kris

[ecomchigga @ecomchigga]

i've tried every online business model over the past 4 years. here's what actually happened with each one.

dropshipping (2021):
the dream: passive income, laptop lifestyle, automated wealth.
the reality: i lost $3,200 in 4 months.
spent $1,100 on facebook ads before my first sale. product took 3 weeks to arrive from china. customer was furious. wanted a refund. supplier ghosted me. second supplier sent the wrong item. margins were 12-18% IF nothing went wrong. nothing ever went right.
i was a customer service rep for a business that was bleeding money. woke up to angry emails every morning. "passive income" is a sick joke when you're begging aliexpress suppliers to respond.
killed it after month 4.

SMMA (2022):
"just get clients bro. easiest money ever."
landed 3 clients. $2,100/month total.
cold outreach 4 hours daily. discovery calls with people who had no intention of paying. one client expected me available 24/7. another ghosted after 5 weeks owing me $600. the third kept changing what they wanted every 3 days.
i was trading time for money with extra steps and extra stress. basically an employee with worse benefits and no stability. the profit margin was fine. the time margin was garbage.
quit after 5 months.

freelancing (2022):
figured i'd just sell my skills directly. copywriting. some design work.
feast or famine every single month. spent more time finding clients than doing actual work. competed with people overseas charging $4/hour for the same deliverable. income stopped completely the second i stopped working. no leverage. no scale. no compounding.
made around $2,800/month at peak. but i was working 45+ hours. that's a job with worse benefits and no PTO.

affiliate marketing (2022):
promote other people's products. earn commission. sounds simple.
20-30% commission on products i didn't control. built audiences for other people's brands. they changed commission rates twice in 3 months without warning. had no relationship with the customers. they were never my customers. made $143 in 4 months of effort.
realized i was building someone else's empire for pennies and they could pull the rug whenever they felt like it.

amazon FBA (researched, never started):
$4-6K minimum just to get inventory. amazon fees eating margins alive. reviews could tank you overnight. competing with chinese manufacturers selling direct at cost. needed photos, packaging, listing optimization, PPC campaigns. and one bad batch of product could wipe out months of profit.
spent 2 weeks researching. closed the tab. moved on.

print on demand (2022):
designs on shirts and mugs. no inventory. sounds perfect.
margins were 8-14% per sale. needed massive volume to make real money. designs got stolen within days of posting them. quality control was completely out of my hands. got 3 complaint emails about faded prints i'd never even seen in person.
made $280 in 2 months. not worth the effort at those margins.

crypto/trading (on and off 2021-2023):
let's be honest. this is gambling with extra charts. made some money. lost more money. net result: stress, wasted time, and a portfolio that looked like a heart rate monitor.
not a business. it's a casino that makes you feel smart on green days and stupid on red ones.

then i found info products on X. late 2023.

everything changed immediately. here's what hit different:

profit margins: 90-95%.
i sell a $50 product. gumroad takes 10%. stripe takes roughly $2. i keep $43 per sale. digital products have the highest profit margins of any business model that exists. nothing else is close.

zero inventory:
nothing to store. nothing to ship. nothing to manufacture. nothing to break in transit. customer buys, instant download, done. i've made sales while sleeping, on flights, in the shower, at dinner.

create once, sell forever:
i made a PDF one afternoon. that same file has made $38K and counting. haven't opened it since i uploaded it. same product selling every week to new people without me touching anything.

no clients:
no calls. no "can we hop on a quick zoom." no scope creep. no chasing invoices. no managing expectations. someone buys my product. they get instant access. relationship complete.

no face required:
i run faceless accounts. no selfies. no "day in my life" content. no personal brand to maintain. just value in a specific niche delivered through tweets i write in 14 minutes a day.

scalable:
i don't run one account. i run multiple. different niches. different voice profiles. same system underneath. each one generates its own revenue stream.

sellable:
faceless accounts sell for 30-40x monthly revenue. a $1,400/month account is a $42K-$56K asset. personal brands can't do this. when you ARE the product the business dies when you leave. faceless accounts are transferable machines.

