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    Laid Off After Having a Child

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    Why not do both? Build a business and work a job. It doesn't have to be one-sided. Everyday spent working at your job will motivate you to build your business. Do it until you have enough business and quit. It'd be foolish to keep working as an employee by then. I make 3 times as much per hour...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

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    Did the first job. They were very impressed with the outcome. This led to 2 more referrals. Another person direct messaged about a job. They likely heard about our work.
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    MARKETING 
    Update: So I've ran ads for a few weeks now and tested a few variants. They aren't really generating any leads for me. I'll get a small amount of profile visits, but they don't actually reach out and make contact. Well I had gotten 1 lead who wanted a different service altogether. Strangely...
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    Action faking, negativity, I need advice

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    You have me considering how I can scale these avenues again. I will spend a bit of time testing things while working on the local-service based business and the day job. What's slowing things down at the moment is the suspension of my Google Ads account of a couple years. And FB has made it...
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    Action faking, negativity, I need advice

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    I'm sure that those sales can be scaled. I find that they aren't worth focusing on because these areas are difficult to stand out in. The amount of work and time I'd have to dedicate for a chance at a decent payout is costly. For a time, I did put in a lot of time without much reward to scale...
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    Action faking, negativity, I need advice

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    What would qualify as success? I make sales on books every month that I published a couple years ago. I sell a couple cars, things around the house, or websites every once in a while, but I don't find these things are worth focusing on. What is the metric for success that tells you if...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

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    After verifying my Adwords account, Google will be suspending my account within 7 days unless I can provide more information. I spent enough time trying to get this platform to work. I'll just use what has gotten me leads so far and run ads on a different platform. I've gotten another lead...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    MARKETING 
    I just got another lead. I now have a couple people asking about pricing. I always give the price upfront and right now offering a flat rate for interior car cleaning. That is my current "loss leader" I am testing before upselling other services. It seems that the initial interest wears off...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    MARKETING 
    Andy Black's shortest Google Ad tutorial is how I got started. I wouldn't know how to use Google Ads without it as it's a mess to work through. And the earliest I'll be able to start is Tuesday due to the day job (lasts a day with overtime). I may be bold and call off work a few days if the...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    MARKETING 
    Ran into a roadblock. Upon creating an ad, Google flagged and paused the campaign for malicious software. So will have to work on getting around that after work. During the downtime, I'll keep posting on Nextdoor, where I get at least 500 views on average with each post.
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    MARKETING 
    Hi everyone, I am currently working on a new business idea that is a local service. I've gotten some leads that I am tracking and will followup with soon, but not really making any sales yet. I've just started a couple days ago posting on social media during my off days and need more consistent...
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    I think I found a job in hell

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    I'm going to stop checking on the forum. Not because of the response, but because I've found out what I need to do and how to go about it. I've been thinking last night about what's available to me and thought of a way to immediately get in front of the people I need today. I don't know if it...
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    I think I found a job in hell

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    I focused on web design. So marketing for the most part to get more people. I have a small tech background so I built every site or landing page from scratch and included analytics and at times ad campaigns and copywriting. I'm not an ads guy or copywriter however.
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    I think I found a job in hell

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    That's where I got the username. This is what got me to post. I've been eager to get things started. I was supposed to be able to access the CRM and start sales training nearly a week ago. I follow up and get shut down so I'm just sitting around making a poor use of time. I know it's common...
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    I think I found a job in hell

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    I'll probably keep it pushing for a while to get the experience and save a bit to startup. I'm thinking mobile car repairs as I've got some experience in the auto industry. Once I build a decent customer base again in the day job, I'll start marketing in my network and start taking a few jobs...
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