Christopher Belknap

Small Business Tax Advisor in Marietta, GA

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@DanReese21 @chasedownleads Or they have passive losses that can offset the passive income

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@TreyWallace Hail Mary will work, no problem. Back up the game clock 1 second.

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@mountainwesttax @cimmerian_v My super-power is taking things too literally 😁

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@mountainwesttax @cimmerian_v Red-tailed hawk?

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@adammarkowitzEA @kbkg has been helpful for my clients in this arena

[Naval @naval]

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@tax_zack Give? No. Build together. Create alignment of equity & comp with the firm’s LT vision. Equity has more value via appreciation. Encourage building strong teams and systems to support them to service clients vs partners doing the work- this creates much more leverage and LT value

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@FortWayneCPA Carbon X1 with CalDigit docking station

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."

@naval

[99X @99x]

<<SHARE IF YOU CAN>> Sad news about Matthew Sweet. His management has set up a GO FUND ME. If you can help, it would be appreciated. https://t.co/JIjJznymdF

[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@taxchic_k 99X Atlanta

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Your wealth reflects your ability to take the right risks.

Your love life reflects your ability to open up to the right people.

Your talent reflects your ability to train in the right direction.

Your growth reflects your ability to choose to move into the right environment.

[David Perell @david_perell]

Harry Dry is the best copywriter I know.

He's built a 130,000-person newsletter teaching people how to do it, and by the end of this interview, you'll be at least a Green Belt in copywriting.

Some of his rules for writing:

1) A great sentence is a good sentence made shorter.

2) Writing great copy begins with having something to say in the first place.

3) Copy is like food. How it looks matters.

4) Since the look of copy matters so much, don't write copy in Google Docs. Write it in Figma (so you can write and design at the same time).

5) Kaplan's Law of Words: Any word that isn't working for you is working against you.

6) You know a paragraph is ready to ship when there's nothing left to remove. It's like a Jenga tower. The entire thing should collapse if you remove something.

7) Make a promise in the title so the reader knows exactly what they're going to get if they click. Then, deliver on the promise.

8) The three laws of copywriting: (1) Make it concrete, (2) make it visual, and (3) make it falsifiable.

9) Make it concrete: Don't be abstract. For an example, say you're writing about habits. Don't talk about "productive routines." That's abstract. Write about "waking up at 6am to write" instead. It's concrete �� and much more vibrant.

10) Make it visual: People see in pictures. This is why instead of memorizing card numbers directly, world memory champions memorize cards by turning them into pictures and then back to cards.

11) Make it falsifiable: When you write a sentence that's true or false, you put your head on the chopping block, which makes people sit up in their seat.

12) When has a falsifiable statement resonated? Galileo got sentenced to a decade of house arrest for saying that the earth spins around the sun. That's a falsifiable sentence. But nobody would've done anything if he'd said that the earth has a harmonious connection with a celestial object.

13) Write with the delete key. Using fewer words lets you be more impactful with the words you keep.

14) The job of a sales page is to make a bold claim at the top. Then spend the rest of the page backing up what you've said... with a ridiculous amount of proof.

15) If your competitor could've written the sentence, cut it.

16) Good copy is differentiated. Here's an example: Elon Musk shouldn't write "The Cybertruck is the world's best truck." Ford or Dodge can write that sentence. But only Elon can write: "The Cybertruck is tougher than an F-150 and faster than a Porsche."

17) Some days, the writing comes easily. Some days, it takes sweat. The reader doesn't care if you wrote for two minutes, two hours, or two days. The ink looks the same.

18) Great copy reads like your customer wrote it. Talk to them.

That's just an introduction to the copywriting philosophy of @harrydry.

I've shared the full interview below. I recommend you watch this one because we pull from so many visual references and do a lot of screen sharing. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, I've shared the link in the reply tweets.

[Jason Staats⚡ @jasononfirms]

Webinar culture says you need: more tech, more workflow hacks, more automation

What experience taught me: I need a peer group, brutally honest feedback, and a path to less (not more)

[Chrisman @chrisman]

Elon nails exactly what's wrong with education here and what needs to change.

You may not know he actually started a remarkable school at SpaceX for his kids based on his principles...

The school was called Ad Astra, Latin for “to the stars”.

Elon hired @josh_dahn to build and run the school. When Elon’s kids graduated, Josh and I cofounded @synthesischool together.

Our goal is to take the best parts of the SpaceX school and make them accessible to everyone.

Elon famously follows a “first principles” approach. The primary principle of the school:

A good education should produce people who can SOLVE PROBLEMS — real, complex problems with a team. Like how to colonize Mars. Not fake school worksheet problems.

This principle was embodied in a class at the school called “Synthesis”. In the class, kids worked in teams to solve problems via complex games and simulations.

The skills they build in Synthesis — working with a team, making tradeoffs, risk assessment and critical thinking — are the foundational skills they’ll need to solve problems in any domain.

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[Christopher Belknap @BelknapCPA]

@PaulMeissner_ Services performed and interactions with clients that involve your professional judgement

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Success is a choice we make every single day, explains ⁦⁦@josh_kopel⁩ https://t.co/dZVzS4VSxK

[Tim Hoskins, @QuesterMR @TimHoskins]

The Best Leaders are Systems Thinkers. Here's How You Can Become One via #inc #strategy https://t.co/PAQ4jG2cGk

[The Tax Adviser @TheTaxAdviser]

IRS provides clarity in second round of opportunity zone regulations. https://t.co/alS2BnPcH9 (Aug TTA)

[The Tax Adviser @TheTaxAdviser]

Passthrough entity taxes: The next workaround trend? https://t.co/YjKhxsVNRK (June TTA)