The Best Boss: October 2021

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Financial Liberation

After being recommended the Millionaire Fastlane by a friend and reading it a week ago, nothing has seemed so painfully evident.

I'm currently slogging through a 4-year business degree... just so I can get the "privilege" to work a 40-year dead-end job from 9-5 every day and trading in 5 days of my life for 2 days of false freedom.
It's crazy to think that I've gone almost 2 decades of my life following and abiding by the slow lane... I was always a good student, working extra hard to...

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Need a 3rd view opinion on my partnership situation

Hey guys

Honestly just need to get this out of me already and i thought this forum would be perfect since i could get some feedback from other more experienced entrepreneurs. I really dont have anybody to talk to this about as i deleted my facebook/ig to focus on the grind and cut off basically all "old friends". Plus i only want an opinion of somebody that actually understands the situation and not just some random thoughts from somebody who hasn't run a business before...

Anyway...

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Van Trend (RV vagabonding, travel)

Any of you guys ever spend time living in a van? I spent the last three months converting an older sprinter van into a camper, and I'm currently on a 2 month trip around the US with the wife.

Started in Connecticut a couple weeks ago and just left Tuscon to head to California. Arizona almost turned me into a raisin...trying to sleep in the heat is here brutal.

Living in the van is awesome for a short term trip, but I don't think I could live full time like some people do. I'm working...

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I've Read The Great Rat-Race Escape !

If you read THE GREAT RAT RACE ESCAPE, please post here!

I'm happy to announce that my next full length book (444 pages, 16 hours Audible) is now available with a release date of Tuesday June 29th, 2021.

- Audible Audiobook
- Amazon Paperback...

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NEW B2B BUSINESS in a BOX

REDUCING THE BOX CONTENTS Now offering the B2B business as a stand alone business. FORGET ABOUT FRANCHISING THE BUSINESS — YOU CAN MAKE BIG PROFITS B2B without the legal hassles of franchising.

From comments received it has become apparent that members find the idea of setting up a nationwide franchise network daunting and most of those that have contacted me are put off by the legalities. For this reason I have decided to remove franchising from the box and offer only the B2B...

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The progress of Visionz

Hi guys,

this is the progress thread of Visionz.

Visionz is a webdesign agency my business partner (@Ole1) and I launched in November of 2019.

The current state of the business is, that we are both working full time at it and are earning enough money to cover our living expenses. Last month (December 2020) was our first month to make more than 10k in sales (A big success for us).

But it should not stay like this. These are the goals for 2021:
-...

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Ivan’s Startup Progress Report

Progress Report: While working on my business I learned pros and cons about venture capital and might change my approach on how to acquire seed money. For now I’ll stick with Kickstarter and indie gogo. The library video content for my website is almost completed with a lot of great features using a bit of front end coding and Adobe illustrations (Filters, stats related to video content, etc). I’d say I’m 70% done before moving on to the next project (filming educational content). Might have...

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Best book on hiring people to boost your business' growth?

I'm looking to hire some people to help me build my business. I'm a web developer but the platform I am building is, unfortunately, going to take a long time and I need some help.
I was wondering if anyone knows a great book on hiring people. I'm not talking about just the act of hiring great individuals, but which individuals to hire in the first place.

How do you establish what skills and people you need the most? The 20% that brings 80% of the results? For instance, I could hire...

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Post a Picture: Your Favorite Places to Spend Free Time

Wanted to post a fun off-topic thread...

What are your favorite places near where you live where you tend to spend a lot of your free time? It can be anything: a beach, a restaurant, a desert, a local landmark, a mountain trail where you ride your bike, old town, your own backyard, etc. Just curious how and where Fastlaners spend their free time.

I'll start with two places:

1. A lake where I swim a few times a week in the summer.

My Journey From 0 to $2k / month Profit - AGAIN

Hey guys!

I joined the Fastlane forum about 3-4 years ago. Quickly left this place, but rediscovered it again recently. This is another attempt of mine to build a business that can support me long term.

I feel pretty shitty, to be honest with you. These years were a rollercoaster for me. I always wanted to develop a business and have the freedom of working independently. I achieved it to some extent because I freelance last years, but I never achieved a comfy level in that area - I don't...

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How great is your business idea from a CENTS perspective? Find out instantly...

Introducing -- Grade My Business Idea -- a website tool that will instantly grade and rate your business ideas in accordance to a weighted CENTS Framework whereas NEED and SCALE is most important, plus a MARKET ACCESS variable. (If you can't reach a market with a message, do you have a market??)

Grade My Business Idea: Business Ideas and Opportunities Rated Fast

I thought it was about time I created a grading tool with properly...

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A different path towards inventorship

Hello to all of you! My name is Oleksiy and I am not a classical person who always wanted to be an entrepreneur. To be honest, two months ago I did not even think about starting an own business. And yet, I have registered at this forum. I have not posted any introductory story of my own so far wondering whether it provides at least some value to you. But we will see.

I was born 1993 in Rivne, Ukraine. When I was a child, I was always interested in reading books on science and I dreamed of...

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Ask Me Anything - Facebook Ads [2M+ Ad spend]

Hey guys,

I am here to answer any questions you might have about Facebook ads.
I have around $2M+ Ad spend experience on Facebook (85% agency, 15% personal). Total paid ads experience of $7.2 M+ if you include Google Ads.

I am here only to talk about Facebook ads, as my experience with Google Ads is extremely one dimensional and I cannot give you any advice on that despite it being the majority of my ad spend.

