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  1. Stephanos83

    FBA and Importing Goods From China

    HOT! SOURCING 
    Have you done any sourcing in the UK or around the EU, or just China exclusively? With 20% import VAT on invoice of goods, what sort of margins do you project before moving forward with a product idea? What are some of the attributes you look for in products? I appreciate you doing this. I'm...
  2. Stephanos83

    A Monthly Ejuice Subscription Service

    EXECUTION 
    Have you considered mixing on your own? If you look at a company like Alien Visions with the Boba products, they seem to do very well. Having a handful of proprietary flavors could help boost you brand. Lots of YouTube guys reviewing e juice as well that you could leverage to get the word...
  3. Stephanos83

    Million Dollar Idea Generation Exercise

    IDEA MINDSET 
    Or you can talk to your customers. Research them until you know more about them than they know about themselves. Then the ideas will flow freely from the problems that already exist. What you have is a good exercise for keeping the mind open to new ideas. You'll have to take one and go deeper...
  4. Stephanos83

    A Monthly Ejuice Subscription Service

    EXECUTION 
    Is your organic traffic sufficient for turning over inventory? What are you trying to accomplish?
  5. Stephanos83

    Writing Books With No Writing Skills

    PUBLISHING 
    Try using the snowflake-method to outline your universe. http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/ This is might be the best way to get your intent and creative process across to those who can help you craft your art. Take care hiring. I think having multiple...
  6. Stephanos83

    Writing Books With No Writing Skills

    PUBLISHING 
    Did you happen to catch MJ's Insider call on writing? I'm not sure if it was recorded, but it could help with this decision. I think what you're saying can be done. No experience with this myself. However encyclopedia style books usually follow a series of books to tie everything together...
  7. Stephanos83

    Business Is Now Making 7 Figures - Taxes are killing me - Advice?

    HOT! TAXES | REGS 
    Of course that depends on what you're getting for it in terms of services, infrastructure, and leadership. Many countries aren't worth their price tags in this regard. There's usually a lot of waste and abuse of the money taken. Most of it is paid by the middle class or slowlaners. Not a...
  8. Stephanos83

    How do you manage sleep cycles?

    Sunlight is important. Supplement with vitamin D3 if you can't get any. I live in the UK, so daily affair for me. I work a slowlane where I change 10 hour shifts every two weeks. 0700-1700, 1500-0100, 2300-0900 are the three shifts. With two kids I have to drop back to a day schedule...
  9. Stephanos83

    How I got kicked in the balls...hard.

    PEOPLE 
    It feels like weakness in the beginning. You just need to learn to fill the void with other things of substance that make you happy. Relationships are like that. You become used to putting all your emotional eggs in one basket. It's difficult to break free of it, but once you do you will...
  10. Stephanos83

    How I got kicked in the balls...hard.

    PEOPLE 
    Get back in the gym if you weren't there already. Take a trip and do something cool and interesting. What did you like doing before this relationship consumed your time? Get back to things that make you happy. The most important thing is to change your reality in some way. How extreme you'll...
  11. Stephanos83

    My Trip to the Canton Fair - Why You Should Go

    I've done some more research on this since this thread. Only about 9% of people that go are Americans. It's really a global event. Anyone that imports can benefit from going.
  12. Stephanos83

    Diary of Opening A New Business

    NOTABLE! 
    This has been an great thread Jack. Looking forward to the next one you do for your new business. Best of luck on the new venture. Hopefully you won't need it.
  13. Stephanos83

    how do you have time for everything on 24 hours?

    HOT! 
    Make the most of it. Discipline and consistency... Lots of good advice already given here. Some of which I need to apply myself.
  14. Stephanos83

    Advice On Starting A New Business After Last Failed

    FTE INTRO 
    You need to go back and analyze the chinks in the armor that caused your 'failure'. I put it in quotations because it sounds as though it was doomed from the start, yet you still managed to squeeze substantial earnings from it. Analyze what you have learned and apply it to a new problem...
  15. Stephanos83

    UK Meetup

    MEETUPS 
    I'm in the Northeast near York. I might be interested if there's something closer than London area.
  16. Stephanos83

    My Trip to the Canton Fair - Why You Should Go

    Going to look at doing this next family trip to Vietnam. Thanks for sharing!
  17. Stephanos83

    My Trip to the Canton Fair - Why You Should Go

    I believe you can get one at the border that heads into Shenzhen for a week. Double check on that though. Can't remember where I heard it.
  18. Stephanos83

    UK Supplement Manufacturer

    http://www.wholesaleforum.com/discuss/health-food-6844/supplement-trade-supplier-uk-proteins-creatine-weight-gainers-wholesale-22356/ http://www.wholesaleforum.com/discuss/wholesale-discussion-24/sports-supplements-uk-contract-manufacturers-creating-own-brand-supplements-20748/ Here's a few...
  19. Stephanos83

    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

    GOLD! SOURCING 
    Totally agree! You can also check out thrift shops. I have one I go to on a military base and you can get quality items for really cheap, especially since there's a lot of soldiers out there changing station that don't sell their things ahead of time.
  20. Stephanos83

    How many millionaires (success stories) since Fastlane inception?

    EXECUTION 
    Very touching post. Happy that your mentor planted the seed of his legacy by believing in you. I hope to have a similar relationship with as a great mind in my future. Good luck, thanks for sharing.
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