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  1. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    The weekend actually is fair, it really does take a couple of days to go through the book, do the exercises and be ready for some info interviews. He could get his head sorted over the weekend, and hit the ground running with a new personal profile and focus when the work week starts.
  2. Late Bloomer

    Hello from an older new guy

    Hi Jon, I just discovered your intro because I wanted to find out who's been so encouraging with a lot of appreciation for this newbie's posts. Thank you! It seems that the ataxia link is down. Thanks for your service. My brother was Seabee. He went in right after high school, got taught to...
  3. Late Bloomer

    Starting a Copywriting Freelance Business. How well do I sell myself?

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Teamwork! He made the headline, you made the sales letter ;)
  4. Late Bloomer

    From Fired to Cold Calling

    EXECUTION 
    Here's enough to get a start, and find out whether you really love this stuff (as I do) or would just as soon leave it to someone else. High Probability Selling (home page) - paradigm shift to discovering compatibility that actually exists, rather than manipulating or hammering on people until...
  5. Late Bloomer

    MVP Software Release

    EXECUTION 
    So are you getting traffic, but no conversion? This looks like you put "feel discouraged" on your to do list for the 1.0 release :playful: I think you could likely find a nice enough looking free template for the MVP. Congrats on finding clients. What's up with the estimations? Do you...
  6. Late Bloomer

    Starting a Copywriting Freelance Business. How well do I sell myself?

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    I think that's a solid plan. Advertising agencies, web design shops, marketing consultancies etc. can be very profitable Fastlane businesses. I don't see why you need the coding classes. Unless you're fascinated by software and you've always wanted to write code, you can be the Get Clients And...
  7. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    I got hired by McDonald's at a time I had nothing of interest on my resume. They don't actually need a resume, by the way, only an application. So more specifically, I had nothing much of interest to put on my application. I filled it out anyway, added a cover note, and got an interview...
  8. Late Bloomer

    Job finding

    EXECUTION RANT 
    That's not necessarily true. I've seen many people's stories of how they started a window washing service: they bought a bucket and squeegee, went to a little shop, walked in and asked if the boss wanted the windows cleaned. Some bosses did. Some of those were willing to have the cleaner come...
  9. Late Bloomer

    Starting a Copywriting Freelance Business. How well do I sell myself?

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Hahaha!! The one exception would be if he has the potential interest, desire, and drive to become a damn good kick-a$$ copywriter. If he could, that would be a useful Slowlane skill to pick up some spending money in the short term, and a great powerful form of leverage for his own business.
  10. Late Bloomer

    Coping with serious disabilities?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I think he's looking for an answer that includes two parts: 1. You're right that your friend's situation is so awful that it's hopeless for him to have any mental focus, inner happiness, and outward success. 2. At the same time, here's what you can tell him that is all he'll need to know to be...
  11. Late Bloomer

    !!! New privacy policy seems to say PRIVATE MESSAGES may be PUBLISHED by MJ at any time !!!

    LANDFILL 
    The same day I posted this, I wrote and sent a ten page proposal to be the outsourced marketing director for an ecommerce company, based on one founder's 200 page book which I read and annotated in the last two weeks. This proposal resulted in an immediate invitation to a conference call with...
  12. Late Bloomer

    !!! New privacy policy seems to say PRIVATE MESSAGES may be PUBLISHED by MJ at any time !!!

    LANDFILL 
    Thank you, MJ! That makes a lot of sense. I've read that Hollywood agencies won't even open an envelope from someone that hasn't signed a standard disclaimer, which says the sender won't sue if they happen to think their idea was used by a studio. I can see how you'd face that same risk, when...
  13. Late Bloomer

    !!! New privacy policy seems to say PRIVATE MESSAGES may be PUBLISHED by MJ at any time !!!

    LANDFILL 
    Wow, I'm sure glad we haven't had any private conversations here so far... :eek:
  14. Late Bloomer

    !!! New privacy policy seems to say PRIVATE MESSAGES may be PUBLISHED by MJ at any time !!!

    LANDFILL 
    True, but this could affect people who are already using private conversations here to work on collaboration. Account info, pricing and cost details, customer details, business model details, technical settings details, code files, etc. could be flying back and forth between entrepreneurs who...
  15. Late Bloomer

    Progress Thread - Cloud Niche

    EXECUTION 
    Great! Oh and.. hi Maynard! Are you now living in Paris, or is the profile shot from tourist time? Wouldn't it be great to be the company selling that $10k software?? How did they do it? Sounds like you've got that covered well. Now to add people who haven't met you yet, but will be...
  16. Late Bloomer

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

    HOT! MINDSET 
    That's something MJ discusses in his books. I haven't done a forum search here, but you could also try "decision making" or "consequences" etc. to see if someone here has good discussions of that topic.
  17. Late Bloomer

    !!! New privacy policy seems to say PRIVATE MESSAGES may be PUBLISHED by MJ at any time !!!

    LANDFILL 
    I edited to clarify while you were responding. Actually, I'm pretty sure FB and Telegram don't claim the right to publish private messages. And I trust MJ, but he might sell the forum or sublicense some of the rights to others, who later turn out to have shaky ethics.
  18. Late Bloomer

    !!! New privacy policy seems to say PRIVATE MESSAGES may be PUBLISHED by MJ at any time !!!

    LANDFILL 
    4(B). Permission to Use Content .... Furthermore, by posting and submitting "Content" to TFF, either directly or indirectly, responding to posts, threads, private messages, or other means for providing "Content" to us, you grant us a perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free...
  19. Late Bloomer

    From Fired to Cold Calling

    EXECUTION 
    There are always a few prospects who already know they would really love to buy what you can do, just as soon as they can find a seller that might be able to do the job, with a specific offer that might work. It may only be one percent or whatever, but there will be a few people who say, "Oh...
  20. Late Bloomer

    Starting a Copywriting Freelance Business. How well do I sell myself?

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Great response with a positive attitude about learning and feedback! Find something you can buy for cheap, even if it's just random underpriced cheap stuff on Craigslist you can pile up in the garage until you can flip it for a little profit. Or find something that you can get a chance to...

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