I have run all types of ads on Facebook from app installs to dynamic...

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17 year old entrepreneur

Hello I am a 17 year old entrepreneur
I have previously made other businesses in indie games and in making YouTube channels

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To all the dad’s out there…

A relationship with my Dad hasn’t been on track since I can remember. He has always supported me, fed me, did everything he could for the entire family. He’s 57 now, and I’m 29. We haven’t talked like a father and son for a long time. I feel a certain discomfort in sharing even the smallest stuff with him. I do feel like talking to him, but somehow, I’ve always been a YES SIR type of guy. Whatever he wanted me to do, I did. He wanted me to be an engineer, I did. He wanted me to do a job to...

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Documenting my journey to become a freelancer

In the past few months, I have dabbled with a lot of things. I've tried coding, graphic designing, copywriting, SEO. Stuck to something for a while, and then moved on to the next cool thing. I was on the sidewalk. And it has wasted a lot of time. I tried getting clients on upwork/fiverr but no results. Sent proposals, a lot of them, but didn't get any response. What was I doing wrong? Were the proposals not okay? Was the portfolio bad? How do I get them to at least interview me? As I was...

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Saturday, October 30, 2021

Is my original song worth $2 million

Is this song that I wrote and recorded worth $2 million?:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-eLZnSpBRo

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Entrepreneurs vs Business man

What is the difference between entrepreneurs vs buisness man. Isn't they same?

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Is my original song with $2 million

Is this song that I wrote worth $2 million?:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-eLZnSpBRo

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Read Millionaire Fastlane Book

Gosh, can't stop re-reading this book! It's amazing. I am hungry as f*ck to begin this journey -
1. Started writing a Book.
2. Start selling items on Amazon.com.
3. Think of how can I add value to society for other main business.

I work a 9am-8pm job, which pays me above average salary, but I have to literally trade my life for it.
My family shall DIE if I leave this job, given that they are poster Slowlaners.

Do we have any mentors with whom we can connect to post regular updates?

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I Was Scammed Out Of Millions When I Was 13 And Stories Of Other Unsuccessful Ventures

I am 17 years old and ever since I was 13 I have been wanting to make money.
At first I was just doing it mostly out of boredom, never really expecting to make much money but that soon changed when I met a client's mutual friend who I then started an indie game with.

Graphic Design

At 13 I started making thumbnails for YouTubers and I even made channel art for a YouTuber who at the time had almost 1 million subscribers
Unfortunately I did not market myself well...

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New to the forum. Hungry to succeed

Just finished the millionaire fast lane and was blown away. Made me ditch all the so called money gurus I once followed. I know have a business idea I think could really succeed, but as I have a corporate job that sucks the life out of me, I don’t know how to start and break free. Any suggestions are helpful

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Repairs and maintenance to homeowners

I work for a social housing provider that offers a repairs, maintenance and home improvement service to all the tenants living in the portfolio.
There is no such service for private homeowners.
I want to create a user friendly platform that private homeowners can use that mirrors the service provided to social landlords.
Sounds too good to be true?

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Are You Accepting Crypto for Payments Yet?

Wanted to start a discussion to find out who is accepting crypto for payment, and how you've gone about integrating it into your business.

Right now, I don't accept crypto as payment for anything. I'm not against it. It's just that my main checkout system (ThriveCart) hasn't integrated an option for it yet.

Have you started accepting crypto for payment? If so, how has this turned out for you? What systems have you used to make it happen? Any downsides?

I love the idea of crypto for...

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People not let you enjoy things that are "above" your financial or status level?

I remember when I was just starting out in my business career and I bought a nice upscale jacket. This jacket was affordable to me, maybe it was $200.00, but most people of my then current status would not wear such a jacket. It is seen mostly on upper class people. Well, one day I rode my bicycle to the supermarket in the US this guy sees me get off my bicycle and as I'm walking into the store he starts motioning like "Yea, you're not rich. You just got off a bicycle. You're fake".

I...

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Progress Log: Investing for Passive Income

Hi, my name is Colton and I’m a dividend growth investor.

It’s been a long time since I posted on this forum and I’m starting this thread to create an additional layer of accountability for myself.

It would also be nice to provide some value to others on the forum, as well as engage in conversation with other people who are interested in passive income. I don’t discuss my investments with friends or family, so this is my chance to share this journey and show what I’m doing.

(I don’t know...

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Should I go with a start up even through it is not in my field?

Hi,

I am currently in my masters studying electrical engineering. I have joined a start - up in the field of education technology. Furthermore, I really like the idea and want to push it, but one big thing is bugging me.
While I love the idea, my true passion lies in technology. The thing is, I most likely won't start a tech start-up in this field in the near future because of the high entrance level for what I am interested in (Nanotechnology, that what I want to do requires years of...

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SEO

Hey guys,

If you had to primarily invest in SEM/SEO for your customer growth, would you:

A) Hire 1 in-house experienced SEO/SEM person

Or

B) Contract an agency

Or

C) Learn and do it yourself

State which and why?

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Building a Beauty Empire. From 0 to 180k profit in 8 month and beyond

Hi all.
So this year has been a ride and Im thinking about writing a progress blogg to get input but also to organise my days. Maybe I will get some good advice and maybe others can get some ideas.
This all started in june last year with my first business which was a beauty clinic where we rented a room in an existing clinic with just my partner who did treatments, turnover was about 5k a month and 1k profit. In december, I got the idea that I could sell machines to beauty clinics to...

