Dark Mode with John Coyle

Today I'm talking to Dan Trepanier, the Founder of Articles of Style. Dan started out blogging about fashion and flipping clothing on eBay. He grew that into a legit business. I sat down with him to talk about how he did it and why the way we dress is so important. Chapters 0:00 - F*@& Everybody 0:32 - The Clothes Make the Man 8:45 - Early Life & Inspirations 21:41 - College Life as an Athlete 27:...

Today's guest is Jackson Blackledge. If you want to make money online - you will want to watch this. This man is living proof that anyone can do it.  Things will take 3-4 times longer than you think.  Jackson got ZERO customers in his business for 20 months.  Today's guest started out as an electrician, with very little money. But he wanted money. He wanted to start his own business.  He learned a...

Cardinal Mason is back and we're doing a problem solver episode.  Today we're digging into my personal brand. We're talking about building a business around a personal brand. Building the right audience. And some of the lesser-known tactics like buying engagement to increase your reach on social media. Chapters 00:00 "I Buy Shoutouts"  00:20 The Problem Solver Format 01:15 Our Problems 15:44 How C...

Another problem solver episode comin' at ya. Youtube strategy for business is hard. Do you want to have a big YouTube channel with millions of subscribers that and gets hundreds of millions of views? Have you ever wondered how to use YouTube to make money for a niche business?  That's exactly what we're talking about on today's episode of the pod. Bryan is the founder of a successful agency.  He w...

Triple Whale presents Whale Informed. This week, John and Ethan discuss: 🧟 Liquid Death Raises Money 📊 Ecommerce Advertising Trends 🏴‍☠️ Temu Treasures + more. *** The Whalies Get Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/triplewhale/1107201 *** Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:59 Liquid Death Raises Money 06:04 DUDE Wipes’ Scoop 09:11 “Trends” by Triple Whale 12:46 Is TikTok Facing a Ban in the U.S....

At 15 Years Old Jason Wong was a Cook in his mother's Chinese restaurant. He went from meme pages to millions of followers to an ecommerce product drop to a successful exit to the fastest growing brand on TikTok. Then he went silent - too burnt out to continue. Today we're doing a problem solver episode, where we lay out some of the problems we're having then solve them together. Along the way Jas...

Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show about ecommerce where puns go to die. This week, John and Ethan discuss: 📧 Klaviyo Professional Services 📱 Is Meta broken? 👟 Footlocker: Harbinger of death +more. *** The Whalies🎟️: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/triplewhale/1107201 *** Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:52 Is Meta Broken? 04:38 Foot Locker’s Disappointing Earnings 09:51 TB12 Sports 12:5...

Today's guest is the founder of the Barrel Aged Amazon agency Jake Stanislawski. Jake shares his best stories from just now realizing he's homeless to selling to nipple pasties on Amazon, and more. Since Jake is the man when it comes to selling on Amazon, I decided to put eras of Jeff's fits into a tier list with him. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show about ecommerce where puns go to die. This week, John and Ethan discuss: 🍫 Billionaires stocking shelves 🆒 Brand as differentiator for undifferentiated products 👛 Ridge x MKBHD + more. ********************************************************************** The Whalies Get Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/triplewhale/1107201 Vote: https:/...

Today I'm talking to Scott Boulis.  Scott has been making money on viral products for the past decade.  From being one of the first team members at Teespring to getting sued for a meme product - Scott has stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show where we don't give you business advice but do tell you what's happening in and around ecommerce. This week, John and Ethan discuss: 🤖 Mark Zuckerberg vs. Apple Vision Pro  🍫 Creator-led brands (Feastables says goodbye to DTC)  🌿 Benchmarking Brēz  + more. Finally, we end the episode with The Johnologue™, where John does a Super Bowl ad retro. ****...

Today I'm putting Super Bowl ads into a tier list with Daniel Murray, the founder of @themarketingmillennials . Daniel actually played college football with Travis and Jason Kelce, so we get into some Kelce bros stories.  ==== Timestamps 00:00 Tier List of Super Bowl Ads 01:02 Temu 05:40 Daniel's dream product 09:25 Michael Cera Cerave 13:46 Travis & Jason Kelce Stories 18:28 Kanye Yeezy Store 24:...

Triple Whale presents Whale Informed, the show where we don't give you business advice but do tell you what's happening in and around ecommerce. This week, in our second episode, John and Ethan discuss: 🥂 The Taylor Swift Industrial Complex™️ 💻 A Browser that Browses... for you? 🏈 Super Bowl ads (note: pre-Super Bowl takes) Followed by an industry CAC quiz & more. Finally, we round out our inau...

