Making Chinese Manufacturing and Shipping Less Complicated for American Businesses | President at MGD Solutions

Manufacturing in China is frustrating.

Without relationships and a presence on the factory floor, the barrier to success is more than just communication:
Agents are taking a cut
You have to wire funds upfront
Shipping is a complicated slow nightmare that can unexpectedly take months

None of that has to be true.

My grandparents Murray and Goldie Damast (MGD) started the family manufacturing business just shy of 100 years ago. I became the first “IT Department” at 12. 

Today, MGD Solutions helps companies of all sizes from design to delivery:
- Pay nothing upfront
- Pay by credit card when the bill is due
- Get shipments from the factory floor to your warehouse door in as few as 14 days

Business owners, merchandise managers, and entrepreneurs interact with our NY-based team while our team on the ground in our Yiwu, Qingdao and Guangzhou factories make sure your products are manufactured within the standards and timeline you expect. 

But you should know — manufacturing is only half the battle. 

We land multiple containers in the Port of Los Angeles every week. 

And our ocean freight consolidation service means products are delivered: 
- For up to 30% less
- In as few as 10 days
- With customs clearance and freight segregation included

I joined my dad in the office during a school holiday in 1994. 
I’ve seen a lot since then, and here’s what I know:

Manufacturing in China doesn’t have to be frustrating.  
Shipping doesn’t have to be complicated and slow.

Let’s talk. DM me.

Scott Damast

$100M+ in Paid Advertising for Saas, Digital Services, & Home Services | Founder & Lead Strategist at Arcbound

I’ve spent over $150M in Ads without even having a website.

I’ve never done:
- Cold calling
- Business cards
- Or had a social media presence (until now)

Our growth at Arcbound Marketing has been 100% word of mouth.

With clients in: 
- Banking
- B2B SaaS 
- Home services
- And Fortune 1000 companies

On every continent across the globe. (Except Antarctica).

They come to us after:

❌Spending huge amounts on ads and not seeing any increase in ROI
❌Trying to save money by going in-house — but failing to meet essential KPIs 
❌Wasting time in meetings with account managers who know nothing about buying ads

Because I’ve built something different:

🎯 Our North Star: The metrics that matter most = conversions + ROI
🎯 Performance-Driven: We’ll get you the max leads possible < 90 days
🎯 Transparent and Efficient: Our paychecks come directly from your success

And most important—

👤✨Your lead strategists will never be promoted out of your account.

With our approach, clients see exponential growth — in less time than you’d expect.

If you’re a service-based company looking to scale, let’s start by fixing your paid ads.

Shoot me a DM.

Transform your ad game and maximize your ROI 🤝

Get started at: https://calendly.com/josiah-daves/strategy?month=2023-10

Josiah Daves

I told a prospect, “Find another agency,” because they wanted weekly strategy calls.

I’ve refused these requests 100+ times with zero regrets.

Clients who want "alignment meetings" don’t actually want alignment or campaign insights - they want therapy sessions where we hold their hand and explain things like why their competitors exist.

Your team's time breaks down like this:
- Option A: Spend 4 hours every month explaining what we're doing
- Option B: Spend those same 4 hours actually improving your ROI

Smart clients choose Option B.

Here's my communication approach:

If your campaigns are bleeding money
↳ You get a call within the hour

When the platform algorithm changes
↳ We send a Loom explaining our pivot

If a major strategic shift is needed
↳ We schedule an actual strategy session

When everything's performing exactly as forecasted
↳ Radio silence (because there's nothing to discuss and we’re busy keeping it that way)

Most agencies survive by catering to clients who need to feel involved in every micro-decision.

We cater to clients who want the kind of results that make those meetings completely unnecessary.

They tell us their KPIs. We execute.

We report results when they actually matter. No hand-holding required.

$150M+ in Paid Advertising for SaaS, Digital Services, & Home Services | Founder & Lead Strategist at Arcbound

Spent yesterday analyzing why a $360K annual ad account was hemorrhaging leads to competitors.

The problem was invisible to them—it wasn't their targeting, creative, or landing pages.

My client was getting identical CPCs as their competitors, but missing out on conversions because of one simple reason:

When you both pay $15 per click, and their ad occupies half the screen... While yours gets 3 lines at the bottom...

