How To Build The Business You Really Want | Capitalism.com Vlog

Transcript of a Capitalism.com vlog/team meeting (January 2019) where Ryan Daniel Moran and team discuss company vision: building a creative, community-driven media property that helps entrepreneurs. Key themes include wanting to create an environment that fosters excitement and creativity, delegating decision-making to the team, defining audience/community location and values, cultivating a responsive audience, product/marketing priorities, and the end-goal of leveraging audience to scale businesses and support causes.
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No amount of money, no amount of like status, no amount of anything is worth trading. Like that excited, creative feeling. Nothing, nothing's worth that. The point is to feel that way.
Yeah.
And so that's when I started writing about, okay, I want to have more of a company that puts me and everybody else in that spot. So I was like, I'll never get in your way. Like I'll never, I will never get in your way of doing what you want to do.
Appreciate it, bro.
This time we actually know what the heck we're doing as a company, which is exciting.
So we're planning all that out, getting everybody on the same page, getting total.
Buy in.
And setting the strategy.
Sean, welcome. Good to see you man. Come on in.
Good to be seen.
Sean's here, everybody.
Good.
How are you?
I'm good, all the way from Romania.
Nice to meet you.
And of course, hey, nice to meet you.
You too.
And Melin will be here in a minute.
How are you?
Great.
We're stoked to have you.
Haven't sit in a while but.
Yeah.
You can't be coming from Mississippi. Well, yeah. To then.
Yeah. Yeah.
But yesterday like 16 hours in the last 20 hours of driving.
No one will be offended if you stand a little bit.
Yeah, I'll probably stand a little while.
Yeah, definitely.
Well, we've been bragging about you for last week or so. So you're the mysterious person that everybody's excited to meet.
And this is the guy who'll put you all over social media y.
Trying.
To start following everybody so I can.
Figure out, oh, we noticed Sean. We noticed.
Sean knows things about me I never tell anyone.
It makes you a good copywriter. That's right. Research, Research.
Stalking.
Ethical stalking.
Very fine line.
That drew me to this guy. Actually you reached out to me but what we were looking for in the marketing, in a marketing lead was somebody who came in with a Super bowl ring. So do you guys want to see how to win? Alright, get out of my way. So that was basically the decision to bring this guy on. How many super bowl rings do you have?
I don't know how you, how you want to, how do you want to define that? Million dollar promotions like.
Sure.
How many million dollar promotions do you have?
I don't know, probably six, eight, something like that.
A lot of rings run out of fingers.
You have to leave them at home in the, in the box, display box.
So one, one thing like the expectation was you know how to win from tries to win. Nobody will get in your way.
Yep.
I like it.
We're stoked to have you love it. So I want the two of you to get some face time.
Tyler is our audience manager.
We're talking a little bit about. Yeah, what the heck you do.
Yeah, what you do.
Number one, where does our community live?
Where, besides me sending emails, where are our people?
Do you mean as in, like, what kind of platform? Like what social media?
How do we communicate with our community, our people?
For a while, it was kind of like in the live comments of Wine with Lion, kind of. But where. Where's our people and how do we centralize them? When it was the tribe, it was the Facebook group. Right now we don't have any community, so we're a little soulless in that regard.
Number two, what values do we stand for and against in the customers we serve, in the people we bring on? What values are we for and against?
Number three, how do we actively cultivate a more responsive audience? What content do we prioritize?
There's a lot of different content ideas, a lot of things we could do. How do we actively cultivate that audience? And what content do we prioritize?
What becomes a goal this quarter rather than an idea filed away?
Number four, in terms of product, between workshops, the 1%, the tribe, the back room, new products.
What should our marketing calendar look like this quarter?
Number six.
What are we not doing right now that's leaving a hole in the vision?
Can you say that again?
What are we not doing right now that is leaving a hole in the vision?
And finally.
What cause do we support long term?
So these are questions that I want to have addressed before we finish up tomorrow.
But we don't need to dive into each one of them right now. But this might serve as a guide for what we decide to prioritize. Our end game is simple. To have an audience so responsive that we can take any business to new heights. When we promote products, people or brands, we impact them by leveraging our audience and our network. Every relationship that we foster, every customer that we take under our wing, and every video that we release exists to make this end game a reality. We are here to bring exciting businesses in front of an audience just like Shark Tank. As a result, these businesses become the next Scrub Daddy, Mizzen and main leadpages, viral Launch ClickFunnels, Squatty Potty, Four Sigmatic and Dollar Shave Club of their kind. To do this, we continually cultivate a responsive audience of high achievers. We maintain a pipeline of deal flow as we empower emerging entrepreneurs.
Drew.
You'Re up.
Oh.
Our purpose and Mission in a sentence. Capitalism.com.
Creates content that helps entrepreneurs build businesses and invest the profits. In a paragraph, capitalism.com empowers entrepreneurs to create the change they want to see in their world. We do this by creating content that helps them build businesses, invest the profits, and expand their personal freedom. We help them define the change they want to create and give them the strategies to make it happen. We connect them with opportunities to help them make it real, and we give them the platform to bring it to the world.
Tyler capitalism.com is a media property. Our queen bee activity is to create and spread content for entrepreneurs to help them expand personal freedom. We use shareable pieces of content to create raving fans, cultivate responsive leads, and generate profitable sales. Our videos, articles and podcasts are distributed to over a million people each, and our winners get seen by tens of millions. Our audience brings awareness to ideas, causes, and businesses that we want to support. So it serves as the first domino to create the change that we wish to create in the world.
