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  1. JAJT

    What Opportunities Will Arise From Cancel Culture And Political Polarization?

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    Better education :P In all seriousness though - resiliency training with a focus on your locus of control. A lot of what we're seeing today (in my opinion) is a direct result of people not being able to cope with thoughts/ideas/situations/products/etc that don't align with their values, and...
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    4 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read Before Buying a Business

    Just finished reading "Buy Then Build", funny enough. Not the most exciting or engaging book I've ever read but it was truly excellent at explaining exactly the concepts the author was trying to get across in a way that made perfect sense and the math was explained well. I'd highly recommend...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    A major problem with this attitude is that it doesn't account for mental illness. Yes, some homeless folks are basically scam artists or lazy or idiotic, but a majority of them are actually some degree of mentally ill (or drug addicted, which for all intents and purposes might as well be the...
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    Why Value? Can't we just make money?

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    While the word "value" is commonly associated with lofty ideals, the reality is that when we say "value", we're not talking about an abstract concept or physical attribute - we're talking about "market value" and your product or service's "value proposition". The truth of the matter is that...
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    Having Children...Pros and Cons?

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    Keep in mind that there are two parts of this: 1. The selfish part - How your children will influence your lives as adults. 2. The more important part - How you will influence your children's lives as they grow up. Put another way - this decision isn't just about how children will change...
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    How do you find resellers?

    So go to the street shops directly. There's no "one way" to get your products into the world. There are multiple and what you choose to do is largely based on your strategy/time/effort/finances. You could cold call every shop, one by one, and talk to the owner/buyer/manager about your...
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    What Is So Hard About Entrepreneurship?

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    Re-designed the product with the manufacturer, excluding the aspects that the competitor made proprietary. I spun it as an upgrade to customers. Cost me maybe 2 months of downtime though during the process and I had to run my existing stock dry on Amazon before I could send in the new version...
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    What Is So Hard About Entrepreneurship?

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    - Mental health - Loneliness - Lack of stability - Financial troubles before success (if success ever comes) - Choosing from an unlimited number of options while feeling like only a few of them will result for success (but not knowing which) - Learning advertising and marketing, then getting it...
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    How much features does an MVP should have?

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    Not to be cheeky, but I'd say the minimum viable amount.
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    What would be your 5 book loadout?

    Have you read Ayn Rand? Because I don't get that impression at all from her work. Her philosophy was all about being your best and demanding your worth for your mind and effort within society. It was against the idea that your efforts should be someone else's windfall or that you should be a...
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    How to be good at sales - book rec's, please.

    I personally advocate for "SPIN Selling - Neil Rackham" One of the best, practical books on selling with great examples of how you probe and counter and talk during actual conversations. Keep in mind though that you can just as easily learn how to be an MMA fighter from a book as you can...
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    Residual energy following me in life, don't know what to do anymore

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    I don't mean to be mean here, but you need a wake up call. Your entire post reads like a "woe is me" tale of someone who keeps making bad decisions and blaming it on others instead of yourself. Your fault for doing what you didn't want to do. How can some "kid" convince you to drop your...
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    Time to move on & close shop?CBD

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    I'm not terribly familiar with the CBD field, but food for thought: - There's always big players coming in or existing - There's always a lot of brands That's kind of business 101. Very few businesses are novel enough to be unique snowflakes without competition. And the ones that do don't...
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    Bowflex Adjustable Dumbbells being knocked off?

    100% this. I've launched a few product based businesses now and if I had to identify a "common denominator of failure" up to this point, it's been my inability to reinvest nearly 100% of profits back into the business and my inability to infuse the business with funds over and above what the...
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    How to followup with leads?

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    I was in sales for over 10+ years. My best guess is you're not closing quick/hard enough. Warm leads are interested right now. It's weird and rare for them to go cold very quickly. Are you contacting them within 24 hours (and preferably much sooner)? Are you doing it by phone when they...
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    How to instill hard-working values in my kids

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    You get them working hard on something unpleasant and keep their attitudes about it positive. Our brains move towards positive experiences and move away from negative ones. Force your kids to do something they hate while they have the mindset of hating it and it reinforces their brain's...
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    They want to amend the IL constitution to eAT tHE rICH

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    What doesn't help is that the average person has no clue how taxation works at the corporate level. Your average person, and literally EVERYONE I've talked to about the subject, thinks that companies pay "zero tax" because "loopholes". They really don't like it when you explain that Amazon has...
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    how rare is it for entreprenuers to earn over 60k profit per month?

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    This, 100%. If you look at so many entrepreneur forums, online discussions, etc... you see so many people talk about "the odds" of getting rich or hitting some figure or whatever. That's not how life works. You don't hear people talking about what the odds are of a home cook becoming a...
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    Will you take the COVID19 vaccine?

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    Eventually, yes, absolutely. The caveat though is that I'd want to review the science behind it first and foremost, I'd want to see how the 'early adopters' react to it, and I'd want to see how the infection rate changes with vaccination in various communities. I'm extremely pro-vaccine, but...
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    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

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    It's been a while but if I recall correctly: Search terms you get 50 characters per line and that's the top keywords for your product. The things people will be searching to find you. Target audience has a bunch of definitions. I think you can find them in the style guide (if you can find...

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