You're paying the same price for 1/10th the visibility.

WHAT THE TOP PERFORMERS DO DIFFERENTLY:

1. Strategic Sitelink Architecture

❌ Amateur approach:
→ "Services"
→ "About"
→ "Contact"

✅ Professional approach:
→ "Schedule Discovery Call"
→ "View ROI Calculator"
→ "Download Case Studies"

Every extension should move prospects toward a decision.

2. Credibility-Based Callouts

❌ Generic agencies use:
→ "Fast Service"
→ "Experienced Team"

✅ Elite advertisers showcase:
→ "BBB A+ Rated"
→ "$5M+ in Documented Results"
→ "Response Within 2 Hours"

Specificity kills skepticism.

3. Bidding for Dominance

❌ Most accounts spread budget thin across positions 1-8.

✅ Winners concentrate firepower:
→ Only bid for top 2 positions
→ Higher CPC is offset by 2x+ CTR
→ Lower cost per conversion overall

IMPLEMENTATION RESULTS:
✅ Ad visibility tripled
✅ CTR jumped 52%
✅ Cost per conversion dropped 31%

Every extension mentioned costs exactly $0 to implement. The only investment is knowing how to use them correctly.

While you're reading this, your competitors are capturing clicks that should be yours.

Want to see your competitive positioning? DM me your website.

HOT TAKE: Your best customers are Google’s biggest budget waste.

We cut ad spend by $30k/month with zero impact on overall revenue and zero impact on LTV or repeat rates by excluding the highest-LTV customers from acquisition campaigns for a subscription based health supplement company.

THE REALITY:
99% of advertisers use P-Max to run acquisition campaigns.

Problem is, P-Max treats all customers identically:
↳ Your customer who bought 10 times in 6 months gets the same ad exposure as a first-time visitor. That’s budget suicide disguised as "comprehensive targeting."

🚫WHAT NOT TO DO:
↳ Lump all customers into broad audiences
↳ Let Performance Max decide customer value
↳ Pay premium CPCs for loyal customers who'd buy anyway
↳ Ignore purchase frequency in targeting decisions

👍WHAT TO DO INSTEAD
1. Create 50+ audience segments by frequency + recency
(duration windows: 60, 120, 180, 240, 300 days, purchase counts: 1 - 10+ times)

2. Exclude aggressively
(4+ purchases in the last 90-180 days, 10+ purchases in 60 days, anyone who converted in the last 30 days)

3. Reallocate that budget to genuine new customer acquisition

4. Let loyal customers convert through organic channels

Your highest-value customers arrive through word-of-mouth and brand searches anyway. Stop paying Facebook and Google premium prices to convince people who are already convinced.

Have you audited your accounts for high-LTV customer overlap in acquisition campaigns? What budget waste did you uncover? 👇

Most campaigns crumble under budget pressure because most accounts are set up wrong. Agencies call it "market saturation." Complete bullshit. The real problem is bad campaign structure.

My 10X budget test exposes the difference between campaigns built to fail and campaigns built to scale.

HOW IT WORKS:
→ Add a zero to your budget. If performance tanks or spend doesn't scale proportionally, you're competing against yourself instead of your actual competitors.

Here's how 99% of accounts fail this test spectacularly.

WHAT POORLY-STRUCTURED CAMPAIGNS DO:
↳ Let audiences overlap without exclusions
↳ Use shared budget structures that reward poor performers
↳ Mix cold traffic, retargeting, and customer audiences in same ad groups
↳ Split identical search terms across multiple campaigns

WHAT 10X SCALABLE CAMPAIGNS DO INSTEAD:
→ Create bulletproof audience segmentation with proper exclusions
→ Separate retargeting by recency (7, 14, 30, 60, 90 days)
→ Assign different ROAS targets: 4X for cold, 2.5X for retargeting, 6X for existing customers
→ Eliminate campaign conflicts through clean data separation

When your accounts are set up properly, your budget is limited by the actual available market, NOT the other way around.

These campaigns can absorb unlimited budget increases without wasting a single dime. They’re set up to go after the maximum available market. No waste or overlap.

The 10X test doesn't lie—it reveals whether you've built systems that actually drive revenue growth or just expensive account chaos.

What percentage of your current accounts would pass this test?

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