What's new

Search results

  1. M

    My Brain: Greatest asset/ Worst enemy.

    MINDSET 
    This is how I cope with self doubt: 1. Make a clear list of your goals. If possible find photos that relate to your goals. Create a board that shows you dreams and the steps you are going to realise them. 2. When you feel doubt creeping on you, don't fight it. Instead, give yourself time to...
  2. M

    My First E-Book "Jak's Play" Progress Thread

    PUBLISHING 
    Out of interest: How do you get most of your fiction readers. Is it just organically through Amazon or do you do any other methods. What sort of response did you get for your first book (I'm still reading through your progress thread, so sorry if the answers are already in there). Thanks!
  3. M

    Experienced publishers, I have a basic question or two.

    PUBLISHING 
    1. Use a real name when you are trying to establish yourself as an expert. Use a pen name to keep your privacy, or to reach a larger audience (as readers are often drawn to certain names, especially names that were popular in the year they were born [although this is more so for fiction]). 2...
  4. M

    My First E-Book "Jak's Play" Progress Thread

    PUBLISHING 
    Here are some steps I would try: 1) Drop the price like Chicken Hawk said 2) Enroll the book in Amazon select, and have a free book day session once a week. I had a (non-fiction) ebook that wasn't selling at all and found that holding a free book day once a week helped to kick started sales...
  5. M

    2 Questions regarding Amazon KDP!

    PUBLISHING 
    If you are on the Mac try Apple Pages. It get's a lot of stick for not being very good, but they've improved it, and it handles Ebooks very well. There's actually a little trick to get Pages for free (although I'm not sure if it still works), but I think it's only $9.99 in the App store
  6. M

    What Sacrifices you have made...

    I dunno.... I think focusing on sacrifices is a mistake, as it sets up the wrong mindset. It makes harder to enjoy the present (because the present is about sacrifices). Happiness becomes something that will be achieved in the future as a worthy reward for the sacrifices made. The trouble is...
  7. M

    My First E-Book "Jak's Play" Progress Thread

    PUBLISHING 
    @Vincent Out of interest, how did you get those reviews. Did you have a strategy or was it organic? Good luck!!
  8. M

    [Progress Thread] Starting my Jewerly Business

    MARKETING 
    For your ad I would: -Show the products on a white background. People wear jewellery because they want to look "expensive". White suggests "expense", "luxury" and "class". You've used an off white background, which looks "dirty". I think you probably photographed the jewellery on an off-white...
  9. M

    Do you want to do it the EASY way, or the HARD way?

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    Thanks, really eye opening advice.
  10. M

    Collecting 762k in X Months?

    EXECUTION 
    I used to work for a graphics design company that was awful about collecting payments (basically, it survived on its overdraft and 50% customers got everything for free). Naturally this is unsustainable so faced with losing my job, I took it on myself to collect payments. Here is what helped me...
  11. M

    Mark Coker - 2016 Publishing Industry Predictions

    PUBLISHING 
    Interesting article. I don't doubt Amazon's ambition to lower payments made by Kindle Unlimited and tighten the restrictions by Kindle select. But what's going to happen when it just becomes unsustainable for authors to write books?
  12. M

    Do you want to do it the EASY way, or the HARD way?

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    Awesome post. I think the 'easy' niches advocated by courses are bubbles. There's too many people jumping into them. A lot of them have too much hope and not enough business sense and so will happily sell their product at a loss until they die and give up. But it doesn't seem there's any...
  13. M

    Freedom vs. Children

    NOTABLE! PEOPLE 
    I can't comment on this directly, as I don't have kids. But I do know of people with children who have set up businesses. My parents raised me and my sister while setting up a business and many of my aunts and uncles did so as well. I think it really comes down to time management and...
  14. M

    How much money do you realistically need to launch a private label product on Amazon?

    Thanks for the useful responses! biphase's advice is particularly good. Most courses advised to avoid those categories, so I guess that means they’ll also have low competition. I currently live in the UK. Does anyone have any experiences from Shipping product from UK to US? Originally, I...
  15. M

    How much money do you realistically need to launch a private label product on Amazon?

    Thanks for the useful advice. I'll dig around and see if I can find one that has low competition. Could you expand on the AMZ course checklist. Are you talking about the one by Mark Scott Adams? Thanks!
  16. M

    How much money do you realistically need to launch a private label product on Amazon?

    I’ve heard stories of people successfully launching a private label product with just $500. However, after doing some research, I think that $500 is very unrealistic. You probably need about $3k. (I’ve put my estimates in the spoiler tag). Is my estimate of $3K realistic? It seems awfully...
  17. M

    Star Wars, Force Awakens (Thought it Sucked, Spoilers Quarantined)

    OFF-TOPIC 
  18. M

    A few gem podcasts... What's your favorite?

    HOT! 
    My favs Entrepreneurial Entrepreneur on Fire - 7 days a week. Listen to this and all your fears/concerns about business melt away Smart Passive Income - Good for business ideas Self Made Entrepreneurs Who Turned Online Business Ideas into Dollars - Good for business ideas Fizzle - Good...
  19. M

    Star Wars, Force Awakens (Thought it Sucked, Spoilers Quarantined)

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I thought it was... okay (although I only have a passing interest in Star Wars). I suppose a big franchise should probably deliver more.
  20. M

    What did you do in 2015?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I've mainly spent 2015 educating myself. I hope to start a business in making Amazon Ebooks and doing Amazon FBA and then expand it from there. For the Ebook side, I've done all the research in finding a profitable niche. I was just burned by the hire of my first writer, so I need to try again...

Welcome to an Entrepreneurial Revolution

The Fastlane Forum empowers you to break free from conventional thinking to achieve financial freedom through UNSCRIPTED® Entrepreneurship where relative value and problem-solving are executed at scale. Living Unscripted® isn’t just a business strategy—it’s a way of life.

Follow MJ DeMarco

Fastlane Resources

Get The Books that Change Lives...

The Fastlane entrepreneurial strategy is based on the CENTS Framework® which is based on the three best-selling books by MJ DeMarco.

mj demarco books
Back
Top Bottom