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  1. mikecarlooch

    Are You Quitting 3 Inches From Gold?

    MINDSET 
    Want the truth about starting a business? Your first offer, even the one someone buys at first, will likely suck. You're likely going to make a few people unhappy at the start. It will feel like the end of the world to you.. like your idea is going to fail. People may be telling you they...
  2. mikecarlooch

    Getting Trapped In an MLM Camp On Superbowl Sunday

    RANT 
    Ladies and gentlemen, put down your TV remote tonight.. I'd like to provide you with Sunday Night's Entertainment! Have you ever talked to somebody and afterward feel like you need to take a shower? Until this experience, I hadn't really. It's Super Bowl Sunday I get invited by a friend to...
  3. mikecarlooch

    What Is Deep Work.. Really?

    MINDSET 
    It hit me recently.. The idea of "Deep Work" is not deep if it's predictable. Maybe you're like how I used to think - you feel like.. you don't know what to do on a daily basis, you don't know what TASKS to go deep on. You feel like since you can't predict what to do, that something is wrong...
  4. mikecarlooch

    How Do You Stay Sane?

    MINDSET 
    My current (temporary) situation Everything is going so well in my startup, we have a predictable flow of hot leads, all of a sudden there's a technical error. My stress levels go through the roof even though I know it's only going to last a couple hours before it's fixed. In reality, I...
  5. mikecarlooch

    How To Post Video Content Without Imposter Syndrome

    MARKETING 
    Note - this is an idea I just got, and wanted to put it on here just so I can be reminded of it. I'm personally in a niche where I do not feel like an expert and don't want to give people advice on social media, and I was thinking how I could go about building an audience without doing this. I...
  6. mikecarlooch

    The Books That Made Me Drop Out Of Coding Class

    MINDSET 
    Before I say anything that influences anyone to drop out of anything, please know I am just a young entrepreneur documenting my process on this forum. As I learn more, my personality drastically changes with new information. With that being said.. Yes, it's true. The books and people I'm...
  7. mikecarlooch

    Want a Eureka Moment? Click This

    IDEA 
    A large breakthrough idea I just had, for me it was like a eureka moment.. lol.. Want a surefire way to know if tasks you're doing are an action fake or real work? If the work you're producing isn't generating FEEDBACK, it's an action fake. Because FEEDBACK has consequences.
  8. mikecarlooch

    RANT - This Must Be Talked About More

    RANT 
    For my case in this thread, I'd like to bring more awareness to the topic of domain expertise, and maybe have some of the heavy hitters on this forum give their take on the subject. As a young aspiring entrepreneur, I feel this needs to be talked about more and made more clear. I think that...
  9. mikecarlooch

    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    For those unfamiliar, I have a thread in the insiders section of the fastlane forum detailing my journey of execution and basically giving my all to the pursuit of entrepreneurship. Why a new thread? Because I'm too cheap to pay for insiders and I want to continue documenting publicly. If you...
  10. mikecarlooch

    5 Quotes That Changed My Life

    MINDSET 
    4 months ago I had no idea what to do with my life. Who knew that 5 measly quotes could be game-changing so fast? I'd like to share a couple of my experiences with each of them so that you, the reader, can perceive these quotes that way I did, and hopefully they can change your life as well...
  11. mikecarlooch

    Marketing Guru RANT

    MARKETING 
    I felt an intense fire of WTF recently thinking back, and figured it may be valuable to share it here. I am half-way through Gabriel Weinberg's book "Traction". Holy mother of god, I feel conned by marketing gurus. Storytime: When I was running my (small) video editing company, I was trying...
  12. mikecarlooch

    How I'm Organizing My Life (Schemas)

    MINDSET 
    Happy Saturday everyone! I'm writing this thread because I noticed that when I tell other people about things, the more I tend to stick with them.. But more importantly, I think what I've got here can help a few people who may be feeling lost. The truth is - out of desperation, I had to figure...
  13. mikecarlooch

    Push-Ups are The Secret To Great Marketing..?!

    MARKETING 
    Yesterday I wanted to test Robert Cialdini’s principle of social proof because I’m a marketing nerd. It’s silly, but this experiment helped me realize what marketing is.. Monkey see, monkey do Watch below: View: https://youtube.com/shorts/rmlVX3l1CIQ?feature=share
  14. mikecarlooch

    Are You Manipulating Yourself? (DANGEROUS)

    MINDSET 
    Warning: This does include some nutrition controversy, so anyone who's easily triggered by diets and such may not want to read this. The more I go through life as someone with a goal of creating a life of pure abundance and freedom, the more I notice things that, if they are not changed, may...
  15. mikecarlooch

    Panic Attacks & Entrepreneurship (a Blessing In Disguise?)

    MINDSET 
    Hey guys - coming here today with a sensitive topic.. A little bit difficult to write out, but I think this is something that needs to be talked about for entrepreneurs because obviously, our output ability literally determines our destiny and legacy in the world - and to have that kind of...
  16. mikecarlooch

    Who is in charge of marketing for festival companies?

    ASK THE AI 
    Eva, who is in charge of marketing for festival companies like electric daisy carnival and what are some good ways to get in contact with them?
  17. mikecarlooch

    I Read 200 Books, Why Am I Not a Millionaire?

    MINDSET 
    I feel like I need to throw this commitment out there into the universe to make it seem more real. And anyone who wants to do this challenge with me, I'll call it the 1 for 10 challenge. From now on, reading = entertainment. If you're reading something and it is not going to help you solve...
  18. mikecarlooch

    One Of The Most Critical Fastlane Skills?

    CHAT 
    Hey everyone, I'm creating this thread out of a burning curiosity I've had in the last month with what appears to be a critical skill in business... And I thought to myself, what better way than to ask some successful people like those on this forum and their experience with it? The skill I'm...
  19. mikecarlooch

    Grant Cardone's Dirty Little Secret

    MARKETING 
    After reading this, I can truly say with conviction that if you're someone who has felt anxious or overwhelmed by making organic content on social media platforms because there are just too many freaking things going on, I've got the answer for you in this post. What I'd recommend if you're in...
  20. mikecarlooch

    The Overlooked Marketing Strategy That Most Aren't Doing..

    MARKETPLACE 
    Question: If I put a dollar in your pocket that otherwise would never be there, did all of the work for you, and you had 0 risks on your end, would you give me 50 cents of that dollar? Let me restate that for the people in the back.. I do all the work, you do practically nothing.. And we...
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