Ray Blakney has bootstrapped multiple 7- and 8-figure human-first online education startups, and he's a semi-professional swordfighter.
President & Partner at egelloC, a bootstrapped company doing eight figures in annual revenue three years in. Harvard i-lab mentor.
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Writing
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I Used to Work on LeBron James’s Armpit I had the condo, the TV and the car. Then three things in 72 hours made me ask if anyone would read the book of my life.
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If You Run an Online School, I Hope You’re Ready The New Year's resolution crowd is about to hit every online school. Here's why they need more hand-holding than other students, and how the CAC Framework helps turn their January whim into real results.
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1454: Productized Education: Transform Your Courses Into High-Impact, Scalable Programs (Marketer of the Day) Robert Plank and I discuss why video-only courses get commoditized while schools with live teachers keep delivering results. I cover the CAC factor…
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Connection to Teacher: Humanizing Online Learning With Real Relationships Students learn best when they feel a real relationship with the person guiding them. How online schools can build teacher connection into onboarding, day-to-day support, and milestones without burning teachers out.
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Accountability to Teacher: Creating Gentle but Firm Checkpoints Even self-motivated students do better with a guide who checks in. How to design teacher checkpoints that feel like coaching, not policing, and scale beyond the first twenty students.
Videos
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Transform Your Courses Into High-Impact, Scalable Programs (Marketer of the Day) The video version of Marketer of the Day episode 1454: building an online school that holds up against AI with live teachers, homework and the CAC…Length 37:54
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Education Businesses That Actually Work in 2025 (Millionaire University) The video version of Millionaire University episode 686: productized education, and why connection and accountability are where the value lies once…Length 62:15
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How to Bootstrap 7-Figure Remote Businesses (The Professional Hobo) Nora Dunn and I talk on video about growing up Filipino-American in Turkey, living abroad, and bootstrapping multiple seven-figure businesses that run…