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    Shopify Podcast - Brooklinen

    I saw this podcast and podcast transcript on Shopify, and thought it might interest you people here, specifically the parts about Kickstarter, and on how this couple did market research before launching their product. It's good stuff!
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    Why do I want to be wealthy?

    INTRO 
    No scorn here! I work part-time as a telemarketer for a local painter. Pretty sure I provide more value to more people that way then I do at my professional gig.
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    Why do I want to be wealthy?

    INTRO 
    I have a life I want to build, and slowlane money won't cut it. I want enough to afford both a place in the city and a place in country, as well as some reasonable travel for myself and my mom. More importantly, I want the freedom to enjoy it on my own schedule, and the freedom to work on my...
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Another two hours of paid sales self-training after work. I really do think Im getting better at it. Its not so much about reciting a script as it is 'having a conversation with intent to sell'.
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Ha! Point taken. I know things could be infinitely worse. As @Andy Black alludes, I'm not starving or being shot at so I don't have real problems. But I've gotten a lot of positivity from you folks today. Though the problems may be slight, they do still cause some pain and being present in the...
  6. Tapp001

    Our Cleaner has been fired!

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    Seriously, if you can afford to pay for the housework my god do it. Otherwise its a swirling vortex of time sink. Sounds like the decision was pretty unilateral, but I understand if there is little you can do to avoid causing friction. Give it a week or two, and let it sink in how much time and...
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Steps for today. 1) The sales job after work. Two hours of flow, learning to call, and learning to sell. 90 calls a night, with no fear. 2) Spend some time researching content promotion methods. Very related to my fastlane project.
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Yup! I started to come to this realization after finally making it to my dream job, working productively and happily for 9 months, then being kicked out the door with narry a thought. After that, the work seemed to loose its appeal. Its taken a few years to process. About six, as a matter of...
  9. Tapp001

    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Bold action. That's probably what it's going to take. I have no kids, but an SO who pretty much depends on me (and I do love her). But yah, I thinks its going to have to be now or never. Thank you for your insight!
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Sure! I'm 29.
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Thanks for the response! I wasn’t really expecting to get one. 1. What exactly DO you want? What is an ideal day in your life like? My ideal day… Wake up excited, working on my own things. Probably a business. Make decisions and so some important work. Then lunch and exercises, followed by...
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    5 Days in and already feel like I've FAILED

    EXECUTION 
    You can make it clear that its an opening offer, a one time thing. You are selling them one mowing for $5, then up-selling something else. Once someone buys one thing from you, they are likely to buy more.
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    5 Days in and already feel like I've FAILED

    EXECUTION 
    Maybe you need a Tripwire offer, so good it can't be ignored. "I will mow your lawn right now for $5". Then, you can up-sell them on a monthly service package, or extras like hedgeclipping. I also assume that you started with friends and family. Word of mouth be powerful stuff.
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    Life & Work Feels like Wearing a Lead Jacket

    MINDSET RANT 
    Is this a rant? I don’t know. Probably. So it’s marked ‘rant’. If you don’t want to read a long string of complaining bullplop than you should probably read one of the threads that will actually help enhance your life. But I’m writing because maybe others have dealt with this stuff as well, and...
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    5 Days in and already feel like I've FAILED

    EXECUTION 
    Yah, providing actual value makes sales so much easier. I have had two sales jobs. One, in 2010, selling imaginary conferences to CEOs. The product had no value (as I understood it), I was required to lie, and I sucked at it. I currently have a second job telemarketing house painting. It's a...
  16. Tapp001

    Leaving the Sidewalk

    EXECUTION 
    Update four. Im learning alot about telemarketing and life. Im in my second week of afterwork calls, and things are going pretty well. Im averaging 1 1/2 sales per session, with individual 2 hour sessions garnering between 0 and 3 sales. Here is what I have learned so far: 1) Process over...
  17. Tapp001

    Any Fastlane blogs out there?

    Sam Priestly's blog Arbing is also quite good!
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    It was E-Myth Revisited.
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    How about Robert Chialdani's Influence books?
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Just read The E-Myth and How to Win Friends and Influence People. Both very, very useful. I've start to apply Carnegie's philosophy in my daily life, and I've filed the knowledge from E-Myth away into my brain for future use (I start building fastlane stuff in September). Next up is Why it...

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