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    My car flipping experiment

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    My buddy used to be pro in car flipping. Two things I learned from him are that profit is made when you buy the car and that painting/details matter when selling. He flipped a ton of cars and probably 70% of Honda CRX in Ukraine were once his. He knew the market really well and were able to...
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    Does anyone need anything?

    HOT! 
    May I jump in? 1. Charge more always. It's tough to increase the fixed price if you can't provide a strong reason that the customer would understand. But raising prices would average out those ups and downs. 2. Yes, paid support after 12 months sounds fine. You're not charging monthly so that's...
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    This Is Upsetting

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Yes, and just think of who will bid on 3-5/hr and why they won't just ignore it. It's not about average salary in the country. Why would someone do the job for 5 if they can find something on upwork for 30+? The only reason I see is they can't. Bad English, low skills, no experience, etc. P...
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    What will you accomplish in 2019?

    EXECUTION 
    Build an income stream detached from time to cover 2x my family expenses. Afford at least one free day in a week; get back to offroading and enduro Stop drinking energy drinks unless totally necessary Eat more healthy (less meat, more vegetables)
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    Big Life/Financial Decision, What Would You do?

    I've built a house in a similar situation for stability, but that's mostly because I'm married and we wanted kids. If I was single I would think about it more from a financial and convenience point of view. "Paying cash" for a house to live in is not an investment, a mortgage is even worse...
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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Week -2 A little update while I have some time. NDA project had a new best day on Monday, beating the previous best day by almost 70% and going very well for the whole week. It's got announced competition coming soon. One side-product from an established company in the big industry for our...
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    A sales tip for techies

    MARKETING 
    YES and this is what differentiates successful & growing service businesses from stagnating ones. People, especially those who were highly-specialized employees before, focus more on doing their thing instead of helping the client to achieve what he wants. Most freelancers and probably 80%+ of...
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    Are you sure you don't have time ? Facing these addictions affecting your schedule.

    MINDSET 
    ^^ true, being addicted to your goal gives much more time than you actively work on achieving it. It totally consumers every spare minute of your mind, except when having fun with kids. 1) A few weeks ago we decided to not prepare the majority of the food ourselves and buy from the restaurants...
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    Podcast discussion: TropicalMBA.com/services

    That would definitely pay out long term. Something that's detached from time usually takes time to get going, and short-term income is definitely lower than with offering skilled consultancy but at some point, it would get to the point where "hourly-rate" is much better than with consultancy...
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    Podcast discussion: TropicalMBA.com/services

    Really liked the service episodes on TropicalMBA and thanks for pointing me there. Main takeaway: Switch to products :rofl:
  11. astr0

    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Week -3 Attachment for the previous post. Had issues with it probably due to forum going down, can't edit the previous post too.
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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Week -3 Yes, that has some changes. Some goals from the previous table didn't have much sense and was more a result of overthinking than of what's really important. I've also decided to not include specific business goals here, and focus only on what's really important. The current version is...
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    I cant choose wether to learn HTML/CSS (web design) or Python! Please help

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    HTML/CSS is more design than programming. JS/Python is programming and once you learn one of them, the other will be not a big deal to learn. I would say JS is easier, just got much more "wft?" moments. You shouldn't be using them, but it's good to know what they are as that would save you hours...
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    Should I learn digital marketing or coding as a 17yo?

    MARKETING 
    Have you ever seen Google Ads of Portugal businesses? If so, someone is running them already. I bet even you can do that even in poorer Ukraine. Just make sure that business owners would think of it as an investment and opportunity, not cost and expense. Of course, you should try your best to...
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    [Progress] #AndyTalks

    NOTABLE! 
    Sure, I was talking more about natural social and "SEO" views/shares. At least there are links to them on this forum and many people are lurking here daily. You contribute to this forum a lot of value so people might be looking for more of your content and, for example, find this thread or other...
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    How to filter ideas?

    IDEA 
    For the first business, the most important thing is actually solving a problem. Filling a need with a product or service that people would pay for. Many people just do something cause they got a great idea that no one ever thought of (they do). Sometimes it ends with billion-dollar businesses...
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    How do you guys come up with a viable business idea ?

    IDEA 
    Do you have something you want to improve for yourself? Maybe you know what was hard on of the industries you had experience with and that can be made simple. Or your friends struggle with something. You can just pick up any niche you know a bit and ask people what they struggling with. If you...
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    Business advice

    How about approaching it from a different angle? You rent the apartments and tell the owner that you would be renting them to strangers daily. Get that into put into the contract to get fewer troubles later. Some would be ok with that but would probably want a bigger pay. You manage the property...
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    How to filter ideas?

    IDEA 
    Do your ideas come from the solution or the need? The ones that came from knowing the needs/wants and figuring out the solution are better. How well can you execute them? How strong is your proof of the need? How many people you can potentially help in scale or magnitude? Do you have a good...
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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Quick update: NDA Project got titled app of the week on another online niched magazine. We're pretty much got China and the English-speaking world going and focused on Russia and South Korea now. Still no localization though. Korea can be huge from the feedback we got already.

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