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  1. Saint

    MLM - Who Moved My Cheese?

    GURUS 
    I looked up a bit about Amway and found this article about typical cult practices, which Amway is of course heavy on. A lot of the practices are things that I'd say all organizations do to some extent. The tech companies I've worked at had a borderline worshipful attitude toward the founder...
  2. Saint

    MLM - Who Moved My Cheese?

    GURUS 
    So to what extent is Amway a cult? The second pitch I had, the long con, the way they talked about their amazing mentor and the company are (they even actually said it's like "the family you choose", yikes!), the scattered influence levers they kept trying to pull...it did seem like it was in...
  3. Saint

    MLM - Who Moved My Cheese?

    GURUS 
    Wow can't believe this is popping up now...did MLMs get a bunch of funding recently? I got pitched a few times my early 20s, and was somehow discerning enough to see it didn't make sense. Went 10 years without a pitch, but suddenly my wife and I have gotten tricked into two recently. First, a...
  4. Saint

    I've Read The Great Rat-Race Escape!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Finally finished Great Rat Race Escape! It was great. So many awesome principles, some revisits from the other books, but many of the recaps are put in different and better ways. The fiction was actually really enjoyable too. It was eerily similar to my story, starting a business this year and...
  5. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Thanks for replying! The wholesale for this particular opportunity seems solid - we're just sharing revenue with us getting 60%, and we're charging more than usual per item. We'll find out tomorrow if we actually sold anything. If we did, I think this model would make a lot of sense. I actually...
  6. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Awesome few weeks! We've consistently earned $700-$1000 each week at the farmer's for the last month. We've also now doubled the money we invested, and that's with only doing this market for two months. We've got a solid group of regulars that rave about our products, we're up to about 50 people...
  7. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Updates: Another full weekend at the market. It was even busier than the last one, but we got rejected way more. There was another event that I think took a bit of appetite from our products. It was still our second best day ever, but it felt way harder and was a bit disappointing since we were...
  8. Saint

    Would love some feedback on my website.

    MARKETING 
    I'm not an expert on what converts, but the home page is pretty! And your products look awesome. On my browser the contact/FAQ look a bit weird stacked together: Something about the copy in the pages other than the home page is not grabbing my attention as I read. You might play with the...
  9. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Exciting updates: We missed the market last weekend because we went out of town for Easter, but we're going to be in the game for the next 6 weeks straight at least. And after this weekend we're crazy motivated! Seeing that we were selling out by 2 PM with the quantity before, we made about...
  10. Saint

    Farmer’s Market Ideas

    MARKETING 
    Awesome job getting started! If the smoothie is as good as you say you could do very well and start making money real fast. I've been going through and am still improving on this over the last few months. A few tips I've learned so far: Get in the first market you can, then get in the best...
  11. Saint

    SIDE HUSTLE: How To Flip Couches & Books For Money! (Try This!)

    IDEA SIDE HUSTLE 
    Thanks for sharing this guide! Do you see this as something you could turn into a fastlane business, or just another income stream to support your other work? I'm interested to hear more about your approach with books too. I assume you're not refurbishing those? I've always thought it would be...
  12. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Thanks so much @Robdavis! Your continued encouragement means a lot, and I'm glad you're still enjoying it. It's been a blast already! I'm still waiting for confirmation that this is a productocracy that can really take off, but it's pretty clear to me that we can create a keep regular...
  13. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Our goal this month is $2K, which means we need to double our sales the next two weekends we go (we're missing this coming weekend for Easter). If we double our production and sell like we have these first three days at the market, I think that's achievable. My main task this week is to finally...
  14. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    We missed Saturday's market because we had a wedding, but we went yesterday. The guy who runs the market gave us a great spot, which we'll hopefully get to keep going forward, right next to a few really popular vendors. We sold out again! By 2 PM, with two hours left, which we really need to...
  15. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Thanks @Robdavis! I'm so ambivalent about the progress right now, so I appreciate the encouragement. Just so much going on in life, I've made basically 0 progress on website/digital stuff. Work was crazy for the last two months and we just took a little vacation. My wife left her job, but we...
  16. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    Wow I can't believe it's already been a month since the last update! The move and getting settled in took a lot more effort than expected, so we didn't make it to a market in February. But we still had an OK month for so little effort. Since the last update: Delivered on the wedding and baby...
  17. Saint

    Finally getting started!

    SIDE HUSTLE EXECUTION 
    I haven't been able to make much progress on the website or anything else since last week between preparing to move this weekend and other obligations, but I do have a few quick updates: We got a repeat order from an online customer on Thursday! She placed another nice-sized order. When we...
  18. Saint

    Getting leads via Cold Calling?

    MARKETING 
    Celebrate the small victories! When I started in sales I was making 100+ calls a day, and if I got 1 or 2 decent conversations that was pretty exciting. As Subsonic suggested, the goal of the call was to see if a real meeting made sense, then of course try to close them on the meeting. Then...
  19. Saint

    Slowlane & Monogamy Decisions

    MINDSET 
    Appreciate the feedback...this thread has helped me get clarity on what to focus on, and that's what I'm going to do. I read that thread from MJ a while back, and at the time I knew it wasn't the right time to quit, but I just revisited it: Don’t quit your job (or drop college) unless you’ve...
  20. Saint

    Getting leads via Cold Calling?

    MARKETING 
    Sounds like you're getting conversations, which is huge! Just getting someone to actually stop what they're doing and tell you why they're not interested is a big step. Not to mention actually picking up the phone in the first place. Nice job on that! Definitely agree with what Subsonic said...

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