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Ask Me Anything About SaaS ( I'm building my 7th )

Hello everyone.

A lot of you know me for my digital marketing Gold Thread here on the FLF ( see sig ), as well as other posts in the forum.

What you might not know is that I've successfully built 6 profitable SaaS programs either solely by myself, or with a single partner ( and with no other employees other than VA's ), and that I am working on building my 7th SaaS

I've learned a few things in SaaS over the last 7 years that span:

Handling competitors
Reducing churn
Fraud...

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Building streams of income from scratch

Hi, I'm 16 years old, I have learned HTML, CSS and halfway through learning JavaScript. My strategy is to first go on Upwork and earn some money as a front-end web developer. Then invest money which I have earned into Fox's web school and a copywriting course. Then launching my web designing agency and also creating another enterprise applied to C.E.N.T.S

To be continued.

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The four-day workweek

Finland is switching to a workweek where people will have to work for 4 days a week instead of 5 and for 6 hours a day instead of 8. In Germany some companies also plan to introduce such a week. What do you think about this concept? Also, do you believe that at some point we might achieve a situation where people will start trading their time profitably?

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general charity business info

I need general charity business info

Like about taxes

Paying employees salary

How to run or most efficiently

How to save the most money

How the super-wealthy do it and "make money"

Etc

Bottom line, I want to open a charity and get max benefits for money, legally.
I need all details so more specifically:

1. What type of corporation/company should we apply for

2. How do we handle maximum/minimum pay for the owner/CEO and employees

3. What are the keys in maintaining best financial...

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I'm korean and 16 years old

I signed up to see various people
Nice to meet you

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You can talk to 3 successful people. Who would they be?

Doesn't matter if they're from the past or the present. It can be in any field of life; relationships, business, entertainment, sports, religion, politics and so on. Who would you talk to?

Here's who I would pick:
1. Jesus. Would love to talk to the person who invented religion. And his philosophy on life in general would be interesting to hear.
2. Henry Ford. He's the guy who made cars global and invented our traditional 9-5 system.
3. Abraham Lincoln. It would be fascinating to listen...

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Old friend hit me up with stunning news $$$$$

I wasn't sure where to put this so decided to place into the relationship forum because it all revolves around friendship.

Ten years around this time I first got into Bitcoin when it was really low, below $5. I wish I could say I had some foresight, but in the end it was to fund my poker account. I ran through a lot of BTC for about a year, gambling, trading and even giving away. I forgot about it as I was living abroad making great cash and having the time of my life after giving a second...

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Just got semmelwashed.

I just had fought with my family yesterday, I live in India, where double graduates run for government jobs positions like janitor. My dad was writing form for 0one of them for me, They were trying so hard to rationalize themselves. Fear and security governs their life like the rest of indians, I have currently learned many skills besides my software engineer background, like copywriting, content writing, customer care, marketing, pricing optimization and they are blind to it,.
what they...

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Why success and "living Unscripted" is like winning a rigged carnival game...

As I got settled into my new home and caught up on email, I was happy to see dozens of emails from readers and fans.

None of this mail was "hate mail" but a lot of messages of thanks and status reports of progress. Great right?

Sure, except my brain wasn't happy about it. You see, it was just another thing to do, another task to cross off the list.

Can you imagine that? People are writing me to say how much I changed their life. Or how well their business is doing and how their whole...

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Friday, October 29, 2021

My Path to Trading Business

I believe in trading in the stock market. So, I started my own trading business. I will be posting my progress and insights here.

I started in my "intro" but I will continue posting here.

Here is my Intro thread: INTRO - On the path

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► TRADING PLAN...

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SaaS progress: Until I succeed

I will be posting here when I learn something new, post about my journey, or literally anything related to SaaS.

First thing I want to post is to seek capital gains insted of cash flow or passive income.

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Elon Musk Smartphone With Star Link | Warrior Forum

Tesla to bring out a smart phone with Star link Wifi. As you know, Star Link was currently a way for everyone out in the sticks to get.

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Where are all the Mobile Home Park Investors?

Hey guys, been a little while since I have been active on this forum. This a great site. Have learned alot from many members on this forum.

Just finished closing on my third mobile home park purchase and am loving it. Have 6 more in the pipeline coming up.

This journey started five years ago when I was a real estate broker working two other jobs just to make the bills. Showing commercial properties by day, bouncer at a local bars at night. That crap got old.....quick!

Granted, in 2012...

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Do you have your own online shop?

Hi, I am looking for partners who have own online shops or selling channels. Very high quality and unique product, made and manufactured in EU, with fast shipping worldwide. Let's connect and discuss possible business opportunities.

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Hiring some kind of business / execution coach

Hey folks,

So it's official I suck at execution. Ok it's pseudoscience I did something called Clifton strengths (50 dollars I will never see again) and it came back with me having absolutely no execution skills in my top 10 (34 total skills). I don't highly recommend doing the test I just did it because my friend who runs a business mentioned it had benefited him. The lack of execution resonated with me hard.

So I wonder if I should hire a coach to keep me on track with the execution...

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Organic pest control

Hello fastlaners. Since my son was born about 3 years ago, I began to switch to natural insecticide around my home and have greatly strayed away from products containing bifenthrin which is the active ingredient in ortho home defense. Living in south Florida, controlling pests in and out of the home is no small task but I have done so using natural insecticides that I have bought in concentrated forms from various online companies. Anyone in the pest industry know the legalities of making...

