Why I Left Billion Dollar Ad Budgets for Plumbers

People ask why someone who ran campaigns for Nike, the Golden State Warriors, and Rosetta Stone spends his days helping HVAC companies show up on Google Maps. It sounds like a step down. It isn’t. Here’s the whole thinking, plus the specific systems I use. Every door was opened by someone else I represented California in the National Spelling Bee …

How We Turned Derek Moneyberg’s Positive Mentions Into Story Cards

Derek Moneyberg is a wealth coach at moneyberg.com. He teaches money, negotiation, and investing, and his students talk about the results in public, with their names on them. He also trains jiu-jitsu, and holds a black belt awarded by Jake Shields. UFC champions have sat across from him on camera and talked about what he’s done for them. Chael Sonnen, …

I Had Hours of Video Rotting on My Phone Until GrokBot Went and Got It

I made a bunch of videos with my friend Britain Eriksen. We were walking around the lake with a little selfie stick, talking about digital marketing and making one-minute videos and all this and that. Everything you need to know about digital. Even in the car we were talking about stuff, and we were hitting golf balls. All kinds of …

3 Interviews, 30+ Assets, and What Every Single One Did

Search Google Videos for “Harry Gold Overdrive Interactive.” The number one result is an article we published in April. It sits above a Vimeo result from 2011 and a YouTube result from 2019 that have had over a decade to hold that spot. Seven images from that same article rank in Google Images for the same term. That came from …

Claude Is Now Editing Our Videos in Descript

I used to spend hours toiling inside video editing tools. I wish we had agents years ago. The Content Factory has four stages. Produce, process, post, promote. You produce. Record something real on a topic you want to be known for. That’s your only job. Then it gets processed, which means edited, transcribed, chopped into pieces. Posted to YouTube, your …