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  1. Beijing

    A Complete Meal in a Bag of Chips? Is my idea a flop?

    NOTABLE! IDEA 
    Looks like the website was taken down.
  2. Beijing

    How do I get business Ideas

    IDEA 
    True. Working for a company of any size will quickly expose to you all of the inefficiencies and opportunities that still exist in that industry.
  3. Beijing

    How do I get business Ideas

    IDEA 
    You don't need to come up with an idea. Just find a medium-sized business that has already burned through a ton of investor funds figuring out what product their customers want and how to market to them and create a freemium version of their product/service. While they to contend with the...
  4. Beijing

    Taking a ride in the slow lane -- and it's been great!

    After spending several years living a very budgeted existence, last summer I found myself at a crossroads. I'd returned to my country of birth (I normally live in China) to help with a family crisis and although in retrospect, I definitely made the right choice, the decision to come back to...
  5. Beijing

    Are The Sharks Going Broke?

    HOT! 
    Robert would probably do what he usually does. Get emotional and virtue signal about how unethical this business model would be for the target consumer. Then he'd get on his private jet and fly 20km to give a 10 minute keynote speech in a large conference room with "no negativity" signs on the...
  6. Beijing

    Has anyone built a board game?

    HOT! 
    There is money to be made in board games, but probably not in the way most people would think. My parent's business recently participated in a unique advertising opportunity. The Business Development Group in their area had a 3rd party company create a custom (and unlicensed) version of...
  7. Beijing

    Are The Sharks Going Broke?

    HOT! 
    Basic economics dictate that anything that involves conference rooms full of attendees is a really bad idea. In any area that has a high level of competition, profit margins are going to shrink. Why would I want to use a business model that is intentionally being shared with thousands of people?
  8. Beijing

    The Undercover Billionaire: Building a $1m business in 90 days

    HOT! MINDSET 
    You need to read Nail It, Then Scale It by Paul Ahlstrom and Nathan Furr. Your thinking is in a similar direction, but Ahlstrom and Furr take it one step further by building your product alongside the target customer. Doing so can help you better define what your target customer will be willing...
  9. Beijing

    The routine is killing me

    I'm creating materials and curriculum for use by teachers. At present, the materials are designed to be used to teach English, but they could be easily converted for use teaching other languages.
  10. Beijing

    You'll Know You've Stopped Action-Faking When....

    You'll know you've stopped action-faking when you start brainstorming about methods to turn off your brain so that you can get a healthy night's sleep after spending the entire day doing a 12-hour product development marathon.
  11. Beijing

    The routine is killing me

    This is what I did. I spent nine and a half years in what I like to call the "post-secondary phase of my education" where I mixed periods of university study with time spent in China and a few other places working and engaging in language study. Not everyone's cup of team, but time well spent...
  12. Beijing

    Finally Launched!

    EXECUTION 
    OP, you are getting sales, even if only about one per week. You've stated that the traffic you've received has been minimal, so that suggests that your conversion rate isn't bad. The only question now that if you boost traffic by spending a bunch of money on ads, whether your sales will amount...
  13. Beijing

    Building a Business in Thailand?

    Here's the deal with Thailand. Non-Thai citizens are not permitted to own more than 49% of a business. And even if you work in a grey area, they've really been cracking down on people existing purely on tourist visas for some time now, so it's going to be a massive hassle to live in the country...
  14. Beijing

    You'll Know You've Stopped Action-Faking When....

    You're clearly intending to be adversarial and not helpful. No where have I stated that I ONLY email my parents and never call. I call regularly.
  15. Beijing

    You'll Know You've Stopped Action-Faking When....

    Yes, you can and yes I did. Observe the underlined portions of the original post. In fact, refilling printer cartridges with a syringe is a labour intensive activity. It's messy. You have to wear gloves to keep your hands from becoming covered in ink. It's wasteful. If you even slightly...
  16. Beijing

    You'll Know You've Stopped Action-Faking When....

    The glory of living in opposite time-zones. I'm in Beijing Central time and they are in Eastern Standard time. 12 hours difference in the summer and 11 in the winter. I still manage to catch my mom on the phone fairly often, even though it usually means interrupting her during a busy part of...
  17. Beijing

    You'll Know You've Stopped Action-Faking When....

    Hi, my name is Beijing and I'm a recovering action-faker. I spent most of my life action-faking. I've never had a shortage of ideas, not just in the business realm, but in other areas as well. However, the idea was always more exciting that the reality of following through with the idea, because...
  18. Beijing

    The "Astonishing Secrets" Thread

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    This is huge. When I "tell" people about the products I'm working on, their faces express uncertainty and confusion. As if they are not sure if they are talking to a genius or a complete moron. They become hesitant, like they haven't decided how seriously to treat the conversation and are...
  19. Beijing

    Feedback requested for my four-year old fastlane business

    Are you offering the first 3-10 lessons free? If not, why not?
  20. Beijing

    Sourcing from China is old news, Vietnam new news?

    HOT! SOURCING 
    My feel on this is that very few people are offering enough value to justify spending the time and money to unsure that they are not being scammed. A lot of folks are simply trying to get a piece of a pie that was baked a long time ago. Of course there's no room in their budget for doing due...

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