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Hello, my name is Raymond

Hi

I'm new on the forum, briefly about myself, I'm 29 years old, I live in Romania, but I'm Hungarian. I am currently working for a newspaper. I have been reading TFM for about two years and now I am reading Unscripted.

I've had several failed attempts to start a business recently, the first was an online food ordering app, but by the time I could actually start it, three had appeared in the area where I live, followed by two online newspapers, but while I had to stop one of them out of...

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#2150 Don’t trust your “gut” in business decisions

Today’s guest had an impressive career at McKinsey before becoming an entrepreneur. In this interview, I want to find out how he used what he learned at that company to build his own company. Jeremy King is the founder of Attest, which provides consumer research, giving you the confidence for every decision with the right insight, at the right time.

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A IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR A PROGRAMMER...

SITUATION:
I am starting to program a video sharing website.
This video shows me how to program it:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ykAepVkG5Y&list=LL&index=2&ab_channel=EasyTutorials

Of course, I wont do exactly the same as this. (I will give some changes)
But the problem is...

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Whats one thing you think or believe that most people on this forum would disagree with?

Peter Thiel has a favourite job interview question that goes like: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”

Now for the forum version...

"What's one thing you think or believe that most people on this forum would disagree with?"

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4 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read Before Buying a Business

Acquisition entrepreneurship has picked up interest, both economically and here at the forum. To best honest, if I was a newbie entrepreneur and just getting started, I'd probably be more interested in acquiring a small online business, versus trying to start something new. Our most popular thread on the subject, with someone actually succeeding at it, is here:

GOLD! - From 0 To $240,000 Per Year PROFIT In 18 Months (Acquisition Entrepreneurship)

From 0 to $240,000 per year profit in 18 months I've been a follower of this forum for about a year now, had read the Millionaire Fastlane book, and finally have decided to tell my story. About a year and a half ago, I found myself unemployed and with near zero savings, two house payments, and...

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BEWARE WINDOWS 10 S mode (- solution)

After buying a brilliant new notebook I gradually discovered that it was operating on the latest Windows iteration. The latest Windows 10 S is a beast!

The salesman didn't mention that the computer had that O/S, and it did not appear on the packaging. The purpose of S mode is supposedly to provide better protection and security. In reality its purpose is to prevent you from using any Apps except ones you buy from Microsoft.

After days of following the Microsoft maze...

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Facebook parent company renames to Meta | Warrior Forum

And together, we can unlock a massively bigger creator economy." I don't know but the Meta name sounds like, well, some virtual universe taken ...

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The problem with pre-designed website templates | Warrior Forum

Stay up-to-date with the best Internet Marketing Content, Copywriting Growth Hacking, Digital Marketing Product and a lot more!

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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Was I right to be courteous? Anyone has this type of social experience?

I am in the supermarket today at the customer service desk. They tell me I have to wait about 5 minutes. No problem. I'll just walk around the nearby aisles looking at stuff, maybe I'll find something interesting. Well, this woman in about her 30's comes down one aisle with a shopping cart. I move out of the way and to to the other aisle. I'm looking at the products on the shelf. Then about a minute later the same woman comes down the aisle and looks at my like "You again. What are just...

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[AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

I have been lurking on the forum for about a month and have gleaned so much information I knew it was time to give back. I currently run an import/ resale on eBay business. I started the business about 3 years ago but just dabbled in it up until about 6 months ago.

6 months ago, I quit my job and started working the business "full time". I use that term loosely because full time for my business is abt 1 hr a day packaging up sold products and a few hrs a week researching new products.

I...

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A short post about quitting

I've seen numerous posts lately asking "should I quit _______?"

Nobody ever succeeded by quitting. If you're asking this question in a public forum, I'm willing to bet 99% of the time the answer is NO.

It reminds me of these relationship threads on Reddit. "My partner did X. I don't like it."

And the roaring response is YOU NEED TO DUMP THEM NOOOWWW!

Granted, the general maturity of Reddit is of a 3-year-old -- but the point stands... If you're asking...

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New here

Hello, I'm Andrews from Ghana. I'm new here

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My Personal Warning Alarm On Coronavirus - 1 MILLION+ Deaths

I want to get this out there as soon as possible and I will go back and post into the thread some of my supporting perspectives but...

1 Million+ people will die from Coronavirus after it's all said and done. Please please take ACTION.

Here's what ACTION means... it does not mean wash your hands and bullshit (yeah do that, but we are past preventative stage), to increase the chances of not dying or being sick as a dog for weeks... we must play Offense.

Right now, it's...

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Lex DeVille's 2019 Step-By-Step Upwork Tutorial for Brokeass Bootstrap Beginners Who Need Cash Now!

Upwork is one of the fastest ways to get your feet wet with online business. You probably won't get rich on Upwork (though it's not impossible), and that isn't the purpose of this guide. This multi-post guide is an Upwork Tutorial for those who:

Need to get moving on something...ANYTHING
Need a way to bootstrap cash...FOR FREE

It doesn't matter where you're from or what your situation is. If you have...

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MBA or Machine Learning Degree

Hi All

Not sure if that is the right place. If not, please let me know. but here is my question.

One of the first thing I learn when starting investing is to always invest in yourself. So to invest in myself, I currently have two possibles path:

MBA : I do a master degree paid in full by my company. I believe that will help me at career and at personal level. But I believe mostly at a personal level because this will give me with a lot of tools to better manager my...

