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Co-founder & CMO at Salemaker | AI Personalized Videos at Scale

Marc Lewin

Daniel Priestley

I am an award-winning entrepreneur and best-selling author. I've
started, funded, scaled and sold businesses. 

I'm the Cofounder of ScoreApp, an AI enabled platform for creating surveys, assessments and quizzes. It’s used by over 5000 companies globally for market research and lead generation.  Our mission is to make data analytics simple, powerful and fun for small businesses. 

In 2010 I founded Dent Global, a multi-award winning entrepreneur accelerator. 
Dent delivers training and support services to over 4000 fast-growth startups. Our mission is to develop entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up and make a positive impact through business. 

I'm the author of seven entrepreneurship books, including Key Person of Influence, Oversubscribed and Entrepreneur Revolution. The latest is the “Lifestyle Business Playbook”. 

In 2024, we launched BookMagic.ai, a platform for writing a book with the support of AI tools. Our mission is to make it much easier for people to write their book.  

In 2026, I have two new startups coming. 

I've previously won entrepreneur of the year (Business Champions), and scale-up entrepreneur of the year (GBEAs). I speak at conferences and have been a business coach to several fast growth (Inc5000) entrepreneurs and celebrities. 

I live in London with my wife Alena, our three kids and our cat.

Director

SOtechnology is a multi award-winning digital agency and IT services provider. Specialising in beautifully designed e-commerce sites, customer portals and applications SOtech has been a partner to hundreds of fast-growing businesses since its inception in 2007. SOtech has been part of the Dent Global group of companies since 2016.

So much business advice comes from people who don't have kids. 

"Success requires long hours, late nights, weekends, etc".

If you have kids (or other caring responsibilities) stop comparing yourself to people who don’t.

While you’re on the school run, they’ve had an hour of deep work.

While you’re juggling dinner, bath time, and bedtime stories, they’re networking over dinner, posting on Instagram, or filming their ice bath.

If you’re running a business and raising a kid, you’re building two start-ups at once.

Give yourself credit for that.

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FYI - Entrepreneurs, I'd like to invite you to a workshop I'm running tomorrow. 

I'll be teaching the 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end if you want to ask me any specific questions.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Founder of Dent Global & ScoreApp | Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year | 7x business books | Founded/exited multiple ventures | Mission to develop entrepreneurs who stand out, scale up and make a dent.

I'm going to be on Diary of a CEO again this week for the 7th time. 

We talk about a few different things but the main topic is: What does a post-AI world look like over the next 18 months? 

People assume I'm massively pro-AI. I'm not. I'd love to go back to the 90s, running ads in local newspapers and putting on live events. But that's not the world we live in anymore.

Here's the hard truth...

No free country has been able to stop Netflix from putting video rental stores out of business. 

No one has escaped smartphones sucking in people's attention. 

No country isn't using email. 

Technology rolls forward whether you like it or not. 

And the countries that own the technology businesses dominate those that don't.

Now more than ever, we need to build entrepreneur ecosystems to discover the business models of the future. 

We need to create companies that surf the waves of disruption, not just get dumped by them. 

We need to cheer on the entrepreneur who will build the economy of the future, rather than trying to drown them as they are getting off the ground. 

With that in mind, I'm putting on three special online events this month. 

I'll be giving away the playbooks I use to consistently build high-profit Lifestyle Businesses in 2026. 

The truth is, there's never been a better time in history to be an entrepreneur, but the window of opportunity isn't infinite. 

You need to capitalise on this now. 

Here's the link: https://bit.ly/4aRBe03

Let's talk about BrewDog.

480 jobs gone. Costs have risen sharply in an industry that’s not growing. 

BrewDog has just been acquired in a distress deal for £33 million, and the new owners are shutting around 30 sites, with 480 workers losing their jobs overnight. 

The locations were analysed independently and the conclusion was that they simply can’t make money. 

Why?

Start with wages. A few years ago, hiring a 21-year-old in hospitality at minimum wage cost a business roughly £17–18k all-in. Today it's closer to £29k once wage increases, national insurance and regulation are included. 

You can say £17k isn’t enough to live on, and maybe that’s true. But if a business can’t make money, that number shrinks to £0. 

When an employee costs £17–18k, a venue might need roughly £60k of revenue to justify that role. At £29k, that requirement is closer to £90k. 

Hospitality businesses can’t always pass that on to customers. Raise prices too far and people stay home; they watch Netflix, buy a ready meal, and skip the pub.

