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					<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I met up with a few guys from my marketing and hustle group here in São Paulo. We started at a wine event and, as usually happens, ended up at an after-hours bar where the conversations got a little more interesting as the night went on. One of the guys is in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I've been in affiliate marketing for over 20 years now, and these days a big part of what I do is help companies grow faster by working with their teams to build automation that removes bottlenecks. That's really what AI is great at right now: repetitive tasks that need clean, exact execution without a middle [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Networking doesn't stop mattering once you've "made it," and it doesn't start mattering only once you have. I learned that lesson at my first-ever affiliate show, Affiliate Summit in Vegas, back when I was making an unstable $4k a month. I remember standing in rooms full of people who were clearly doing better than me, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[For most of my career, I labeled myself the same way most people in my world did — an affiliate marketer. It was the simplest way to explain what I did. I bought traffic, built landing pages, ran funnels, tested offers, optimized performance. Anyone in digital marketing understood it instantly, and anyone outside of it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[When I first started running OpenClaw in a serious operational way, it became obvious pretty quickly that the technology itself wasn’t the limiting factor. The agent was powerful enough to function as a real second brain — something that could reason through problems, spawn subagents, run research, write code, and support business workflows without constant [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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