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Introducing MJ's Personal Unscripted Network, Join Now for FREE!

If you'd like to keep your Unscripted journey on track, please text me direct at the number above, or click my signature to subscribe.

If you are in IDEA mode, text "IDEA" to the above number.

If you are in LAUNCH/START mode, text "LAUNCH" to the above number.

If you are in GROWTH/SCALE mode, text "GROWTH" to the above number.

In return, you'll receive periodic text messages direct...

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Tinnitus thread

Maybe it is going a bit off-topic, but I thought I'd start a tinnitus thread. If this problem concerns other people, maybe they'll be happy to talk about it too (or not, as this is a very, very sensitive topic for people that have it).

Tinnitus is a permanent ring in the ear that happens after a lesion of the cells that communicate with the brain. Since the neurons are no longer receiving any signal because the cells were destroyed after exposure to loud noises, the brain "fills up" and...

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Starting again from scratch, again, again

Spent the last year and a half trying to find my feet in my new location. Finally got the push to start another biz. Similar to the old one but a little more focused this time. Just bought all my tools to get off the ground and been building furniture to get my fine tuning back and knock the dust off the old skillsets.

Bottom line, I'm going to be building humidors and high end furniture. I love the idea of humidors as an art form and would love to get some feedback once I have a few...

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Songs you never get bored listening to...

Name a song you never get bored listening to.

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Identifying A Market

Hi everyone

I recently had my FTE in my day job not long before reading MJs new book which fired up my entrepreneurial spirit again and made me start hunting for business ideas

Using the language MJ encourages you to learn in all of his books, I identified an idea for a self care product for men

The idea came from my own experience of having to use a certain method to achieve a certain result in terms of my own skin care routine. I noticed that current products which solved my problem...

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Top 3 self-development books

What's your top 3 self-development books?

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How to monetize an app which is not a SaaS?

Hi, I've created MVP with my friends. It's the application, where a user creates a list of gifts he wants to get for different occasions. Users can also invite friends. They can later reserve the ideas for gifts. At first, we've created this app for us because there is always the problem - none of us (group of friends) know what to buy for a birthday, name day, etc to each other.

At some moment we decided to publish this app because more people could have this kind of problem

But this...

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Web application with signing in by firebase

Hi, I've created an app where uses sign in by firebase (the only channel is google). After signing in I've persist in firestore the uuid of google user and user's nickname which he creates after first entry to the app .

Should I have a terms and conditions, privacy policy and rodo? What if I don't prepare it? Could somebody delete the app? What are the consequences?

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Mental health while chasing your dreams.

Hello everyone.
I wanted to talk about someting ive faced the last year. And it makes life un-enjoyable.
I get those feelings everytime i do something fun or something i like to do. But it wont take me further to my goals. I get this bad feeling about "wasting time". This years summer my father died to lung cancer. Since his death my perspective on life has changed. My mind is constantly thinking about how short life is, and if im not doing that, i will not get this. And im never doing...

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[GUIDE] Facebook Ads Made Simple (That Even Your Mom Can Understand) 2019 Edition

Hello Fastlane,

I’ve wanted to write a guide on Facebook Ads for some time now.

While there’s already a great PPC guide by @eliquid on this subject, there’s always new stuff to learn and to talk about when it comes to FB ads.

Note that this isn’t going to be a step-by-step guide, but rather a compilation of...

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Where Do You Share Your Referral Codes

With every single Bank, Investment Stock/Crypto, Credit Card, Transportation/Food Service, Cash Back, Smartphone Rewards, Etc. Company offering generous "Referral Bonuses" for you to spread the word and bring in additional customers where do you guys spread your Referral Codes in order to Maximize on the Free Referral $$$?

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What does it take to start a protein bar company? (co-packer, FDA, etc?)

What are the ways you can go about starting a protein bar company and the associated costs?

I'm assuming 2 ways are:

- Finding a co-packer
- Making it yourself by renting a commercial kitchen?

But what about FDA approval etc?

And how much does a co-packer actually cost? E.g., formulation of recipe, packaging, MOQ for first batch etc...

Would love to hear your experience with this.

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Debt: employee vs owner

As an employee you have a set income. If you spend $5,000 or $50,000 you still make the same amount.

As a business owner you have a money machine. Money in turns into a certain amount of money out.

Many business owners I have met apply employee mindset finance advice to their businesses. They think frugality is good (which it is), but they also see debt as bad because of interest and risk. If you had a machine that turns $10 into $15 in a couple of months, wouldn’t you borrow as much money...

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Ivan’s Startup Progress Report

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Copywriter for hire

If you are in need of copy for product description and website copy

Massage me and lets have a quick chat?

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Slowlane sales director / future fastlaner from Europe

Hi fellows,

greetings from Europe! Glad to be here and I have read MJ's both books which really made an impact.

A small intro: I have job as international sales director making around 170-200keur per year including bonuses (note that the taxman takes 50% here) in IT sector.

Some side hustles:
*A small manufacturing business with my friend with annual revenue up to 30-50keur (no profit yet, all is put to R&D + filling the stocks). Here we are selling to consumers but lost earlier 5meur...

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Universal scenarios: The key to comparing personalization technologies - Warrior Forum

A new article on Martech.org explains why scenario analysis is a sound foundation for making vendor and technology decisions. While y.

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What would you tell your 18 or 25 year old self?