the formula:
step 1: find a specific niche where people are already spending money. not what sounds cool. what people are actively paying to learn.
step 2: stalk reddit for 30 minutes. find the same complaint being posted by different people in different words. 200+ upvotes on a complaint means thousands of people have the same problem.
step 3: build the simplest version of the solution. a google doc. a template. a PDF. ugly is fine. functional is mandatory. first product should take one weekend.
step 4: price it $34-$67. under $34 people assume it's garbage. over $67 they hesitate long enough to talk themselves out of it.
step 5: faceless X account. bio says who you help and what result you deliver. link goes straight to telegram with the free guide pinned and the paid product underneath.
step 6: 3 tweets a day. 1 CTA. community does the selling. backend does the converting.

my results after switching to this model:
month 1: $227 (almost quit)
month 3: $3,800
month 6: $7,400/month consistent
month 8: 3 accounts combined doing $27,400/month

i spent 4 years and $8,600+ trying every model that promised freedom. dropshipping took my money. SMMA took my time. freelancing took both. affiliate marketing built someone else's brand. none of them compounded. none of them scaled without me working more hours.

info products on faceless X accounts compound every single day. the community grows. the proof grows. the conversion grows. the revenue climbs without the effort climbing with it.

i documented the entire system. finding niches that print. creating products in a weekend. content that converts without showing your face. the backend architecture. the algorithm breakdown. DM scripts. pricing framework. scaling to multiple accounts. 45 modules. it's called the X Method. $50.

comment METHOD and i'll send you the link. must be following + RT.

or keep trying dropshipping. let me know how that works out.

[kris @thekrisivanov]

@ecomchigga METHOD

[ecomchigga @ecomchigga]

sold a faceless account last month for $52,000. built it in 13 weeks. every single tweet on the account was written by Claude in 14 minutes a day.

the buyer asked one question before wiring the money: "what's the content system."

when i showed him he bought the account AND the system separately.

let me break down why the content engine is the most valuable part of any faceless account and why nobody is talking about this.

faceless accounts sell for 30-40x monthly revenue. that's not a typo.

account doing $1,400/month = $42K-$56K asset
account doing $2,800/month = $84K-$112K asset
account doing $4,200/month = $126K-$168K asset

you're not building a page. you're building a machine with a price tag.

the one i sold was doing $1,400/month with a $44 template in a niche i have zero personal interest in. productivity systems for remote freelancers. found the idea from a reddit thread with 380 upvotes where someone said "why does every productivity app cost $15/month when i just need a checklist that works."

never showed my face. never used my name. never recorded a video. never went on a podcast.

here's the part that changes everything: the buyer isn't paying $52,000 for the followers. followers are worthless without the system that keeps them engaged. the buyer is paying for the revenue. the revenue comes from the content. the content comes from the system.

the system is a Claude project with 3 files. a reference bank of 170+ viral tweets with view counts so Claude inherits structure that already performed. a voice profile with 23 rules that strip every AI pattern so the output reads human. and formatting controls that force rhythm variation so the feed never looks uniform.

one prompt per tweet. 3 tweets per day. 14 minutes. every tweet runs through a 3-layer check before posting. algorithm signals, viral format match, humanizer scan. if anything flags, it gets rewritten before it leaves the system.

the account averaged 8,200 views per tweet for 11 straight weeks on this system. the buyer took over and ran the same system with the same files. his first 3 weeks: 7,900 average views. the system transferred because it doesn't depend on the operator. it depends on the reference bank, the voice profile, and the check layers. swap the person. keep the files. the output stays the same.

that's why he bought the system too. that's why personal brands can't do this. when you ARE the product the business dies when you leave. faceless accounts with transferable content engines are sellable assets. the system is what makes them transferable.

i kept the template. still earns passive income attached to an account i don't own anymore.

now i'm building my 4th one. different niche. different voice profile. same infrastructure.

the math:

build time per account: 11-16 weeks to hit $1,000-$2,000/month revenue
daily content time: 14 minutes
operating cost over 13 weeks: roughly $900 total (Claude $20/month + TweetHunter $49/month)
sale price at 37x on $1,400/month revenue: $51,800

$900 in. $51,800 out. and you keep the product earning after the account is gone.

the entire content engine that built, grew, and sold a $52,000 account runs on one system. the prompts, the reference bank, the voice profile, every check layer. it's called Tweet Printer. $100. lifetime. no subscription.

the account sold for $52,000. the system that built it costs $100. that ratio doesn't make sense until you've seen it work.

comment PRINTER and i'll send you the link. must be following + RT.

