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  1. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I thought the same thing and it turned me onto Dr. Weston Price and Mike Mew's work. Have my diet mostly dialed in now but unfortunately, I like beer a lot so the cavities will continue until my morale improves :happy:
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    Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Fastlane Meetup.

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    Howdy guys, looks like it's been awhile. Who'd be interested in doing a meetup in the middle of August, say the 16th or 23rd? We can hit up a Dave and Busters or an other fine dining establishment and engage in entreprenurial camraderie with such things as: - Complaining about high interest...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    They're already here, one went up in north DFW where it's a bunch of 800sqft "homes" (bougie trailers) and last I saw they were selling starting at 220k and yes, each one is only set about 18 inches apart from the next. Full of people driving brand new jeeps plastered in stickers and rubber...
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    Dead People: The Good Folks Who Have Left Us...

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    Another one right after Hulk. Also this would be what, the 5th or so King of the Hill cast member to pass before the reboot?
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    Has anyone had success with LinkedIn outreach tools like Waalaxy?

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    When I was first getting into outreach tools in 2021 waalaxy and duxsoup were very popular, at this point, with all the other people using tools to spam on linkedin (besides the general low quality of the posts now) it's just another turd amongst many in the punch bowl.
  7. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Mid week update Having more conversations and meetings with people I've met from groups. Had a sales call yesterday (finally!) but I won't hear back on approval until november or december. Right now I'm building a portfolio page design to keep myself busy, I'm running the FB ads but the newer...
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    From Burnout Freelancer to Thriving CEO: How I Built a $120000 Business Against All Odds

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    Dog are these still the default DIVI prebuilt numbers in your template? I might be a beer-addled freelancer but at least I know what diligence is.
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    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Alrightyyyyy Ads/leads New adsets with tweaked headline and longer-form copy (apparently emojis are helpful) have been written, new campaign created and scheduled to run this week for an extra day with a generous budget. I still have leads from last week and a handful of old leads to follow up...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    This is heartening to me because I don't like protein bars (and definitely not vegan) but I find the utility in them and I've seen a gap in my end of the market open for years. I keep procrastinating on making my first order from a coman and getting my own bar started, but I know there's other...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I'll tag onto this: Projects: - For an existing client, I'm not getting paid until some revisions are done, I've already done most of their work but they're dragging on getting me photos. I want to have that zipped up the moment it's over and I pray it'll be before Wednesday. - I don't have...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Honestly, if you have an ipad or a laptop and don't mind paying for a usb cable, rocksmith+ does piano tabs now and has adaptive difficulty meaning you can start from the bottom and work up. Only issue is that hand+eye coordination is a big part, I know of some great youtube guitar lessons but...
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    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Alrighty! Ads so far: I need a LOT of tweaking and thankfully the wonderful Mark Spray has been kind enough to counsel me with that. About 80$ in so far, I got two leads, one didn't speak english and one hasn't picked up his phone in the 3 times I called him. Working on re-doing copy/headlines...
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    How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days

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    30$/set, still running, only location and age range like you mentioned in the thread, and to a built-in lead form yes. 3 ads in the set since I followed your advice here and when I DM'd you to the letter, my copy is really short and to the point and I'm wondering if I need to rework it. So far...
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    How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days

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    Appreciate it, I saw some other posts in the thread and assumed I'd be getting at least 1-2 leads a day. I will admit my copy has a long way to go but I dialed it in as best I could based off the breadcrumbs int his thread.
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    How My 19-Year-Old Son Built an $8K Web Design Business in 60 Days

    GOLD! WEB DESIGN 
    Just ran my first day of ads with a 30$ budget and... nothing. I did have one random guy like an ad at some point. Back to the drawing board.
  18. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    You're right, it's a blessing in disguise. I had a decent gig awhile back and a few years in, everytime I asked about CE, tuition reimbursement or a promotion I got awkward coughs and some muttered platitudes. They asked the world but gave nothing back. After I left they went through a few...
  19. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Surprise client site almost done, spent most of the weekend working on it. It's a big improvement from what he had, next big issue will be convincing him to switch to wix, then eventually sign up to get a WP site I'll build that can grow with his business. Put out some fires with my own site and...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    One of the weirdest things about being "self-employed" now is that I actually have the will and the drive to work on client stuff or acquisition all the time. It's 8pm right now and I think I still have another hour or so left in me working on this project. Beyond that, I'm actively reaching out...
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