Melinda we feature a variety of shows and personalities on our podcast network, and contributors line up in hopes of being featured. Our articles feature success stories from our community and we highlight entrepreneurs who are actively making a difference in the world. Our videos go viral on social media and are voluntarily shared by other audiences. Since our audience is made up of high achievers, a piece of content can attract investors, influencers.
And customers to a brand. In this way, we create the change for those who create the change.
Here's what I'm going for here. I want there to be an actual community around capitalism.com, not like a per level.
What I would like to see is.
When.
Someone in the group takes a lesson that they applied from the naked puts training, they're like, hey, I saw this trade set up here. What do you guys think? And half people are like, oh yeah.
I like these numbers here.
And somebody else is like, what the hell is a naked put?
And then somebody else is like, oh, it's one of the lessons in there, right? And so you have, you have like an actual community in that sense, rather than it being this group versus this group. And I get it, it just becomes it's one of those things like we like read yesterday in Clockwork. The more variations you have, the more.
Your focus is divided rather than building.
Up one thing that you're just super proud of. And I'd be open to changing later, but to just come out, be like, let's have multiple groups, like, and that's that. That just sounds like a now we'll.
Say, I mean, they've had 25 people on their team, you know, different levels, full time, part time. And everybody was in there managing.
Yeah.
Alerting to, like, toppy cats and people pitching and, you know, all that stuff in there.
The thing was, I felt like I still had to kind of drive the ship.
Yeah.
And I'm really trying to let the team drive the ship and make the decisions. So.
It was good for me to.
See you do that.
Really?
More so than ever. Yeah.
How do you mean?
Well, almost with everyone, you're like, I don't want to tell you guys what to do.
Like, when we're talking podcasts and stuff specific, I was like, you guys decide. I just want to make content. I just want to. Yeah, I just want to make cool things.
I think that the tricky thing is, like.
Just.
It's not a bad thing. People feel on the spot, especially with the new people, when it's like, okay, we can decide. But here and now, like, in this moment, in this instance where I feel like we're committing to the next three months, like right now, and if we say the wrong thing, we can't take it back a change. But of course we can.
Yeah, well, yeah, I guess. I mean, in the past, you've seen this. Like, I make decisions and go. And then we figure it out.
Yeah.
It's just like, well, decision. Let's test it. We'll make a different decision later. So what I was hoping was that somebody on the team would be like, well, we'll do this and we'll test this. Let's go. We'll figure it out.
Yeah, great.
Now I can make content and give it to you and the filter through which you're gonna test and iterate from there. So that was the. That was hard for me to like, but maybe I just need to set that expectation for the team a little bit better of what I need in order to feel freed up and not get in your way is I need to hear what the decision is for.
Your role in your department and how we're gonna operate.
And you're welcome to change it at any time because I trust you to be better and smarter at it than me. And I'll go make content, and I'll never ask you to make content.
So how is the company different? Or how am I different?
How, personally?
Because there's so much that's happened between the first Etchol 2 and this Capcon. So you've changed as a person. The company has changed.
So, like, I guess reflecting back on who you were Then where you were business wise compared to now, like, how do you feel about that?
So you said something interesting, like, three months ago where you're like, it took me about a year of working with Ryan to realize he doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
And I think the biggest shift has been after you've done.
The events that we've done, you realize nobody has anything figured out. And so I. I think the biggest way I slash the company is different.
Really?
How I'm different is just realize everybody's got junk, everybody has their own stuff, and we're all figuring it out. So you can build whatever you want, and no one cares what you're doing. And.
That, like, gives you permission, I think, to just be whoever you want to be, and you can build whatever.
You want to build.
It doesn't have to be like, I was trying to do it the way everybody else was. It would give me feel good about myself. And now you just realize that matters, and nobody knows what they're doing, so you might as well just do what you want.
So you just feel more ready to do that, to step into that.
Do what I want to do and not worry about what everybody else thinks I should be doing or doing things like everyone else is doing.
Feel a lot clearer on what the heck I want. And there's less attachment to, like, it going how you want. It's like, if it all goes away, no one really cares.
We're all figuring this out.
It's not, like a tenseness around it anymore.
And I'm way more relaxed for this Capcom than the first one because I don't feel like it has to do anything. You just put on a great event for people and let them have an amazing experience, and you don't need anything from it. If you don't need anything from it, then it can be whatever it's gonna be.
But you.
But you know it's gonna be more amazing because you're not trying to force anything to happen.
Letting things happen as they happen, but also doing it in a way that.
Works for you and coming from it, from a place where you want to do what lights you up and feels good and is.
Beneficial to other people. But I think it's coming from a place of where you need to be.
And what you need to be doing.
Chris, when we were in. We were in Ukraine, actually.
Yeah.
And we were in Ukraine, and we were at that resort, I remember having this feeling of, like, being so jazzed and so energized and so creative and like, we produce so much. And I was like, no amount of money, no amount of, like, status, no amount of anything is worth trading.
Like, that.
Excited, creative feeling. Nothing. Nothing's worth that. Like, the point is to feel that way.
Yeah.
And so that's when I started writing about, okay, I want to have more of a company that puts me and everybody else in that spot. So I was like, I'll never get in your way. Like, I'll never. I will never get in your way of doing what you want to do.
Appreciate it, bro.
Yeah.
It's that same idea of, like, create what lights you up, and when they align, that's when magic happens, I think.
Anyway.











