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Inside the Underground Meme Marketing World

Memelord founder Jason Levin joined Eric Jorgenson's podcast to break down "memetic warfare." It's his marketing playbook he runs for clients ranging from HR unicorns to Post Malone's record label. He argues humor is now a critical marketing lever, especially in the AI era.

💡 Key Insights:

• Humor is now a moat against AI...Levin pivoted from ghostwriting the day ChatGPT launched, betting on humor because neither ChatGPT nor Claude can be genuinely unhinged. That gap is where the entire Memelord business sits.
• The more boring your industry, the bigger the alpha from being funny...Levin works with banks and HR unicorns specifically because their competitors all sound the same. Brave humor breaks through the polished sameness instantly.
• The best brands now run five to a hundred accounts simultaneously...AI is what makes that scale possible, and Memelord is shipping agents for book, podcast, and meme-ad marketing all summer to make it accessible for any business.

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Stripe: Million-Dollar Solo Businesses Doubled in Two Years

Stripe published "The Age of the Solopreneur," a data-heavy look at why solo founders are multiplying faster than employer businesses across the US and globally. AI is filling the skill gaps that used to force founders to hire.

💡 Key Insights:

• Million-dollar solo operations are no longer rare...Stripe data shows the number of solopreneurs earning over $1M in revenue more than doubled from 2023 to 2025, and nearly tripled at the $5M and $10M thresholds.
• You can operate a real business alone because AI fills the team you used to need...skills like copywriting and pricing that founders historically hired for are now AI's job. Sam Altman calls the shift "revenge of the idea guys."
• The solopreneur surge is durable enough to bet your career on...new business registrations are up 40% in Australia, 70% in Finland, and 80% in France since 2017, signaling a structural shift that keeps accelerating.

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🚀 WATCH: How These AI Copy Bots Are Producing World-Class Sales Copy 50X Faster Than Even The "BEST" Copywriters On The Market…

(Plus… They Don't Get Sick, Miss Deadlines, Or Ask For Raises Either!)

Watch the full AI Copywriting Tell-All Video Here

Prompt of the Week

This Week's Feature: The Competitive De-Positioning Script

A customer messages your support team and casually drops a competitor's name. "I'm also looking at [Competitor X]." Your rep panics. They either trash-talk the other guy and sound defensive, or they get vague and concede the comparison.

Both reactions lose the deal.

This prompt writes the response for you. It acknowledges the competitor fairly, validates the customer's comparison, then quietly reframes the conversation around the criterion where you actually win...using only the proof points you provide. Customer-facing reply, internal positioning notes, and a short version for live chat all included.

FULL PROMPT:

You are an expert customer support communication specialist trained in competitive positioning, objection handling, and calm, consultative sales language.

Your task is to write a customer-facing response when a prospect or customer mentions a competitor by name. The goal is not to criticize the competitor. The goal is to acknowledge them fairly, validate the customer’s comparison, then reframe the conversation around the buying criterion where [YOUR COMPANY] is strongest.

## Inputs

Company: [YOUR COMPANY]

Product/Service: [PRODUCT OR SERVICE]

Target Customer: [TARGET CUSTOMER]

Support Channel: [EMAIL TICKET / LIVE CHAT / HELP DESK / SOCIAL DM]

Customer Message: [PASTE CUSTOMER MESSAGE]

Competitor Mentioned: [COMPETITOR NAME]

Known Competitor Strength to Acknowledge: [WHAT THEY DO WELL, IF KNOWN]

Criterion Where We Win: [SPEED / SUPPORT / IMPLEMENTATION / ROI / FLEXIBILITY / EASE OF USE / OTHER]

Verified Proof Points: [FEATURES, CUSTOMER OUTCOMES, DEMO DETAILS, CASE STUDIES, SUPPORT PROMISES, ETC.]

Relevant Product, Plan, Demo, or Offer: [SPECIFIC DETAIL]

Desired Next Step: [BOOK DEMO / OFFER TRIAL / ANSWER QUESTION / SHARE RESOURCE / ESCALATE]

## Instructions

Use this pattern: acknowledge → validate → reframe → support with proof → invite next step.

Write in a helpful, confident, non-defensive support voice. Answer any direct customer question first. Do not bash, mock, diminish, or speculate about the competitor. Avoid phrases like “we are better,” “unlike them,” “the problem with [COMPETITOR],” or “actually.” Use only the provided proof points. If key information is missing, write the safest possible response and list missing context separately.

The response should make the customer think: “That is the criterion I should evaluate this on.”

## Output

1. Ready-to-Send Response: 100–175 words, customer-facing only.

2. Internal Positioning Notes: 2–4 bullets explaining the acknowledgment, reframe, proof point, and next step.

3. Optional Short Version: 40–60 words for live chat.

4. Missing Context: list only if needed.

5. Quality Check: one sentence confirming the reply is respectful, fact-based, customer-focused, non-defensive, and centered on [CRITERION WHERE WE WIN].

Tool to Try

Viktor is an AI employee that lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, running on its own cloud computer where it writes and executes code to complete real work. Tag Viktor in a channel to pull weekly Stripe and HubSpot recaps, onboard new hires, reconcile invoices, fix broken webhooks, audit ad spend, or triage support tickets.

AI Tool Highlights:

💼 Hands You Finished Work: Viktor delivers the actual deck, dashboard, PR, or refund email straight to your channel... you get completed output instead of a wall of suggestions to act on.

🔗 3,200+ Integrations in One Request: Tag Viktor once and it pulls from Stripe, Salesforce, Notion, QuickBooks, GitHub, Zendesk, and thousands more in a single pass across your entire stack.

📅 Runs on a Schedule Automatically: Ask for a Monday recap and Viktor posts it every Monday at 8am... daily reports and weekly digests land in your channel before you ask.

🧠 Learns Your Company Over Time: Viktor remembers your preferred formats, past decisions, and team preferences, so you stop repeating yourself every time you assign a similar task.

✅ Approval Buttons for Risky Actions: Viktor asks before doing anything it cannot undo, pushing back when you are about to make a mistake... you approve every sensitive action.

⚡ Live in Two Minutes Flat: Install Viktor from the Slack or Teams app directory, link your CRM and analytics, then assign your first job... start free with $100 in credits.

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One More Need-to-Know News Story

OpenAI Previews Their Next Major Model: GPT‑5.6 Sol

OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 this week, and the upgrade centers on making AI think harder before it answers. Sol, the top-tier model, gets a max reasoning mode for exactly that. But the wilder feature is "ultra mode," which splits complex work across multiple AI agents running at once. Think of it as your AI assembling its own team.

Need less horsepower? Terra matches GPT-5.5 at half the cost while Luna runs fast and cheap. GPT‑5.6 models will initially be available through the API and Codex to a "select group of trusted partners and organizations." They plan to make them more broadly available to people using ChatGPT, Codex, and the API "soon."

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