Ray Blakney
15 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 1, 2022 by Ray Blakney · across every show →
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Mar 1, 2022 neutral
Blakney acquired the viral site howmuchtoiletpaper.com to test dropshipping
“So I own a website called howmuchtoiletpaper.com. I tried dropshipping with that. Purchased it two years ago because it went viral during COVID. For those of you know, SEO, it had like, it got like 5000 backlinks. We're talking, it was featured on the BBC. Bec…”
Mar 1, 2022 positive
Mar 1, 2022 positive
Mar 1, 2022 positive
Ray Blakney: $500K profit with family time beats making $1M
“Most of us, I think would be perfectly happy with a business that made, you know, 500,000 dollars profit a year, right? You're taking over 500,000, but you could spend all your time with your friends and your family and your kids. We'll be fine. A million woul…”
Mar 1, 2022
Blakney: LiveLingua took seven years to reach seven figures in revenue
“I joke that if I ever wrote a book, it'd be called Seven Years for Seven Figures and nobody would buy it. That's what it took us. I mean, you know, we built it bit by bit every year. First year was like, 40,000 dollars and we went up to 60,000 dollars, like ab…”
Mar 1, 2022 neutral
Blakney: Chinese packaging suppliers reject sub-5,000-unit minimum order quantities
“Getting those boxes for our packaging from China from Shenzhen was a whole other story... We're trying to get somebody to send us like a hundred boxes because we were just starting off. Nobody bakes a hundred boxes in China. Like nobody would even talk to us, …”
Aug 6, 2024
Aug 6, 2024 negative
Aug 6, 2024
Blakney: Founders must learn mental coping tools before acute stress hits
“These are the kinds of tools that you should have before you're anxious. Right? But trust me, when you're in the middle of stress is not the time to learn how to do these things, right? I mean, you should have these tools in place so that when stress comes, yo…”
Aug 6, 2024 neutral
Blakney: 120,000 people took LearningStyleQuiz in 12 months with zero monetization
“I realized I had a website learningstylequiz.com where a 100,000 people have taken that quiz in the last 12 months. And I have never monetized it. Like I have no ads. I have like, I don't ask for email addresses. I didn't do a thing. ... Wait, 121 120,000 peop…”
Aug 6, 2024
Blakney: Smart founders bottleneck growth by solving problems ad hoc without systems
“The challenge is we're pretty smart. It means we are able to figure out most things, and we assume everybody else can as well, and that's what holds us back, because when I look at a problem, I never bothered to build a system, because whenever a problem comes…”
Aug 6, 2024 negative
Live Lingua suffered its worst downturn in 15 years and conducted layoffs
“We actually in live link, well, we had one of the biggest down slumps ever we've had in 15 years, about 60 days ago. Right. So I've had to lay some people off recently to kind of keep us on survival level in order to kind of recover.”
Aug 6, 2024 neutral
Blakney: Firing underperformers reflects leadership vetting and training failures
“I don't enjoy firing people because part of it's failure on my part, as much as it's probably failure on their part, right? Either I didn't vet them right. I didn't coach them right. I didn't train them right. But for some reason they weren't able to do their …”
Aug 6, 2024 neutral
Blakney: Seven-Figure and Eight-Figure Companies Require Different Playbooks
“What you do with seven figures and what you do in eight figure businesses is different. Right. And this person was focused on like micro changes in the business while we needed bigger, you know, more sweeping changes across the business.”
Aug 6, 2024 positive
Blakney plans to launch a free CBT app monetized through therapists
“And I'll probably build a free app for people to use at some point, because that's what I do. Everything I look at, I'm like, how can I make a business out of this? I'll charge the psychiatrists who put their therapists on there, but people who want to use it …”