Erik sits down with Jack Butcher, the founder of Visualize Value. Riverside.fm is a presenting sponsor of Media Empires. Go to https://creators.riverside.fm/MediaEmpires + use code MEDIAEMPIRES for 20% off individual plans.

In this interview, Erik and Jack discuss how Jack built a media platform with a network of mentors and an audience of over five hundred thousand people. Learn Jack transitioned his agency into a community-driven million dollar business with effective branding and communication of complex ideas.

Media Empires is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: www.turpentine.co

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Check out Turpentine VC

(01:00 Episode Preview

(02:29) Sponsor: Riverside

(03:35) What is Visualized Value?

(04:29) Jack's core skillset and the evolution of Visualized Value 

(10:06) Sell the dream, deliver the nightmare

(14:15) Transitioning from pure services to a high leverage media business

(20:47) Picking great names

(25:00) Where does Jack want to take Visualized Value in the future? 

(28:50) Mr. Beast 

(34:58) Build once, sell twice. 

(36:10) Be an API

(38:35) NFTs and what we've learned as an ecosystem

(44:51) Blockchain infrastructure for Visualized Value's community 

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