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In this episode I talk about how I created wealth in my own life and became financially free through investing. If you are interested in learning more about cash flow and how to truly live life on your own terms listen in, subscribe, share with an entrepreneur you know, and visit my YouTube channel "Ryan Daniel Moran" for more content!

Have you ever had a turning point in your journey as an entrepreneur? After our latest quarterly company retreat life is better than ever at Capitalism.com but there have been bumps along the way. In this episode I sit down again with my content creator C-Money to talk about marketing with authenticity, running a personal media brand, growing the Capitalism media empire, and my own personal ups and downs along the way.

Today marks the first official show of The One Percent. In this episode I talk about searching for greater meaning outside of just being successful in business. I tracked my progress as an entrepreneur for 5 years under Freedom Fast Lane but this is the show for the One Percent bold enough create change, pursue wealth, find freedom, take control of their health, and reach their full potential. I am an entrepreneur, investor, a father, and a skeptic who is on a journey to meet the world's highest achievers - those who live in the one percent of all aspects of life.

This is the show for the One Percent bold enough create change, pursue wealth, find freedom, take control of their health, and reach their full potential. My name is Ryan Daniel Moran and I am an entrepreneur, investor, a father, and a skeptic who is on a journey to meet the world's highest achievers - those who live in the one percent of all aspects of life. In this episode I talk about leaving behind Freedom Fast Lane after 5 years of podcasting so that I could start thinking bigger and move forward with The One Percent and growing the Capitalism.com media empire.

I have some very important news. Five years ago I launched Freedom Fast Lane in order to document my journey and share the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. It has been so much fun to have shared what I have learned along the way with you. About a year and a half ago something changed. Some of the magic that I felt at the very beginning started to fade. I felt that I had to start monetizing the following of this show in order to make it sustainable. Monetizing this audience turned into a very stressful thing. Show Notes Allowing myself to indulge in retrospection I’ve done a lot of reflecting over the past six months and I’ve analyzed where I want to go with my career. I’ve reflected upon all the highs and lows of these past six months. As I look back on what worked, it was always when I was curious, honest, humble, when I was always being myself. Exploring new horizons I feel like I’ve said everything there is to say and that I’ve shared everything there is to share on the topics that I’ve been talking ab

I had an important mental shift this week about business and life. So I went to Facebook live to share and take a couple questions...

I run a mastermind called The Backroom... And at our meetings, each member shares some of their best ideas that are working right now. So a couple of our members, Dylan and Dan, get up and sorta waltz on stage like they don't have a care in the world... And Dylan grabs the mic and speaks with his adorable, disarming Kentucky drawl... And over the next thirty minutes or so, he outlines how he is making millions on Amazon without doing, like, any work. In fact, what he does is so stupidly simple and obvious that I asked my mastermind members if anybody wanted to start doing it. In my estimation, it could be scaled to $100k per month in about a year, maybe less time if someone was really dedicated to it... So there I was... sitting in my own mastermind, thinking about starting an entirely new business... It was that good. "We've sold about $15m on Amazon doing this one thing in the last few years," he said off-hand. "That's on top of our normal sales, of course. We didn't need any reviews or anything like that."

Ryan had a very motivating chat with Sam Prentice, an investment expert and the co-founder of Wealthpoint, about generating passive income through investments. Here’s some of what Sam had to say about what to do if you get a big windfall (from selling a business for example): Use 1031 exchanges wisely Some of Sam’s clients used a 1031 exchange to take money from one depreciated property, reinvest it in another property, and defer all capital gain taxes. You can actually 1031 between asset classes as long as they are considered like-kind. Some people exited real estate for a great profit and reinvested the money in oil and gas. Set up a capital warehouse and then go for the cash flow First set up a capital warehouse, which means that you will have a limit to how much you can put into it each year. This is basically a liquid place to store capital which earns a return. For the rest of the money, go for anything cash flow. Keep it simple Look for assets that have a value and buy countercyclical assets when you d

Want to know what's coming this year, next year, and in this next coming wave for Amazon, for selling in retail and in marketing physical products to audiences? I have some thoughts.

