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Deeper Than Mental
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Solar Aura
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Deeper Than Mental
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Solar Aura
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Deeper Than Mental
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Solar Aura
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 2
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.
Title 3
Tell us a bit about your background and why you started (or are starting) your brand
I began my entrepreneurial journey when I started my first website in 2015 called phone Insanity. The thing that inspired me to start this journey was my brother passing away. Before that, I was an avid gamer who didn’t care much for anything else. So that was a massive shock to my system. It made me realize that time was a lot more limited than I thought.
So I started phone insanity, and I realized very quickly that my plan of jumping headfirst might not have been the best choice. I never made more than $2-3 a month, and that was due to picking a niche that had very high competition. It was also difficult to monetize because I realized that no one bought phones outright, and the affiliate programs were a hassle to join, requiring significant traffic before working with you. That site did teach me a precious lesson, though. That it was possible, I remember the fourth month in, making my first affiliate sale and making $2.97 for that month.
After around half a year, I started my second website at the beginning of 2016. PC Gaming Builds. This time around, I did a lot more research! I saw that the PC tech space was a lot less competitive than the phone space. I wouldn’t have to compete with CNN and other major tech publications. At first, it was slow. I made nothing for the first three months, even though I was working hard. Then the 3rd month, I made $47, the 4th $253, and soon I was making thousands a month. I eventually sold it for six figures.
After that, it’s been a very eventful two years that’s had plenty of twists and turns that’s led me to create deeper than mental.
Who do you serve and how do you serve them (what product(s) or service(s) you provide)
Deeper Than Mental (DTM) is a brand that's all about taking oneself from a depressed state to living a fulfilled life. DTM was started out of my own desire to become the ideal version of myself. So the goal isn't for me to be this high and mighty individual who's figured everything out, but more like a friend who's figuring it out and sharing my journey along the way.
DTM serves people like this by identifying a baseline for them and actually helping them breakdown their dreams and create a path to get there. DTM's goal is to help that person every step of the way in achieving the best version of themselves.
My first product is going to be an extensive 90-day daily planner. In order for someone to really change their life, they have to win the day. This is a concept that I picked up from Andy Frisella (MFCEO Podcast) and it's been very beneficial for me. If you're able to take big goals and break them down into daily steps then you can change yourself into the person you want to be one day at a time.
On the business side, this alone is going to be a great recurring income stream as people purchase four daily-planners every year. This will greatly increase the LTV of a customer.
What stage are you currently at and how would receiving a scholarship help you with building your brand?
DTM is still in the pre-production stages. Here's the strategy that I plan to implement.
I'm going to create a FB group for DTM and then build my audience through a mixture of paid and organic outreach. My goal is to have a minimum of 1000 members in the facebook group before launching my first batch of daily journals.
My core strategy for my paid advertising funnel to the FB group is going to be through a quiz funnel that first collects their email newsletter and then directs them to the FB group.
Next, I'll go to other like-minded FB groups and talk to people one by one and then direct them to my FB group if I think they're a good fit.
I went over to Alibaba.com and found a few suppliers who created daily planners and found some fantastic deals for the product. I talked about customizing the journal and was quoted $3 per planner.
The minimum order, which was 500 planners, would equate to around $1500 alone, and that's without shipping included. With shipping in total, I'd be paying about $2500. So with shipping costs added, that would be $5 per journal.
Because I'm going to be selling each journal for $27.99, I'd say the margins are fantastic.
A $5,000 scholarship would allow me to increase my ad spend budget, which would help build the DTM FB group much faster.
It would also allow me to easily order my first batch of journals and test my product idea with the market.
Finally, I'd be able to use this scholarship to create good brand packaging for DTM and also a quality logo for the website.