. Daily Newsletters Prompts –

There are popular "prompt" decks on School Of Life & Best Self.

Essentially, playing cards with a question on them, like:

"What sort of things have made you envious recently?"

And they vary by categories (philosophy, intimacy, icebreakers, etc.)

I think launching a daily single question email would cruushhhhh.

7 AM daily you get an email: "What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?"

Bonus Points: Build the software to record their answer when they reply to the email

Bonus Points with sprinkles on top: Market it as a giftable service for a significant other or family member like Storyworth does

😎 3 Cool Internet Things:

1. A Goldmine for Landing Pages – If your job is to sell anything on the internet, you need to set up a spot where customers can buy that thing. This is the blueprint to building an incredible landing page.

2. Ivysaur – If you are looking for the most simple workout when traveling, it's this. It's full body compound lifts. In my opinions it's the #1 way to maintain muscle on the road.

3. Working Less: After spending too long reading about Parkinson's Law, I'm convinced that I can accomplish more if I limit myself to 4-5 hours of work per day (and block social apps). This GTD framework is how I'm structuring my work in those 4-5 hours

- Connor 

PS – Transferring newsletter subscribers is weird. Can you reply & let me know if you got it? Just say "1, 2 or 3" for what your favorite section was here.

PPS – I was just in Madeira 2 days ago for a couple of nights. If you've never heard of it (like me), check it out. It was epic.

(Kinda hyped I can include images in these newsletters now)