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  1. jesseissorude

    Forum Self-Promotion Opp: Offers, Links, Your Biz, More (October 2019)

    SELF-PROMOTION 
    Dude this is sick. Any plans for the channel? You could check out people like RJ Ronquillio for cues, he's just launched a slide guitar course on his website and using YT as lead gen for it. You could also engage your YT followers on Instagram or twitter so you can have more direct convos...
  2. jesseissorude

    Where to Start with Instagram 2019

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 
    GIMP It's pretty much an open-source Photoshop and extremely widely used, so there are a lot of forums / tutorials to find. If you are already good at Photoshop, it just takes a little poking around to figure out how to do the same things in GIMP. I just tried to remove the background from...
  3. jesseissorude

    Where to Start with Instagram 2019

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 
    Hmm, good question. I am in a similar situation. I have 2 distinct customers as well: end-users, and stores that buy in wholesale. For my situation, one instagram works. Wholesalers just want to see that I'm maintaining a brand image and that end customers are engaging with it. If they know...
  4. jesseissorude

    Where to Start with Instagram 2019

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 
    H'okay! Again, I'm not an expert yet, buuuut Hashtags: These have been super important for increasing my reach and getting new followers/engagement. Use a tool like Display Purposes | Photo Hashtags for the Modern Trollop to find good hashtags based on a seed phrase you give it. Have 20-ish...
  5. jesseissorude

    Prototype done. How to price my product when my goal is marketshare acquisition?

    Sorry for deserting the thread. Life happened and I had to fly to Montana to be with family suddenly. Always! I already have sales for it at 200, and two sales at 249. Thank you! That puts me right in line with what I'm expecting then. A store told me they'd want to try to sell it at...
  6. jesseissorude

    Your advice please

    Your next step should be to test if your specific designs and ideas solve a problem for your targeted customer. I assume the customer would be a gym owner who buys equipment for a gym. See if you can find someone like that and take them out to coffee or lunch and bounce your ideas off of them...
  7. jesseissorude

    Prototype done. How to price my product when my goal is marketshare acquisition?

    I finished a prototype of my product. Each unit costs $75.28 (in future runs I can get this to $50-60, but I'll use the proto costs for initial number crunching). But, what should my final retail price be? Are there any rules-of-thumb I could use to find an appropriate markup? I have a good...
  8. jesseissorude

    Banking, Cannabis, Adult Film, or Tech? Where's the Fast Lane?

    RED FLAG! Personally, going to school and getting my master's degree was one of the best decisions I've ever made... but that's because engineering was what I truly wanted to do with my life. Don't do something because it feels like you should. You'll end up just being mediocre at something you...
  9. jesseissorude

    Another scourge of the slowlane: open offices

    SLOWLANE RANT 
    lol, brilliant On the subject of open offices: I used to work for a tech startup and they got a new giant office. It really was a nice office, but of course everything was open (except for the higher-ups who all strategically placed their backs to walls). It made for a fun atmosphere... but...
  10. jesseissorude

    I bought another laundromat

    HOT! 
    ah Ha! This is exactly the kind of info I'd like to learn about. "Finding and Funding" is something I've never had to learn about, but I hope it'll be a nice problem to have for me someday. My grandparents ran a rental property empire in Florida where they found properties (strip malls...
  11. jesseissorude

    Billionaire Ray Dalio: Meditation is ‘the single most important reason' for my success

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Thanks! Just added it to my to-read list. Two that really helped me are: Wherever you Go, There You Are by John Kabat-Zinn Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart by Dr. Mark Epstein If you only read one of the two, go for Dr. Epstein's book. He makes vipassana meditation extremely relatable...
  12. jesseissorude

    Game of Thrones Season 8 Thread (SPOILERS)

    OFF-TOPIC 
    This is the longest running bummer of the show, imo. Book Euron is a certified badass, but show Euron is a conniving weasel that just wants to ruin other people's lives... but isn't particularly smart or capable, just mean. I think this is all going to be great marketing for George R.R...
  13. jesseissorude

    Lots of new faces here since I was active. What's your why?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I've been thinking about this thread for a while now. It's hard to put my why into words, but here goes: No one is guaranteed another day. An ex-girlfriend of mine was diagnosed with cervical cancer 4 days ago (she's only 25). A friend of mine died of cervical cancer 2 years ago at 24. She...
  14. jesseissorude

    ZF's progress thread

    EXECUTION 
    Iiiinteresting! At my last job, I was having to write copy for email collection tests for clients. I'd done it for hundreds of sites, and in some cases increased their email signups 3X in a single test. Still, I'd always have clients that would ask for revision after revision because they...
  15. jesseissorude

    ZF's progress thread

    EXECUTION 
    Oof, I wonder if there was a common thread among the botched gigs, like expectation management, unclear on what the deliverables are, etc. Sounds like you're up for the challenge though!
  16. jesseissorude

    I'm a fifteen year old kid who posted here more than one year ago. Here's what I've been up to.

    NOTABLE! FTE 
    God damn, if you are getting reactions like that, I might re-think your pitching process. I cold-call music stores to get the names of stockists/gatekeepers and find out if they'd be receptive to stocking my product. I always want them to hang up feeling glad that I reached out.
  17. jesseissorude

    How do i manufacture my automatic printer?

    at that volume, you'd be able to competitively fill orders of $139/$5 = 27 units (just for the jewel case) If I was considering getting just 20 units at 20*$5=$100, I'd just pony up the extra $40 to get 5x more CDs and full service printing/packaging. Plus, how much are the artists charging...
  18. jesseissorude

    Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk national achievers seminar

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Very cool to hear your experience! I've been seeing the ads for it here in Nashville for the past month on YouTube, my Instagram feed, etc. NOTHING in those ads hinted that there would be a recorded hologram of Gary Vee speaking. It was all very very clear that you would be seeing him and Tony...
  19. jesseissorude

    Florida Teachers Can What?

    RANT 
    Isn't it? Choosing your leader seems pretty primal. Even cavemen had to individually select/deselect themselves as the alpha of the group. But all that said, I'm a proud gun owner myself, and--regardless of what you think about the Florida law (I'm actually in favor of it)--the thought that...
  20. jesseissorude

    A longtime lurkers introduction

    INTRO 
    Awesome! You have a very compelling story. Honestly, I don't think lurking is so bad. You become a much better contributor for having lurked for a while before posting. There's so much to read here that you can get tons of value before you ever realize that you've found an unanswered...

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