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Many entrepreneurs believe they can simply out-market their operational problems, but trying to scale chaos will only break your business faster.In this episode of the Marketing Misfits, Kevin King and Norm Farrar sit down with Jhana Li, operations expert and founder of Spyglass Ops.

Jhana flips the script on traditional business advice, explaining why standard SOPs might actually be a distraction for early startups and how the right systems can act like "pouring soap on a slip and slide" to unlock your team's true potential. If you are drowning in day-to-day fires and poorly managed meetings, this masterclass in operations will help you step back into the visionary CEO role you were meant to play.

🔥 Key Takeaways from This Episode:

The Leaky Bucket Theory: Why driving more sales into an operationally inefficient business just widens the cracks and drains your profit.

When to Actually Hire an Operator: Why you should look for an Ops Manager around the $1M run rate, and why hiring a high-priced COO too early is a massive mistake.

The $400k Meeting Mistake: How aimless weekly check-ins are bleeding your revenue, and the mandatory 3-step formula (Purpose, Agenda, Facilitator) to fix them.

Why SOPs Can Be a Distraction: Why you should embrace disorganization until you hit true product-market fit.

Jhana Li & Spyglass Ops: spyglassops.com | Follow on Social: @thejhanali

⏳Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

02:15 - The Coffee SOP 04:30 - Meet Jhana Li

07:45 - When is it Time to Hire an Operator?

10:20 - Ops Manager vs. Director of Ops vs. COO

13:15 - The Top 3 Reasons Operators Fail in Startups

17:00 - Why SOPs are a Distraction

22:40 - Overcoming Founder Bottlenecks

28:15 - Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation

32:00 - The "Leaky Bucket"

35:50 - How Bad Meetings Cost You $100 000s

40:10 - Managing to Outcomes, Not Inputs

45:30 - Guarantees the Perfect Hire in 90 Days

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If you are tired of fighting for views on TikTok or Instagram, it is time to pivot to the platform where real business actually happens.

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The average income on LinkedIn is over $130,000, almost double that of other major platforms and four out of five users are business decision-makers.In this episode of Marketing Misfits, hosts Kevin King and Norm Farrar sit down with Joshua B. Lee, widely known as the "Dopamine Dealer of LinkedIn".

🔥 You’ll Discover:

The AI & SEO Takeover: Why Microsoft’s ownership of both LinkedIn and OpenAI is turning the platform into the foundation for future generative search.

The Newsletter Hack: How LinkedIn newsletters achieve massive 20-50% open rates and get indexed by Google in less than an hour.

The Anti-Automation Warning: Why using third-party automation tools will get your account banned within hours, and how to manually use Sales Navigator for better results.

The Dopamine Strategy: How to use simple psychological stopgaps, like endorsing a skill or saying "thank you" to effortlessly start sales conversations without cold pitching.

Event Lead Generation: Step-by-step instructions on setting up LinkedIn Events to legally collect first names, last names, and emails while inviting up to 8,000 connections a month.

Newsjacking for Video: Why posting 1.5 to 2-minute videos reacting to trending LinkedIn news can generate millions of organic views.

🔗 Resources & Links Mentioned:Joshua B. Lee's Agency - https://joshuablee.com/

Chapters:

00:00 LinkedIn vs. Others

04:21 Meet Joshua B Lee

08:31 Why the LinkedIn Platform

12:44 The Power of LinkedIn and AI

21:33 LinkedIn Newsletter

26:34 Creating a Newsletter

31:12 Making LinkedIn Content

37:57 Using Sales Navigator

42:29 LinkedIn Limits

49:01 Premium Account

53:53 Dopamine Dealer Role

01:02:46 LinkedIn's Video Power

01:08:13 Webinar Event Setup ️

01:12:39 Inviting Connections ️

01:16:44 Podcast Listings ️

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Why are traditional marketing frameworks completely failing with today’s younger consumers? Because you can't use traditional hype to sell to a generation operating from a baseline of hopelessness. Subscribe to the Marketing Misfits newsletter - https://www.misfits.news/

In this episode of the Marketing Misfits, Kevin King and Norm Farrar sit down with DTC consultant and behavioral science expert, Sarah Levinger. Sarah reveals the unspoken, often dark psychological triggers that drive modern consumerism.

We dive deep into why Gen Z believes they will never be wealthy, how AI is fundamentally changing the way our brains process information, and why legacy brands are destroying their legacies by forcing themselves into the wrong conversations. If you want to understand the true subconscious matrix of consumerism and how tools like Tether Insights are decoding it...

This is a masterclass you cannot afford to miss! You'll learn:

• The Gen Z Hopelessness Matrix

• Decoding the Subconscious Consumer

• The 3 Psychological Selves

• The 12 Universal Marketing Avatars

• The Danger of the Unending AI Loop

• Why the AIDA Framework is Dead

Brand Identity Disasters: How massive legacy brands like Budweiser and Jaguar alienated their core audiences by trying to hack a cultural conversation they didn't belong in (and why Dove's "Like a Girl" campaign succeeded).

⏳ Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

03:10 - Meet Sarah Levinger

07:45 - Scraping the Internet's Subconscious

10:15 - How E-commerce Brands are Using (and Abusing) AI

14:30 - AI vs. AI

17:20 - The Dark Side of AI

23:10 - The Dark Psychology of Gen Z Buyers

27:00 - 12 Universal Marketing Avatars

31:40 - The Subtext of Your Ad Copy

35:15 - Brand Disasters

41:20 - Why the Traditional Copywriting is Broken

44:30 - How to Gather Real Data

🔗 Resources & Links:

Sarah Levinger’s Consulting: SarahLevinger.co

Tether Insights (AI Ad Ideation): tetherinsights.io

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