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    The Double My Money Thread: Insider Edition

    Hey all! Needed some space to flesh out my ideas without getting picked up on the outside. I started this challenge with $1000. The goal? Make $2000. Now, of course, I'm shooting far and above that $2000 goal, and in fact, I'm trying to spend as little of that seed money as possible! (Sorry...
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    The Double My Money Thread: $1k to $2k.

    EXECUTION 
    Hey all! This post is fairly long. Skip to the *TL;DR* if you're wanting the no-frills version! ----- I spend most of my time as a teacher-to-be. No, I'm not in school for education. No, I don't plan to go teach history to 11th graders. However, I do believe in growth and development in...
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    Questions about Venture Capital

    Hey all! I notice that I'm on this forum in waves - and every time I come back I feel like I miss you all haha. My question today pertains to venture capital. A lot of the advice and material I see on entrepreneurship today subscribes to the Barebones school of thought. These are the hungry...
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    What do you drink besides coffee?

    HEALTH 
    Hey all! I love coffee - but it's a hassle constantly getting up to go to the bathroom whenever I'm sitting down to work. What do you lot drink as you work that keeps you alert, and keeps you in one place? Cheers!
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    Is Anyone Here an Internet Service Provider?

    Hey all! So we all know the story of Blockbuster founder Wayne Huizenga. He began collecting trash with himself, his truck. Later on hired another man with another truck, two more men with two more trucks, so on and so forth until Waste Management was the largest trash collection company in the...
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    Continuing my Adwords Research?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! I've recently (past few months) taken a nice niche passion for AdWords. I find the benefits of the platform incredible, and the challenge of building a successful ad a fascinating puzzle. I've taken the wonderful AdWords course by @Andy Black (and read his entire post history, I've...
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    Lead Gen Mastermind - 2017/$2017

    MARKETING 
    Saluton miaj amikoj! Hello friends! There's been a lot of traction on the forum lately of people asking questions, sharing information, and posting progress threads regarding local lead gen. And I totally get why. Overall, it's pretty CENTS-y! NEED: Businesses always need more customers, and...
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    AdWords: Offense or Defense?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! I'm doing AdWords for a client who's got a website converting at 1% with an average ticket of $38. I really like @Andy Black's approach of remembering that traffic is really just people. Sending the right people to your page should boost any "conversion rate" worries you have. That...
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    "Approved (Limited)" on AdWords?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! Started putting together a new campaign tonight. I get to the end of setup, and I get a pop-up that says I need to fix an error before my campaign can go through. I click the Details button, and it says someone needs to review the ad. Got it, no problem. But my only options to click...
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    Help Stop Cannibalism

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! So I've got this ad campaign going on AdWords, and my two ad groups are cannibalizing each other. How do I remedy this? I've got two ad groups with one keyword a piece. Campaign: Ana's MT Ad Group 1: +mothers +day +cards // Keyword is the same. Ad Group 2: +inexpensive +mothers +day...
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    [AdWords] Am I Missing Something?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! Recently launched a small $20 test on AdWords to get some metrics on the keywords +mothers +day +cards and +mothers +day +greeting +cards. I have both of these in one campaign, in the same ad group. For the first keyword, I notice that I have 3 clicks (SO COOL!), 71 impressions, and...
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    Aduramus

    EXECUTION 
    Adurere (v.) Latin - to set ablaze Aduramus (v. first person plural, active subjunctive) let's set ablaze. Hello everyone! I find posting a progress thread here more relevant than posting on my own Wordpress account - so let's roll. Why am I doing this - who knows. Hopefully something good...
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    How Do I Price This?

    Hey all! So this is the first time someone wants to bill me for my hobby. I have a pretty big interest in language learning, and someone in the family wants to hire me to do cold calls in Spanish to recruit people for a taco festival they're holding. I'm a big advocate of pricing by value...
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    How to use a Pay What You Want system?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! So I've written a book a few weeks ago. I have no expectation of it reaching any Best Sellers lists, but I definitely think it will be a positive impact on those who read through it. Right now it's up on the Kindle Store for $2.99/piece. This is nice, I get a good margin off of it...
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    "Is this a good idea?"

    IDEA RANT 
    Hi there! So you've made a post asking whether or not we here believe your idea to be worth pursuing. Maybe you're thinking about creating the 'Uber for Pet-Sitting.' Maybe it's a new vegan barbecue sauce recipe you think people will love. Maybe you want to help restaurants organize their...
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    Confused with Facebook Bids.

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 
    Hi there! So I realized my biggest sticking point in entrepreneurship is traffic. The most unhelpful piece of advice is often the one which gets quoted to me the most, neatly summarized as either buy an ad on Google, or get an ad on Facebook. This vital piece of advice is very rarely, when...
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    Question About Pressing T-Shirts

    Hey all! I've noticed a lot of shortcomings in the available "custom t-shirt" market including: * Poor product selection * Unreliable shipping times * Lack of marketing options * Nonexistant customer service I've decided to do something about it. I'm looking into a few of these heat presses...
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    Fashion Retailer Bebe Closing All Stores.

    HOT! 
    2017 has seen the death of three major fashion retailers so far. American Apparel and Wet Seal announced earlier this year the cessation of all business, both in physical retail locations and online. Now, fashion retailer Bebe, after 40 years in business, will be shutting the doors on all of...
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    Pre-Selling Ad Space on a Podcast?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! I'm looking at building a language learning podcast, in which I feature and teach a new language once every 2 weeks in a small 80-minute period. The goal is to use this as the MVP for the highly effective foreign language courses I hope to produce. In a fashion similar to this...
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    Stranded in Dallas.

    EXECUTION 
    Right now, in this moment, I could be in Miami sipping the juice from a coconut and sunbathing in the sweaty beer-soaked sands of Fort Lauderdale. Right now, I could be sipping a 12-oz. soy cappuccino in a street-side café in Chicago, perhaps learning a little French or Polish to pass the time...

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