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  1. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Oof, glad I haven't made my BigRichard69 account yet.
  2. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    This is a huge one. Read TMF in 2019 as well and found the forum but was looking for an easy "out" and I was fresh out of college without much in real-world industry skills. Tried a couple of the touted classic freelancing routes that now have a (deservedly) bad rep and even went in on web...
  3. RicardoGrande

    I am Pissed about The Great Rat Race Escape and Amazon... and the world!

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    This is the biggest head scratcher. When I had my FTE way back when I think I went through like 40-50 of the most commonly recommended "business" books that were just surface level garbage and platitudes. After that it was to kindle unlimited (has been schlock for awhile, content farming and...
  4. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    In terms of death or greivous injury it was never just the idle scroller meets semi for me; it was wondering what happens when a shoelace or a baggy pant-end gets caught in the wheel as you're going 35mph down hill. I would honestly rather ride a chinese-made motorcycle across the summertime...
  5. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Is that skibidi toilet on the bottom? Also why do you always write like you're a twitter lifestyle guru.
  6. RicardoGrande

    Facebook Ads a myth?

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    Disclaimer: Haven't tried or ran FB ads. With that out of the way, a lot of biz owners who've ran them I've talked to or those I've listened to on recent (spring 2023 and forward) podcasts interviews mention that it just got a lot harder to run ads. Appears that a good chunk of targeting is...
  7. RicardoGrande

    Comfortable with a lack of hunger...

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Literally what Muhammad here said, it's why I started the QUESTION - Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work thread to drop random stupid and stupidly successful businesses I run across to PROVE it's in the doing, not the idea. One of the companies in the thread LITERALLY just...
  8. RicardoGrande

    Starting a pizza / pizzeria business, talk me out of it

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    Just my 2 cents, but I saw a LOT of people quit their jobs in 21-22 and try to make a food truck work and it seems to be a rather good little hustle-cum-business. The guy that runs the sketchy-@ss coffee van near me said he didn't expect to make it past 2 months but he replaced his dayjob...
  9. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Appreciate it, It's not easy but I need to get out of wage slavery. For the other points: from everything I've seen, everyone else who got caught up trying to "perfect their website" and do seo optimization is still at square 1 selling a commodity in a sea of "125$ website!" offers whereas...
  10. RicardoGrande

    WHO do I cold call?

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    Who has a problem that you can solve? Who in those businesses has control and the ability to execute on purchases?
  11. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    Yeah I'd say don't go for it it's 3k/yr. He promises there's coaching and accountability but I don't trust anything that expensive and recurring. Thing is: A bunch of success stories were people who either only read his book, listened to the pocasts, or were in his paid course back when it was...
  12. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    GOLD! HOT! IDEA 
    Yet another one: "What if Workout supplements... but alpha gigachad?" They don't seem to have been in operation for too long but already at almost 900 amazon reviews. Seems to be coffee with a few extras in it. Again, posting these because I'm stupefied at how easy and quick this can be...
  13. RicardoGrande

    Rate this another idea : "SaaS to train people against phishing attacks"

    IDEA FEEDBACK 
    Came here to post this, I have salesmen reaching out to me at least 1-2x a month selling security trainings and phishing simulation. Microsoft already offers it with basic office licensing now and it'd be hard to beat them considering security training is usually begrudgingly allowed and seldom...
  14. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Can't fathom why people in the vicinity of someone wealthy would think for a second they can just demand their money. "YO MAN I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS?" On the flipside, this also reminds me how neckbeards on twitter and reddit read net worth estimates and jump to the conclusion of "ELON MUSK...
  15. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    I came a hair's breadth from just dropping WD today. To be honest, it's still weighing on my mind. Contact and finding semi interested people at the 3/10/100 ratio isn't a problem. The problem is all the ghostings for people that specifically ask for meetings or go through a meeting and ask for...
  16. RicardoGrande

    Average IQ of a Fastlane Millionaire?

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    Good takeaway at the end. Largest chunk of IQ is inheritable but developing and solidifying that/ learning how to use it well is a gift not everyone may be blessed with in their upbringing. The other thing I really see compounding that is upbringing and expectations. I breezed through schooling...
  17. RicardoGrande

    Average IQ of a Fastlane Millionaire?

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    Being 2 smart holds you back, you overthink. That's y I've been committing myself to a daily practice of huffing turpentine ans canned air in order 2 smoothbrain-max and de-smartify myself. Not only will I be dumb enuff to start selling men-branded butthole wipes lik the 23 year olds I see on...
  18. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    GOLD! HOT! IDEA 
    Yeah, simple, visible stuff like that (and in this thread) are success cases one can see all the time. In one of the DFW TFF meetups in 2019 there was a kid who showed up who helped run his family's ecomm shop. His parents started it as a side a thing selling equipment for what you'd think is a...
  19. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    GOLD! HOT! IDEA 
    Here's another one: Have to parse out some relative's belongings and get rid of it or find a way to move the cool stuff forward. Was on the page of a local antique mall when something caught my eye- they do a community market every Sunday. "Okay, well what's so special abo-" They charge...
  20. RicardoGrande

    Growing a window cleaning business

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    Dude, amazing work on taking action. Especially putting everything on a credit card and just running with it. If you create any biz website and tie it to google site kit (can be slapped in as a wordpress plugin), google will usually give you a 500$ free google adwords voucher. If you use that...

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