AUTHOR BIOS
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--- Short bio (36 words) ---

Jake "The Wizard" Tlapek built a Chicago marketing agency on an audience he started from zero, grew it seven years, and sold it. He never changed a client's product — only the order of their words.

--- Medium bio (79 words) ---

Jake "The Wizard" Tlapek spent seven years building The Wizard Marketing, a Chicago SEO and web shop, then sold it. He grew it on an audience he started from zero on TikTok, talking about the mistakes he kept watching small-business owners make. He ran the eight dominoes on himself before he ran them on a single client. Eight Dominoes is the framework that came out of it, and the platform of the same name is where it gets deployed.

--- Long bio (142 words) ---

Jake "The Wizard" Tlapek is a marketing practitioner, author, and founder. He spent seven years building The Wizard Marketing, a Chicago SEO and web shop where he wrote the strategy, the copy, and the backend on the same job, and sold the agency after growing it on an audience he started from zero on TikTok — talking plainly about the mistakes he kept watching small-business owners make.

He practiced the eight dominoes on himself before he practiced them on a single client. That is the credential the book rests on: he built something with the framework, then sold the thing he built with it. Eight Dominoes distills what he learned into a sequence that holds across any channel or industry. He now builds the Eight Dominoes platform, which takes the book's workbook and turns it into working software for agencies and operators.
