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  1. Late Bloomer

    Advice: Has Anyone Groomed Themselves to Enter The American Elite?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I didn't even know the word cotillion. About a third of the formal dining rules they mention relate to a more expensive, elaborate, traditionalist social circle than I've ever been involved with. How interesting that there is a training program to put people at ease with knowing the rules...
  2. Late Bloomer

    Advice: Has Anyone Groomed Themselves to Enter The American Elite?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    This is a really interesting and thoughtful thing to do! Thank you! I'm thinking that I should learn from your example, and get in the handwritten notes habit myself.
  3. Late Bloomer

    Advice: Has Anyone Groomed Themselves to Enter The American Elite?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I never met a Turkish millionaire before! (What's the revalued million worth now? Will it get you a cup of coffee?) What an inspiring post! I look forward to seeing you have all the success you want, and then be a powerful role model waking up people in your country to the possibilities of...
  4. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    I think Shelton's in NYC, so there should be plenty of government services, temp agencies, non-profits and churches he could readily get to with transit. What a great post with very specific advice on where he could turn for some up to date job guidance in person.
  5. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    Love the suggestion of coders using open source contribution to show their skills and that they are currently active, with or without a job. It looks like this is your only post? Lots of great discussions on the forum here about business from a software guy's point of view. I hope you will...
  6. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    Three suggestions: 1. Dale Carnegie course. 2. Toastmasters. You can visit some different clubs for free til you find one you like. Stick with it for a year to complete the intro to speaking book and the intro to leadership book. After that, you will never again be afraid to run a meeting...
  7. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    Glad you liked it! And nice initiative getting past the recruiter's no. Parachute is also very useful for people who want to do freelance consulting. The only difference is that when you meet with the person who has the power to hire you, it's for your project proposal, not for a direct job...
  8. Late Bloomer

    Bloomer 2.0, hopefully a little less late this time

    EXECUTION 
    I haven't been on the forum as much for the last couple of weeks, because of a couple of twists in life and business. I talked with the two co-owners of a business I thought would be an ideal client for a web site. They want to be known as experts in a field where they'll advise and inspire...
  9. Late Bloomer

    Calling all CLOSERS. Need sales advice!

    HOT! 
    Yay! Go Alex! Awesome!!! Did you get to apply the sales advice here? Did you see your boss use the techniques that people shared with you here?
  10. Late Bloomer

    Advice: Has Anyone Groomed Themselves to Enter The American Elite?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Be sure to remove the phrase "hold my beer and watch this" from your vocabulary. The proper way to phrase this is: "shalt thou now holdst my beer and keep thine eyes peeled keen upon me?" which of course comes from Shakespeare. Seriously, there are two parts to the question that I think it's...
  11. Late Bloomer

    Should I Buy a Business? Is it Cheating?

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    As you mentioned, an attorney may be a good resource to come up with a list of hypothetical problems in any deal. The attorney should be able to give an estimate of what it would likely to cost to discover if there seller reneges on the non-compete agreement, to send nasty letters, and if that...
  12. Late Bloomer

    How to note ideas during date?

    IDEA LANDFILL 
    [edited] to remove a sarcastic post that's irrelevant now that the thread's been Landfilled
  13. Late Bloomer

    Robert kiyosaki method

    HOT! REAL ESTATE 
    Thanks for your kind words! I didn't say anything about real estate investing in my intro, because it's not part of my personal experience so far. I've had a lifelong fascination with architecture and design, and a long term interest in real estate. If I could go back to high school and start...
  14. Late Bloomer

    Should I Buy a Business? Is it Cheating?

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    This is exactly why I wanted to learn about it too. There is a risk of mismanaging an already successful business. But that seems lower risk, than the risk of not successfully launching a brand new product or service, to brand new customers, in a brand new business.
  15. Late Bloomer

    Should I Buy a Business? Is it Cheating?

    HOT! 
    Any contract could be broken, but I would guess that someone who sells their business and hands it over to the buyer, really does want to move on to other things. If they wanted to continue in the same type of work, why not refinance the business, or sell only part of it, as their best...
  16. Late Bloomer

    Crowdfunding... Making it happen.

    EXECUTION 
    Will you also need to cover shipping, storage, handling etc. to be able to do something with the 1,000 products?
  17. Late Bloomer

    I've been a loser now I MUST find a solution! Any advice?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Hopefully by the time you graduate, you'll have made some progress towards your new technology sales goals... so the degree won't matter that much, except that you completed it. I would recommend not immediately going for another degree. After you've been in the workforce maybe five years or...
  18. Late Bloomer

    Copywriting Challenge May 2018 (Join me)

    EXECUTION 
    Taking a little break. Rereading Breakthrough Advertising is next on the study list for me. That's one of the things that appeals to me about copywriting and marketing, compared to coding. All the principles and most of the techniques from a hundred years ago, still work. (Unlike trying to...
  19. Late Bloomer

    Email Newsletter as a Business

    Oh, sorry I misunderstood. It looks like the popular wave now in online marketing is to have both a web site and a newsletter. The web site is the hub for whatever ads and content marketing can drive traffic to some interesting item, which also includes an invitation to sign up to the...
  20. Late Bloomer

    Career Stagnation - When Should You Make A Move?

    Thanks for tossing out the scammer. Unfortunately, by hiring bad VA's to inappropriately spam his stuff. Seems to not be working out too well! If only he'd listened to his own advice. Hiring VA's in India to pretend they are you, while making links to your videos? That's the way to make...

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