This is a short excerpt from a YouTube interview by Chris Larsen titled "What if the key to growing your business… was working less?" The chunk contains a first-person anecdote where the speaker describes a rapid collapse of a Google AdSense/SEO-based business that had reached about $1M in revenue; while at his father's house the father casually advises, "You did it before. Why don't you just go do it again?", which the speaker finds instantly motivational.
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It was my year cracking a million dollars in revenue, and. And then it just completely collapsed. And this was a Google adsense. You know, when you can set up these websites and. And SEO, hack the game and get a bunch of clicks and then algorithm change, and it just goes away. The whole model, sort of, at least the way I was doing it, you know, disappeared almost overnight. And I remember I was at my dad's house, and. And so we're just talking other stuff, and he's kind of, hey, so you kind of down. What's up? And I'm like, you know, yeah, this thing I was doing, you know, blah, blah, blah. You know, end of the day, like, totally collapsed. I'm kind of just like, back to square one here. And he. He said, well, you. You did it before. Why don't you just go do it again? Wow. And very casually. And then like, so, what do you want to eat for dinner? You know? And I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, did you realize what you said? And I'm saying this in my head. He might as well put, like, a jetpack backpack on me, and I'm like, flying to the moon. It's like, there it is. I finally got it. Yeah. What a. It is.
It is impressive. You know, and those. There are certain things that, you know, with wisdom, you know, to have somebody.
