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Affiliate. Founder https://xitter.gq/t.co/Svk3vqcCvH (300k+ leads/yr). We help enterprises targeting consumers/SMBs get more qualified leads (Pay-Per Lead)

Las Vegas, Nevada
Joined November 2023
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We manage about $500k/mo in ad spend now. Running Facebook(meta) ads in these verticals: - Newsletters (Finance, AI, Real Estate, religion, spirituality) - Home services - Other consumer services
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I think both open weight and frontier models have a place to be in the future. Open weight models have too many guardrails and wont be perfectly adjusted for many businesses . Frontier models are trained on so much bought data that overall they will be generally better than open weight models. Personally I would prefer having open weight models on our servers/rented servers and having them trained but many just won’t want to go through the hassle of doing it. Anyway, no matter what happens, infrastructure companies will benefit from this
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yes, which opens so many opportunities for advertisers who are actually more creative and trained on working years of copy and creative angles and have no pre-filled guardrails
Update: we are less than 6 months away from fully agentic meta advertising. Video editing is a massive, massive bottleneck for so many brands and creators
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Anyone hiring a full-stack dev/software engineering? I know a really solid full stack engineer who built trackers, CRM systems, processes automations related to sales, lead generation, call centers. he's looking for his next role now. CRM, automation, backend/APIs, full-stack (he's based in Miami) if you're hiring or know someone who is, comment or DM me and I'll connect you two for FREE I m just doing it because I don't want talent to be wasted. (no financial incentive)
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I don't care tbh about win rate. that's a bad metric to judge success. there's only one metric that matters. lifetime profit.
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4 years ago I spent my free time researching, optimizing and running MMM models
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Anyone hiring developers? A killer full stack AI software engineer that just gets shit done and gets it done fast is available . full stack, builds full scalable systems that actually work. around 3 years experience and honestly works like someone with way more. Will automate all processes in your business and make you a lot more on software and speed and systems than what you paid him. Truly an asset if you need someone like this comment “dev” and I’ll shoot details to you for FREE
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Anyone is looking for a really amazing ai software engineer that just gets shit done and gets it done fast. full stack, builds full scalable systems that actually work. around 3 years experience and honestly works like someone with way more. Will automate all processes in your business and make you a lot more on software and speed and systems than what you paid him. Truly an asset if you need someone like this hit me up in DM for FREE intro.
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we backtested CTR and CPM on our meta ad sets to see if they tell you early which ones will win 300 new ad sets, every offer, last 90 days. looked at the first 2 days vs what happened after short answer: not really lol low CTR does mean fewer winners. but meta + our pause rules already starve those ad sets, so a CTR kill rule saved us basically nothing high CPM? not a red flag at all. the high CPM ad sets actually had better ROAS haha. killing on CPM would’ve shut off a bunch of winners cheap clicks don’t save a bad ad set either. we even tested giving them 2 more days if CPM was cheap and CTR was high. still lost money what actually works is early ROAS ROAS 1+ after 2 days → won 75% of the time under 1 → about 10% didn’t matter what the CTR or CPM was
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There's just some trivial things claude won't do for "security sake" that grok will do easily with no questions asked. it's pretty annoying but it is what it is. bullish open weight models
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grok bot is not there yet in terms of model quality and output. it's practical and useful, but not so much when it comes to in-depth quality work. probably just a matter of time when it gets there though. i really like calling on behalf of me feature though
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Idk maybe i am not using grok bot to its full potential but i see it not as good at Claude for the most things.
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I purposefully write with mistakes, lower case and improper/missed punctuation, so people don’t think it’s ai lol
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Who are the best people I should follow on AI?
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GrokBot setup sucks @elonmusk it shouldn't be this complicated
Replying to @grok
@grok @bot i bought a grok subsription but I can't actually use GrokBot due to this. I am not getting the email(tried pretty much all options, including uniting accounts) What should I do?
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Went through a lot of pain and had to subscribe through the other app
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Prompting is still very important. Tooks us tens of thousands of dollars tweaking prompts and processes to make ads as natural as possible
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Most acquisitions are painful and don’t work out. Very few companies doing it right and it’s very painful when the business largely depends on people. In those cases chances of failure increase white a bit. Good processes and long term employee retention plans help tho
My richest friends are all playing the M&A game. Mostly buying other businesses with their main biz's cash flow. Or they sold their own business. Such an incredible way to scale. Especially if you're sitting on lot of cash. Yet 8/10 of the guys I speak with never even considered this. They just keep trying to scale ads or launch things from 0. Worth educating yourself in this and finding more options to deploy your capital. My goal for 2027 at least.
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Thanks @JensenHuang! We're excited to be a part of @nvidia program
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Everyone thought you’d work less with AI but the reality is we work a lot more… managing all these ai agents/chats and barely finding time to review and correct the output
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