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  1. Dinho7

    Guiding my brother towards the fastlane?

    Thanks for the feedback, this is very true and is probably the best way to go about this. We live in different continents, though, and I rarely talk about how well the business is going or what I have achieved. I guess I need to be more open about it and see it as help and inspiration rather...
  2. Dinho7

    Guiding my brother towards the fastlane?

    I am going to try, but I fear that just the thought of reading a book from cover to end is going to want him run and hide. I was the same way. I think it has to do with all the boring books they made us read in middle school and high school. It felt like an obligation, and the teachers normally...
  3. Dinho7

    Guiding my brother towards the fastlane?

    Fastlaners, I need your advice. My younger brother is 19 years old and I want to guide him onto the entrepreneurial journey. The main reason for this is because we are almost identical personalities with the exact same strenghts and weaknesses, and I would really have appreciated somebody...
  4. Dinho7

    I've Done Absolutely Nothing for 365 Days, But Killed It After...

    GOLD! MINDSET FTE 
    If anybody wants to be funny with the typical Facebook meme of Michael Jackson eating popcorn and "reading comments" in a thread, now would be the time. Awesome thread and we haven't got to the best part yet.
  5. Dinho7

    Meditation and Fastlaners ? Do you practice it ? Looking for insights please :)

    HEALTH 
    I started doing a simple one-minute meditation (YouTube video) as a part of Hal Elrod's The Miracle Morning. I believe it has a small effect on me. I feel a bit more relaxed and focused, and the minute is definitely worth it. Maybe it's some kind of "placebo effect" - that I just feel better...
  6. Dinho7

    Thrive Las Vegas (Oct 16-18) and Freedom Fastlane Live (Dec 11-13)

    MEETUPS 
    Any Fastlaners going to these events? I have never attended a business conference before, and I made a commitment to attend the Fastlane Summit next year as long as I can get hold of a ticket. These events look very promising though, and I hope to go to at least one of them. Thrive Las Vegas...
  7. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    What's the road ahead? Hard to say. I feel like what we are doing - retail arbitrage - is not something sustainable. We depend too much on channels we do not have any control over, and we also depend on our distribution channels that often are hard on resellers. Right now it is a GREAT way to...
  8. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    First of all, I would like to 1) yet again send a big thanks to everybody that kicked our asses back in the winter, and 2) apologize for not posting an update before now. After the last update in March we got suspended on our main channel, leading to hospitalization for me due to high amounts of...
  9. Dinho7

    Any fastlaners live in Florida?

    EXECUTION 
    I live right outside Fort Lauderdale. Moved here in 2011, and it took a long time to adjust from four years of fun in Buenos Aires. Things started getting better slowly, and now I really appreciate most things about this place. Climate is great except from summer, beaches close by, Miami is...
  10. Dinho7

    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Almost finished How To Win Friends And Influence People, which I thought was the best book ever until I started on Jeff Olson's The Slight Edge today. Looking magnificent so far. It's mind blowing how simple the ideas in these books are, yet still 99 % (including myself until now) rarely...
  11. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    I didn't mean that you had said it, I could just imagine it in my head. And it worked, at least for today. Plan of action today: Add prices and descriptions to new products in our store List product on the "Craigslist" of our target market's country Leave helpful comments with a link to my...
  12. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    Frustrating times! Amazon account still under review. We have had 82 orders in short time and only one review (positive), and therefore sparked a velocity limit flag. I have read it might take up to 45 days for some sellers to get activated again. Amazon told me to be patient and wait for...
  13. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    Of course! Easy to forget that when we have been in the red for so long due to the start-up costs (that were quite unneccesary for where we are heading now anyway). But I guess its part of the learning curve. If we had not spent that $20k investing in our business, I think there would have been...
  14. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    So just in our best moment, when we were consistantly selling 7-10 items per day and almost reaching subsistance wage only from Amazon, they decide to shut down our account for review. At first I got shocked and thought it was the end of it, but after contacting their customer support, the...
  15. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    Sales are increasing and is making us feel much better about our venture. The last days we have had 6-5-6-7 sales respectively. It is going in the right direction and we are gaining experience as of what sells, and what does not sell that well. With 7 sales we have more than $50 a day or...
  16. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    Some good news... Sales are starting to pick up. On Friday we set a record of 4 sales, which we beat today (6 sales). We are selling through many different channels, and I am glad I listened to my wife about not selling exclusively on our website. Funny enough, we have actually had two sales in...
  17. Dinho7

    Aspiring Entrepreneur From Miami

    INTRO 
    Hey Joaquin and welcome to the forum. Nice story there. You are fortunate to have such a mentor, and I really like that you jump on any opportunity to learn. For a kid that is 18 years old, you have an impressive mindset that took me some extra years to obtain. I live close to Fort Lauderdale...
  18. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    We also tried our luck at a popular deal's site like Groupon. The item costed $15 and is selling for $39. The site is taking a $13 cut, so we are left with around $5 per item in net profit after shipping costs. In 3 days there has been 17 sales for our product. It is not a lot and I have been...
  19. Dinho7

    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    I just finished Think and Grow Rich and Rework. Both great books that I highly recommend (as many others on this forum). Now I am reading Nick Unsworth's Facebook Marketing book that I got for free when it was published, as well as the classic How to Win Friends & Influence People that is...
  20. Dinho7

    Making $5K a month by August 2015

    EXECUTION 
    Hi again everybody I should have posted more here, but I have been reluctant to respond since I feel bad about my own performance. There has been some amazing advice in this thread. Some of it feels harsh, and you go into defensive mode for a while until you realize that the feedback is...

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