For you 25 yr old+ guys out there, if you could go back in time, and tell your 25 year old self something, what would you say?

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Does visualization really work?

In the The Millionaire Fastlane there was something about visualization . I wanted to know that do you guys believe in visualization. I totaly hate it and i don't believe in it . But my father follow a so called "guru" who always promote visualization. so I was curious is that really work because it didn't work with me.

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Cryptocurrency GPU mining

Hey everyone. So I have had a few people ask me to do this, so here I go. This is not going to be really in depth at the moment as I feel like a chicken running around with its head cut off. My wife just took a part time job, I am watching the toddlers, and I am trying to set up another 10ish new GPU, and I am going through literally everything that I have in order to consolidate it into the most efficient formats on their respective motherboards and power supplies.

I will add some more...

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Natural remedies against acne?

Hi guys, I’m currently struggling with acne (pimples) right now. Seems that everything I do, eat, exercise etc. the situation doesn’t change and even becomes worse.

do you know any natural remedies/ everything that helped you against this problem?

thanks

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Social Arbitrage Trading In Crypto?

For those that don't know, social arbitrage trading is looking at popular trends and current events on social media to find trading opportunities.

Crypto seems like an excellent candidate for this style of trading, since the gains can be massive during a pump. I've seen it myself with SHIB, and don't get me wrong, it's a complete shitcoin, but I also like making money.

Has anyone done this or trying to do this now? Do you know of any tools available to monitor social media chatter for...

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NEW: The Best School for Going Fastlane (Now open for summer enrollment)

Hey everyone,

I have a big announcement to make about how we are going to be working with several well-known names on these forums and elsewhere to start teaching even more skills/business models and just in general giving a ton of extra value.

But more about that in just a minute.

Before we get into the fine details, let me just say thanks to everyone for the support (especially @MJ DeMarco ) over the last 2 years. We are now over...

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Loss after Loss, help!

Yo guys,

it's been a while since I've been on here, but have been struggling a lot recently. I have jumped into real estate full time, and in the past year, I have acquired 30 rental properties, with my latest being an apartment complex. I'm currently flipping 3 houses, and do a lot of real estate wholesaling. My issue recently has been deals are constantly falling apart, expenses running higher than expected, and quite frankly, it seems every time I turn around it's more problems. I've...

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Starting The Best Marketing Podcast in The World

Yo team,

04.19.2021

I started keeping a journal, and it's been 100% transformational for my business. It helps remind me of my goals, keeps me on track, and also gets me to commit to the things that I want to do with full awareness of the price I'll have to pay to get it. And this latter part is crucially important. If you want to get anywhere in life, you've got to be willing to pay the price.

If you're not willing, and you never fully contemplate the price and commit to paying it...

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Am I lacking definite purpose?

A while ago I wrote down my purpose. This was what I wrote:

"To add value to others' lives and leave a legacy behind. Be the one who others look up to. Achieve everlasting freedom."

The thought of having money also drives me, but I know money can't be a purpose. Purpose can't be something materialistic.

A purpose has to be everlasting, in other words, non-materialistic.

I would love to hear experienced fastlaners evaluate my purpose.

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Presentation

Hello everyone, my name is jcorel I am 21 years old.
I decided to be here because I recently read millionaire faslane and in the space of a few days it opened my eyes to a lot of things.
Now I have only one thing in mind, transform my life completely.
Thank you @MJ DeMarco for having the idea to share your experience towards financial freedom with us.

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What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

I've got a stack of books by my bed that I'm working through:

Awaken the Giant Within - Tony Robbins (read it before, but recently started reading it again).

An Introduction to Psychology (can't remember by whom, but its the university type handbooks, so it often succeeds in putting me asleep - the theory bits that is).

How life imitates chess - Gary Kasparov (I'm about halfway through this one - was wondering how to become great in chess/life, and this book seemed...

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Learn any language while on the toilet (even if your IQ is lower than a chimps)

First of all, by "taking a shit", I mean 15 minutes a day, otherwise you can do it anywhere. (Actually learning in toilet might lead to Pavlovian associations)

I've tried so many different strategies and tricks with multiple languages, that now I can learn any language within a year just by putting 15 minutes a day. Though native speakers might be saying how difficult their language is (everybody thinks their language is the hardest to learn), never forget that there are some dumb...

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Holiday E-Commerce

What are the hottest type of items to sell this Holiday 2021, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, Etc. What should you be stocking up on to sell on Ebay, Amazon, Mercari, Craigslist and Offerup? Where are you buying stock from?

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Thank you MJ!

Hey everyone! I've been lurking here for a while now so I figured I'd introduce myself. I'm Naj! I came across the MillionaireFastLane and since then I've never looked at the world the same way. MJ I Just want to say thank you so much for opening my eyes and getting me off the damn sidewalk! I never imagined a life outside of poverty! I look forward to learning and contributing to the forums in any way that I can. Thank you!

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30-Day-Value Challenge to productivity app! (Intoduction, Story, Help needed)

Hi there,
I'm new on this forum. 21 year old student, read Unscripted last year.
In it, MJ states the 30-day-value challenge. To build something of value within 30 days and sell it.
It took 50 days for me. And now (1 year later) I earned about 100$ with it!
But I spend 250$ lol.

I had this idea for an app, which would ask you to reevaluate your decision to open another app (Eg. YT, IG, Reddit).
I had this compulsion to open Instagram without any second thoughts. I wanted an app which would...

