Mathew runs ads for clothing brands, and one client’s February sales hit 32,000: a Strategic Marketing case study

At a glance

• Who

  Mathew. The caption gives the age as 18 and shows a US flag; Mathew doesn’t state an age or a country in the video.

• The business

  “a marketing agency called Legacy Media Team”, “running advertisements” for “fairly large clothing brands” (0:00).

• Campus

  Strategic Marketing, which the caption calls Copywriting. Mathew doesn’t name a campus in the video.

• Timeline

  Joined on “August 24th” (1:29, no year); the agency “maybe like two, three months afterwards”; scaling “In December, like mid-December” (1:36). The video was on Hustlers University’s home page by 25 June 2023.

• Result (video)

  One client’s Shopify sales: “like 29,000 in January”, then “we were able to get that up to 32” in February (0:46). The client’s sales, no currency; Mathew’s own income not given.

• Credit

  Asked how much of the agency’s growth is down to The Real World: “At least like 95% of it, yeah” (1:23).

• Result (caption)

  The caption: “New revenue: $25k/month”, and that Mathew “generated over $50,000” in “just 2 months” using “lessons taught inside of Hustlers University to run [their] Marketing Agency”, and “recently successfully closed a deal with a large clothing brand company”.

The caption and Mathew don’t give the same kind of figure. The 29,000 and 32,000 in the video are a client’s monthly store sales, from Shopify analytics that Mathew posted in the wins section; the caption’s $25k a month and $50,000 in two months are not in this video, and the video doesn’t say what the agency is paid. The clothing-brand client is in both. The figures are Mathew’s and The Real World’s own; this site hasn’t seen the screenshots.

What Mathew said

6 lines from the interview, copied exactly, each with what it means in plain English. The times are where they fall in the video.

What Mathew did, step by step

1. Mathew joined

   On “August 24th”; Mathew gives no year.

   In the video at 1:29

2. Mathew started an agency

   Legacy Media Team, “maybe like two, three months afterwards”.

   In the video at 1:06

3. Mathew ran ads for clothing brands

   “we’ve been running advertisements for them”.

   In the video at 0:00

4. The agency started scaling

   “In December, like mid-December.”

   In the video at 1:36

5. A client’s sales: 29,000 to 32,000

   January “like 29,000”; February 32,000, from the client’s Shopify analytics.

   In the video at 0:46

Full transcript

What the Strategic Marketing campus offers

What the Strategic Marketing campus looks like from a member’s account, how a new member starts, and what the support is like. The Strategic Marketing campus page covers what it teaches, and the Strategic Marketing campus review covers the costs and what can go wrong.

How you get started

1. Join and add the Strategic Marketing campus

   One membership covers every campus: $99 a month or $996 a year on the official checkout. Inside the app you add campuses from the “My Campuses” list. Strategic Marketing is the campus that used to be called Copywriting.

2. Read START-HERE

   “Stay updated”: new strategies “drop regularly inside the announcements”. “Have questions?”: drop them in #newb-chat “and someone smart from the team will help you FAST”.

3. Take Start Here - What is Strategic Marketing?

   Its first module, Rig The Money Game In Your Favor, has two lessons and opens with Welcome To The Strategic Marketing Campus. Next in the Learning Center come 1 - Strategic Marketing Bootcamp, 2 - Full Marketing Project Walkthroughs (2026), 3 - How To Sell To Business Owners and 4 - Get Your First Client in 24-48 Hours.

4. Follow the daily flow

   The #daily-schedule post, “Best simple daily flow”: say GM in #daily-GM, attend the Morning Power Up Call in #power-up-live, do the Dojo Drill of the Day in #the-dojo-hq and the #daily-dojo-puzzle, attend the other live calls when you can, or “watch the recording”.

5. Post your results in the wins channel

   What Mathew did: “the screenshots that I posted in the wins section were actually some Shopify analytics from my client” (0:09).

What support is like

• #newb-chat. START-HERE sends every question there. The Real World publishes no response-time promise.
• The lessons. Mathew: “a lot more detailed. It’s almost copy and paste. It’s pretty laid out for you” (1:46). That is Mathew’s account of the time.
• Live calls. The Morning Power Up Call runs in #power-up-live; a post in #daily-schedule asks members to turn on livestream notifications for the campus’s pop-up calls.
• The Dojo. A channel group with #daily-dojo-puzzle, #the-dojo-hq (the Dojo Drill of the Day) and #the-dojo.
• No guarantee. The Real World’s Terms of Use say it doesn’t guarantee any financial outcome. Every campus starts from the fundamentals and assumes no prior knowledge.

Real wins and reviews

No posts from the Strategic Marketing campus’s own #wins channel have been captured for this site yet, so these are other members’ wins from across The Real World, with names and avatars blurred (any that show this campus come first). Tap any screenshot to see it full size. They are individual results, not typical ones, and not a promise: The Real World doesn’t publish average member earnings.

What members said on Trustpilot

Trustpilot has since removed The Real World’s profiles. These excerpts come from archived copies of those pages, read on 25 October 2026, with the reviewer’s first name, country and date as shown; “Invited” is Trustpilot’s label for reviews that came through a business link. The jointherealworld.com.de profile was not run by The Real World; reviewers used it anyway. They are reviews of The Real World as a whole, not of one campus, and other people’s words, not this site’s findings.

For the record, the scores on 27 February 2025: the profile at trwstudent.com showed 2.9 from 23 reviews, and therealworldeducation.com showed 4.4 from 82, most of them invited through a business link over two days. Both profiles have since been removed.

Is this path for you?

Mathew’s numbers are one student’s account, given in a short interview The Real World chose to publish. For more on who it suits and how long it took to feel confident, see the Strategic Marketing campus review, from a member who took the campus when it was still Copywriting, in the Hustlers University days.