One thing people are missing is that these businesses historically gave people their first rung on the ladder. They may not provide the highest paying jobs but they do provide many people with a place to start (myself included - I was once a waiter, a barman, delivery driver and a cook on minimum wage). 

When taxes and employment costs keep rising, those rungs start disappearing. 

Add to this the inflated council taxes and energy costs and it’s a wonder how any locations will survive longer term. 
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On a separate note - I'm running three special online events this month relating to my latest book. 

Register, here: https://bit.ly/4aRBe03

This is crazy. 

I met an entrepreneur who was a UX designer. 

He ran an online discussion group with a few thousand members and noticed that many sought his feedback on their work.

He launched a UX Feedback Membership:

£49 per month.

Two 1-hour live Q&A sessions per week.

Submit your work and receive a critique.

He grew it to 235 members paying £49 per month, generating £138K per year, with a Zoom account as his main overhead.

Now, he can live and work from anywhere while putting in just a few hours per week.

We live in remarkable times.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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FYI: Entrepreneurs, join me this week for a live masterclass. 

I'll be teaching the 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end if you want to ask me any specific questions.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

You're probably already standing on a mountain of value. 

You just can't see it yet. Try this. 

Anyone struggling to define their intellectual property, this is where I'd recommend you start. 

Let me know how it goes in the comments. 

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FYI: Entrepreneurs, 

I have a very specific way I generate demand and supply tension in my businesses. I'm currently giving that information away for free in a 22-minute video course that walks you through my exact blueprint. 

I generate thousands of warm leads every month for all my businesses this exact way.

Get it, here: https://bit.ly/4re5Ey8

You're sitting on millions

Try this...

Run down the list of jobs that are out there. 

Almost all of them will be largely redundant in a few years thanks to AI and robotics.

Coding software - AI.
Accounting - AI.
Law - AI.
Video editing - AI.
Engineering - AI.
IT support - AI.
Customer service - AI.

Will there be humans in the loop? Absolutely. But we are heading into a world where a few humans supervising AI agents will be doing the workload of what 100 people do today.

So, what will everyone do?

I imagine a time in medieval England when the crops were growing, the animals were fed, and the harvest had been done. Day to day life revolved around family, community, faith, festivals, and simple pleasures.

Maybe we are so out of touch with this simple way of life that it seem alien to us. Before industrialisation, people worked but work wasn't the centre of their life. There was no real concept of getting ahead. We hadn’t invented complex things, like coding, law, engineering, etc. The majority of the value created in the world was automated by soil.

Maybe AI is here to return us back to this more simple, more pleasurable way of life. AI and robots do all the stuff, and human existence returns to be about festivals, families, friendships and faith - exactly like it was for centuries.

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FYI: Entrepreneurs, 

I have a very specific way I generate demand and supply tension in my businesses. I'm currently giving that information away for free in a 22-minute video course that walks you through my exact blueprint. 

I generate thousands of warm leads every month for all my businesses this exact way.

Get it, here: https://lnkd.in/epdZ-Q2h

We’re about to see the biggest peaceful transfer of wealth in all of human history.

And most entrepreneurs are completely unprepared for it.

The baby boomers own half the economy.

Half the businesses. Half the real estate. Half the share value. Half the pensions.

And all of those assets are going to move to Gen X and millennials.

Every decade, the baby boomers have exploded something new. In the 70s, used cars. The 80s, mortgages. The 90s, home electronics. More recently, the stock market.

But now, they're moving firmly into retirement.

As a result of demographics and AI, we are going to see a great flood of money in the economy.

Warren Buffett said it best: be greedy when others are fearful.

Most people are fearful right now. Most people are saying the world is ending.

I think this is the time to lean in. To innovate. To be ready.

You shouldn’t be scared. You should be excited.

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Entrepreneurs, join me this week for my next live workshop. I'll teach the 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end if you want to ask me any specific questions.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

You should be turning customers away.

I believe there is a fundamental flaw in the way most businesses attract new leads and sales and it leaves the customer with too much control.

When you look at brands like Rolex or Ferrari, they turn customers away all the time. Customers feel lucky and excited if they have the opportunity to buy. These brands have a specific sales process that changes the dynamic of the relationship.

99% of businesses don't do this and they end up waiting around for customers "consider their options".

I recently spent some time analysing what makes the most successful companies different, and I've decided to hold a stand alone workshop this week where I break down what I'm seeing so you can replicate a similar sales approach in your business. 

You can sign up - https://bit.ly/4aK7SiK

Lewis Howes asked me what three lessons I'd leave behind for the world. 

This was my response.

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Entrepreneurs, join me for my next live workshop. I'll teach the 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end if you want to ask me any specific questions.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

Best tip I can give you if you're launching a new business this year... 

