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  1. Bekit

    How I hacked my dopamine to train and reward desired work behaviors and halt procrastination

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I've been meaning to post this for a while now, thinking it might help other people. I'm also curious to know if other people have experimented with anything similar to this and gotten similar results. This thread finally prompted me to write this down. I invented a method for myself that has...
  2. Bekit

    How do you keep track of your competitors?

    I would say it's not just the largest ones. If you're a small player in an industry with competitors of all sizes, it's also useful to look at the methods and tactics of the companies your size (because sometimes it isn't realistic to think that you can copy the things that the big dogs are...
  3. Bekit

    Dopamine. The missing piece of the success puzzle. (Improve Locus of Control, Motivation, Self-control)

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    So I'm basically exactly like Gary Fritz in this post. This has been the case for me ever since I was a kid. My dad is the same way. His dad is the same way. Several of my siblings share these traits with me, at varying levels of severity. Funny thing, I excelled in school, not because I...
  4. Bekit

    How do you keep track of your competitors?

    I've used Spyfu and SimilarWeb to see what my competitors were doing. I make it a habit to look at the way that the largest competitors in my space are marketing themselves. The largest companies have the budget to do multiple rounds of testing. If they are doing their landing pages a certain...
  5. Bekit

    I want to write a -really- polarizing / antagonizing book

    It takes guts to do something like that. It reminds me of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle. It brought about a total transformation of the meat packing industry in the United States. The Jungle - Wikipedia In today's world of interconnected everything, I would not think that publishing under a...
  6. Bekit

    Random Entrepreneurship/Success Studies Thread

    It's not that these things aren't good. It's that these things aren't rewarded in the same way in school as in the rest of life. I was someone who did very well in school, only to struggle massively in the workforce. It's very disorienting when you learn to play and win by one set of rules...
  7. Bekit

    Hoping for feedback

    What's your end goal in this? Or what's in it for you? Is it to create a repeatable process for guys like you, that you can sell to others using a small staff? Is it to just get the word out about your own stuff? Is it to avoid using the services of a digital marketing agency? Is it to...
  8. Bekit

    I made a sample and sold it quickly, but still skeptical. Is there enough feedback?

    Another way you can validate the concept is through taking pre-orders. Post the product photo of the one you sold and advertise it by saying something like, "Preorder your __[item]__ for __[$price]__ and receive it in __[14 days or however long it will take you to make it]__." That's a way...
  9. Bekit

    Scam to beat up Somebody

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    That is shocking. It's kind of like an in-person version of some of the car accident scams that are out there, where someone intentionally tries to provoke road rage. Or a really twisted, dark type of flash mob. I'm sorry you got hurt. Did the incident get captured on store video footage...
  10. Bekit

    Corporate Gifts

    Last year, I went through a course called Giftology by John Ruhlin. That contains the best information I have ever encountered at the effective use of corporate gifts. You could also look up his book on the same topic.
  11. Bekit

    How great is your business idea from a CENTS perspective? Find out instantly...

    GOLD! IDEA 
    Love this! I tried the tool on my employer's business and got a D-. :eek: (Link to results) However, it raised a question. There was a section that estimated the lifetime profitability of this business at $25,000, but we are in an industry where the profit on a single sale is in the 6-7...
  12. Bekit

    The Undercover Billionaire: Building a $1m business in 90 days

    HOT! MINDSET 
    You'd probably enjoy MJ's video on this concept if you haven't run across it before: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBtdmJWoTc
  13. Bekit

    Popups vs embedded sign up forms for email addresses?

    The bigger question is, are you giving away something that's juicy enough to get people to take you up on it? This is a much more powerful lever than which mechanism you use to offer it to them. Is it something that feels so valuable, they just can't resist it? Is it something they can't find...
  14. Bekit

    You copywriters are being replaced by AI..

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Yeah. It's like saying that e-commerce will take away the job of top sales reps. Just because a computer can sell products doesn't mean that there's no place left in the marketplace for a person who is skilled at closing deals. Copywriting is salesmanship in print. If AI is creating (and...
  15. Bekit

    My business is crumbling. I need help

    Hey PJ, Sorry to hear about all this. That's rough! It must feel terrifying to be in that predicament. Survival kicks in and you must be under a ton of stress. You have had an amazing rise to success, and I think you can continue that success. Here are the facts I see: Your skill at cold...
  16. Bekit

    Time to shake things up: Universal Basic Income?

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    For lodging to be free, that implies that individual ownership of property goes away and the government owns it all. Not a scenario that I like. Want to move to a cabin in the woods? Not so fast. Apartment life for all, if the government says so. For food to be free, who is doing the work to...
  17. Bekit

    Thread Started By Me Last Year And Finished Now - Times Have Changed

    INTRO 
    Great intro! Welcome to the forum. Congratulations on your success so far!
  18. Bekit

    Decided to take action and add Value

    SIDE HUSTLE RANT 
    With ads like this on your site, no one except for scammers will take you seriously. As a copywriter, I initially thought, "Oooh, cool, the Boron letters in a PDF? That sounds valuable." And as a copywriter, I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you're just learning. Maybe...
  19. Bekit

    Entrepreneur/Inventor Needs Help, Stationary Product

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    OK, in order to market this thing, let's look at it through the lens of the commandment of NEED. You say it "answers the problem of 850 million brochures being distributed in the U.S every year and nothing to hold or organize them with." This right here is where you're going to run into your...
  20. Bekit

    Equifax is paying you $125 if you were affected by the 2017 breach

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    Just FYI, if you submit the claim, or even if you do nothing, you give up the legal right to sue Equifax separately. You have to specifically opt OUT of the class action suit if you want to have the option to sue them for damages. From the website: (Source) The deadline to exclude yourself...

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