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Our reading notes on Alex Hormozi

• How to Make Money With Social Media (My Exact Playbook) | Ep 1005

  Hormozi describes a quarter when broader videos attracted attention while book sales, leads and applications fell. His counterexample is a creator who teaches registered dietitians to bill insurers. Small reach can be entirely appropriate when the problem is that specialized. His own sales comparison gives editors a question to test on their own audience.

• The X Factor: Why Dolly Parton Was Impossible to Ignore | Ep 999

  Hormozi uses Dolly Parton to explain what makes a public figure recognizable. Her songwriting, business career and presentation are familiar individually. His argument concerns the combination, and he applies it to the parts of his own appearance he would keep even if they stopped performing well online.

• I Offered $10,000 to Anyone Who Could Change My Mind | Ep 1013

  Hormozi invites entrepreneurs to challenge rules he has offered publicly. The chapter at 5:23 concerns which customers to sell to. Another, at 24:16, asks how much a founder should stake on one decision. The debate format gives the challenger a concrete job: find a situation in which following the rule produces a poor result.