Start with the 150 test.

My minimum threshold: can I get 150 people on a waitlist, and how hard was it?

Pick three ideas, then run three landing pages: “We’re launching X for this type of person, solving this type of problem.”

Give a reason to join, e.g., an exclusive WhatsApp group, useful content, and an early-bird discount.

Then ask five questions and start warming the list up.

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FYI - If you want to go deeper on this, I'm currently giving away a free 22-minute blueprint explaining the specific way I build Scorecards for all my businesses. 

Get it, here: https://lnkd.in/epdZ-Q2h

In the age of AI, what's the safest play? 

I just got back from LA filming a new episode of Diary of a CEO. We talked about AI and what’s changing in the next 18 months, what’s being automated, and what’s safe.

Most jobs where someone tells you what to do, or where you do something repetitive, are in trouble.

But one thing AI can’t replace is being known.

If you’re known, liked and trusted by a community, that position can’t be taken away from you. If anything, it's going to be amplified. 

That’s what my webinar this Wednesday is all about.

How to position yourself as a Key Person of Influence, and how to make AI your leverage so it doesn't become your replacement. 

Register, here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

FYI - There will also be a live Q&A at the end, so you can ask me any specific questions about how all this relates to your business. See you there.

Growth is about removing friction. Profit is about adding friction. 

If you want to grow, give more and more away for free with no strings attached. Be careful though, it costs money or time to give value freely - be sure you
Can afford it. 

If you want to profit, make people wait or make them jump through hoops. Get people to join a waiting list, get them to apply for access, create barriers and conditions that justify the prices. 

If you’re really smart you can do both at once. You can give away tons of value for free while also having hoops to jump through if someone wants to work with you or buy your premium offer.

The way I generate leads for my businesses honestly feels like cheating. 

Typically, landing pages achieve conversion rates of 2-4%. 

If you want to create more leads, you can either increase the number of people who see your landing page, or you can increase the conversion rate. 

But increasing the conversion rate is often simpler and faster. 

Using ScoreApp we have some landing pages performing at 20-40% conversion. 

This is world-class - you can't expect much better than that. 

I've got one landing page that makes me $22,436 a day. 

But here's the catch, if you want to convert that attention into revenue, you need to set things up in a specific way. 

It's simple when you know how and anyone can do it, but it's more than I can cover in a LinkedIn post. 

So, I've put together a completely free blueprint. I explain everything step-by-step, with visual examples, and break it all down for you. 

It's completely free.

Get it here: https://bit.ly/4re5Ey8

Wow. 1000 users on Vidonary in three days. 

But there's a secret about this I want you to know.  

All the home runs I've had started the exact same way. 

An idea, then a simple landing page that described our new approach to something. 

We'd talk about the features we're building and the type of person the product is for.

And then we'd ask people to join the waiting list if they're interested, so we could send out more information when the thing is ready.

We don't just collect names and email addresses, we ask 5 or 6 questions too and collect all the data.

If we get a great result, we go ahead with it. If we don't, it's on to the next idea. 

That's it. It's that easy. 

For this launch, we did it the same way, with ScoreApp powering every step. 

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If you want to go more in depth on this, I'm currently giving away a free 22-minute video course that walks you through my exact blueprint. 

Get it, here: https://lnkd.in/epdZ-Q2h

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The Profit Motive is the most misunderstood part of capitalism. 

Profit isn't about greed, excess, or exploitation. Those things exist but they're violations of the profit motive, not expressions of it.

Profit is a constraint. The most powerful constraint ever applied to human innovation.

I've built companies. I've sat inside the machine. And I can tell you the profit motive doesn't whisper "take more from the market". It screams "waste less - find a way to make things happen better, faster, cheaper without spending more".

When a business wastes materials, over-hires or gets too excited about an untested idea it loses profit. When it runs an inefficient process the market doesn't send a stern email. It just quietly starts bleeding you out. Profit is the scorecard, but it's also the immune system. It identifies waste and destroys it fast.

Toyota didn't build the most efficient manufacturing system in history because they were enlightened Buddhists. They built it because every idle machine, every unnecessary step, every unit of excess inventory was costing them money. Lean manufacturing isn't an ideology, It's what happens when smart people are forced to eliminate waste or lose everything.

What happens when you remove the profit motive?? Does human greed disappear? No, but the constraint does. 

Every government project that arrived late, double the budget, half the promise is an example. The Birmingham Council budgeted £19M to migrate software and spent £220M and failed to deliver the project. The Australian Government spent $96.5M on a weather website - two web developers replicated it for free in an afternoon. 

