These 5 lessons from GoT cover skills, hacks, momentum, using chaos and how hard work is not enough. It applies to every business especially saas and those involved in online marketing.

1. 5 BRUTAL lessons Game of
Thrones has for business

2. Lesson 1
You can't be a man on the
battlefield and a boy in the
bedroom

3. Rob stark won every battle he fought but
dumped an alliance to follow his penis.

4. It got him stabbed at his uncle's wedding

5. You can put all your energy and skill into
making a great product but if you don't put 5
times as much into marketing, you die.
Tip: Google 'Product marketing for pirates' and go through all Dave
McClures channels.

6. Lesson 2
Honesty is not a cloak to
hide under

7. Ned Stark was a good honest soldier who
spoke his mind, even to his enemies

8. He was betrayed and beheaded

9. Companies like Paypal and AirBnB were built
on moral values AND street smart hacks.
Tip: You can go to Growthhackers.com for 1000s of 'hacks' but also
google 'Kopywriting course' by Nev, it's great hustling.

10. Lesson 3
You can't poke a mountain
with a stick.

11. Oberyn struck down The Mountain with his
weapon in a great flashy display

12. The Mountain got back up and crushed
Oberyn with his hands.

13. When the opportunity opens up, you need
people, money and focus to grab it or you
get crushed.
Tip: There is a world of cheap resources available including
designers, copywriters, voice overs and programmers on Fiverr.com

14. Lesson 4
Chaos is a ladder

15. Littlefinger was an adviser and a pimp

16. He used chaos to become a Lord with his
eyes set upon the throne.

17. BareMetrics grew 10X by building tools for
Stripe's community as it disrupted payments.
Ride a chaos wave or drown in your small one.
Tip: Find your industries wave. It could be Slack, a new wave of chat bots,
the rise of drones etc. Build your content marketing material around it and
as it grows, so do you.

18. Lesson 5
It's better to kill a dozen at
dinner than 10,000 on the
battlefield

19. Tywin Lannister had an army

20. He killed Rob Stark at a wedding and
avoided a costly battle.

21. Lots of people work hard and still fail.
Work hard and smart. Be like Tywin.
Tip: Find the smart tools for things you do manually. Don't waste hours
searching for email addresses, find them on AnyMailFinder.com. Don't try and
design your own templates, use Canva.com.

22. Finally, here is the full inspirational and evil
quote from LittleFinger. It deserves it >>>

23. Great character.
Bye.