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Sleepwalked Into Fatherhood and Bootstrapping to Financial Freedom

Hey all,

I've posted one execution thread here long ago that was basically stalled at the hangar and never took off.

About 3 years ago I purchased a course "The Copywriter's Code" from a fella named Danny Marguiles of freelancetowin.com

I'm not entirely convinced I got a great value on the course but considering I never actually finished it, I might as well get my $1000 worth, right?

Anyways, I'm chipping away at it. I'll post some snippets of stuff I've learned here as I go so maybe...

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A question on taking responsibility

Hey all,

One thing that came across my mind recently was whether taking full responsibility made sense. For example, these days the popular mindset is that "everything is your fault" I was wondering from an an accuracy perspective and even just a realistic one whether it made sense? If for example let's say you hire a mechanic to fix your car then you find out he ripped you off and charged you for work he didn't do the "everything is your fault" response would be something like, "It's your...

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First online project - Website teaching music

Hi all, I'll recap using what I've already written in my intro thread :

My first project is based on music. Expressed as simply as possible : a website offering information on how to acquire the skillset in a way that is also entertaining.

If it gets some traction I'd monetize it with the promotion of the products I'm actually using or by having an e-com section on the website... That would be in quite some time down the line though.

Pretty low expectations to be honest, but I think I...

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Done with China. New life in San Francisco. [intro]

Aloha folks ~

33-year old, born in Chicago, got a couple degrees in Engineering from top ranked universities.
Lived and nerded out in various cities across the Pacific. Remained broke as hell until 28, when teaching Physics / Engineering became a viable option in Shenzhen (and still is!). Now with a net worth of 100k+, I plan to dive into the Bay Area, California (where everyone told me NOT to go).

I only had a handful of ideas for casual income:
- editing resumes / applications...

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Walked Into Fatherhood and Bootstrapping to Financial Freedom

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I Make $15,000/month - 3 Hours of Work Per Day

I'm new to the forum but I thought I'd share what I've been doing for the past decade. This is more of a side hustle because it's not really scalable past what I'm doing, but I've been able to become quite wealthy doing this. Now I've gotten into investment properties and I don't need to do this anymore so I thought I'd share what I did to make this kind of money. So what did I do to make $15,000/month working 3 hours per day? I flipped MacBooks. I sold 3-5 MacBooks per day making an...

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Hyperinflation starting? What's happening in your area? Post your ground reports.

I believe we are witnessing a massive hyperinflationary event underway as prices continue to skyrocket in all asset classes. Of course, this doesn't happen in 1 day or 1 week, but over the course of a year or two.

Meanwhile, the Fed continues to say inflation is under control. :rofl:

I've extracted some of the posts from the other INFLATION thread -- please use this thread to POST YOUR EXPERIENCE in your area/country/city of higher prices.

The mainstream narrative is that...

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Hello there

I am from Germany near of Cologne and 31 years old. Currently i am working as a property manager at a small family office in my home town. I am working since 2011 in the real estate industry, i completed my apprenticeship as a property manager in 2014 and studied business administration (Bachelor finance/taxation) after this.

During my bachelor i read a lot of business and personal development books. The book "Fastlane" was one of them. I read it my final semesters in...

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Figuring Out YouTube

EDIT 1:

Thread title changed from "Growing a new YouTube channel" to "Figuring out YouTube".

EDIT 2:

I decide to run YouTube ads at post 43 here.

EDIT 3:

I start getting email sign ups from a paid search campaign in post 63...

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Just a Normal Intro :)

Hi Everyone,

My Name is Shazeb. I'm 27 and, I'm from India. I'm currently working as a Penetration tester/Red team since last year. I'm inspired by the book @MJ DeMarco (thanks for the book) and, From starting I'm interested in saas business. But after reading about the advantages of freedom, Now I want to build a saas business. So, I can detach my time from work. Before that, I want to start a cyber security company for penetration testing, but for this, I have to always...

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Advice Needed For My SEO Strategy

Not sure where to post this, but here is a bit of an overview of my situation. I got my own website and listed some print on demand products, did my keyword research and decided to start 'boosting' my website with Youtube videos. I created and uploaded 11 Youtube videos back in January and let them sit for months until I started posting more videos during this month. [The reason I did that has nothing to do with SEO. It was just overcoming psychological hurdles].

I now have 15 videos and I...

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The Adventure of Writing my First Novel & Short Stories Progress Trhead.

The New Beginning in 2021. I kind of took the same path as M.J. and started taking notes back in 2011 and have 150,000 words I finished in 2014. I found M.J.'s book and put it aside because I needed to go the rest of the way of going through a lot of different elements of the process to finish this book from a women's perspective of a writer. I remember when I started the forum M.J. kind of challenged me since he knew I needed to learn a lot more then what my "Ego" claimed to know at...

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New To Blogging Some Advice

Hi folks, My names Sean and I'm new to the FastLane Forum

I was wondering if there was any Bloggers on the forum, Or anyone who could give me some advice on starting a Blog.
What I was looking to know really is,

Is it normal for a blog to start really slow, I know it takes some time for google to index your posts and to get ranked on google, But was just wondering if this was normal going at a real slow pace. any sort of feedback would be absolutely perfect.
The Blog is in the Side Hustle...

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Describe your first sale as an entrepreneur!

I love reading stories of how people got started, especially the turning point where people make their first sale and get hooked.

Let’s see if we can inspire other forum members to make their first sale.

