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  1. mt_myke

    When you realize you learned nothing these past two years...

    HOT! 
    Unless you already have some other skill you didn't mention (like programming) your biggest asset is location. Do the import biz, but hustle manual labor jobs. Don't feel they're beneath you. I was doing lawn care in my 20s, after graduating college, and then drywalling for a friend in my...
  2. mt_myke

    Process: Landing page experiments

    EXECUTION 
    If it's not abundantly clear by now, I have no idea what I'm doing :D I pretty much went thru Andy's posts and started setting up landing pages and ad campaigns, just to see what I could get going.
  3. mt_myke

    Process: Landing page experiments

    EXECUTION 
    In the spirit of messing up...I reactivated the ads for the finance site yesterday and then mostly forgot about it today. I figured traffic would be roughly equal to what it was Friday - yeah no. Good thing I had a $50 daily limit set: This is the campaign total but last Friday I only had...
  4. mt_myke

    The Active Forex Traders Discussion

    HOT! INVESTING 
    It's 50:1 in the US. In some places it may still be 100:1 or more, but they've really cracked down on that the last 5 years. Couldn't resist, FXCM was gonna shut down my account so I threw in a few more bucks and shorted euro @ 1.139 ... because we all know the "greek fix" doesn't fix anything...
  5. mt_myke

    Process: Landing page experiments

    EXECUTION 
    Here's counts of clicks on the 3 links in the navbar: about: 4 charms: 12 shop: 8 Some of these are bots and some users clicked on more than one link, but that still seems like a large number relative to my total visits. People who do make it to the site are willing to click around looking...
  6. mt_myke

    Process: Landing page experiments

    EXECUTION 
    For my second experiment I started out by messing up. I wanted to do something with fashion, and found that "charms" was getting 6M searches a month on google. I made up another landing page: Then I went back to adwords and realized nearly all those searches were actually for a clothing...
  7. mt_myke

    Process: Landing page experiments

    EXECUTION 
    I'm going to dump some notes on my landing page experiments on this thread, hopefully they will be useful to someone. My goal was to get a response from the internet, using paid ads and a minimal amount of effort. I started with "finance" because I've had several finance-related project ideas...
  8. mt_myke

    Money and Wealth: Zero Sum Game?

    EXECUTION 
    The goal of the banks is to try to match up the "fake" financial capital (money) with the real capital (wealth, more or less). It's best to think of banks (central banks) as separate from both government and business. Their role is as an intermediary between the two. The fact that money "is...
  9. mt_myke

    How to land 8 clients a week ($4,000) right now to fund your business

    HOT! 
    This I like a lot better. In practice it means a banner across the top that the user must either agree to or X away. You can make that banner once then sell it over and over, only changing colors and wording for each site.
  10. mt_myke

    Yea, somebody had to calculate that shit

    OFF-TOPIC 
    http://ktla.com/2015/06/15/philae-lander-says-hello-from-space-after-7-month-slumber-on-comet/
  11. mt_myke

    What if you don't love your idea?

    IDEA 
    Is your business model solely bundling those apps, or are you adding value in other ways? If the plan is to recreate each of the apps in your mega-app you are probably wasting your time. One of the companies you mentioned already has a piece of it working, and more importantly a user base...
  12. mt_myke

    I'm honestly just lost

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Exactly the opposite. If you can code for 12 hours and not even notice you have the bullheadedness needed to succeed in programming.
  13. mt_myke

    I'm honestly just lost

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Coding is one of those 10,000 hour things. There's an entire thread on this forum about how learning to code just to sell a product is a bad idea. Keep in mind how this system of things ideally works. Everyone is unique in that they have a given set of skills, situations, and networks. The...
  14. mt_myke

    Flippa Data: How Websites Make Money

    Thanks for this.
  15. mt_myke

    A Guide to Building Landing Pages for Coders

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    That's me. I did in fact build the landing page for my last business from scratch, but I'm sure it could have been better. Whether that guide is valuable to me depends on both content and price...will find out.
  16. mt_myke

    What's Your Favorite Text Editor (and Why)?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Guess I'll do the obligatory Emacs post...
  17. mt_myke

    Barebones startup numbers - does it make sense?

    SPEEDWAY 
    I'm not sure if what I'm doing is a great fit for this group. I'm trying to adapt the tech startup model, meant to launch companies worth at least a billion dollars, to something that will be a "lifestyle business" just for me in the base case. I made a mistake talking about the app part of...
  18. mt_myke

    Barebones startup numbers - does it make sense?

    SPEEDWAY 
    http://dollar.cashprofx.com/dump/3M-in-10-years.png Here's my biz plan for an app that generates cash flows thru a rewards-based ad system (thought it could work with any ad system with some modification). This ad system claims an eCPM of $7-$50, so let's go with $7 or $8. I start out the...
  19. mt_myke

    Wal-Mart eCommerce

    They just launched 1-hour delivery in Houston. They've either solved the logistics, or are just burning money to keep up appearances. Considering they're pitching drones as a serious delivery solution I'm going with answer #2. Anyone remember Kozmo?
  20. mt_myke

    Admitting there's a problem is the first step.

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Bummer about OP. I wish the "guns blazing" type posters would finish their threads, even if they failed. As an engineer I find you can learn much more about a system when it fails than when it's operating normally...and a system is a set of processes and events.

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