Helping Brands Enter The Metaverse & NFT Space ❘ Web3 Advisor & Strategist ❘ 2x Exits ❘ Venture Building ❘ Startup Mentoring ❘ Purposeful Branding ❘ Crossfitter

Hi, I'm Karol.

I am building a global longevity tribe to help people find the most trusted wellness and longevity brands to extend their healthspan and lifespan: www.newzapiens.com

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Healthcare is broken.

Doctors and pharma companies profit from treating illness, not keeping us healthy. The wellness industry is full of bold claims with little to no evidence. Health gurus and influencers capitalize on our insecurities, offering questionable advice that often misleads rather than helps.

In a world where trust is everything, who can we rely on?

In July 2023, New Zapiens started as a private WhatsApp group. Karol and Simon, two fathers, shared reliable health and longevity tips, aiming to extend their health spans and maximize life’s potential.

This conversation quickly grew into a global community of thousands health enthusiasts. They uncovered a common issue: most people struggle to find the time and trustworthy information needed to make confident health decisions.

As a result, New Zapiens evolved into a trusted platform for wellness, health, and longevity. Here, people discover reliable brands and products, reviewed by real individuals who have tested them without bias.

Our mission: Building a trusted health hub that empowers everyone to make better decisions through reliable, authentic, and honest reviews.

For brands committed to transparency, New Zapiens offers genuine feedback and the opportunity to collaborate with a loyal, health-focused community to build top-quality products.

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Former Ventures

2013 → GrandArtClub: Art platform connecting local galleries with global art investors. (🏆 Acquired)
2015 → The Villas: Boutique beach resort. (Active)
2016 → Lundkvist: Premium linen home accessories. (Active)
2016 → Upfit: Daily nutrition planning & cooking made simple. (🏆 Acquired)

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Results

→ 4 ventures (bootstrapped) 
→ 2 exits
→ 2 active ventures
→ 95% revenue through non-paid activities (organic marketing, sales, business development)
→ 100% employee recommendation rate at Upfit (s. kununu)

Karol Domagalski

Influencer Marketing & Growth @ lempire (Taplio + lemlist) | Exploring how B2B influencers help SaaS companies drive growth

Alex Llull

There's a lot of fear about AI in marketing right now (layoffs, etc)

I get it. That's why I opened a GitHub account.

Layoffs are hitting tech. People are scared and the anxiety is real.

But here's the other side nobody talks about: this is the best time to be a builder.

3 weeks ago I didn't know what a Pull Request was. Today I'm building internal tools that automate half my creator workflow 

(literally, saving me hours of manual process and making me feel like a movie hoodie hacker 😂 )

At Perspective, we've gone all-in on AI. And I chose to embrace it.

Here's what came out of that deep dive: AI won't kill the marketers with deep, vertical expertise. It'll multiply them.

If you understand your space, AI becomes a force multiplier. You go from managing tasks to building systems.

The manual stuff will be gone sooner or later. But the strategic thinking, the pattern recognition, the domain knowledge... it gets more valuable than ever.

So yeah, I have a GitHub account now. I'm "writing" code and building tools.

Not because I want to be a developer. Because I want to operate like a 10-person team while staying a team of 1.

The fear is real but so is the opportunity.

I'm choosing to build 🤟

Partnerships @ Perspective | Building B2B creator and partner programs that drive revenue

A founder friend spent $7,500 on a single creator partnership.

It only drove 3 signups. Here's what happened:

He wanted to test creator-led growth. So he did what most people do: found the biggest name he could afford and paid them to post.

250K followers. One post. $7,500.

Result: a few hundred clicks and 3 signups.

He asked me "what went wrong?". Here are some notes I shared: 

➝ Big audience ≠ right audience

Those 250K followers weren't his ICP. The creator was popular with marketers in general, but not B2B SaaS buyers for his niche specifically.

