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  1. Testament

    ALWAYS Check Your Employee's Work: A Cautionary Tale

    Hey All, Been a while. Hope everyone is doing well and totally killing it on their fastlane road to financial freedom! Had a situation that came up over the last couple of days that has changed my life for the worse (temporarily) and I wanted to share it, in the hopes that someone else might...
  2. Testament

    Dealing With Customers Pissed Off Over Delayed Shipments?

    PEOPLE 
    Hey all! Recently I've begun to dip my toes into ecommerce and it's been going really well so far! However, I've had a situation come up recently that's been causing me a lot of headaches and I'm not entirely sure how to deal with it properly. I've been dropshipping my products and some of...
  3. Testament

    Newbie Affiliate Networks?

    Hey all! In trying to finance my own fastlane business ideas, I've come into one constant source of hardship: Money! I've been working for a company that does affiliate advertising for a while, but honestly company politics are getting to be a bit much for me to contentedly deal with. I'm...
  4. Testament

    Hundreds of Sidewalkers Dogpile Manager on Quora

    SOCIAL MEDIA OFF-TOPIC 
    I have an employee that I manage who's constantly coming in 10+ minutes late. Feeling a bit flustered with it, I do a quick google search for "employee constantly late" and click a couple of the top results. I found a thread on Quora that utterly blew my mind. Check it out if you want to get in...
  5. Testament

    HELP! Unreliable freelancers are driving me INSANE!

    PEOPLE 
    Hey all, So over the past few weeks, I've come to have a laundry list of horror stories I could tell about odesk/elance/freelance internet contractors in general. Right now I'm trying to find a WordPress developer to make a site for me, as I've been tasked with being put in the role of...
  6. Testament

    Learning Copy in the Trenches

    EXECUTION 
    (TLDR: I'm learning to write copy and wanted to share my sticking points and resources that I come across. Feel free to scroll down to the section of this post where the broken lines --------- begin if you want to skip the backstory. ) Hey all! Hope you're all learning valuable lessons and...
  7. Testament

    So I just had the most awkward, terrible interview in HISTORY

    Hey guys, thought I'd share a funny (incredibly awkward) experience that just happened to me. So the founder of the startup I was working with last Summer (I gave them the pseudonym 'SmartChair') that I detailed in my progress thread, "Learning Marketing in the Trenches," emailed me randomly...
  8. Testament

    Finding (good) personal landing page design agencies?

    Hey guys, Recently I've been trying to find a design agency for my mentor that specializes in personal landing page design. So far we've gone through one place so far that didn't work out, and now I'm having a bit of a difficult time trying to weed out the bad from the good. I've pretty much...
  9. Testament

    How guys do you meet new people? (Preferably high wealth creators)

    MINDSET 
    Yo guys! :) So I went to my very first networking event a few days ago. It was being hosted by one of the companies I'd done email outreach for back in August, as I was just starting my progress thread. I'd had a few different opportunities to attend networking/company launch events in the...
  10. Testament

    Restaurant Owners: are you on GrubHub or Eat24? What's your experience been like?

    Hey guys, My mentor's parents run an Indian restaurant that's doing pretty well at the moment, but he wants to take them into the digital age and get them signed up with a service like Eat24 or Grubhub. He wanted me to look into which one would be the better deal, but so far it seems like both...
  11. Testament

    Where to find all the US programmers?

    PEOPLE 
    Hey guys! Hope the grind is going well for all of my fellow fastlaners. :) I've been trying to hire a programmer based out of the US for about a month now. I've been posting on Odesk and Craigslist. To say the applicants I've been getting so far have been horrible would be the understatement of...
  12. Testament

    The quantum matrix is calling to you via ultrasonic energy. Can you hear it?

    FUNNY 
    At the risk of over-doing this, I've found yet another text generator. This time, it's a new age-y rubbish generator: http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/ So far the results have been pretty damn funny. Post your best new age BS! :D (also, here's an interesting blog post from the same site about...
  13. Testament

    "You have to make an offer before you can see the property..." Is This Normal??

    REAL ESTATE 
    Hey guys. My mentor and some of his associates are looking to get into real estate investing. He sent me to zillow.com to check out real estate postings for him in Nevada. We're in Northern California, so one of the associates I mentioned was going to be personally viewing the houses I found...
  14. Testament

    How to write copy to your demographic?

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! I've been struggling a lot recently trying to write my copy to a product I'm on right now. The problem is that I can't seem to really grasp how to write copy to a specific demographic. Two of the different demographics that the product is marketed toward are college aged girls and...
  15. Testament

    My Brain Exploded After Reading This One Joke

    FUNNY 
    The world expert on European wasps and the sounds that they make is taking a stroll down his local town. As he passes by the record shop, a sign catches his eye: "Just Released - New LP - Wasps of the World and the sounds that they make - available now" Unable to resist the temptation, the man...
  16. Testament

    Anyone have experience coming up with reward tiers for Kickstarters?

    Hey all, So I've been placed in charge of coming up with the reward tiers for a product I'm helping market on Kickstarter. I've been checking out tons of other successful campaigns to figure out what good rewards look like, but so far I've found 3 of them in 90% of all campaigns... Shirts...
  17. Testament

    Think Babies Can't Be Racist? Maybe You Should Listen To This NBA Coach.

    FUNNY 
    http://www.upworthygenerator.com/ I just found a clickbait headline generator, with absurdly hilarious results. Try it out...after all, you never know when a transgender father of three will say something astonishingly profound. If you can read this and not be moved to tears, then you are made...
  18. Testament

    CAT Found in Stomach of Shark!

    FUNNY 
  19. Testament

    Authorized User on CC - is this a good credit hack?

    Hey all! So because of my last failed venture, I've got about a 530 credit score at the moment. For a long time, I haven't really cared, but recently I've been reading up a lot around the forum about how beneficial having good credit can be for capitalizing on opportunities for making cash...
  20. Testament

    Ryan Holiday - How to Market a Boring Business

    MARKETING 
    Hey all! Just wanted to put up a link to a post that helped me a lot with my last PR campaign, and I thought some of you talented 'preneurs might be able to get a bit of use out of it as well...
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