Mike Zagare is one of the world's leading expert's on maximizing traffic to Amazon product pages. Show Notes A former physical therapist, Mike went all-in on pet products on Amazon and hit it big using pay-per-click (PPC) advertising. Here’s some of what Mike had to say about kickstarting success through marketing: Go big under one tent Mike reached his success by focusing on one niche area - pet products. He started with just a few items under one brand name, and expanded to over 40 products under that brand. This lets him get the most out of his marketing spend, since driving traffic to one brand means driving traffic to all his products. Take your marketing spend seriously If you're going to drop money into PPC advertising, do it right! Draft awesome ad copy. Craft great graphics. Make it have the best impact possible right out of the gate. Target the right platforms Facebook is great for building an audience. It’s not so great for direct response for Amazon products. Make sure that your PPC ads focus on

Will Clarke of Poo~Pourri - a company making essential oil sprays to neutralize bathroom odors - gave the best speech you may ever hear about taking a dump... and how 1 video can lead to millions of sales. Show Notes Hire polymaths Hire people who are superb at more than one thing. You’ll have a really strong and well-rounded team that can produce excellence, as they understand how to achieve excellence in more than one area. Empathize with your customers Poo~Pourri relies a lot on humor to hit success with its ads. That doesn’t mean it isn’t sensitive to its customers who have serious health conditions, like irritable bowel syndrome. The company adapts its messaging appropriately so it can make those respectful, lasting connections. Do epic shit Don’t sell an okay product, or a minimally viable prototype. Make something that solves a problem in a unique way (like covering up embarrassing smells from bowel movements when others are in the same residence/building) and hone in on that awesomeness in your market

Casey Gauss gave brilliant talk about HOW brands are currently crushing it selling products on Amazon at the Capitalism Conference this past winter. The CEO of Viral Launch, he’s all about sourcing, launching, and dominating your way to success. If you missed CapCon, now’s your chance to catch up on his awesome tips, including:   Killer hack: Be the best at everything Source the best materials. Have the best branding. Write the best ad copy. Engage the best influencers. If you can come out of the gate with the best possible product and the best possible marketing you can give it, you’ll stun the marketplace. Watch out for crowded spaces If there are a number of established players in a product space with 4.5 star ratings, you might be in for a rough time if you try to go up against them. Sure, you might be able to craft a product worth at least 4.7 stars, but that’s not going to make a difference in the eyes of your average consumer.   Split testing can be your best friend Why go all-in on one marketing stra

I recently went on the Life After Business podcast with Ryan Tansom. His show focuses on business exits and what life can be like on the other side after a big payday. After my own big exit last year I am back to brand building and growing Capitalism.com with events like the Brand Builder Summit and The Capitalism Conference. My mastermind group The Backroom is geared towards helping entrepreneurs build sellable businesses so they can have an 8 or 9-Figure exit of their own.

I just had a blast going to Kiev, Ukraine to meet with and talk to lots of entrepreneurs. In this presentation I talk about how to kill it in the physical products space. You can make a million in a year How can you do it? Offer 3 to 5 products. Price them at $25 to $35 each. Sell 25 to 35 of them a day. If you can keep that up, you’ll have made a million dollars after 12 months. It’s a simple formula, but It’ll take hard work to get to that point and keep it up. Build a community of superfans If you can find a thousand people who are really interested in what you have to offer - whether it’s through Facebook, Instagram, a blog, or whatever - you can find 100 people in that group who to become your brand’s superfans. They’ll buy your products at full price and incessantly rave about how awesome your brand is to their friends and family online and offline until they buy it to get them to shut up about it.   Who wouldn’t want fans like that? You can find people that dedicated by targeting a superniche in a way

We usually never leak calls from our mastermind group The Backroom but I think you will find this excerpt particularly useful. There is so much money to be made when you are HAPPY and in your zone of genius, not putting out fires and doing low-level tasks that can be delegated or outsourced. This episode of Freedom Fast Lane is all about staying in your zone of genius.

