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Hello fastlaners,
I think I'm going to carry my process via this message thread to share my news, insights, and whatnot.
Hopefully by making this thread in particular, I can accomplish 3 things simultaneously: inspire, learn and interact with and from you fellow fastlaners. Now with that out of the way, here goes nothing...
As some of you may know, I delivered my 2 week notice to my manager last week. This week marks my last week on the job and it's already approaching Wednesday (this week cannot go by fast enough, ugh). This job has taught me a lot of things about life in general, however and I'm really thankful for all that life education that I've been given for the past 7-8 months in that job.
Now, I'm ready to gracefully quit my prior endeavors and am fully prepared to fail. Yes, failing for me is an option because it's the only way I can succeed at what I'm about to do. I have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.
So far in my fastlane journey, I've completed the following tasks (in no order):
1. Gotten a very reliable sunglasses manufacturer from Alibaba (this was surprisingly fast and easy)
2. Gotten 3 samples of my product (sunglasses)
3. Read 35-40 books on business and life (and counting)
4. Read countless blogs on business and life
5. Fully designed a logo for the company ('Sir Ingenious')
6. Bought a website from GoDaddy (siringenious.com)
7. Discovered my target market (trendy millennials that are into fashion and music)
8. Created a story of my product ("Lenses, Music to Your Eyes")
9. Somewhat studied my competition and gained influences (I aim to be the Supra of sunglasses, whereas Ray-Ban and Carrera are more sophisticated, Sir Ingenious is more trendy and younger)
10. Bought a video camera (a cheap but hopefully reliable Panasonic HC-V10) for video marketing
11. Shipped 1 of the sunglasses to powphotography.com to professionally take photographs of my sunglasses
Things that I will do (in no order):
1. Get the samples for sunglasses case, bag and cloth (this is currently underway)
2. Produce a successful marketing video (with maybe iMovie and my new camera, unless if you have any other suggestions)
3. Launch Kickstarter (the very last step)
4. Retrieve product photos
5. If the results of #4 is good, then I'll also ship the sunglasses case, bag and cloth for photos as well
6. Survey the sunglasses at a mall (and record on video camera for #2)
7. Survey the sunglasses on other platforms (facebook, forums, etc for #2 and 3)
8. Create and complete a website (siringenious.com)
That's it so far.
Also, I plan to lose a roughly 40 more pounds (I weigh 218 lbs, planning to reach 180 lbs), so I will have lost a grand total of 300 pounds (from 485 lbs) from when I first began my weight loss journey 3 years ago through pure diet and exercise and a dramatic lifestyle change, no surgeries or tricks.
Oh I almost forgot to mention above but I've attached 3 files (2 of them are blueprints of my sunglasses and 1 of them is the logo).
I'll show off the professional photos of the sunglasses when they are done.
Anyways, thanks for reading!
I think I'm going to carry my process via this message thread to share my news, insights, and whatnot.
Hopefully by making this thread in particular, I can accomplish 3 things simultaneously: inspire, learn and interact with and from you fellow fastlaners. Now with that out of the way, here goes nothing...
As some of you may know, I delivered my 2 week notice to my manager last week. This week marks my last week on the job and it's already approaching Wednesday (this week cannot go by fast enough, ugh). This job has taught me a lot of things about life in general, however and I'm really thankful for all that life education that I've been given for the past 7-8 months in that job.
Now, I'm ready to gracefully quit my prior endeavors and am fully prepared to fail. Yes, failing for me is an option because it's the only way I can succeed at what I'm about to do. I have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.
So far in my fastlane journey, I've completed the following tasks (in no order):
1. Gotten a very reliable sunglasses manufacturer from Alibaba (this was surprisingly fast and easy)
2. Gotten 3 samples of my product (sunglasses)
3. Read 35-40 books on business and life (and counting)
4. Read countless blogs on business and life
5. Fully designed a logo for the company ('Sir Ingenious')
6. Bought a website from GoDaddy (siringenious.com)
7. Discovered my target market (trendy millennials that are into fashion and music)
8. Created a story of my product ("Lenses, Music to Your Eyes")
9. Somewhat studied my competition and gained influences (I aim to be the Supra of sunglasses, whereas Ray-Ban and Carrera are more sophisticated, Sir Ingenious is more trendy and younger)
10. Bought a video camera (a cheap but hopefully reliable Panasonic HC-V10) for video marketing
11. Shipped 1 of the sunglasses to powphotography.com to professionally take photographs of my sunglasses
Things that I will do (in no order):
1. Get the samples for sunglasses case, bag and cloth (this is currently underway)
2. Produce a successful marketing video (with maybe iMovie and my new camera, unless if you have any other suggestions)
3. Launch Kickstarter (the very last step)
4. Retrieve product photos
5. If the results of #4 is good, then I'll also ship the sunglasses case, bag and cloth for photos as well
6. Survey the sunglasses at a mall (and record on video camera for #2)
7. Survey the sunglasses on other platforms (facebook, forums, etc for #2 and 3)
8. Create and complete a website (siringenious.com)
That's it so far.
Also, I plan to lose a roughly 40 more pounds (I weigh 218 lbs, planning to reach 180 lbs), so I will have lost a grand total of 300 pounds (from 485 lbs) from when I first began my weight loss journey 3 years ago through pure diet and exercise and a dramatic lifestyle change, no surgeries or tricks.
Oh I almost forgot to mention above but I've attached 3 files (2 of them are blueprints of my sunglasses and 1 of them is the logo).
I'll show off the professional photos of the sunglasses when they are done.
Anyways, thanks for reading!
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