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    The great way of testing any idea!

    GOLD! IDEA 
    Brilliant stuff as usual man. This post hits home because I did exactly the opposite and really regret not testing & failing sooner. I know better now, but I wish I didn't learn that lesson via first-hand experience haha. For me, this is the key. Kill the fear, get out there, and see what...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Been on another Thiel binge lately and found this talk especially interesting: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM_JmZdqCw&t=2870s The determinate/ indeterminate framework gave me some insights into how and why my market behaves the way it does. And maybe a few ideas on what to do...
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    I have 50,000 followers in 10 days - Need Help

    IDEA 
    Congrats on your newborn daughter and newfound success. I hope you continue to grow! To me, it feels like there's a disconnect here. Why create animated videos when people are literally asking for written stuff? You already discovered a possible "need" which is children's books/written...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Hey Andy, thanks for taking the time to reply! I really appreciate hearing your perspective. I can totally see now that my question would raise red flags without the proper wording. I was just trying to get a feel for what to expect and the trustworthiness of the firm, but as Bekit and BizyDad...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Thanks so much for taking the time to respond, this is hugely helpful! Based on the average size of the firms I've talked to (very small, relatively) I think I'm actually talking to a technician 90% of the time. There's very little selling going on, it's never clear what I get out of the deals...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Holy crap, this is all massively helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to share. I want to be clear that I'm not shopping based on results, but trust. I've had people guarantee me 10x ROAS (LOL) and others who won't talk about anything related to what they're going to do, prior...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    I genuinely can't tell if I'm dumb, or if I just don't understand how marketing firms work. (small or large) After interviewing and asking multiple marketing agencies variations of "If I spend $X amount with you, what is the average return I could expect to see?"... 90% of the responses have...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    That was me pre-purge - I was averaging 2+ hours a day. Such a mindless waste of time and I'm glad to be rid of the apps/temptation. Sadly, I still need to use FB for work stuff which was just as addicting so I started using a feed blocker on my desktop. It's been huge for my productivity and...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    After swearing off social media for the last month or so, I was forced to dig back into it for research purposes. What an incredibly depressing and sad bunch of people. This feels like all the worst parts of society congregated into one place. :rofl:
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    Music For Motivation: What's On Your Playlist?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Dang, that's a good list! I ended up adding these tunes to my playlist. Thanks for sharing! Love these and added them to my playlist as well! I appreciate you sharing them :praise:
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    Music For Motivation: What's On Your Playlist?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I'm not upset, just disappointed. Instead of contributing something to a conversation a shared interest, you just try and guilt me into listening to your music...because I just should? :rofl: This thread wasn't made to serve your marketing purposes. If you read MJ's ME-BIAS post you might have...
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    Google unveils a new search algo: The Helpful Content Update

    MARKETING 
    To me, this seems like more of the same from Google. If you create your own original content, it sounds like you will be fine. You may even rank higher once all the cut + paste articles/clickbait that may be ranking above you get penalized. If you use an AI tool to write content for you or...
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    Music For Motivation: What's On Your Playlist?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    This is great, I need to create something like this for when the music alone doesn't do it. And great shout on those last sentences in TMF, reading them again is incredibly motivational!
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    Music For Motivation: What's On Your Playlist?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Given that this appears to be your music project, this seems like a blatant attempt at self-promo and goes against the spirit of the thread and forum IMO. If you're going to try and promote yourself, at least contribute something to the thread other than just spamming your project name and...
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    Started My First Company Right Out Of College, Ready For Biz #2

    INTRO 
    Progress Update: Over the last month I've learned a TON. I've also been reflecting on the lessons I've learned since starting this venture and I can see that selling/moving on isn't the right move for me - it's just the easy one. For starters, I made more progress on the emails and then...
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    I am confused for the next step.

    MINDSET 
    Only you can really answer this. That said, I wish I had started my first business when I was in business school, not after I graduated. You'll have to master the basics at some point, so you may as well start something while you're in school and get hands-on experience while earning your...
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    For a Internet Storefront Blog-vs-Website who wins?

    QUESTION 
    You can publish case studies of previous projects to social media or a linktree just as easily as publishing to your own website, so to me hiring someone to build a site is way overkill at this point. My advice would be to do whatever you can to become profitable first BEFORE spending money on...
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    Started My First Company Right Out Of College, Ready For Biz #2

    INTRO 
    I'm now determined to turn the existing company's $1k/month of profit into $20k/month, so this becoming more of a progress/execution thread. After reworking the emails I'm starting to see results and I'm still not using paid ads - though I'm working diligently on it. The flows within Klaviyo...
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    How to Increase Website Sales?

    MARKETING WEB DESIGN QUESTION 
    Wow, this is a goldmine. Thanks for mentioning it!
  20. xShepherdx

    Started My First Company Right Out Of College, Ready For Biz #2

    INTRO 
    The email sequences have almost all been completed and will be tweaked and finalized as users flow through them. That means it's time to dig into GA4, set up conversions, events, and audiences to begin collecting more usable data and pave the way for retargeting. At first, the complexity of GA4...

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