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  1. Walter Stroup

    How Helping Others Every Day is Driving My Fastlane Success [Behavioral Health Business]

    EXECUTION 
    Right now at 2k per month. Net. In the US, this would normally be poverty wages. However, I don’t pay rent. My employer covers rent and gives me a stipend in addition to my salary. How does this help my Fastlane goal? I get another taste of MRR that’s not bound by time. The plan is to focus on...
  2. Walter Stroup

    How My Personal Trainer Built a Six Figure Business In Less Than One Year

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 
    In MJ's novels, he routinely talks about how personal training is a Slowlane business. However, my personal trainer created a Fastlane opportunity despite potential naysayers. I hired Mike Gettier at Gettfit when I hit a plateau on my fitness goals. After years of running around in circles, I...
  3. Walter Stroup

    How do you all stay organized?

    QUESTION 
    Hello Fastlane Hivemind, What tools do you all use to stay organized? I have started following @ZCP's advice about outreach(he has a great YouTube channel btw) and have been flooded with opportunities. My main focus is managing a transitional living for people with mental illness. The goal...
  4. Walter Stroup

    PLEASE SELL ME YOUR STUFF! I AM BUYING! SLOTS GOING FAST!

    SCALING 
    I notice that many newbie entrepreneurs have a remarkable awkwardness around selling me their solution. I have literally offered to buy their solution and people will talk themselves out of selling it. Or I'll offer to negotiate the terms of offloading some work that I don't want to do. People...
  5. Walter Stroup

    A Deep Dive Into My Entrepreneurial DNA—Powered by ChatGPT

    MINDSET 
    I asked ChatGPT if it could analyze my strengths and weaknesses in the context of business. The results are surprisingly accurate. What are yours? 1. Self-Discipline & Integrity 7 years sober and active in recovery support groups tells me you’ve built deep internal accountability, which is...
  6. Walter Stroup

    From 0 to 15,000k a month and beyond: How I'm scaling an accounting firm.

    EXECUTION 
    Early Progress Restarting my progress thread as I have a real business with revenue right now. The early part of the progress thread was mostly me flailing around and looking for a solution. @ZCP gave me the idea to just start putting bids for ownership on different businesses, and this...
  7. Walter Stroup

    Skipping Bookkeeping? Here’s How You Can Lose Everything

    TAXES | REGS 
    Don't F---- with the tax man. I know of a peer that was playing a dangerous game with their books and taxes. I asked my accounting professor what might happen, and I used AI to reframe his response in the second person: Let me be absolutely clear: if you think you can just “opt out” of paying...
  8. Walter Stroup

    BUYING BOOMER BUSINESSES

    IDEA 
    Know of any boomer business with no succession plan? Is the revenue stable? Send me a DM with your business. I may be able to pay cash for the shop depending on the terms. Accounting firms heavily preferred. I have zero interest in anything related to technology.
  9. Walter Stroup

    10x CRYPTOZOO NFT SUPERCHARGER INVESTEMENT OPPORTUNITY!!!! CLICK MORE FOR MORE DETAILS!

    IDEA 
    Title is clickbait. Instead, I'm seeking life changing career advice from strangers on the internet. I think I've been dumb. I've gone back to school for accounting. They say accounting is a stable career yet there's a long line of unemployed or underemployed accountants fighting for scraps on...
  10. Walter Stroup

    Can someone teach me PPC and SEO?

    MARKETING 
    Hello, Can someone teach me PPC and SEO? I want to help behavioral health pratices grow, and most could use the help on this front. When I Google these areas of interest, I get a bunch of overpriced courses. Thx Jaywalker
  11. Walter Stroup

    What's stopping you?

    MINDSET 
    What's stopping you from achieving your goals? How are you overcoming these challenges? Mine are: YouTube binge watching. I have added focusmode to my chrome browser and leave the app on so that it blocks YouTube. I deleted YouTube and social media off my phone aside from LinkedIn. I keep...
  12. Walter Stroup

    Corruption in asset management | Harvard MBAs struggle to find work | Office workers struggle even harder | AI is probably coming for your office job

    INVESTING FUNNY - AI - 
    Many of the links are to the WSJ, which are paygated. However, I summarized them in this post. Some of the posts have political elements, but I tried to focus on the business implications as I've already grown sick of the national news' play-by-play coverage of Trump's presidency. Perhaps you'll...
  13. Walter Stroup

    Weekly Process Update - Accounting and Real Estate - Updates Tuesday

    EXECUTION FEEDBACK 
    Hello All, This has been a successful week so far. The highlights: Almost made my first sale. (Seasoned salespeople may laugh at me, but to me this is a big breakthrough). May pick up a sober living job Accounting seems to be a winning skillset as the barrier to entry is steep. My class went...
  14. Walter Stroup

    What do you all use CPAs for?

    CHAT 
    What do you actually use CPAs (or the equivalent term in your country) for in your business? We spend a great deal of time in class journalizing some of the more arcane transactions that a business might encounter, and I worry that this will result in a mismatch between what I'm taught and...
  15. Walter Stroup

    Austin Business Association

    MEETUPS 
    Howdy all, After trying to network in person, I came up with an idea to make an Austin Business Association. It is remarkably difficult to find a group of people IRL to talk about business. If you're in the Austin, TX area, we'd love to have you. Supposedly the startup scene is alive and well...
  16. Walter Stroup

    Adventures in Business

    INTRO 
    Howdy all, I first read the books in 2020. It was a revelation. Here are some of my failures so that you can learn from my mistakes. In addition, I will talk about where I am now. Let’s see what the forum has to offer. Failure #1: Started a family business with my father. We sold an upgrade...
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