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  1. pickeringmt

    Ultimate Bootstrap: I'm making $200,000+ doing Residential Sales

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    Thanks for sharing this, very cool stuff Inspiring thread also, killer. Congrats on your success man - I look forward to seeing everything develop for you
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    Advice on SINGLE product eCommerce success.

    My business only has 3 products at this point, so I went with WooCommerce. Simple and Cheap. If things grow, I'll consider something else. I think it is kinda unrealistic to try and build something for a scale you won't need to worry about for a long time. As far as pictures go, focus on a...
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    Sales is the biggest challenge, that is for sure. I feel that creating products this way is a momentum game - which is why a lot of people give up before getting traction with a product. The brand is important because it is the glue that all of the customer experience "sticks to"- all of that...
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    I have not Like I said - I still have a lot to learn That is one thing a lot of people don't consider when starting a business. Not knowing everything gives me a ton of space to keep improving.
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    Need Some "How To" E-Book Ideas In Hungry Markets

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    Dude, a desire to be ethical is great, but it is silly to think that you need to reinvent the wheel to write a how to book I am sure that your process really wasn't much different than every other author out there.
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    Any Growth Hacking ideas for an online bookkeeping start up company?

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    Here is the idea: You take your ideal customer You define your highest value customer segment and build a profile of who that "person" is Then, you find that crossover piece - that unrelated thing that ties this same group together - and you make THAT your sharable piece. So lets say your...
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    Need Some "How To" E-Book Ideas In Hungry Markets

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    uhhhhhhhhhh How To Write and Sell A Few Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth of Ebooks
  8. pickeringmt

    Seed $$$$?

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    It is pretty traditional to expect other people to figure this stuff out for you. This is getting kinda silly. Just remember that a good idea alone is pretty worthless. Good luck
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    Seed $$$$?

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    Get a job at Sears - they'll give you a card just for being an employee. That is how I first built credit. I remember you used to be able to sell a testicle at a research hospital for over $10k - that is pretty unconventional
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    Seed $$$$?

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    well, an overly-simplified solution would be to go to a stakeholder in your business and offer them a portion of your business for the money. For this you will need a pretty solid plan to show them.
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    Yeah, but where is the fun in that? I'm kidding, but I really do see benefit in bootstrapping a product to a certain extent. I like to think of it as "just in time validation" - just dynamic scaling. It keeps things realistic in my opinion. That being said, there is absolutely power in cash...
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    Spot BS: Post your favorite MLM pitch...

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    I just love when they stop you and ask, "what would YOU do with an extra $500 a month?" And then actually sit there until I tell them. OH, and the classic, "Well, you know 5 people, right?" Like there is any person on earth that is going to say, "Nope, just you, my mom, and the guy you just...
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    I actually print my own labels at this point - I use onlinelables.com. Adds more headache, but it is what it takes to make it work. When I can justify a run of 500-1000 labels, it won't be my problem anymore. You can't let stuff like that block you from getting where you want to be - there...
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    30 Year old sold his startup for 170 million $ just wrote 1284 slides on how to win life

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    This whole thing is AWESOME. Lots of new ideas to implement Lots of validation for some I already have
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    I get what you're saying here, but I think it is a matter of our modern perspective. Look at some of the product companies that started as individuals making something and scaling it, and the only real difference you get with the online piece is the timeline can become much, much shorter today...
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    I see where he might be coming from here, and I think this would need to be more in context. If I am looking at an IT management company for my business, yes branding will be a very minor factor - but still might influence who I actually call. If I am staring at a shelf in the store, looking...
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    This is VERY cool man! You are one of the first product people that I have met outside of personal care stuff. I'd love to hear more about what you are doing, whether in a pm or sharing here on the thread.
  18. pickeringmt

    So Simple... It's Beautiful

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    Autoclave - a desktop sterilizer. This thing still makes no sense to me.....
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    I think it might be because it is easier to create a fantasy about something when you don't really understand it. People think that the internet will do the work for them. I slipped on this actually - my whole plan was solid as a rock up to the launch of my product. That was where my naive...
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    The Process of Creating A Real Product

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    Man, the only thing your target market cares about is the brand! as far as a business model, all I do is sit down every day and vet the idea for an hour - got this from @Jack edwards. Just play out every angle, every possibility, every action, strategy, possibility you can think of - every day...

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