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  1. broswoodwork

    My business is crumbling. I need help

    This is way super deep over my pay grade, but can you offer a free or super discounted emergency "We want your business back" 1 month service to all of the clients that cancelled? It may fix the black eye, but it probably won't solve the cash flow issue. Hope someone smarter than me comes...
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    How I Got Over 50k Views To My Posts and Gained 700 Subs In 2 Months

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    You should flip through @Andy Black 's contributions, particularly under the query of "ban hammer", for what amounts to a how-to guide for adding a mountain of value that pulls forum members to your product/ service. I think you'd hit your next 50k views faster, the viewers would likely be...
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    You Need to Have A Bigger "Why" (What's Yours?)

    EXECUTION 
    Our "why's" as entrepreneurs are as silly as the tilting at windmill "what's" of identity focused kids. To live is to struggle, and to overcome is to keep living another day. At least we place our value in what we do, versus what we are or have... but I suppose even valuing that as superior...
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    Mow Your Own Lawn

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    ... I'm still not doing the dishes.
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    Can I swear here?...

    INTRO 
    I think there's some sort of magical line in the sand. It's definitely not 4chan, but the decorum is a bit more relaxed than other forums. Kind of a get it done, even if it's a little dirty. Think Patton.
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    Justification for Buying a Home for Business?

    We just want to help. I'd imagine most of us made the same mistake, putting the cart before the horse; the "if you build it, they will come". Some folks, myself included, and possibly you, can only learn through failure. "We are taxed four times by our folly.", Father Abraham. Way to...
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    Why Economists never mow their own lawn, and if you want to make money… neither should you.

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    I respect this philosophy! I get out of doing the dishes by telling my wife I'm working on Facebook ads all the time.
  8. broswoodwork

    Justification for Buying a Home for Business?

    Also, and I apologize for kind of blowing this thread up, but I've seen some of your other posts about low start up capital for the gear you need. You say you need a cnc machine, and I'm not sure how sophisticated you need it to be, but this dude has some awesome diy stuff you can probably...
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    Justification for Buying a Home for Business?

    I understand where you're coming from, but if there's a way to get customers to pay for your equipment, you'll be way ahead of the game. Here's my first "table saw". I built it out of a repurposed upturned chop saw a relative didn't want anymore and some scrap wood, and I let paying...
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    Homeschool mom

    INTRO 
    Can we back up and take a closer look at this?
  11. broswoodwork

    Justification for Buying a Home for Business?

    I've been ping ponging back and forth with this notion as well. My existing business has outgrown my current light industrial space, and buying a house in a more rural locale would definitely solve the shop size problem short term; moreover, it'd all be less $$$ monthly than what I'm...
  12. broswoodwork

    Girlfriend pregnant on execution

    HOT! 
    Time to get serious, dude. Use this (this meaning taking responsibility for a new life) as motivation to actually make it happen. A ton of us have used this very situation to stop F*cking daydreaming and start selling shit. You have an opportunity to the greatest thing a human can be, a person...
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    Niche retail has lots of room to grow

    Hi @AjeDad @Walter Hay has a book and thread in the marketplace about franchising your business as a means of pushing scale. I'm personally interested in hearing a bit more about what you do and how you did it, if you're looking to share your story.
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    Forum Self-Promotion Opp: Offers, Links, Your Business, More! (July W2)

    SELF-PROMOTION 
    There's just about zero overlap between my actual business and my activity here, and I'd like to keep that way if at all possible. I'm sorry to decline, and hope that's not rude... I have too much fun here to go and cross the streams with building fastlaner executive desks, laptop trays, or...
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    Forum Self-Promotion Opp: Offers, Links, Your Business, More! (July W2)

    SELF-PROMOTION 
    I'd like to give a plug to someone else, if that's allowed... @rynor built and configured my local ecommerce site. It's already paid for itself twice over and has only been live a week. It's paid for itself four times over really, because he's helped me truly exercise the commandment of...
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    The US Needs More Tradespeople

    HOT! 
    I'm a mess is what I am... I guess very very small direct to consumer manufacturer of furniture would be the classification (think turn of last century shoe-maker or something), but I'm working on growing out of that and into a very small, to hopefully someday just small, manufacturer. Read...
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    The US Needs More Tradespeople

    HOT! 
    Hit the nail on the head there! After reading E-Myth Revisited, I started busting the job into minimal functional tasks in my shop, wrote up some checklists that clearly define xyz job from clock-in to closing, and got some guys in there to do the job in mcdonalds system approach. Kind of...
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    Most Successful FLers To Learn From

    EXECUTION 
    What is it the Buddhists say? Something about, "when the student is ready, a teacher appears" No one person here or anywhere is going to be exactly what you need for any general category, even if you split those categories into 100 subheadings each. Sometimes you learn more from a Parked...
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    20 years old, planning to quit uni and move to Thailand to work on business

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    I'm sure someone has already asked, but will your business, as it exists today, pay for you to live in Thailand? If yes, who gives a shit; go for it. If not, get the adventure out of your system by reading some Kerouac.
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    Jordan Peterson on The Marshmallow Test

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    “Excellently observed,” answered Candide; “but now we must tend our garden.”

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