Jared GoetzZenpire · CEO & Founder at Zendrop

The #1 BIGGEST compliment you can get as a business ownwer.

6 Aug 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker reflects on an incident where another marketer duplicated his exact advertisement—including a photo of himself with his dog, the same sales copy, and the term "Drop Surfing"—and launched an identical funnel. Rather than feeling threatened, the speaker interprets the copy as the highest compliment, emphasizing that internet marketing is inherently non‑proprietary: successful tactics can be observed, learned, and replicated by anyone, and this openness is a core strength of the field.

That is definitely the biggest compliment that someone can get. I saw some kid with an ad and it was literally my exact ad. There's a picture of me sitting next to my dog and then a long sales copy. I see this kid, a picture of him and his dog, same copy, click the link, takes you to the exact same page, used the word Drop Surfing. I sent him a message. He was copying my whole funnel. He was like— and then I realized, actually, I'm flattered that you copied because that's the cool thing about internet marketing. It's not proprietary. You can learn from what other people are doing and do what they're doing and it'll work.