Many smart people with genuinely good intentions work in and around government but you cannot want your way to efficiency. Good intentions don't punish waste. And organisations that can't go bankrupt don't punish waste.
Remove the profit constraint and you don't get a more humane system. You get a system that figures out very quickly that obscene waste has no consequences. And then it optimises for something else. Usually size. Complexity. The appearance of importance. Bureaucracies don't grow because people are corrupt. They grow because growth is how you survive inside a system without consequences.

Free market capitalism has driven more material efficiency than any government mandate in history not because businesses are virtuous, but because waste is expensive and profit is a powerful driver.

You want a sustainable planet? You want to eliminate waste? You want people's needs met as efficiently as possible? You need the profit motive working properly (paired with competition). Without the profit motive, you get unbridled excess with little to show for it - like we see in Government. 

We've spent decades telling people the profit motive is a villain instead of realising it's a hero.

People who are reluctant to change to AI will simply not be able to survive.

I've seen this before.

The same thing happened with another technology that people dismissed as a fad.

They were wrong then. And the people dismissing AI are wrong now.

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Entrepreneurs, join me for my next live workshop. I'll teach the 5-step process to becoming the most well-known, respected person in your industry.

There will also be a Q&A at the end if you want to ask me any specific questions.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LDEq55

The uncomfortable truth about AI spending ... 20 million jobs might have to disappear for it to make financial sense.

Data Centre Magazine reports that AI infrastructure spending over the next three years is set to top $1 trillion. About 65% of that is technology with a short lifespan of three to five years. Another way to think about it: the industry needs to sustain roughly $220 billion per year in depreciating assets just to maintain the current pace.

Capital-intensive companies at maturity tend to run about 20% capex costs. At that ratio, this level of infrastructure spend implies roughly $1 trillion in annual AI subscription revenue needing to exist somewhere in the economy.

Where does that revenue come from? If we look at comparable innovations like software and cloud computing, the revenue models break down into consumer subscriptions, business subscriptions, and advertising. We know 95% of consumers won't pay much. We know advertisers will pay, but only if it's cheaper than social media. That leaves the obvious candidate: businesses replacing workers with AI (or creating new growth - but this isn't yet obvious).

So how many workers would it take to justify the $1 trillion per year in projected AI spending?

Assume 65% of the bill gets paid by businesses using AI for "productivity gains" (headcount reduction). For a business to replace a worker, the AI needs to be at least 50% cheaper than the person. To spend $650 billion on AI, the labour saving would need to total $1.3 trillion annually.

The average US worker earns around $65,000 per year. That means roughly 20 million jobs would need to be replaced by AI to justify the spending required to justify current AI investment levels.

A critic will point out that technology creates new jobs, that my assumptions are broad, and that US wage figures don't reflect a global workforce. Fair. But those objections don't change the central question, they just adjust the scale of the answer. Whether it's 10 million jobs or 30 million, whether it happens in America or the Philippines, the capital being deployed right now has disruption of that magnitude baked into its business case.

In 2026, “more leads” won’t be the advantage.

Smart leads will.

Most businesses collect contact details.

The best ones collect connection details.

Goals.
Intent.
Budget.
Readiness.
Fit.

When you know who’s worth your time, everything changes.

You stop selling.
You start selecting.

That’s why we use a never-ending waitlist model across our companies.

It turns interest into small steps.
Small steps into demand.
Demand into predictable revenue.

On Feb 25th, I’m breaking down the exact structure behind it:
• The 5-question qualification filter
• The small-step conversion engine
• The rolling waitlist model
• The demand strategy behind our 7-figure brands

If you’re tired of feast-or-famine cycles, this will change how you think about pipeline forever.

Register here for the live masterclass - https://lnkd.in/e9gfXE9N

What if clients applied to work with you?

What if they qualified themselves before you ever spoke to them?

What if your pipeline was predictable all year long?

That’s what a rolling waitlist does.

Not hype.
Not fake scarcity.
Not “launch mode.”

A rolling demand system.

Across my businesses, we use a simple 5-question structure that:

• Screens for budget and readiness
• Surfaces buying signals
• Filters poor-fit clients
• Creates small-step conversions
• Builds consistent demand

The outcome?
Better clients.
Higher profit.
Less selling.
More leverage.

On 25th Feb, I’m teaching the exact framework.

For the first time, I’m walking through the system step-by-step so you can build your own never-ending waitlist.

If you want predictable demand instead of unpredictable leadflow, join us.

Register here - https://lnkd.in/e9gfXE9N

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