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  1. JM35

    Test my website/online biz valuation calculator

    Hey fastlane fam, I've (slowly) been working on building an online business brokerage to translate my day job expertise to my passion, online business. I've had some success getting deals one-off - I closed 3 deals in 2019 for $650k of transaction value, which was pretty good for the amount...
  2. JM35

    My biggest purchase…$40k SaaS stock trading platform, using $28k of debt

    EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    I’ve never bought a five-figure website before but have been wanting to for the past year or so. I have simply been waiting for the right opportunity, and I finally found it two weeks ago. The problem was that it was a little big bigger than what I anticipated jumping into for my first “big”...
  3. JM35

    Online Business Valuation Calculator - Feedback Please!

    Hey Fastlaners, In my quest to start an online business brokerage (going well so far, signed up 2 $150k+ sites in two months), I decided to build a business valuation calculator to serve as a lead generator eventually (going to cost ~$8k to develop). If you have ever tried one of those "whats...
  4. JM35

    I Took 6-Months off the Forums. Here's What I Accomplished

    EXECUTION 
    Towards the end of 2018 and the beginning of the new year I was in a big reading kick. I was reading a lot of books (millionaire fastlane, tim ferris, the subtle art, etc.) but was also spending a lot of time reading around here on the forums and other places on the web. From M-F I worked a...
  5. JM35

    Ballsy Marketing Tactic - Emailing your whole company...of 250k people

    MARKETING 
    The bank blew up today, and I thought some of y'all might enjoy the balls of this aspiring entrepreneur. We have an email distribution list that encompasses every single employee in the company, just a measly 250,000 employees. Pretty much the only person that uses it/should use it is Jamie...
  6. JM35

    Anyone attending Blog Elevated (Houston, Mar. 2nd)?

    MEETUPS 
    Anyone here planning on attending Blog Elevated (Blog Elevated | Be Inspired. Be Professional. Be You.) on March 2nd in Houston? It came across my radar the other day, and being a Houston native, I figured I would give it a shot. It'll be my first conference so wanted to see if anyone on here...
  7. JM35

    Process for transitioning Adsense publisher codes

    MARKETING 
    Hey guys, This is a little more of a technical post, might not be best for this community but I figure someone here has been through this process before and knows the best-practice for it. I recently purchased a Wordpress site that generates a majority of its revenue from Adsense (and Amazon...
  8. JM35

    A Re-Introduction to Myself, 4-years down the road

    INTRO 
    Hey Fastlaners, As you can see, I've been a member here for a while. I originally joined back around 2011 when I was 16 and launching a unique product around the competitive gaming industry. After that I headed off to college and bought a bmw parts dropshipping business. Throughout college I...
  9. JM35

    Increasing Conversion Help!

    MARKETING 
    Hey guys, So I am just looking for a little review/feedback on my website and would love to hear some ideas any of yall have about increasing conversions. The website is: http://www.bimmerhq.com We specialize in BMW parts and have just transitioned over to a new website not too long ago and...
  10. JM35

    Book Recommendation for Beginning Investors?

    BOOKS 
    Hey guys, Its been awhile since ive been on here, good to be back. So im a sophomore in college (19 yrs old), finance and entrepreneurship major. My ideal career would be to have my own financial firm, investments, planning etc. I want to get my CFA and CFP in the future. But right now, I...
  11. JM35

    ProStores category/product help

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    If anyone has any experience with prostores or with coding of the sort your help would be much appreciated: We recently opened up a second store, because our first one (www.autobahnbmwparts.com) got hit by panda and penguin and has a bad link profile. So we de-indexed it and opened up...
  12. JM35

    Need advice getting more traffic/sales

    MARKETING 
    So a few months back I purchased a company that dropships bmw parts online, autobahnbmwparts.com. The site is hosted through ProStores, and ProStores shows we get around 5k visits/month but according to google analytics we only get about 1.3k. I just recently added the conversion tracking to...
  13. JM35

    Increase Conversion Rate/Review my Website

    MARKETING 
    Hey Fastlaners, I just recently purchased a bmw parts dropshipping company, www.autobahnbmwparts.com The site has had about a 0.20% conversion rate of the past year or so. I know there are ways we can increase this by increasing the functionality of our site and by a few other tactics. So im...
  14. JM35

    Hit by Penguin Update - Need Recovery Help

    MARKETING 
    So I just purchased a company, www.autobahnbmwparts.com, and learned that it had been hit by the Google Penguin Update back in may of 2012. The owner said his previous SEO company had over done it on the keyword "bmw parts" and was penalized. He says he has spent a lot of time diffusing the bad...
  15. JM35

    Just Purchased a Dropshipping Company - Goals & Plans

    Since coming off to college ive had a tough time running my current business, time is extremely limited and my motivation had just declined due to lack of performance of the business. I stopped doing any sort of marketing because I just havent had the time to ship orders that come in. Im still...
  16. JM35

    Buying a Company - thoughts?

    Hey Guys, Ive been looking into buying a business with my brother, it is an OEM automotive parts dropshipping business. The company is about 3 years old and has been declining, as you can see in the attached files, as the owner has been focusing his time on his other business rather than...
  17. JM35

    Great read on the Capitalist Class and Diversifying Assets

    INVESTING 
    Great read on the capitalist class and what they do to get where they are. Talks a lot about diversifying and investing assets as well as creating passive income and treating time more importantly than money :thumbsup: 10 Secrets of the Capitalist Class - An In-Depth Look at the Richest 1% of...
  18. JM35

    Getting no where with Microsoft, help!

    So the new xbox is coming out and with that is a new controller. I am still debating whether or not I want to develope a product for it or not as im sure i could do it a lot more efficiently and cost effectively this time. So for a couple weeks now ive been trying to find out how to get an Xbox...
  19. JM35

    New account, former member

    Hey Fastlaners! A few of you might recognize me as GamerGripz (my old account). I went ahead and created a new account for myself as i plan to expand my entrepreneurial knowledge and profile. I just didnt want to keep posting as my company as i would rather be known as myself! But a bit about...
  20. JM35

    Need help adding banners to my rotating banner

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I want to add more banners to my rotating banner to make the site feel more live and to advertise promotions on and things like that. When we had the website made we asked for a rotating banner, but we only put up one banner and the company is trying to charge us $75 to show us how to add...
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