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by strooper 2249 days ago
I am not being judgemental, rather trying to understand how you get fish of that size with your far-from-well-designed website (from your profile), and far-from-rich marketing contents. Is that luck? Or, your lack of time to work on your own presentation?

Again, I am seriously not being judgmental, I am curious.

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You aren't wrong it's been on my list forever to work on my site. FWIW some of the best media buyers I know though literally don't have websites.

I've been doing Facebook ads for 9 years. My team and I are a white label agency so we do the media buying for creative shops, designers, content marketers, etc. So I didn't land any client. I partnered with the folks that did. I got the partnership by putting out a ton of content on Youtube (Over 20 hours worth), through doing a 30 episode deep podcast on running an advertising agency, and being super helpful in a number of Facebook groups, Linkedin groups, etc. for years.

Tl;DR Content Marketing + Networking

It looks good to me.

Putting out relevant content and networking is where it's at, too. Even if your website actually was bad, you'd probably be fine.

I used to get a lot of work for web design without a website. I had a resume with good references and urls leading to good work samples. That's the stuff that counts. There was no shortage of jokes about not having a website though, and everyone thought they were the first person to tell me 'the cobbler's children go barefoot', haha.

I actually like your website

It's very direct and no nonsense

I'll get in touch with you. Let's see if we can do some work together

You are being judgemental, even if you claim not to be. GP, I think your website is well designed, fwiw.
Then the website must be breaking on my side, even though I cannot see any error (neither in Safari, nor in Chrome), only a couple of warnings. This is good for GP to fix the issue, I guess.
Incredibly judgmental.