I just had an intriguing chat with eCommerce entrepreneur Jeff Lieber on what new strategies can keep your business relevant on Amazon RIGHT NOW. If you’re working in the online physical products space, you need to listen to this episode today.   Make the most out of the Giveaway system Amazon Giveaway is a powerful means to drive interest into your product. You can get really creative with it and get a lot of business. For example, Jeff uses Amazon Giveaway to run contests, getting thousands of people to watch a promotional video in exchange for only two product gifts and some small discounts for those who didn’t win; a really cost-effective offer! Don’t think of yourself as an Amazon business Ryan and Jeff know that Amazon is a dominant player in physical products sales. However, even successful business with a strong presence on the platform still expose their products to other markets, such as retail. The more you diversify how you offer your product, the less reliant you are on Amazon for success. Infor

Show Notes Ryan had a great chat with Ukrainian entrepreneur Igor Kustov on adapting to the new Amazon game. If you’re selling physical products online, you need to hear this episode right away; you might benefit from the actionable tips Ryan had for us. Here are some of them:   Establish a community You used to be able to just give product away and, by that alone, rank high on Amazon keyword searches. Those days are over. If you want to rank on Amazon, you need to have a large audience of engage customers, with good numbers on an email list. If you have that engaged community, Amazon will reward you. Use Facebook Messenger Facebook Messenger is a really powerful tool for building that audience you need. It’s great at connecting people to your product and keeping them engaged. Make sure to learn the ins-and-outs of it. Don’t ask for reviews until you’ve delivered value If you are good to your customers, they’ll be good to you. Ryan’s often waited a year before asking particularly enthusiastic customers to pos

Molly Pittman had an awesome talk on creating high-performing ad campaigns at the Capitalism Conference this past December. She had a ton of great information, so you definitely need to listen to the whole episode to make sure you make the best use of her tips, but we’ll give you a sneak peek at a few of her main points here:   Craft a great offer If your offer is bad, your ads won’t work. Period. Think about how the market would value your product and its competitors, and how you can play around with that to offer something really compelling to your target audience. Write great ad copy This ties in with the earlier point, as if you can’t figure out how to write great ad copy for your product, then maybe you don’t have a very good offer. Again, reflect on the value proposition that your product gives consumers, and try out a variety of ad copy “chunks” to see how your target market responds.   Produce awesome ad creatives Make sure that the ads you end up making visually adhere to your branding. When you put

I just had dinner with Gary Vaynerchuk, Lewis Howes, Jay Shetty, Josh Bezoni, and Colin Stuckert. I met Gary when I asked him to speak at the first Capitalism Conference. I wanted to ask him about his vision and path forward to owning the New York Jets since I have my own goal of buying the Cleveland Indians. He had some really powerful advice on the next steps in my career and wherever you're at in your entrepreneurial journey, I think you'll find his truthbombs just as meaningful.

Ryan was delighted to have the chance to ask superstar entrepreneur Kimbal Musk a bunch of questions at the Capitalism Conference. He had a lot of interesting insights to offer, which you can implement in your business right now. Here are some of the main points:   Chase your passion Food’s always been one of Kimbal’s passions. He’s turned that into a massively successful career as a social entrepreneur: growing, cooking, and selling real, healthy food to an increasingly overweight America. You can also find what really drives you, and use that to make decisions on the types of products and services you want to sell. Don’t let people calling you crazy stop you If you want to make something new to sell to the public, a lot of people might think you’re nuts. That could make you lose confidence and stop you in your tracks, but don’t let it. Kimbal’s encountered a number of “crazy” business ideas, but he doesn’t dismiss them on that basis alone.   The Information Age will affect everything The interconnectedness