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  1. tekcraze

    Just launched 3 new businesses

    EXECUTION 
    Love the enthusiasm but starting a bunch of things at once never works as well as it seems. I've done similarly (having a bunch of stuff going at the same time) and it is hard to get enough momentum to get anything really going because your focus is split between a bunch of things. For me, once...
  2. tekcraze

    Anyone in Alberta - Matermind/Meetup...

    MEETUPS 
    I'm in Calgary...pretty busy with a growing business and young kids but I'd be interested in meeting up. I'm deep SE (Stoney Trail S/Deerfoot) I dont spend much time on the forum these days but should get notifications in this thread or via PM.
  3. tekcraze

    Lost and Tired seeking advices.

    I would suggest reading the e-myth by Michael Gerber, specifically where he starts talking about systems and building a franchise "prototype". Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk
  4. tekcraze

    I will post again the night of 30 Sept.

    INTRO 
    Welcome to the forum! I like your enthusiasm, but blindly hammering away at a mountain probably isn't the best way to direct your energy. My advice would be to focus on ONE good website, not five. And I would just set up a wordpress site with a decent theme. That should take an hour. Use the...
  5. tekcraze

    Sales & Marketing for Startup

    MARKETING 
    Wow! I found this old thread I started 3 years ago, and have come so far in my thought process. Had I actually just done what I said I was going to do, I may have actually gotten somewhere. Instead, I couldn't get my head around how I would "look" and so I didn't do any calls. I did spend...
  6. tekcraze

    Attracting top talent and retention

    EXECUTION 
    Uh oh... I don't like where you are heading. I get the idealistic concept, and totally support paying people what they are worth, but you're down the path of thinking there are millions of dollars in salary for a startup just hiring its workforce. EVERYONE plans to be the one that doesn't fail...
  7. tekcraze

    Attracting top talent and retention

    EXECUTION 
    If you pay people salary far above market rate you are actually doing them a disservice. You need to connect the results to the compensation. Make it POSSIBLE to earn high salaries, but they have to earn it by driving results. I would make sure that by paying a 5-7x premium on cost means you can...
  8. tekcraze

    New to internet marketing and failing miserably; any tips/suggestions

    MARKETING 
    The only people making money off of "proven" systems to make money online are the ones selling the system. Unfortunately you are not the producer in this equation, you are the consumer. You asked for advice, one thing I didn't see mentioned yet is FOCUS. 2 months in and you've already got...
  9. tekcraze

    Ethical and Poor or ruthless and rich? My catch 22.

    If you take knowledge that he has given to you and use it to compete against him, I would consider that unethical. But if you already know the industry quite well, I don't see how it is unethical to enter and compete. I do have to challenge your concept of the "right" way to do business though...
  10. tekcraze

    How to Answer the 'What Do You Do for a Living' Question

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    *This little observation is HUGE. Many people work at jobs that make them miserable all their lives and never experience this.
  11. tekcraze

    Seed $$$$?

    HOT! 
    OP, I think the big thing that is wrong with your thinking is assuming that a good plan is enough. We haven't seen your business plan...maybe it is amazing, maybe it isn't... but the thing is that it really doesn't matter. A plan tries to tell the market how to behave. In reality you can make...
  12. tekcraze

    Need Some "How To" E-Book Ideas In Hungry Markets

    IDEA 
    I think you are being too hard on yourself...you provided information that people found valuable enough to exchange money for. If you want to move away from "make money online" type of stuff, that is fine but don't beat yourself up so much about it. There are a lot of scammy things out there in...
  13. tekcraze

    $200 Per Week Online Passive Income...

    EXECUTION 
    Graphics...99designs (more expensive) or fiverr (cheap) Pricing...your ranking is determined by your sales but I believe there is a way you can start off free (to boost sales numbers) and transition to paid while maintaining some of your ranking. I heard that in a podcast somewhere but can't...
  14. tekcraze

    New business idea need help

    IDEA 
    I think you may be off with your key differentiator...most people wanting snow removed don't care how it is done, they just need it gone. The fact that it is done by students adds no real value. It sounds like you are just trying to get your feet wet in business. I would suggest that at this...
  15. tekcraze

    How do I create this site?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    You need -some sort of hosting -domain name -wordpress install -some type of membership plugin -theme with general look customized for your tabular display style Depending on what you are trying to do though, you might want to look at somehow incorporating facebook into this for viral sharing...
  16. tekcraze

    The Desert of Perceived Need

    EXECUTION 
    A big challenge with your industry is trying to hit a critical mass of enough users to make people want to join. Really, the core purpose of a dating site is having people (inventory if you will) that someone would want to date. All the other "features" are nice but without the main thing they...
  17. tekcraze

    Why you should work until at least 70

    "Indeed, Social Security is perhaps the best income stream available to retirees." Totally...can't think of any better income stream than that... Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk
  18. tekcraze

    how much reading before action

    I would put the fast lane thing on the side just for now because the way you are going you're just spinning your wheels trying to find something big. If you came across something amazing you don't have enough practice to get it going at this stage anyway. Sales. If you want to be successful...
  19. tekcraze

    I've just secured a domain.

    EXECUTION 
    There are really two ways to approach business, and this applies to products, services, or anything really. 1. Start with an idea. Spend a lot of time, money, and energy to develop it, put it out to the market and hopefully it is a hit. This process works but unless you have experience and know...
  20. tekcraze

    Thoughts on Email Capture

    MARKETING 
    I think the days of blasting out random offers to huge lists are over. The people making serious money on their lists are delivering valuable content and are laser targeted through pretty advanced segmentation. Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk

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