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🚨 @risdom_ Lin scammed me of $1500 for creative strategy work 🚨
Here's exactly what happened:
✅ We signed a contract for a 14-day paid trial worth $1,500
✅ I delivered 19 scripts within those 14 days — every single deliverable met
✅ The bottleneck was never my work. There were no video editors available on his end.
To keep things moving, I recommended 3 editors:
→ 2 I had personally worked with before
→ 1 I had only seen on X (and I was transparent about that)
He chose the cheapest one from X — the editor I'd never worked with.
Unfortunately, that editor turned out to be a scammer and never delivered.
Ris already knew that I had never worked with that editor and as soon as we learnt he was a scammer, I suggested hiring through Upwork so everyone would be protected. I also asked for a replacement editor so we could continue the trial properly.
After that, my messages went unanswered.
It's now been over a month since I delivered all agreed-upon work. When I followed up regarding payment and my invoice, I was removed from Slack.
This is an ecom founder who publicly posts hiring ads promising $4,000–$5,000 per month to creative strategists. He can't pay a $1,500 invoice for work that was fully delivered and documented lol
It's high time we call out scammers in the ecom space who think they can get away with such behavior hiding behind a screen
After I posted on LinkedIn, I got to know @risdom_ regularly SCAMS multiple creative strategists and gets free work out of them
To every creative strategist, copywriter, and video editor in this space:
Do not work with scammers like Risdom Lin.
Report his profile so he can't put out another FAKE hiring post and scam MORE creatives strategists. 🙏
The biggest mistake I see ecom business owners make is optimizing for QUALITY of decisions over SPEED of decisions.
Here's why it's costing you more than you realize:
Most founders think they're being thoughtful when they're actually taking time.
The cost of a wrong decision is usually recoverable.
The cost of waiting two weeks to make any decision compounds across every department:
→ Your team stalls waiting for direction
→ Your competitors move while you're still in the meeting
→ The optionality you had on day one is gone by day fourteen
I'd rather make 10 decisions in a week and reverse 2 of them than make 4 careful decisions and feel good about all of them.
The founders I respect most are the ones who can sit in a room, hear all the inputs, and call it before the meeting ends.
Not because they're reckless.
Because they understand that in a fast-moving business — indecision is its own decision.
And it's almost always the wrong one.
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@yegormethod Their language kinda tells you what reality they live in. Invaluable data. Never thought it could be observed efficiently at scale so easily
I’m in the pursuit of being average.
I’ll be ok with a few billion every year. A few amazing trips every year. A few close friends.
Don’t expect much from me. I’m a flawed.
@oliverbrocato I think you should talk to the guys at @thebirdhouse if you’re looking to get massive inbound clients for @Bustem__ on here and not just attract peers. You guys would be perfect together.
Keep winning man.
"People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies."
Think about this whenever you hit a roadblock in a sales conversation.
Conversations can be easily turned in qualified sales calls.
@thebirdhouse helps creates the environment where conversations like this can happen easily. Inbound style.
I rage against the mundane, against the drudgery of monotony and routine. I crave brilliance, intensity and audacity. I must catch lightening in a bottle or be enraptured in the thrill that comes with trying, I live to defy the dull weight of predictability.