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    Lessons learned saying NO to a billionaire

    MINDSET 
    They have the ownership mindset. Most employees don't. I get a notably higher % of cold email responses from the C-suite than from middle managers, even at multi-billion dollar companies (and not usually from the PA either). Reminds me of one time years ago when I was working in oil & gas...
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    CHECKLIST: How to Start a Digital Marketing Agency & Hit $5K in Less than 90 Days

    GOLD! MARKETING 
    Ah, I missed the part where you didn't replace them. Gotcha. Hearing about other people's businesses, I've noticed that working directly with business owners tends to fire up the referral machine. Actually when I briefly did some digital marketing freelancing, I got one client off Upwork and...
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    CHECKLIST: How to Start a Digital Marketing Agency & Hit $5K in Less than 90 Days

    GOLD! MARKETING 
    In my experience it's not just the fulfillment that gets bogged down, but the sales process in itself. Back and forth over and over on multiple points, priorities, ROI calculations, justifications...and in my case, getting multiple people in the company to all agree each step of the way. If...
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    CHECKLIST: How to Start a Digital Marketing Agency & Hit $5K in Less than 90 Days

    GOLD! MARKETING 
    How is this thread not GOLD yet? Some serious value here Sean. For the past year and a half I've worked as a contractor for a company that I guess you would call an authority site, but verges on marketing agency territory. B2B niche. 100% remote company and they always have been. They have a...
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    Malta Entrepreneurs

    MEETUPS 
    Wow, that was fast! That'll work for me @MattPo, although I think @NanoDrake is out of town until the beginning of November.
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    2019 Fastlane Summit - Announcement

    MEETUPS 
    Now I understand a little more about how you manage to make your omnipresence seem so effortless. ;)
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    2019 Fastlane Summit - Announcement

    MEETUPS 
    Bit late to the party here, but I thought I should throw in my 2c on the subject of "why I don't post much". I'm sure a lot of people are in a similar situation to me. 1. I'm not a "forum guy". Never have been. I've actually made far more posts here than at any other forum...except for way...
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    Malta Entrepreneurs

    MEETUPS 
    Yep, only now there's even more noise and the infrastructure is even more overloaded. :D Never in a million years thought the words "I'm looking forward to moving to Qawra" would come out of my mouth... @MattPo yeah, let me know too.
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    Do you have health insurance?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I've been parked in the drug discovery & development market the last few years. Definitely can't disagree with you on the R&D front. I still don't think that comes remotely close to telling the whole story about pricing in the US healthcare system. In unregulated markets, prices go down while...
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    Do you have health insurance?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I can't get my head around the health insurance situation in the US. Some serious corporatist BS going on there. I'm 32 and pay 480 euros/year for fully comprehensive health insurance. No deductibles. Covers up to 500k annually. Worldwide cover (except US & Canada - that would double the price...
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    Anatomy of A Failed Fastlane (What You Can Learn From My Mistakes)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    You're spot on about most companies' hiring processes being a complete train wreck. Lou Adler who I mentioned above is a big name in the hiring world. And he certainly has a raving fanbase. But he and people like him are but a drop in the ocean in the overall market. And this has always been...
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    Anatomy of A Failed Fastlane (What You Can Learn From My Mistakes)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Hmm. I didn't create the performance-based job description. I borrowed the concept from a guy called Lou Adler (who undoubtedly is worth 8 figures): Performance-based Job Description And that formed one step of the "7-Step Performance & Behavioural Hiring System" we went to market with. When...
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    [The Path] Advanced Coaching for Entrepreneurs

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    Lots of people here have already said many of the things I wanted to say about Steve's coaching. So instead of offering even more glowing feedback, I'll just talk about some of my results in the past six weeks. Productivity and focus: These last few months, I've had two almost-full time "jobs"...
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    Ready to take your business to the next level? I'll coach you.

    MARKETPLACE 
    Wow - no brainer. In.
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    Which revenue model should I be going for?

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Glad you found it useful @GreasyGinger One step at a time, as long as you're making progress that's all that matters. As long as you're doing that, it'll probably look something like this: "I'm in way over my head, WTF do I do now?" >> "Oh, cool, that's how that works" >> "I think I've got...
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    As an Englishman this...

    INTRO 
    From one English salesman to another, welcome! That's a pretty awesome find. I wonder if a mysterious stranger will pop in this thread later and ask for their book back. :D Have you considered that you could instead be selling your product that you like for your company that you like?
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    Anatomy of A Failed Fastlane (What You Can Learn From My Mistakes)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Appreciate you taking the time to read it, I'm glad you enjoyed the experience! And thanks for the virtual dollars. Happy to chat over a Cisk sometime, I'll drop you a PM. In the meantime, have you thought about posting an intro thread of your own? I'm sure we could learn from your story too...
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    Malta Entrepreneurs

    MEETUPS 
    I'll drop you a note too @Almantas Depends - what are you looking for? For me: Virtually tax free. Great weather 9 months a year, and tolerably decent weather the other 3. Better than the UK's great weather for 2 weeks a year, tolerably decent weather for 3 months, and bad weather the rest...
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    Borrowing Money to Attend 2018 Fastlane Summit

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Wow. What an inspiring show of support. @Raoul Duke , I wasn't at the Summit but I've gone through the same cycle of inaction and indecision. It's over three years since I found TMF and the forum (wow, time flies). Back then I was deeply dissatisfied with my status quo, and desperately wanted...
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    The Cryptocurrency Investing Discussion

    CRYPTO INVESTING 
    Wow. Thanks for all the value in this thread. Wow. I got into crypto just over a month ago. I bought £1000 of ADA at $0.12, intending to just let it sit there for a year or five and see what happens. Weeks later I'd already 10x'd my money. Then I started thinking...I only need to do that...

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