Paulo Faustino is our guest on the 344th episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast. Paulo is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing expert who shares his experience in building and scaling businesses even in the midst of chaos. From writing 550 articles for $100 to scaling a millionaire-dollar business, Paulo shares insights all business owners can glean.
Tune into the episode to find out:
How a gut feeling kept him on the path to entrepreneurship.
How he scaled his business to a million dollars and why it took an extreme hit.
The pivot he made to save his business and grow his audience.
What is affiliate marketing and how can it benefit your business?
How to navigate a financial loss and why fear cannot stop you from moving forward.
This reality of business can make or break you.
The 4 foundational pieces your business need to thrive.
Why marketing and authority go hand in hand?
When does the sale really start?
The effects of a world-class client experience.
Why it’s not your job to fix all your client’s problems (including money mindset).
How to filter the types of clients you work with.
The simpler and faster way to save time and energy in your business.
The ins and outs of Paulo’s social media marketing strategy and how he grew his following and email list to hundreds of thousands.
How to bring aligned content to your audience.
Why you need to focus on value rather than design.
What Paulo would do differently if he could start over.
Authority grows when you have these two things.
The current struggles of a high-earning entrepreneur.
Press play or check out the transcript below.
The people and stuff we mentioned on the show:
The Copywriter Think Tank
Kira’s website
Rob’s website
Paulo's Instagram
The Copywriter Club Facebook Group
The Copywriter Underground
Free month of Brain.FM
AI for Creative Entrepreneurs Podcast
Full Transcript:
Rob Marsh: Building a business is hard. Sometimes things go really well. Clients are plentiful. The work is fun and rewarding, and the money comes in, and other times things don't go so well. Laws change or the algorithm changes or the economy changes and the client pipeline dries up. The work is hard and the money runs out. Our guest for today's episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast is Paulo Faustino, and he built a thriving affiliate business that collapsed in less than a month, thanks to a change in the laws. He had just enough money to last four months, which means that he had to completely rebuild his business in 120 days and in this interview, he tells us how he did it, and along the way, he shares a ton of great business advice for anyone who's trying to build their own business.
Kira Hug: But before we jump into this interview, this podcast is sponsored by the Copywriter Think Tank, which is our mastermind for copywriters who want to figure out a new revenue stream for their business and launch something new that can transform their business in the year ahead. We have a retreat coming up actually in a couple weeks. In early June, we have our next retreat, and if you want to be a part of that mastermind retreat where we bring in top speakers where Rob and I teach and share. Well, Rob, what are you sharing?
Rob Marsh: I think we're going to talk about profits, profit margins, and how do you increase the money that's coming in, but we'll cover a lot of other stuff too. We have guests who are speaking about the client buying cycle and how to implement the things that were taught by Eugene Schwartz. We're pulling in guests to talk about all kinds of things like email and such. So, definitely worth tuning in and learning from all of these experts as well as the super smart people that are already in the think tank.
Kira Hug: Yes,