Today I'm sitting down with @CardinalMason . He's made multiple millions of dollars at only 24 years old, and he has talked to hundreds of people who currently have very little and are trying to make money.  He's identified 4 levels of money. that we'll cover.  We also talk about the mindset that keeps people broke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm sitting down with Nick Shackelford.  Nick is a serial entrepreneur who has five businesses that do multiple millions of dollars in revenue.  Today I'm talking about his decision to launch ANOTHER business last year, why he became a legal drug dealer, whether people should focus on multiple things or just one thing, and more.  ===Chapters=== 0:00 - A Legal Drug Dealer 02:53 - All of Nick'...

👉I'm giving someone an Apple Vision Pro Details in the first few min. of the episode. Help me decide of the Apple Vision Pro is gonna be the future or just another flop in the latest episode of Whale Informed. Timestamps: 00:21 - I'm giving away an Apple Vision Pro 00:45 - This week's topics 01:20 - Is Apple Vision Pro the Future or the Next Flop? 08:57 - Influencers Making Shockingly Low Incomes...

Today's video is the 5 most interesting things in and around the ecommerce industry this week.  *** *** Timestamps:  0:00 - Mr. Beast Revealed Earnings 0:21 - What We're Talking About 01:16 - Mr. Beast x Elon Musk Scam 10:55 - Harley Finkelstein x Beis x Glossier 30:44 - Adult Legos 38:40- Accounting for Ecommerce Profit 44:58 - The (fake?) Pet Trend *** *** Links Referenced:  Mr. Beast Tweet Sequ...

Today I'm talking to Matthew Gattozzi. He makes videos for direct-to-consumer brands to run on their organic social media channels and in their paid ads. Matthew breaks down how the business works, how he got into it, and what makes great content. === Socials === Follow Matthew: work with Matthew and his team: https://goodostudios.com/ Follow Matthew on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MatthewGattoz...

Want to grow your business?  Book a free consulting call with me:  https://meetings.hubspot.com/john-coyle/professional-services-call-public === Today's guest is Greg Meade, the Co-Founder of Crossnet . Crossnet does over $10 Million per year in revenue and more than a million people have played it. Today we're getting into:  - How he got the idea for Crossnet - Moving to Miami and playing everyda...

Today's guest, Cardinal Mason, has made nearly $5 Million in two years by just posting on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter (X). Today we're talking about how to leverage organic social media to drive real cash. We hit on what you should do if you're brand new and have never made a dollar online. We talk about how brands could more effectively use organic social and why most of them don't. Finally we...

Want to grow your business? Book a free consulting call with John: https://meetings.hubspot.com/john-coyle/professional-services-call-public --- Black Friday was "exposed" for being a scam this year by a bunch of social media influencers. But is that legit or are they just doing it for the views? Let's look at the truth with $2 Billion Dollars of REAL data about Black Friday. - Are Black Friday de...

Part 2 of my conversation with Sean Cannell. If you haven't listened to part 1, you can do that here: Part 1 Today we're talking about Sean's origin story, and how he grew Think Media from a humble YouTube channel where he posted content to a multiple million dollar media company. Follow our hosts, guests, and sponsors on socials: John: Twitter Instagram YouTube Sean: Think Media YouTube Think Med...

If you have ever tried to post content online on and tried to grow an audience, you've realized something that pretty much everyone who's tried that has realized. . .It's really hard to get people to watch your stuff and to follow you. We're ultimately trying to build an audience so that we can make a side income or potentially even make a full-time income as a creator. So the question is: how muc...

Today's guest is Ed Lawrence. On his YouTube Channel Film Booth he teaches you how to make videos get boat loads of views. And he practices what he preaches. That channel has around 350k subscribers and the videos he posts there regularly get hundreds of thousands if not over a million views. But there's a catch. Ed no longer believes that YouTubers SHOULD be chasing hundreds of thousands of views...

Today's guest is Finn McKenty, the Creator Behind the YouTube Channel "Punk Rock MBA" Which has over 500k subscribers. There is something incredibly unique about FInn that makes him one of the top creators on the platform. EVERY VIDEO IS A BANGERI do a lot of creator research, and most YouTubers with 500 thousand subs make plenty of videos that get under 10,000 views. Not Finn. Every single video...