why aren't all 9 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moran: Amazon's product search ranking is determined by total sales volume
“Amazon's algorithm is all based on sales. So whatever you can generate, as far as quantity of sales, that will determine how you rank.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moran: Amazon's algorithm counts any sale over $5 as full price
“It has diminishing returns at about five bucks a unit, which who cares? But if you're able to take more than that per sale, Amazon basically registers that as a full price sale”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moran: Business revenues doubled in six months to $1 million per month
“So when I was on the show in December, I think our revenues were about half a million dollars a month. And now they're about a million dollars a month.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ryan Moran: Physical products drive 75% of monthly revenue
“Well, in February we did 1.3 million and that was right after a launch because like 300 ish thousand came from a launch of the coaching. So the, my, what I call my real businesses, the businesses that I actually operate and that don't have my name attached to …”
Assertion Supported
Moran: Gary Vaynerchuk's business just crossed $100 million in revenue
“And we had Gary Vaynerchuk who just crossed a hundred million dollars in revenue.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moran: Previous Conference Generated $400K Revenue on $350K Costs
“We just made, we made about 50,000 dollars. Yeah. So we took in about 400,000 in revenue and spent about 350 of that.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Moran: Upcoming conference projected to gross $700,000 to $800,000
“So I think this one will be about 400,000. And I think we'll, we'll bring in about seven to 800,000.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moran: Physical product businesses generated $500,000 in monthly revenue in October
“In October, we did collectively about half a million a month.”
Assertion Contradicted
Moran: TheBlaze generated $60M in advertising revenue in 2015
“Theblaze.com is his company, and it did sixty million dollars in advertising revenue last year”