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  1. machinistguy

    How to Hire a Marketing Employee for Small Businesses?

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA SCALING 
    I'm planning to hire a full-time, marketing employee. I'm thinking of sharing my thought process, with the hope that the thread becomes a living guide to others so we can learn from each other and everyone gets to learn from any mistakes I make. First, I'll break it down to what tasks I expect...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Internal work has been the biggest thing. The more I work on becoming a better person, then more I can sympathize with them and work on getting us on the same team. There's also specific advice like hire as slow as you need to because you'll regret rushing to hire somebody and they turn out to...
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    Is Passive Income Less Attainable Than Before?

    QUESTION 
    I've always been fascinated by books as a business. Most authors are artist-dreamer types who are all about themselves and not the customer. What would happen if you treated writing as a business where you study the market, write books that are directly targeted towards a niche, thinking about...
  4. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    What about an employee who's both? My operations manager is so phenomenal in so many ways until it gets to the part where he isn't lol. I do blame myself. I think I trained him to pass the big problems to me instead of showing him how to handle them himself. He's just not naturally wired to...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Almost there! Definitely feel like I'm on the edge of the "Fastlane". Maybe by the end of the year. I'm already planning to take a couple weeks mostly off at the end of September... but then it's back to the frying pan.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Yeah, I figured. Business sometimes feels like a ball and chain when you have to spend a whole day managing adults. Can't imagine how being an employee feels like. That's exactly how I feel. I'm having to slowly focus more and more on leadership rather than doing the work. Feels like...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I really can't decide if I love or hate having employees. Sometimes I wish I picked an online business I can do from anywhere that's easier to scale and want to sell this thing and get as far away from it as possible. Sometimes I'm glad I went the route I did. Guess the grass is always...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Lol, I believe it. I remember going over medical studies in my statistics class in college and thinking "wow, this is all BS. The test and math and are both unnecessarily complex with the obvious intent to obfuscate and designed in such a way that the results can made to prove any point you...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Right now it's just telling you what it thinks you want to hear, wait till it starts telling you what those who built it want you to hear...
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    Palantir Discussion Thread

    SAAS / APPS - AI - 
    Nvidia isn't backed by the world's most powerful governments with a keen interest in creating a surveillance state.
  11. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    As homes become more unaffordable, bougie Trailer Parks & RVs are a boring market that will make entrepreneurs in that area ridiculously rich.
  12. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    As a Catholic, it's pretty standard "devil is the prince of this world" stuff. Rejecting the world is entirely valid; it's why people become monks and hermits.
  13. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I found black mold behind my AC vents. Suddenly, health issues that "randomly" flared up as soon as the weather was less than ideal made sense. I now have multiple expensive dehumidifiers and air purifiers constantly running.
  14. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I'm shocked at how prevalent mold in homes is nowadays but nobody is talking about it. Feels like a billion+ opportunity for any aspiring entrepreneurs out there.
  15. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Do you seriously expect us to believe any human still has the attention span to write a long post like yours? Obviously AI.
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    The Quest for a Clearer Mind and Less Digital Assault on my Attention

    MINDSET 
    I have a CAT 22 Flipphone. Technically a smart phone, but so buggy and inconvenient it's hard to use it as one.
  17. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Getting negative comments on social media posts from your indirect competitor's wife is a milestone I didn't know existed. She should have waited a month when we'd be directly competing with him. On one hand, I feel bad because the more market share we get, the more likely competitors will...
  18. machinistguy

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    - AI - 
    Somebody should create an AI shopify extension for stores with a large amount of SKUs to help customers find what they're looking for. Example: Bookstores I'm a business owner struggling to manage cashflow. What books should I read? I'm a teenage girl obsessed with romance and vampires. I've...
  19. machinistguy

    Your redemption and second chance is here. Will you take it?

    GOLD! ASSERTION 
    I already see a lot of AI videos on YouTube. I'd make a tool for fiction author's that helps them create shorts about their novels. Sell directly to authors or partner up with publishing houses. Marketing in 2025. Edit: Do the same for video games, TV shows, all forms of media. Create...
  20. machinistguy

    Building a Manufacturing Conglomerate Progress Thread

    EXECUTION 
    All my machines have different controls. It's often a big sticking point when manufacturing companies try to expand because they feel trapped into buying the same control on the new machine as their previous for the sake of standardization as well employee training and hiring. The industry...

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