[EPFN] Kidnapped, Llamas, and TikTok AI—Yeah, It’s One of Those Issues

🧿 The Night I Shouldn’t Have Survived

I was sitting here thinking—what story should I share with you today?

I know many of you read this newsletter because of the crazy, personal things I’ve lived through (and somehow survived).

So here’s one I don’t think I’ve told before…

When I turned 17, I booked my first-ever international trip. Just me and a friend, heading to Turkey. All I wanted was a taste of freedom—sun, fun, and a stamp in my passport.

I didn’t care about the risks.

I didn’t think about the fact that I was a very curvy, teenage girl in a foreign country where I didn’t speak the language and my mom’s signature was the only adult supervision involved.

Naturally, we went out dancing.

No Uber back then—so we did what everyone did. Stuck our arms out and hoped someone would drive us to our hotel. 

Yeah. Genius, I know.

We got picked up… and then quickly realized we were going in the wrong direction.

Fast. Middle of nowhere. No lights. No people.

One of the guys in the front seat casually pulled out a knife.

Not threatening us directly—just holding it, letting us know who was in charge.

My second kidnapping, by the way. (Yep. Second.)

Somehow, after some pleading in broken English and a whole lot of panic, they stopped the car.

We walked through the dark for 40 minutes, following the faintest lights we could see in the distance. 

And we made it.

I found out later that a lot of young women don’t make it out of those situations.

Sometimes, we survive just by luck. But the real power?

Learning the lesson before life forces you to.

This Amazon Brand Raised Prices by 60%. Sales Took Off.

Sounds backwards, right?

My friend Chad helped a supplement brand pull in an extra $1 million in pure profit—without touching their photos, listings, or ad spend.

The move?

He raised their price by 60%.

And sales? Up 400%.

Better yet — BSR stayed strong. Visibility didn’t dip. It improved.

So how?

Chad didn’t guess.

He used Profasee — an AI tool that monitors real-time market behavior and adjusts pricing automatically.

It knows when to raise. When to hold. All without hurting rank or conversions.

Set it up once. Let it work. Watch profit stack.

Most sellers ignore pricing strategy or change it once a quarter. That’s bleeding money.

Profasee fixes that. You’ll:

• Capture lost profit

• Stay competitively priced

• Keep visibility high

• Scale without lifting a finger

Over 250 brands are already using it. You can too.

Chad’s opened up a few free demo spots. You should grab one.

Get my free demo now

No guesswork. No manual tweaks. Just more profit from what you already sell.

– Izabella

PS:

Chad built 8-figure brands, co-founded Skubana, ran Prosper Show.
He knows what works — and

Profasee works.

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If you're tired of watching your competition outpace you with tools you barely understand—this is the 5 minutes that could flip the script. Be there when Izabella rewires product research live.

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TikTok’s AI Symphony Is Wild… and You’re Already Behind

🎵 TikTok just dropped Symphony, and no—it’s not a concert, it’s an AI content machine.

Basically, they’re letting brands clone creators' voices, faces, and styles to make more content, faster than ever. Scary?

Maybe.

Genius?

Absolutely.

This is the future of UGC—and if you’re not already thinking about how to apply this to your brand, you're not just late… you’re in the wrong decade.

I don’t care if you sell garlic presses or glam lashes—you need to know how this stuff works before your competitors do.

⚰️ Excel is officially dead.

You know those late-night YouTube rabbit holes where you're trying to figure out VLOOKUP or fix one broken formula that tanked your entire sheet?

Yeah—Quadratic.ai just buried that whole struggle.

It’s like ChatGPT decided to speak fluent spreadsheet. You pull in your data, ask natural questions, and boom—you’ve got charts, insights, and answers in seconds.

For Amazon sellers, this means slicing and dicing PPC data, tracking conversions, analyzing keyword wins and losses—without being a spreadsheet wizard.

Whether you’re in SmartScout, Helium10, DataDive, or running flat files from hell, you can now plug it all into a single, smart interface that thinks before you do.

And to prove it’s not just theory, I asked one simple question: “Can you analyze my riding school’s Instagram?” 

And just like that, it gave me a clean chart showing follower growth, a full breakdown of posts, likes, reach, shares, engagement trends—and even the exact growth rate per post. No formulas. No pivot tables. Just real answers.

Quadratic didn’t just kill Excel… it threw a saddle on my IG data and galloped it straight into insight heaven.

It’s Not About Selling a Stuffed Llama—It’s About Making It Iconic

🦙 If I had to launch a stuffed llama right now, I wouldn’t be asking,

“Should I sell this?” That’s not how it works anymore.

The real question is:

“Can I make this product work?” Because the data? It’s decent.

“Stuffed llama” pulls in nearly $440K in monthly revenue across 72 ASINs, with an average price of $21 and a solid return rate of just 1.81%.

And the keyword “llama stuffed animal” has a massive 360-day search volume of 358,922.

Sure, the search volume dropped a bit recently, but it’s still very much alive.

Now—most of these listings are basic. Cute, but basic. If you know me, you know basic doesn’t stand a chance.

So if I were to go in, I’d start with a storyline.

This isn’t just a plushie. It’s the hero of bedtime stories, TikTok skits, and “unboxing with my llama” moments.

I’d build an ecosystem: matching llama pajamas, a llama sleepover set, maybe even a “Llama’s First Day at School” backpack.

You think that’s just for kids?

Nope. Adults are hoarding plushies too.

You want viral? Add personalization. Give the llama a name generator or QR code for adoption. You want LTV? Make it collectible.

You want margin?

Premium fabrics, glow-in-the-dark features, or even scent infusion. 

This isn’t about joining the market—it’s about dominating it with a

brand that makes noise

on social, builds community, and brings joy that gets shared.

So yeah, the llama’s not dead. It’s just waiting for the right person to saddle it up and make it iconic.

“First say to yourself what you would be;

and then do what you have to do.”

— Epictetus

Talk soon,
Izabella ❤️