➝ He gave the creator a super strict script

Word-for-word copy. The post felt like an ad, not authentic content. People can smell that from a mile away.

➝ High engagement ≠ conversion power

The creator's viral lead magnet posts got thousands of likes. But likes from people who'll never buy your product (and only want free stuff) are worthless.

My advice was simpler: stop chasing follower counts.

I told him to go smaller. Find creators with 10K-50K followers who actually talk to his ICP every day.

He's now testing 3 niche creators for under $2000. Early results are looking way better, and he's spending way less.

The lesson: it's almost never about the biggest name. It's about the right one.

This is exactly the kind of mistake I'll break down on tomorrow's live session:

I'm doing a live session with Marc Richard on how to find the right creators, structure deals that work, and avoid $7,5k mistakes

Link to join ➝ https://lnkd.in/eUTKbpaA

My only qualification for my first influencer marketing job: 

I spoke English.

Quick story: I was fresh out of college working at an agency in Spain. 

We closed a new client (Amazon) that needed someone to build a gaming creator network across 4 countries.

I was the only person on the team who could email creators in English without Google Translate (for real).

That's how I got the job.

I had no playbook or experience working with influencers. But I was curious about what makes creators tick and a willingness (and the time) to send a lot of cold emails.

Since then, I've worked every side of this industry:

→ Agency side — running creator campaigns for major D2C brands

 → Creator side — built a newsletter to 6K subscribers, sold sponsorships, eventually sold the whole thing (made over 40k with it 🫡 )

 → Brand side — led influencer marketing at several B2B brands

Now I lead Partnerships at Perspective. Creator programs, affiliates and strategic partners, anything that drives revenue through people.

What I've learned: B2B influencer marketing is still massively underleveraged. Most companies either ignore it entirely or treat it like B2C (wrong audience, wrong approach, wrong metrics).

The brands that crack the B2B creator playbook will have an unfair advantage.

I'm glad I stumbled into this space when I did. Watching it grow from "random people on YouTube" to a core growth channel has been wild.

Curious to hear if anyone can beat me at absurdity on how you got into this space 😂

PS: Pic back from our Tuscany retreat with the copy goat Dan Heller. Looking forward to the next one (sunny location as well)

You paid $2,000 for that creator post.

Here's I'd turn it into $20,000 worth of content:

Most brands stop promoting after the post goes live. That's when we're just getting started.

I broke down our full repurposing playbook in this conversation with Marc Richard from OBVIOUS 👇

PS: I had to wear my Perspective hat because I needed a haircut so bad when we recorded and didn't have time 😂

Marketers, if you plan or already run Creator-led growth motion on LinkedIn.

This is the biggest mistake you can make. And it’s killing your ROI.

We've been discussing this with Alex Llull from Perspective last week.

You stop at “posts are live”.

Let’s say you launch 10 creator posts.

Some of them perform really well:
– strong CTR
– good conversion
– actual inbound leads

But most teams stop here.

They shouldn’t.

Because this is where the real game starts.

At OBVIOUS, we see creator posts as a creative validation layer.

Once you know what works, you amplify it.

Here’s how:

Take your top-performing posts

Turn them into Thought Leader Ads

Build a highly targeted account list on LinkedIn

Push those winning creatives to the right people

Your goal isn’t reach.

It’s repetition.

Your buyers should see you:
– through creators
– through paid ads
– through different angles

10/15/20 times.

In 30 days.

That’s how you create demand.

But more importantly, that’s how you capture it.

With tools like Fibbler, you can identify:
– which companies saw your ads
– who engaged
– who clicked
– who’s showing intent

And then?

You go outbound.

Not cold.

Warm.

You’re targeting people who already know you.

That’s how you turn content into meetings.

Inbound brings leads.

Amplification scales it.

Outbound converts the intent.

Most companies stop at content.

The best ones build a system.

I'm sharing our playbook, to get it, comment "PLAYBOOK".

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