What’s the story of your first sale?

How did you feel in that moment?
What changed from that moment onwards?
What has it lead to?

In hindsight:

What would you have done LESS of?
What would you have done MORE of?
What one piece of advice would you...

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Hacker, Rapper, Entrepreneur ( Thanksgiving at a strip club, sleeping on floors and losing crypto fortune)

Hey everyone,

I did a couple of software startups in college and ended up getting burned out. I went for broke a couple of times, sleeping on a floor of an apartment, $10 of food a week and maxing out my small bills on credit cards (Song I did on it ). The idea was there, the opportunity was beyond amazing (Met with board of directors for major companies) but the execution was absent and thus we didn't...

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Monetary possibilities (The Search for financial freedom)

Our financial technology company addresses the unique needs and financial
goals for real estate investors at all stages of portfolio
growth,Personal,Business,Medical funding E.T.C.Further information, Do keep in touch.

fatakama-and-co-monetary-firm.business.site

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Building my first online course

For the past few months, I've been working on building my own online course. I make enough money to live comfortably, and although I don't trade time for money (I get paid weekly by my clients) , I'm just so sick of having to be tied all day to my computer/phone, because I have to keep monitoring Slack and reply to my clients, team members... I am unable to take a few days off of technology unless I'm on vacation. Although I've come a long way, I don't feel that I'm fully my own boss yet...

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Hiring people for cheaper but expecting a similar result, delusional?

Hey all,

Been a while since I posted but there's something I've been really curious about and I can't figure it out. When it comes to outsourcing jobs that are difficult sometimes people will hire people where rates are a lot cheaper than the big 4 though depending on what the job is it can either be shit or good, which i guess is the case everywhere but there's one thing. If I want to hire someone for let's say for Facebook Ads (which is a difficult skill) I notice a lot of the cheaper...

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Options

Hello Everyone......I’m Brian,nice to be here.

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What are your favorite cryptocurrency tools and resources?

I've learned a ton and am continuing to learn from @AceVentures, @GPM , and @Timmy C and many others in the Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency Discussion (And Predictions) thread. The amount of information in that thread is incredible.

With how deep that thread is, I thought it might be good to create a separate thread that...

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Monday, October 25, 2021

European FL members, question for you guys

American here, but expanding my reach into the European market.

My question is, how do the major cities reach out to one another via phone? For example in U.S., virtually all phone providers permit calls to Canada as part of your plan.

But taking the E.U. into consideration, if someone is in London and wants to call Paris or Madrid or Berlin, do you need to buy an international phone card? Or do you need to invest in an expensive plan?

I'm aware there will be langauge barriers on...

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Ice vending machines

I'm interested in the ice vending machine business. Anyone own them? What are the startup cost? How to do pick a location? How much can you realistically bring in on a monthly basis? I know every situation is different but just looking to hear from someone with experience.

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Media Measurement in an Evolving Advertising Ecosystem | Warrior Forum

A new article on ADWEEK says that if you're currently concerned about impending browser policies that could limit cookies, you're not alone.

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nhadepvinahouse | Warrior Forum

nhadepvinahouse is a https://ift.tt/3EcQRf5 of Warrior Forum. Check to see what nhadepvinahouse is saying about Internet Marketing.

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Help Moving Forward Hiring App/Saas Developers?

TLDR: I could use some advice about how to proceed with hiring out developers to build Software for my SAAS business.

Hello there! I have been working on building out some software to help solve a key problem for real estate agents, and have reached a bit of a roadblock.

I have 0 experience with coding and have savings to hire out the development, and very significant Domain Experience in the field for what we are building. So far, I have a UI/UX mockup in Figma, and a detailed...

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Anyone using the Wim Hof Meditation Method?

I was searching this forum and was quite startled that it has not yet discussed here.

I learned about the Wim Hof Method a while back in one of the most famous documentaries about him, which is from VICE and dates back a few years. I tried doing the breathing exercises and never really maintained it as a habit with the consistency that is necessary to use it successfully.

After seeing the big wave surfer Laird Hamilton talking about it, I kind of got obsessed with it again and started...

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The reason behind these books?

The world we live in is systemized, its rules can't be breached. For example, only a small percentage of people will be on the Fastlane and the majority will not.

Therefore what is the purpose of this kind of book besides the author's revenue?
If it's read by millions and each of them thinks while reading: I am special, it's clear that I am in the minority that is going to be rich. And MJ DeMarco reinforces that presumption in each chapter: "Yes yes, they are lazy losers, but of course...

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My Candid Personal Story on Why You Can Never Take It Easy (An Ode to Discomfort)

On July 7, 1978, exercise fanatic Dave Kekich was working out in the gym like any other day. While training, he suffered a freak spinal cord injury. At the age of 35, it left him paralyzed from the chest down ever since.

His injury cost him everything.

He couldn’t engage in his favorite physical activities anymore. He suffered from serious depression. He lost a thriving business.

He spend the next two decades searching for a cure to be able to walk again, to no avail. He eventually...

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Great Entrepreneur? Or Great Fraudster? The Story of Elizabeth Holmes.

Interesting article...

Just goes to show how important your product is -- while great marketing, a great story, and a great network of people can buoy a shit product, give the market enough time, and it will expose the truth.

Theranos’s board may not have been equipped to ask what exactly the company was building, or how, but others were. While Holmes was bounding around the world on a private plane, speaking on panels with Bill Clinton, and giving passionate TED talks, two...

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