{"version":"1.0","type":"card","id":"2fb0e851-0ad7-43d2-9575-fa0bc182be9a","url":"https://stacklist.com/card/2fb0e851-0ad7-43d2-9575-fa0bc182be9a","title":"Dan Wardrope FB\nwww.flexxable.com","source_url":"https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16Fg3yYYSM/","note":"Late 2023… I had my worst month ever as a business owner.\n\n😡 My marketing agency lost $48,283.68\n😡 My Facebook ad accounts got shut down & my profile got banned from advertising\n😡 Because I couldn’t advertise anymore, my whale clients stopped paying me\n😡 My most loyal employee named Gavin QUIT \n\nAt the end of that horrific month…\n\n… I swore I would never set fire to my money, my business & my life EVER AGAIN!\n\nThe money situation was bad, obviously.\n\nNot being able to advertise on Facebook was infuriating.\n\nBut Gav had been with me from the start.\n\nSo when he told me he was done with my behaviour and he quit…\n\nSomething inside me snapped.\n\nI was ready to “go nuclear”… \n\n… and hit the F!ck it button good and proper.\n\nThat meant getting rid of my copywriters, webdevs and sales bros.\n\nAs far as I was concerned they could all go.\n\nThe overheads were killing me, WITHOUT the $48,283.68 loss.\n\nAgainst my better judgement, though.\n\nI slept on it, called my wife, and she calmed me down.\n\nBut looking back.\n\nThat day.\n\nWas easily my darkest as an entrepreneur.\n\nI was snookered.\n\nBecause as much as I WANTED to make the change…\n\nI was afraid too.\n\nI'd made millions with my marketing agency.\n\nBut the blinkers had been on for years.\n\nMy agency had gone from cutting edge and super profitable…\n\nTo a hot mess, in a matter of months.\n\nCould I ditch the ad spend, overheads and management nightmare and get to a respectable NET income again?\n\nProbably.\n\nBut my agency took years to build. \n\nI was a young buck and had a ton of energy back then.\n\nPlus… I’d had 2 kids since.\n\nThey're pesky and like to be fed THREE TIMES A DAY and stuff.\n\nWhich meant time wasn’t on my side.\n\nI'd heard about A.I. of course…\n\nBut you've still got to create something and then sell it.\n\nWould my kids go hungry by then?\n\nI had to make this work.\n\nSo I threw myself very early into the A.I. abyss.\n\nWe spent over $100K building, testing and advertising.\n\n… and within 3 months, had the breakthrough I was looking for.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/c0f61a2c-4872-47ac-85a7-fa788495cd77/","alt":"Dan Wardrope FB\nwww.flexxable.com","width":1200,"height":630},"stack":{"id":"77d4a320-6492-49be-95f6-e9f5a2aba849","title":"Learnings 📚","url":"https://stacklist.com/stack/77d4a320-6492-49be-95f6-e9f5a2aba849"},"created_at":"2025-03-19T20:38:32.760Z","updated_at":null,"aco":{"summary":"This website is a login page for Facebook. It prompts users to log in to access content. It also includes options to sign up for Facebook, access Facebook Messenger, and view Facebook's privacy policy. \n","tags":[],"key_entities":[],"classification":null,"language":null,"confidence":null,"provenance":null,"token_counts":{"approximate":62},"content_hash":null,"acp_version":"0.2","body_available":false,"body_tokens":0,"visibility":"public","agent_accessible":true,"status":"final"},"_links":{"self":"/api/public/card/2fb0e851-0ad7-43d2-9575-fa0bc182be9a.json","html":"https://stacklist.com/card/2fb0e851-0ad7-43d2-9575-fa0bc182be9a","md":"/api/public/card/2fb0e851-0ad7-43d2-9575-fa0bc182be9a.md","stack_json":"/api/public/stack/77d4a320-6492-49be-95f6-e9f5a2aba849.json"}}