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    Do You Have a Business Coach?

    Curious how many people here have business coaches or executive coaches? If so, has the investment paid off for you? I'm good at what I do but I could definitely do better. I'm considering hiring one for 6 months to help me find more solutions and build better business habits.
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    What Employee Roles Have You Hired For Your Business?

    Are you creating your own products or are you just skillfully marketing preexisting products?
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    What Employee Roles Have You Hired For Your Business?

    Thanks! Looking forward to reading those. So, are you also the supervisor/manager for the lower roles now that you mentioned..or have you found a solution for that?
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    What Employee Roles Have You Hired For Your Business?

    I should clarify that I have brought in many contractors to do some of the work based off e-myth strategy.. It does save me some time but in essence I've also created even more work for myself because I have to manage them.
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    What Employee Roles Have You Hired For Your Business?

    I actually read it. Good book and great theory. Felt like it was only step 1 for me though. Looking for step 2 now so to speak...
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    What Employee Roles Have You Hired For Your Business?

    Very helpful! How did you go about designing your structure? That's the part I'm most confused about. I need help and I could use help in lots of different areas. As you mentioned in that post..it helps to know which employee roles to hire in order. We have admin support and some product...
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    What Employee Roles Have You Hired For Your Business?

    I know many of us are in different businesses but I've aways found it beneficial to learn from ALL types of businesses. As 1 of my businesses is growing I'm realizing that I need to learn more about organizational structure and scaling strategy through bringing on key players. So, for those...
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    Has Anyone joined the Secret Entourage Academy?

    I have a few questions. 1What kind of actionable content is actually in there? Is it designed for mostly beginners/wantrapreneurs or for people who already have legitimate businesses? Also,what's up with all the expensive cars in many of your images and ads?
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    Disagree with some of the book

    Business plans are not completely useless. It's always helpful to think through strategy, objective and to improve your focus on what you're trying to do. A business plan can help you do that. The only problem is that business plans become obsolete incredibly quickly once you actually start...
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    Spellcheck anyone?

    This is hilarious. Just got this sentence in a cover letter and thought I'd share…. "Dear Hiring Manager Greetings YES , I CAN FIX THE ISSUE . My Moto is "Perfection comes first." ---------------------------------------------------- Actually it looks like perfection comes second.
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    Question about venture capital

    That seed money will flow much smoother when you have proof of concept and a customer base. Right now, many VC's will either ignore you or offer you completely piss poor terms. Go make some sales first. Then, proceed to getting VC money if/when it works. You'll be in a much better position to...
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    Get an MBA to expand connections or save-up to bootstrap first business?

    Let me save you $25,000- $75,000 per year. Start going to networking events in your area. Do this regularly for a year. Build your connections that way. You don't need to go to school to find cofounders.
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    Best Place To Get UPC Codes For Your Product?

    Thanks Jon!
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    Best Place To Get UPC Codes For Your Product?

    We've gotten interest recently from a media buyer who wants to sell one of our products in physical stores. Right now most of our products are only being sold exclusively through our own site. So, we haven't had to get UPC codes for them as of yet. If we are going to sell through some...
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    Get an MBA to expand connections or save-up to bootstrap first business?

    Personally I would bootstrap and put your time, money, and energy into your business. Just make sure you allot your time properly. You'll learn way more from actually doing real business. Amazing things happen when you have to actual come up with real solutions to business problems as opposed...
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    ? Best self-employed business entity for mortgage?

    Agreed on this. Why are you so desperate to get a house? I know it's the dream of a lot of people but you still have to be disciplined. If a house is too much of your income you're putting yourself at unnecessary risk. According to the usual percentage they do..a house should not account for...
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    ? Best self-employed business entity for mortgage?

    Although 'A' doesn't always equal 'B'. I chose my CPA because I was one of his smaller clients. I don't want to be in the top 5% income of the people my CPA advises. So, I was looking for someone with a huge amount of experience dealing with wealthy clients. Someone with a deep knowledge of...
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    ? Best self-employed business entity for mortgage?

    1. From a mortgage perspective they will absolutely look at your last 2 tax returns regardless of what business entity you have. 2 From a which is a better tax vehicle for your business perspective….it depends on so many factors…i.e. your income, whether or not you have employees, contractors...
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    Insight into digital nomads

    HOT! MINDSET 
    This nails it right here. Great statement. It definitely can work with you if you do it the right way. I have 2 pieces of advice for you as you built your framework to do this. 1. Set up automation systems as much as possible. 85% of 1 of my businesses is automated now. Every month this #...
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    Taking multi-million dollar jewelry business to the next level

    Yes, to everything @nzertino just said. There's a huge range of quality in the SEO industry. You have to be very careful who you hire because if you hire somebody who does what I call 'short term' SEO you're putting your future search engine rankings at risk. Most SEO agencies are incentivized...

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