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Sep 2024
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Life Hacks From The King of Introverts +...

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Episode 627: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to the socially rich, “Friends Billionaire”, Nick Gray ( https://x.com/nickgraynews ) about how to be a master networker, throw the perfect cocktail party, plus 7 simple business ideas.


Show Notes: 

(0:00) Intro

(4:12) If you had $10M, how would you live?

(10:11) Find who your heroes follow

(13:29) Speedrun of Nick Gray's career

(22:15) Idea: White label enterprise sales

(26:08) Idea: Millionaire Matchmaker

(37:22) Idea: web-hosting services

(45:00) Idea: Airbnb experiences

(48:55) Idea: Geek Squad as a service

(55:00) Idea: VHS to digital conversion as a service

(58:58) Idea: Bring blogging back

(1:04:05) The persuasion of liking

(1:09:14) How to throw a Nick Gray party 





Links:

• Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm

• Museum Hack - https://museumhack.com/

• “If I Had $10M” - https://nickgray.net/if-i-had-10m/

• vs3 Web Services - https://vs3.net/

• Airbnb Experiences - https://www.airbnb.com/s/experiences

• Elemind - https://x.com/elemindtech

• Nick’s blog - https://nickgray.net

• The 2-Hour Cocktail Party - https://tinyurl.com/4p6h4xnu



Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd


Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/



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