Everything Cody Bramlett said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bramlett: Affiliate lists can scale an offer to $1M in 30 days
“And you can go from an offer doing zero dollars to doing half a million to a million dollars in 30 days.”
Bramlett: 99% of available copywriters are worthless
“If you type in, I need a copywriter. There's so many options and 99% of them are worthless.”
Bramlett: Anyone Can Hit $300K Monthly E-Commerce Revenue Within a Year
“To be able to do you know, two, 300,000 a month in revenue is really, Achievable for pretty much anybody. It's just a matter of having focus and staying on track and within six months to a year, you can have that without having massive skills.”
Bramlett: Seeking more than $400k in annual passive income is irrational
“Having, you know, 300,004 thousand dollars a year as passive income would be kind of that massive dream. You know, that 20, 30,000 dollar a month check. Cause that just, at that point you can fly first class, you can have a nice house, potentially a vacation h…”
Bramlett: The Philippines has the best staff on earth
“Best staff on earth. Best attitude, education, knowledge, just phenomenal.”
Bramlett: Successful direct marketing offers only need video, web, and copywriting
“Making an offer that's successful is, I wouldn't say it's easy, but it doesn't require a lot of skillset. You just need a video guy. You need a webpage guy and a great copywriter.”
Bramlett: Making $1M to $6M in direct marketing is easy
“It's really easy to make one to six million dollars in revenue. It's hard to get to that next level in the direct marketing world. And so very few have achieved that.”
Bramlett: Affiliate ad buyers view paid acquisition as addictive gambling
“A lot of the ad guys in the affiliate space basically have told me it's gambling and it's an addiction and they don't want to do it anymore, but they can't stop.”
Bramlett: Founders build bottom-up because they mistakenly overpay themselves
“You instinctively want to build from the bottom up because you don't want to spend money because you would think it's all yours, even though it's the company's money and you're robbing it because you shouldn't be paying yourself what you're being paid because …”
Bramlett: Founders need operations, finance, and sales leads to be true CEOs
“You need an operations person, you need a money person, and you need a salesperson. If you have those three things, then you can truly be a CEO and the team will start being built underneath you.”
Bramlett: Only 4% of Direct-Response Copywriters Are Actually Worth Hiring
“There's copywriters everywhere and 80% of them suck. 20% of them are good. And among that, 20%, 80% of them are not probably worth working with. You want to find that, you know, four percent of the copywriters out there that are amazing.”
Bramlett: Direct-Response Funnels Convert 2% to 4% of Cold Traffic on First Touch
“We can get about a two to four percent conversion rate on the first touch for people, which is quite cool.”
Bramlett: MLM and Herbalife Supplements Are Low-Quality Junk
“And I look at the supplements they have and they'd be buying them from, you know, herbal life and these big, Multi-level marketing companies. And the products were absolute crap.”
Bramlett: New supplement brands should never manufacture their own products
“In the supplement world, unless you're crazy and I have a few crazy friends who've done this, you don't manufacture yourself.”
Bramlett operates all his businesses entirely without holding physical inventory
“And I particularly don't have any inventory in any of my businesses. We do everything with an on demand supply.”
Bramlett: A Third of Amazon Turmeric Brands Share One Manufacturer
“You go on there and type in turmeric. I guarantee you about a third of what's on there comes from one manufacturer.”
Bramlett: Solopreneurs should hire leadership and sales within year one
“So I regret not building a team and hiring a fractional CFO. Operations manager or a COO and a salesperson within the first year.”
Bramlett: Stripe and PayPal close supplement merchant accounts at scale
“So if you use Stripe, which you can't really use in the supplement space, especially at scale or PayPal, they will close your accounts.”
Bramlett: True success means stepping out of operations and earning purely as owner
“Realizing that you are not the company. You're just an employee of it, right? If you, if your true goal is to be successful, it's that I want to just walk away, replace myself and get paid because I own the company, right? Like a board member, like a heavy inv…”
Bramlett: Founders cannot draw CEO salary while paying replacement executive
“Because if you're walking away and taking three or 4000 dollars, who's paying the CEO? Who's getting the bonus for running the company? Right? I'm an employee of the company and that is my salary. Which is about that amount. It's, I'm not gonna take that away …”
Bramlett: Founders should build redundant teams and systems around their fears
“With that, you've got to listen to your fears because they're legitimate and then learn how to build systems, procedures, staff, teams, processes, other verticals for the business to bring in more revenue around those fears. You worry about this person leaving…”
Bramlett: Everyone has an unfair advantage crucial to their success
“Everyone has a little piece that's successful for them, whether it be a family member, a friend, an opportunity, a loan from a parents kind of thing. There's just something that everyone has an opportunity. It's a matter of understanding what it is.”
Bramlett: A CEO should only manage vision, capital, and executive support
“I am not in the operations, the sales, the dev design. I'm the CEO. I'm in charge of the vision of the company. And I'm in charge of making sure the company has the funds to keep growing. That's it. I'm there to help my COO, my CFO Answer questions and take ca…”
Bramlett: In-house teams should be built top-down with leadership hired first
“It's still that concept of having the leadership team first, right? You don't hire the video editor. You contract out the video at video stuff, right? But in terms of building that actual in-house team where they're dedicated full-time to you, it's top-down.”