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    What is the BEST "value" you ever paid for?

    NOTABLE! HOT! CHAT EXECUTION 
    It's also an example of how powerful great branding can be.
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    What is the BEST "value" you ever paid for?

    NOTABLE! HOT! CHAT EXECUTION 
    My passport. With it, I can go pretty much anywhere in this big, weird world. Every trip abroad makes me a little less of a provincial. Haven't used it as much lately as I would've liked to, though.
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    From Affiliate Marketing To Importing And Ecommerce

    MARKETING 
    This is an incredible thread, @hughjasle. Thanks so much for being so generous with your eCommerce expertise. I've read through the whole thread. It has inspired me, one, to learn how to build effective sales funnels, and, two, as a learning exercise, to build a sales funnel for a product line...
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    What do you guys think about John Kehoe?

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    My two cents: caring about other people's opinions can be a real strength—when it's directed at your product or service. As an entrepreneur, you really should care about what a prospect or customer thinks about your offering. What has gotten me bogged down in the past, though, is taking...
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    Lex DeVille's - I Deleted My Upwork Account...

    NOTABLE! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Hi @SinisterLex, I just submitted a graphic design job on Upwork. I'm starting to get annoyed by all the copy-and-paste me-me-me proposals. I'd like to point these sorry souls to an article or blog post by you that sums up your great approach to Upwork proposal writing. Would you post a link...
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    Ask Me Anything About App Business (100+ Apps, 10M+ Downloads, 1 Liquidity Event)

    AMA 
    That's a great mindset shift to suggest: to think of an app not as an app, per se, but as the vehicle for a business. I tend to get hung up on building the thing itself, rather than thinking about how the thing serves a need. Actually, that's something I've been pondering a lot lately, this...
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    How my Best Friend and Business Partner turned into my worst Enemy

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks for willing to be so forthright in your post. It sounds like you're really experiencing a lot of grief right now. Dealing with a betrayal like this can be a real challenge. For what it's worth, here's my answer to your question. It may sound out there, but give it a chance. Do nothing...
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    Ask Me Anything About App Business (100+ Apps, 10M+ Downloads, 1 Liquidity Event)

    AMA 
    Thanks for offering to do this AMA! I too am a developer. I build web apps using Node.js. I've also published a few apps to the Apple App and Google Play Stores, but with nowhere near your successful numbers. I'm very curious: what's your process for evaluating whether to build an app? How do...
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    CENTS, SaaS, and a $10 million exit in 3 to 5 years

    SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    UPDATE on the SaaS front I've been thinking about marketing a lot lately. The company needs a sales funnel. We have a contract to do a second pilot of our SaaS early next year. We're planning a pilot with a second customer in the spring. These contracts were won through long-standing industry...
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    Starting Out On Upwork as a Web Developer

    EXECUTION 
    Totally agree. Early morning, when the rest of the house and the neighborhood are asleep, is a fecund time to write.
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    I will help you find a product to sell on Amazon

    GOLD! 
    Hi @biophase, This is what I wrote to my doctor friend about his butterfly pen product idea: I think there's a deeper message there in the @biophase thread. Yes, he's not the right demographic. But he's an expert at determining what will be profitable on Amazon and what won't. You probably...
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    My journey to $8k/month of income in 6 months.

    EXECUTION 
    Okay then! Now that you put it in perspective, your customer acquisition cost doesn't seem all that high. It's great that your metrics around customers are stable. As you said, now it's just a matter of making incremental improvements to boost profits. You're well beyond the...
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    My journey to $8k/month of income in 6 months.

    EXECUTION 
    Very inspiring. It's great that you're responding to customer needs on the fly. Question: your customer acquisition cost seems really high. How did you arrive at that number? And what makes acquiring a customer so expensive?
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    I will help you find a product to sell on Amazon

    GOLD! 
    Thanks for the assessment of my friend's product, @biophase. It's much appreciated! I'm going to relay your comments.
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    I will help you find a product to sell on Amazon

    GOLD! 
    Hi @biophase, Love this thread. You're creating massive amounts of value. And saving a lot heartache for people down the road! I'd like to offer a product idea for your keen eye. My friend has a US utility patent (8182166) for a product. It's a butterfly pen--a butterfly knife with a pen...
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    Andy's AdWords Course - Get found by the people already looking for you

    MARKETPLACE 
    Hi @Andy Black , I read through this thread with great interest last night. It seems like you're really on to something here. I even began thinking about local businesses I know that could benefit from your expertise. To be able to deliver new customers to a client is a powerful thing indeed...
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    CENTS, SaaS, and a $10 million exit in 3 to 5 years

    SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    I share my past in my intro thread.
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    CENTS, SaaS, and a $10 million exit in 3 to 5 years

    SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    The other thing to consider is control. Taking cash from investors means giving up some measure of control. It's also, at this point, hard to value the company. Could be worth $1 million or more. Or could be worth 6x net revenue, which, at this point, is zilch. We've decided to bootstrap this...
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    Can I Get Some Advice on Enterprise Presales?

    Hi @Chromozone, I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to nerd out on you a little bit. I'm curious about the technical details of your process to develop an MVP. I'll share mine to start. When my partner and I came up with the idea for our SaaS, I built a wireframe in Photoshop of the mobile app...
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    Fear and Action-Faking in Entrepreneurship-- a 19 year old's guide to askholing.

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    This reminds me of that classic Cheech & Chong skit from Rhino Hi-Five (1978):

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