[kris @thekrisivanov]

@ecomchigga PRINTER

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@shivsakhuja Goose

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@Nate_Google_ native

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@shivsakhuja Goose

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@shivsakhuja Goose

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@ahmad_a_wahabb UGC

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@twoclipping PROMPTS

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@pierreeliottlal GTM

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

Gojiberry AI just hit $3.5M ARR.

11 months ago we were at $0.

This is the second SaaS I've built. The first one I sold at €500K ARR.

This time, we moved faster. Here's exactly how we did it, so you can do it too.

The core principle that changed everything:

We used our own tool to grow our own tool.

Gojiberry AI finds high-intent leads and engages with them automatically.

We run it on ourselves. It works insanely well.

Here's the full breakdown:

1) Outreach (the engine)

- LinkedIn: 5 accounts, 30 connection requests + 30 DMs per account per day.

Only targeting warm leads showing real intent.

Connection acceptance rates and reply rates are insane when you do this right.

- Cold email: 6,000 emails per day. 295,000 sent in 90 days. 900+ opportunities created.

41 domains, 123 inboxes, plain text only, no links, no images, 2-3 email sequences max.

Total infra cost: ~$600/month.

The offer is always the same: a valuable blueprint. No pitch. Just value first.

2) Inbound (the compound effect)

- LinkedIn: 6 posts per day across 6 accounts.

6 days/week = lead magnet content. 1 day/week = founder story.

Last 7 days: 788,187 impressions.

- Reddit: 14.8M+ views in 12 months. The trick: warm up the account, post 3x per week, tell real stories, offer blueprints, and never debate the haters.

- YouTube: Long-tail SEO content targeting competitor keywords. It's starting to rank.

- SEO: 50K visitors/month and growing fast.

3) Paid ads

- 10 LinkedIn influencer posts/week (~$500 each).

- Facebook retargeting + acquisition

Scaling paid ads aggressively right now.

4) Demos

5–8 per day. ~70% close rate to free plan. Mostly sales teams.

5) UGC

We post 1200 UGCs per month across social media. From time to time, one goes super viral.

What actually worked:
→ Using our own tool on ourselves (this alone is a cheat code)
→ High-intent outreach > cold outreach. Every single time.
→ Lead magnet posts on LinkedIn that generate thousands of comments.

One post added $5K MRR in under 24 hours. Cost: $0.

→ Replying to every single comment.
→ Speed. Every delay kills momentum. We removed friction from every step of the funnel.
→ AI helping us do 10x more than we ever could alone.

What's not working:
- We need to delegate more

The path from €0 to $3.5M ARR is not glamorous.

It's 18-hour days, boring repetitive work, testing things that fail, and doing it all again tomorrow.

But if you do the right things every day, good outreach, real value, fast follow-up, it compounds.

And one day you wake up and you're above $3M ARR.

The goal now: $10M ARR.
LFG. 🔥

PS : We created a free 0 -> $1M ARR GTM course.

Want to receive it? RT + comment GTM below.

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@sweepsfinalboss CASE STUDY

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@pounddz .

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@Creatextravel million

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@mikefutia ADS

[Henry @HenryCrochemore]

an AI italian grandmother sitting in a lemon garden in tuscany
this is an ad

and it's generating $160k/month for a supplement brand
she's not selling anything

she's just sitting there, calm, surrounded by fresh herbs and fruit, about to tell you something important

your brain immediately goes into trust mode
no influencer energy, no sales pressure, no studio lighting

just a weathered apron, terracotta pots, and the feeling that whatever she's about to say has been passed down for generations

that's the whole mechanism
warmth + age + nature = instant credibility

by the time the product appears you're already leaning in

this format works in any language, any country, any health niche

the grandmother doesn't change — only the ancient secret does

rt + comment "nonna" and i'll send you how this content engine works
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[kris @thekrisivanov]

@HenryCrochemore nonna

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@daffyduckinson podcast

[Daffy @daffyduckinson]

$178k/month from what looks like two friends having a conversation at a podcast table

this is an ad

no pitch, no salesperson energy, no product close-up

just two women casually talking about something that changed their life

and the product comes up naturally in the middle of the conversation

the podcast format is the most trusted content frame on the internet right now

nobody puts their guard up during a casual chat between two people

ai can now generate these entire scenes from scratch

same living room, different characters, different products, infinite variations

by the time the offer lands the viewer is already sold

rt + comment "podcast" and i'll send you the breakdown
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