Issue 125: The Many Sources of Free Money 🤑

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Who doesn’t love free money?

Ohhhh I can hear you responding now, “there is no such thing as free money!”

To which I say…not true dear friend.

There are many sources of free money, even if you find some contorted way to say it isn’t free. Free money is the best kind of funding for your business, and today I want to talk about how you can get some of this free money.

I define free money as this:

→ zero-interest rate cost and zero equity cost

To a business, that is free.

In my career, I’ve seen a handful of different types of capital sources that qualify as free.

Here’s the three I’ve benefited from. It’s story time boys and girls. Sit down and buckle-in.

1 - Customers

Believe it or not, getting customers to finance your growth capital requirements is the best source of money.

And I’m not even talking about profit here. I’m talking about having customers pre-pay for things before you’ve had to deliver the product or service.

We did this with Lomi when we launched our crowdfunding campaign. We raised $7.5 million in 45 days by doing a giant pre-order campaign on Indiegogo.

The cash raised from this campaign allowed us to invest in the manufacturing of bringing the first lomi devices to market.

We gave up no equity to get it.

We used no debt to get it.

It had a 0% rate on it. That’s FREE

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| QUICK SHOTS

• @itsNickSimpson: I shipped $100k worth of inventory to @Amazon, and now they’ve misplaced it. Meanwhile, I see resellers hawking it on eBay.

• Jon Loomer: Meta is rolling out First Conversion reporting. Do you have it yet?

• @BenKnegendorf: I ordered from @1stPhorm late last week and they did a few things that really impressed me. My marketing mind lit up with some of the things they were doing on their website, at checkout, and post-purchase and I had to share. Time for a thread 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

• @andrewjfaris: Say I want to test two different first time customer offers on my sitewide pop-up…

• Ashvin Melwani: As brand owners, we sell products that are MEANT to be consumed every day so naturally we set subscription renewals for every 30 days.

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| THE OUTRO

Oh man, did you know that Kai, aka “The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker” aka “Caleb Lawrence McGillvary” eventually went to jail for another murder? Take me back to the good ol’ days when Kai was a hero and Sweet Brown was remixed for the hottest track in 2012.

Don’t grab no shoes or nuthin’, Jesus! ✌️

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