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  1. RicardoGrande

    How to get your first customer?

    IDEA MARKETING SAAS / APPS 
    It sounds like you're dealing with a service that relies on business websites. Here it seems they need to 1) feel pain in not being able to sell from their current and 2) need to have the cash on hand or the willingness to work with you. It sounds like you've found some sites already, are you...
  2. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    https://www.capitalism.com/podcast/shannon-lume/ Listened to this earlier today. Really had some heart to it because she: - Started at 39 - Juggled a fulltime job as a doctor - Lost her daughter - Had to formulate her product in her own kitchen at first, then get it patented - Missed out on the...
  3. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Alright, it's been another month on the grind: Negatives: - Views but no bites on cold e-mails, I have yet to call a good chunk of those owners. - 3k$ commercial service business job is on hold as owner goes through some book keeping- he's also thinking about shuttering said business and taking...
  4. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-instant-pot-and-the-miracle-kitchen-devices-of-yesteryear Instant pot filing for chapter 11. What I really took interest in was a statement that reflected my own experience: Instant pots were generally well made, quality products. I have one that's...
  5. RicardoGrande

    [redacted]

    EXECUTION 
    If you look at Japanese vending machine review videos, they have a few similar products but I think most of those use some premade components (broth, noodles, fried/breaded food). What type of market do you have in mind for an automated from-fresh food bot? Do you know what servicing costs...
  6. RicardoGrande

    Stuck on the loop of finding ideas

    RANT 
    Hey man, first up: good on you for not giving up. I started the ride back in 2018 too and I don't know if you've look at your acquaintances or other people in the game around you, but take a moment to look at all the other people that gave up and went back to their jobs or rotting in front of a...
  7. RicardoGrande

    I'm working 16 hours a day and still don't know what the hell I'm doing.

    IDEA 
    Different angle than the other responses in this thread: What you're noticing is completely common. Unless you're on your hands and knees scrubbing tile grout with a toothbrush, most things you do or engage with will usually have 80% of the results come from 20% of the work. I've had projects...
  8. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    Zen and icecreamkid were before my time. Was zen the one ripping people off whereas icecreamkid provided value, or were they both sketchy as well? I remember that old gold thread by ick talking about "the ice cream" which essentially was just "give value" and got a bazillion likes back in 2019.
  9. RicardoGrande

    Is Outbound Sales Dead - I Need Help!

    CHAT RANT QUESTION 
    Have you done any calls, complete cold or to your previously e-mailed contacts, as well? Benjamin Dennehy, UK's most hated sales trainer is a bit of an angry b@stard but I feel he gets it right when he says "you can't hide behind a screen and expect to create results"*. *disclaimer: I cold call...
  10. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    Anyone else run into twitter/linkedin "fad" people but IRL? Just got my ear talked off by one of those AI bros today at a business event. A "process management specialist" and "business performance and results" coach who uses the "power of AI" to "supercharge local business and dominate the...
  11. RicardoGrande

    Email marketers... are you seeing these trends, too?

    MARKETING 
    I had to set up a new business e-mail to match my business domain instead of using a google inbox. Was using a warm up service which isn't anything new but had a good inbox hit rate for the warmups from the start. What was more surprising is that I seemed to be getting a very respectable 9/10...
  12. RicardoGrande

    My university is a huge energy sapper and it's a waste of time.

    Hey man welcome to TFF, and good on you for reading TMF so young and wanting to change. You're smart enough to reflect on TMF and realize that there's a lot of potential pain on the way if you "don't do anything NOW" and become a wage slave. Thing is, like @heavy_industry just said- abandoning...
  13. RicardoGrande

    [TFLF Call Replay] - For teens & students getting started

    NOTABLE! HOT! MEETUPS 
    Would love to pop in, looks like the calendly isn't accepting new sign ups?
  14. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Well, you have a dayjob that eats up most of your time and projects you absolutely have to work on outside of work and on the weekends outside of other obligations. You tried cold e-mails and had an abysmal response rate and networking events that work with your job schedule are few and far...
  15. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    More of a rant but I want to put this into the dirt and forget about it: During cold calling last year ran across a biz that was like "GOD YES!" on the phone. Was able to get a time and do the sales call, they were excited about the project and wanted a quick proposal to take to the owner. Did...
  16. RicardoGrande

    Executing an AAA Agency

    EXECUTION 
    Few notes for cold calls- -Try to find relatively small businesses that are doing good for themselves but probably don't have gatekeepers. -You can try go gatekeeper bust ("Is John in? thanks." terse, act like an important business person, make the secretary doubt their judgement and think...
  17. RicardoGrande

    (Slow Burn) Starting and Fastlaning a snack & nutrition brand.

    EXECUTION 
    Alright- Realized I'd put off starting an FB group for months and I realized it was purely out of some abstract fake "fear". I KNEW there were plenty of people who started and ran them, and most everyone in Ryan Moran's groups had no qualms starting them up for their communities. Already had a...
  18. RicardoGrande

    MLM - Who Moved My Cheese?

    GURUS 
    Not sure if that was "getting leads" as much as a "spectacular instant earning of negative karma, bad will, and poor reputation".
  19. RicardoGrande

    MLM - Who Moved My Cheese?

    GURUS 
    Just had this happen to me. Exchanged info at a business meetup with a dude and he off-hand mentioned he had a mentor. I congratulated him and within an attosecond he went "Yeah dude you should totally talk to him I can arrange a three-way call for us!". Didn't think much of it since people...
  20. RicardoGrande

    A Bio-Hacking Discussion: Cold Showers, Nicotine, Cryo, Float Tanks...

    HOT! CHAT 
    Tried out nicotine awhile back as mentioned here in the thread. Just quit them (again), and hopefully finally. Sure they're sort of "nice" but as time went on I noticed that everytime I used a pouch, I'd get hit with a wave of anxiety and my thoughts would race. Sure, I could be a *little* more...

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