Joel McDonald
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Hey Alex, I'm Joel McDonald, founder of Just Get Out of Town, also known as J-Goot.
Tell me about the business.
So we help travelers turn everyday expenses into multiple bucket list vacations every year.
Our largest audience is retirees.
empty nesters, and business owners.
I would not have guessed that.
That is really interesting.
Okay.
The way we help them is through something we call travel hedging, not travel hacking.
We differentiate ourselves there.
This allows travelers to stretch their vacation budgets three to ten times farther.
So what's the difference between hacking and hedging?
Travel hacking basically requires that you turn 10 to 20 credit cards a year.
And that's why it has such a bad association.
Travel hedging is choosing the two or three best cards for your individual spending profile and learning how to effectively use them.
Our trailing 12 month average is 6.4 million.
Got a 1.9 profit margin.
That's about a 30% profit margin.
ROAS is 4.5 to 1.
And then our