Unfortunately our Black Friday sale wasn’t where we wanted it to be 😕.
Huge shoutout to everyone who had a killer day BUT also a shoutout to every single entrepreneur out there for all the hardwork put in over the last few weeks. This shit isn’t easy but gotta keep growing!
2 Week Walking Pad Update:
-Averaging 3 hours of walking per day
-1.4 Speed is my sweet spot
-No issues trying to type
-Can’t use during deep focus work
-Helped breakthrough weight loss plateau
-Slightly annoying sound to me but when on calls others don’t notice
9/10 Recommend
Our Shopify App was Acquired! 🎉
We launched Visual Navigation Menu on the Shopify app store about 18 months ago as a fun side project. A simple but effective way to help your customers browse your site faster in a familiar Instagram story format.
A SAAS project was something
I've been practically living in Klaviyo for the past few weeks trying to improve all aspects.
Huge shoutout to
@thelexiebennett
for doing an email audit to help me with strategy &
@steph_hajj
for building out BEAUTIFUL klaviyo templates. 💙
Trying the 30 Day TikTok Challenge for the Dorsal brand account and my 'from the founder pov' account. Posting at least once per day on each account and I'll share anything interesting that happens. Here are the day 1 stats:
5 new ads we are testing on fb this week 👇
Taking the idea of UGC and applying it to image ads. Built in instagram, native fonts, drew the arrows to make it feel like your friend posted these.
I don't care if we don't know each other personally, if we have only connected online, or even if you are a "competitor" to one of my brands.
Just know that if you are kind to me, I'm hyping up you and your brand every chance I get.
My latest failure:
We launched a Shopify 2.0 theme on Sept 1, 2021. When we did, it broke the Klaviyo integration. Viewed product & add to cart triggers weren’t tracked at all and therefore those flows didn’t send.
I finally figured this out 2 weeks ago 🙃 (1/2)
5 Years of Dorsal 🥹
These little bracelets have removed 157,248 pounds of plastic from the ocean, been shipped to 78+ countries, and stopped me from becoming a Dentist.
Madness 🤯🦈🫶
Someone should start a FB group where they share TikTok examples of trends that brands can easily mimic for their page.
Charge $5 a month to keep the group professional and spam away.
Today I'm officially relaunching
@DrinkWoah
!
I started Woah last year as a side project and basically never touched it after launch because life got busy.
Rebranded, new focus, and the same great cold brew! Would love any feedback 🤙
My girlfriend is a Pediatric Physical Therapist in a low income area. She was having a rough day with some new patients. Being able to take her coffee in the middle of the day to help cheer her up is the best part about being an entrepreneur. ❤️
Every morning when I'm ready to start work I will:
> Open Notion
> Go through my 10 affirmations
> List 3 things I'm grateful for
> Start working on my top 3 daily tasks
This has made me wildly more productive & feel more accomplished since implementing 2 months ago.
Some vulnerable updates:
I'm shutting down Woah 😔☕️
The remaining inventory is 50% off until we sell out. If you are a cold brew fan, I promise this is some of the best out there.
Explaining why below 👇
Yotpo sending me an invoice today for sales tax from 2019 that THEY forgot to add to our invoices??
We stopped using them in 2020. The spreadsheet and invoice they sent in the email don't even match up?
@Yotpo
👎
Fitness update 🏋🏻 (sharing to keep myself accountable)
📉 15 lbs down
❤️ Avg cardio heart rate down 27 BPM
🥦 BPN Strong Greens/Reds everyday = Energy way up
🏃🏻♂️ Couch to 10k training: 9:30 mile 🥴
Working towards:
😴 Better sleep (any tips here?)
🍖 130 g protein per day
Every morning I go to Starbucks, get a venti black iced coffee, do work for a few hours, then get a refill and head out. I’ve done this for years.
Today the barista asked me “Chad what do you do and why does it require so much coffee??” 😂
We ran this A/B test for 3 weeks. I originally thought the second message talking about our mission would be a clear winner. ❌WRONG❌
Left:
-14.3% Click
-57.1% Conversion
-$5 per Message
Right:
-5.9% Click
-66.7% Conversion
-$1 per Message
ALWAYS 👏 BE 👏 TESTING 👏
If you are looking for UGC/TikTok ad style content hit me up! Liz and I are creating affordable content to help other ecom brands and help pay down her med school debt 🙃
A few examples below 👇
I've been working on trying to make a bracelet with ocean plastic for over a year now.
I finally did it!! 🥲 The bead is made from ocean plastic collected in Bali and every bead will be slightly unique in color.
Stackable. Waterproof. Recycled Plastic. LFG! 🌊
Left was our Black Friday pop up that had a 2.7% opt-in rate.
Right is our Cyber Monday pop up that currently has a 21.3% opt-in rate.
HUGE shoutout to
@zachmstuck
&
@TaylorSicard
! How is this bird app free?
I've noticed more stores this BFCM have changed their popups to showcase the same offer that's running sitewide.
I'm assuming these are converting great since the average consumer doesn't realize that if they don't fill out the popup, nothing changes.
👀
@couuor
+
@TaylorSicard
Fitness update 💪 (sharing to keep myself accountable)
📉 20 lbs down
🏋️♂️ Weight lifting 4 days per week
🫀 Cardio 2-3 days per week
🍖 140 g protein per day
Working towards:
😴 Better sleep (struggling hard)
🚶🏻♂️ Getting more steps in per day
😖 Lower stress
Switched to
@KnoCommerce
on Monday for post-purchase surveys. The response rate jumped from 31% to 51%. Of that 51% who respond, 96.3% are answering all 3 survey questions!
I've been working on simplifying and adding more personality to Dorsal. Tweaked our SMS welcome flow and this is now the second message after a discount message.
What do you think?
(2/2) I wasn’t going to share because I felt embarrassed for letting something so big slide by for so long.
But it’s easy to feel like everyone else is winning on Twitter when all you see is wins. Just a reminder, very few share their failures.
Trying to hit a 10%+ email opt-in rate.
Left (control):
-7.4% Email
-3.5% SMS
-$5.86 Per Message
Right (Week 1 test):
-7.9% Email 📈
-4.0% SMS 📈
-$2.64 Per Message 📉
Hit 6,000 Followers! 🏁
I love this corner of the internet. Twitter has helped me meet new people, continue to learn from others, share what I’ve learned, and even helped me get my job. Truly appreciate everyone! 🤘
Dorsal turns 4 today! 🥹
• 138,084 pounds of plastic removed.
• $53,113 in lifetime donations.
It’s been a wild ride (to say the least), but I’m so proud of what we have accomplished so far! 💙🦈
#RespectTheWay
@dorsalbracelets