Hey all,

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Happy Holidays everyone, here's what's interesting...

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→ The fine line (and dishonesty) between doing and teaching success.

→ The Galley Ship Portfolio.

→ The most important economic metric.

→ How PE is sidestepping high interest rates.

→ Deals Corner.

→ Why you should always speak last & more.

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Let's go.

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Travis hit the podwaves this week on the eCommerce Fuel podcast chatting everything from

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Topics include:

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💰How he invests in small businesses (and gets killer returns).

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💰Many of the tools he uses for everything, from tracking net worth to hacking his dopamine addiction.

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💰How to use SEO today to get the traffic you want.

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💰His favorite assets, and those that he avoids.

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Listen on: ​Spotify / Apple​

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QUALITY READS

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🤑 The Galley Ship Portfolio - a strategy that combines stability and growth, focusing on income over portfolio value. Advocates claim it's a decent approach for dividend-growth investors, especially those closer to retirement helping to avoid overvalued stocks.

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🤑 “Brands that make a sustained level of investment in retail media, social commerce, and livestreaming are experiencing 50% improvement in commerce program performance – in terms of total revenue and new customer acquisition."

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🤑 The Fed's rate hike pause creates unique opportunities in the market. Now might be an ideal time to reconsider your portfolio balance and move beyond cash into equities and bonds for better returns.

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🤑 Learn ROCE - The key metric to see how effectively your company uses capital to create profit. It's also a good look at both debt and equity. Business owners if you're evaluating investment opportunities, learn ROCE.

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🤑 Lesser-known yet promising dividend ETFs could be a move for 2024, especially as traditional growth sectors like tech show signs of cooling off. Four ETFs that offer potential resilience in tougher times and opportunities for growth in a recovery.

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🤑 The pace of human progress is remarkable with every day bringing a net increase of 210,000 new people globally. Growing in numbers but also in knowledge and productivity too. Little improvements in our daily lives are paving the way for a future that's more informed and efficient than ever before. Morgan's positivity to close out the year with a nice thought 🤔

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🤑 Use Ai in your marketing strategy to adapt and expand your existing operational tools for effective integration, streamlining project management and enhancing digital asset organization. Empowering the team, not replacing them.

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🤑 Wisdom from Girdley. Switch from generic Core Values to specific, actionable Core Behaviors that's not just about words on a wall, but about real actions and continuous improvement...

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🤑 PE firms are creatively navigating high debt costs in M&A deals by deferring payments. Smart, although there's implications of these moves for both borrowers and lenders.

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🤑 If you're up this year and have some cash, 3 crazy ideas - mega-cap tech stocks and their steady earnings, uranium miners as a unique diversifier in clean energy, and medical technology companies are seen as long-term opportunities.

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🤑 Doing vs. Selling. There is a critical distinction between real success and mere selling tactics. This knowledge allows you to make smarter decisions, and follow advice from those who truly practice what they preach.

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The Extras

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→ The intriguing evolution of Twitter, a story of ambition, ideals, change, and its journey through the wood chipper.

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→ Bezos always speaks last, and this trick can transform your meetings and decision-making process. Open-ended questions and active listening leads to better ideas, builds a more inclusive and insightful team dynamic, and it's also a nice power move.

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→ "Always use the simplest word" - Business jargon makes you 'sound stupid trying to sound smart' - Mark Cuban's most cringeworthy buzzword: Cohort

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Great chats and threads from the community you may have missed…

• Shlomo looking for help to do a deal deep dive on his YT channel.
• Adrian looking for a database that lists metrics for content and affiliate sites sold through marketplaces.​
• What happens when you turn your devices to greyscale?
• Dustin in with a docuseries suggestion everyone needs to see.
• Here's why Tommy may no longer be a fan of Balaji.​
• Travis shares a hilariously simple method for RE due diligence.
• Ryan posting a win on why he quit X.
• One of our members crossed the 9 figure threshold all while having ADHD.

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In Snowball...

• The Resources section is full of awesome stuff and constantly updated.
• Just added: A MONSTER reading list, and recommended Youtube channels.
• Every week you'll find new curated online business acquisition deals - Saas, Websites, Apps, Agencies, & Ecom businesses. As well as...
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  • ​Start Ups​
  • ​General investment opportunities
• Periodically Travis will host a guest in a 'Fireside' chat - Members can access recordings of all our Fireside Chats anytime here.​
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