{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Fueled By Progress","title":"110K Followers, a 7-Figure Agency, and Why He Walked Away - Jake \"The Wizard\" Tlapek | Ep. 98","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2600be7a\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5516,"description":"🎥 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL7oNW13D3U\n🛠️ Hire me to implement AI in your business: https://mjs.link/work?s=fbp-ep98\n🎓 Join my community and learn how to leverage AI: https://mjs.link/mbs?s=fbp-ep98\n💡 Book a 1:1 advisory call with me: https://mjs.link/advisory?s=fbp-ep98\n🎙️ About this episode with Jake \"The Wizard\" Tlapek\nJake \"The Wizard\" Tlapek built his agency on TikTok. He only started posting because a networking group needed someone to give a talk on social media, he was one month away from quitting it forever, and then two videos in a row hit a million views. At his peak he was pulling about 20 leads a week from organic TikTok alone, and he grew Wizard Marketing past seven figures before it was acquired.\nI'd been watching his stuff for years, and what got us talking was a recent video of his about walking away from done for you work to consult instead. I commented, we went back and forth, and here we are.\nWe go through the whole story first: Air Force IT, a board game that sold 300,000 copies, a marketing job he took knowing nothing about marketing, and the day he handed his boss a resignation letter and an offer letter from his own agency in the same meeting.\nThen we get into where things are headed. Jake is pro AI and treats it as a tool, with a folder of 74 projects he's building with Claude and ChatGPT. He thinks execution is the first thing to go, gives Meta ads about two years before the whole thing is \"give us your website and your budget,\" and argues that the part of this work that holds its value is the human, emotional side of helping a business owner. I pushed back a little from my side, because I think you can build a system that knows you well enough to catch some of that too. We also get into his book Eight Dominoes, his mastermind, why fun is the fuel, and whether this is the last great boom.\n🔗 Connect with Jake \"The Wizard\" Tlapek\nWebsite: https://www.jakethewizard.com\nBook (Eight Dominoes):...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uB91CeQjbdZcccS91OwALZU4EYIFDFzE7cHWKZMcuHM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81NmQ5/Yzk1MjA0ZDU2NjVk/NzE1OWQ0NjUyNTdi/ZDkwNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}