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Jack Butcher: Visualize Value – a $1M brand in 18 months

Episode Summary

In episode #43, Ross is joined by Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value. Jack spent 10 years working in corporate advertising in NYC as a graphic designer for billion-dollar brands. In search of fun and freedom, he started his own agency...and found neither. After 2 years of further iteration, he built Visualize Value – a project he used to build a network of mentors, a $1M/year product business, and an audience of 600k+ people. Ross and Jack discuss the power of consistency and knowing your audience and how this helped Jack make Visualize Value the success it is today.

Episode Notes

Highlights from the conversation:

• Your brand is this decentralised thing that essentially exists in other people's heads. It’s this thing that you're building in other people's minds
• Where you really start to feel the compound effect of brand [is] 12-18 months down the line
• It really does take a long time to win that battle of attention and fire off the sequence of neurons when someone sees your work. We underestimate how long it takes to get there. But we also underestimate what it's worth when you pass that threshold
• The only way to maintain the edge, long term, is just to dig your heels in and try and be clever, make better work and hope that it's obvious in the output
• I didn't need 1000 people to believe in it for it to work. I needed to find five people a year that were interested in hiring me as a consultant
• The power of consistency, and just going at something and tackling it, again and again, can produce value

More about Jack

Jack spent 10 years working in corporate advertising in NYC as a graphic designer for billion-dollar brands. It was fun, but the opposite of freedom. In search of freedom, he started his own advertising agency. It was not fun, and even less freedom.

After two years of iteration, he figured out how to transition to highly specialized (and fun) consulting, which resulted in a product business: Visualize Value. VV is a project he used to build a network of mentors, a $1M/year product business, and a media platform with an audience of over 600,000 people. Now, Jack spends all of his time making things that make it easier to learn, teach, build, and sell.

Find Jack here: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram (VV)

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