Harry Joiner is an ecommerce and digital marketing recruiter serving the NRF, IR-1000, B2B, and P/E communities. References galore.
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Grok Bot might be the first tool that lets one non-technical person run an entire business with a team of AI agents.
My friend Billy runs his whole newsletter business on Grok Bot agents, and I think we're about to see 100,000+ businesses like his.
BEST PRACTICES:
1. The agents run on a shared cloud computer, so running your newsletter, your X, and your receipts all in one place creates context bloat and burns tokens fast. One mission per setup.
2. Start with a Chief of Staff. Give it access to your existing docs (Notion, Slack, Gmail), have it audit the business, then tell you the top three agents to build first to drive revenue.
3. Perfect a task with the Chief of Staff before spinning up a new agent. Have it do the outbound sales once, review it, and only then say "now build a bot that does exactly that." You earn each new hire by proving the task works first.
4. Constraints are the feature. You get a limited number of agents, one thread per bot, like DMs with a teammate. It forces you to stay mission-oriented instead of spinning up a bot for every random idea.
5. You make the decisions, not the agent. Billy's team spent three weeks unable to pick where content should live. At some point you say "we're doing Notion, no more tinkering" and move on.
6. Run week one with no new agents. Build the team, learn to fly the plane, just execute. Week three is when you find the real gaps and expand, someone to man the inbox, someone for the Shopify shop.
7. Then add routines so it works while you sleep. Ask your Chief of Staff what recurring jobs would move the business forward overnight, and it builds the automations that run without you.
Thanks to @billyjhowell for sharing the sauce on @startupideaspod (follow for more).
Grokbot is really cool.
Watch below:
youtu.be/qQluNEfSVHk?si=3L2c…
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WTF, GROK BOT JUST MADE AI AGENTS AVAILABLE TO LITERALLY ANYONE – CREATING CONTENT HAS NEVER BEEN THIS EASY, EVEN IF YOU'VE NEVER MADE ANYTHING BEFORE
Content was never a talent problem. It's a headcount problem.
One person doing research, design, copy, analytics, timing and publishing – that's six jobs. The switching between them is what kills consistency, not a lack of ideas.
Here's what one of these setups actually looks like.
A Chief of Staff sits in the middle and routes every task. Nothing lands on the human.
→ Researcher tracks what's actually moving and pulls real sources instead of guesswork
→ Writer turns that research into finished copy, ready to review
→ Visualiser gets fed a few reference visuals once, then ships everything in that style
→ Analyst reads the numbers and tells the rest of the team what worked
→ Scheduler owns timing and holds the queue
→ Publisher ships it
The part that makes it work: every agent on Grok Bot gets its own persistent computer, browser and file system – and they all share memory.
So the research is already sitting inside the draft before the draft starts. No copy-pasting between tools. No approving every step. No human in the middle.
You can even teach an agent a repetitive task by recording yourself doing it once. Start recording, do the thing, stop. It learns the pattern.
And that's the real shift.
Nobody needs AI to tell them what to post.
They need it to delete the 40 steps between the idea and the post.
Everyone has a backlog of things they've meant to make for months. This is what starts clearing it.
Full breakdown of the setup in the article below ↓
ECOMMERCE JOB OF THE DAY: Executive Director, Ecommerce (KIKO Milano / NYC) ecommercejobs.com/job/execut…
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My #1 advice for everyone in marketing:
Don't sell a product, sell an outcome.
TURNS OUT 🤔: Talking shit about your former employer could get you sued … thehustle.co/08052021-Glassd…
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Career advice:
Quit your job if it makes you exhausted (if you can)
Be grateful for your job if it fills you up with energy
“MY BOSS IS AN ASSHOLE …” linkedin.com/posts/harryjoin…
It’s foolish to think of a job only in terms of its activities and KPI‘s. You should be thinking about WHO (internally and externally) might stand in your way — and WHY. linkedin.com/posts/harryjoin…
Pissed off about the way your last job ended? Walk it off BEFORE you apply elsewhere … linkedin.com/posts/harryjoin…
HANDY ARTICLE: Keyword Research for Product Content practicalecommerce.com/seo-k…
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Naval’s framework for this: Play Long Term Games with Long Term People.
All great things are compounding. Relationships are no exception. In a “long term game” (like life or startups), relationship-building beats short-term, exploitaticr wins.
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I interviewed 5 billionaires this week
I asked them to share their lessons learned on startups, life and entrepreneurship:
Here's what they told me:
“100 WAYS TO BE FUNNY.” My interviews with Amazon 3P candidates continue this week. One thing I’ve noticed ... linkedin.com/posts/harryjoin…
THE INNER GAME OF COLD CALLING: I’m one of the few people I know who will actually *converse* with sales reps when they cold call me, 1/ to possibly learn something, and 2/ for the entertainment value. linkedin.com/posts/harryjoin…
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The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
I've wondered about this for a long time. Good reminder to keep my smartphone in another room while trying to focus.
Via journals.uchicago.edu/doi/ab…
doooo it! doooo it! doooo it! doooo it!
On my podcast with @joerogan he offered to moderate a debate between @JoeBiden and @realDonaldTrump It would be four hours with no live audience. Just the two candidates, cameras, and their vision of how to move this country forward. Who wants this? #debates #Election2020
Candidates will FOREVER remember how you make them feel — and they’ll tell anyone who’ll listen. linkedin.com/posts/harryjoin…
