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  1. RicardoGrande

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

    EXECUTION 
    Hey there, You may know me from my Web Design thread where I learn the ins and outs of salesmanship, winning business, delivering, and scaling and ALL of the associated hits that come with that :happy:. Besides all the learning and getting the hell out of the soul-sucking corporate job (the...
  2. RicardoGrande

    Car Detailing Business

    IDEA 
    As long as you put in the work for outreach, it can work. I've called all over my city (Huge metropolis covering about 75 square miles) and I've run across a STUPID amount of car detailers. Doesn't matter the neighborhood rich or poor, a one man operation or a small business- they can find and...
  3. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Still at it, more payments from clients! Fell into a better and more productive flow again, but contending with the dayjob is still a spirit-breaker that keeps tossing me off my game and tanking my outlook/mindset. Mainly fighting mindset and negativity, especially when I'm at work and even if I...
  4. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    You did! For some reason, I have no problem digging up a list and sneaking in calls during my breaks at work (peak hours where I'm awake and have energy) and rejections are no problem, calling is fun. Cramming everything else into the other ends of the day is the troubling part. A friend has...
  5. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Late October Update: Still on the ball, still calling, still getting incidental interest. Accidentally fell into a full sales call for what would be my biggest single project payment yet. The problem? I'm still stuck on a project from the middle of september. It's not an excuse, but it is hell...
  6. RicardoGrande

    0 conversion rate - when should I give up

    MARKETING 
    Hey Mester, Good on you for trying something! It looks like a lot of people gave you a tough time here, I wanted to point out the flipside: plenty of TFFers made money, make money, or made their entire fortunes on ecommerce. So maybe the thing you picked off of alibaba didn't have any draw...
  7. RicardoGrande

    Companies to AVOID as you succeed in your FASTLANE...

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    Appreciate this perspective. Only on my second year of SG, first year at "full" pricing and thought the 320$ number for a year of hosting was a bit steep. I'll have to go find a new provide that has good security/migration plugins like SG did, but I've got time for that.
  8. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    Whoa, what happened with siteground?
  9. RicardoGrande

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

    HOT! CHAT 
    Half of it seems to be the difficulty but the other half seems to be awareness. I've been on TFF for years but thought all the stories about people freelancing or starting a service biz were doing it on a fluke or sheer luck. Doing my cold calls, called up a guy who currently owns a commercial...
  10. RicardoGrande

    Anyone here with prior experience developing a food product/brand?

    Necro'ing this thread. I have a special albeit common diet and I've had a HUGE need for some products for a few years now but no one has stepped up. There are products like it but no one has given it the skew I think it would take to make it successful. Basically, you can purchase and try to...
  11. RicardoGrande

    Alex Hormozi. What is your opinion? Mine is (mostly) negative.

    GURUS 
    I'm more concerned an account with like 4 posts posted 2 sentences of a dumb question and has riled up almost everyone on the forum over nothing... but that could just be me. Like seriously it's Friday night what's with all the essays people.
  12. RicardoGrande

    Alex Hormozi. What is your opinion? Mine is (mostly) negative.

    GURUS 
    To play devil's advocate and to riff of this. A big point many overlook is his acquisition.com. His entire media/ad/video blitz is to put you into his funnel, though he's not selling you anything now, he wants to have you in the future. Basically his entire brand and his wife's entire brand...
  13. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Hey Spiritus! Thanks for stopping by. Hahaha glad to hear even existing agencies have the same problem and it's been around for awhile. I need to niche, but right now I have two goals 1) Get first projects out the door, get results and learn about MRR-cultivating add ins like SEO 2) Learn how...
  14. RicardoGrande

    Could someone kick my a$$ and make me work on my business?

    MINDSET 
    No one will come to kick your a$$. No one will take the beer out of your hand and turn off the tv after the long day at work. No one will have coffee made for you when you wake up at 5am to do some fastlane work before your dayjob shift. No one will pat you on the back for working as hard as...
  15. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Still with it, still on calls. Nothing is a given but fell backwards into a potential project and that biz owner has a friend who needs a site as well and they want to meet at his office sometime this week. I'm finding I'm struggling to get my existing sites out while having to do my dayjob...
  16. RicardoGrande

    How I grew my SEO client base.

    Whoa, didnt realize I committed some necromancy here. Saw this thread in the activity section in the home page. And thanks Bizy, that rings true with the other stories Ive encountered and my experience on the phones recently. Basically, someone is always going up no matter the conditions, and...
  17. RicardoGrande

    How I grew my SEO client base.

    Marfling, you mentioned you started all this in 07/08? Do you have any mindset tips for people in a similar situation? Im finding leads and getting sales just like you did but I keep clinging onto the dayjob because the economy seems "scary", thing is, people like you and fastlane dad both...
  18. RicardoGrande

    Conquering depression

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Hey heavy! Good job with everything Looks like you're still working on waking up early. I don't know if you have a dayjob, but here's my two cents on how I went from being an after-midnight sleeper to an in-bed-by-8pm kinda guy: - Switch to using only a desklamp in the evenings for your...
  19. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Got a callback from a biz owner I was playing phone tag with. I pitched him using my hyper-deadly business owner super seduction mega-quadrangle pitch. "Huh... I guess that sounds interesting... hey do you do web design by the way? My site's kinda sh!t." I have no words :rofl: back to the...
  20. RicardoGrande

    Does a Digital Marketing agency make C.E.N.T.S?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    MJ and Black Dragon already stepped in, but here's my two cents (no pun intended). While any j@ck@$$ can come along and install wordpress for a business and maybe make money, you will never magically get buyers knocking down your door just for having a site that says "I do SEO- 497.97$ :D". So...

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