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    Introverts and introversion: How to succeed in an extroverted world.

    What's interesting about the article is the choice between two strategies: Develop strategies to work around your weaknesses = Survival. Actively work to improve = Transformation. I oftentimes work around my weaknesses when it comes to sales calls. I always assume someone wants what I'm...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    This week should be interesting. I've gotten 3 leads today all completely random and now have 4 cars to do. 3 are high-end vehicles so I am slightly anxious about hiw that will go considering I am offering exterior washing with no experience. I have prepared a flyer design and watched a video...
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    Attempting to make my first sale online with digital products.

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    Focus on the problems these business owners have then come up with your solution. For example, many competitors in my area are hunting for customers by commenting about their services under other posts. Their problem is that they spend a lot of time chasing customers. One even commented his...
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    Which job sounds better for a Fastlane long-game?

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    LIke you I have also been let go from my last sales job. You may feel betrayed right now and you'll also find that they made a good decision to end things when they did. It took some time before I could get myself together after being let go, I was applying for weeks and fell into a rut for...
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    Don't dismiss it: There's big Fastlane cash in local/regional businesses.

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    Yeah local businesses allow you to niche down and compete with people around you. You aren't competing with tech giants or people overseas that will work for less money. They are simple and straightforward businesses that don't require educating the market. If I'm offering toilet cleaning as a...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Yesterday's job was our most expensive package. Made 4x as much as the first job. It was a lot of work and had to invest in a couple tools to make things easier. As for marketing, leads are still coming in consistently, but I'll need to get on Google today to really get enough volume. There's...
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    YOUR SYSTEM is more important than your EFFORT.

    GOLD! HOT! EXECUTION NEWSLETTER 
    What enabled you to quit?
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    29 going on 30. Benefits of aging.

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    It's a consumer culture that many people adopt in developed countries. So more is thought to be better. But as you realized, commitment is key to cutting the consumption. People have a hard time committing because of the many options available to us. So you never make a commitment to make use...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Yes that's very important. I ran into a couple roadblocks but during my off day I will verify again. Appearing in search engines would help a lot.
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Yesterday's job was a surprise. I was expecting a dirty car, but it was quite clean compared to the previous cars. This made it a challenge to satisfy the customer. What was I supposed to do if the car is what I consider to be nearly cleaned? Is he expecting more than what we agreed on? I asked...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Today will be my biggest job to date. The reason for that is I've been testing different prices. Instead of explaining a flat rate, I've been presenting a screenshot of 3 packages including different services. This gives people the option to pick what best suits their needs and gives them the...
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    Exploring the value and limitations of freelancing

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    They are swatting you away like a fly. You're telling them that you can help them. Instead of telling them, why not show them how you can help? Can you design a small, cost-free solution that will save them time or money that they can see for themselves?
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I haven't followed the thread much but I'll join in this week. Great idea as always by Andy. This week I'm going to contact every person who reached out about my business to let them know I there's a spot open this Saturday. Saturday is a day that has been tied up for me due to work, but I am...
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    Laid Off After Having a Child

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    Why not do both? Build a business and work a job. It doesn't have to be one-sided. Everyday spent working at your job will motivate you to build your business. Do it until you have enough business and quit. It'd be foolish to keep working as an employee by then. I make 3 times as much per hour...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Did the first job. They were very impressed with the outcome. This led to 2 more referrals. Another person direct messaged about a job. They likely heard about our work.
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

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    Update: So I've ran ads for a few weeks now and tested a few variants. They aren't really generating any leads for me. I'll get a small amount of profile visits, but they don't actually reach out and make contact. Well I had gotten 1 lead who wanted a different service altogether. Strangely...
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    Action faking, negativity, I need advice

    MINDSET 
    You have me considering how I can scale these avenues again. I will spend a bit of time testing things while working on the local-service based business and the day job. What's slowing things down at the moment is the suspension of my Google Ads account of a couple years. And FB has made it...
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    Action faking, negativity, I need advice

    MINDSET 
    I'm sure that those sales can be scaled. I find that they aren't worth focusing on because these areas are difficult to stand out in. The amount of work and time I'd have to dedicate for a chance at a decent payout is costly. For a time, I did put in a lot of time without much reward to scale...
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    Action faking, negativity, I need advice

    MINDSET 
    What would qualify as success? I make sales on books every month that I published a couple years ago. I sell a couple cars, things around the house, or websites every once in a while, but I don't find these things are worth focusing on. What is the metric for success that tells you if...
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    Pouring money down the Google Ads drain

    HOT! MARKETING 
    After verifying my Adwords account, Google will be suspending my account within 7 days unless I can provide more information. I spent enough time trying to get this platform to work. I'll just use what has gotten me leads so far and run ads on a different platform. I've gotten another lead...

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