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  1. Nicoknowsbest

    Diary of a digital entrepreneur

    MINDSET 
    The last 3 years of my entrepreneurial journey were quite a rollercoaster. I learned a ton of lessons that I'll share in this thread. Hopefully some of you will benefit from this. -- Lesson #1 Nobody has the f*cking answer. It took me almost 3 years to realize this. Back when I started out...
  2. Nicoknowsbest

    Building a Video Ad Service

    EXECUTION 
    I moved away from my initial progress thread here, because the title is not relevant anymore and I wanted a clean cut. Status Quo: I think I just stopped a huge downward spiral, mentally as well as in reality. If you are interested in how it came to that, here's the story that went down last...
  3. Nicoknowsbest

    Are you protecting yourself online?

    EXECUTION 
    I have been using LinkedIn for the last two months as a lead gen tool and one day, I stumbled upon a paid service. It offered to automate lead gen for you on LinkedIn by helping you define and find your ideal customers, engage with them and send out human inspired personal messages. While I...
  4. Nicoknowsbest

    Graphic Design Hack Thread

    EXECUTION 
    I am encountering questions about graphic design and related subjects here on the forum, on Facebook and some other places. Sometimes, people want to know how to do certain things technically, and sometimes, people are just struggling putting together a nice color scheme for their website. To...
  5. Nicoknowsbest

    Paid Traffic For Creatives

    EXECUTION 
    Around a year ago, I quit my job and embarked on the journey of a graphic design freelancer with the idea of moving further along the sliding scale: intern > employee > freelancer > consultant > services > products After a rough start and a sudden take-off, the summer break has shaken up my...
  6. Nicoknowsbest

    Friday Night Glory

    MINDSET 
    It's 7:35 pm here and my phone was humming and buzzing all day from all the messages and updates of people planning their Friday Night Glory. I disconnected my phone from my Wifi to make the madness stop. Movie nights, club nights, dinner dates or just having the occasional...
  7. Nicoknowsbest

    Progress Over Profit

    MINDSET 
    You are freelancing to build your funds. You've been thinking about spinning it off into a service business, small agency or similar. You've gone from hardly having any clients to more than you can handle at the moment. You even have potential clients contact you instead of you contacting...
  8. Nicoknowsbest

    Stop Action-Faking Already!!!

    MINDSET 
    A while ago, I quit my job and went down the freelance route to become self-sufficient and learn business from first hand experience. While looking for ideal clients and trying to narrow down my service offer, I came up with a list of skills I wanted to refine and learn. Just two more weeks of...
  9. Nicoknowsbest

    "Give Yourself Permission"

    MINDSET 
    I've been working on my first direct response marketing campaign over the last two weeks. When someone asked me yesterday, if I sent it out already, I had to answer: "No". He asked me: "Why not?" My answer: "I still need to research which color scheme has the best psychological effect on what...
  10. Nicoknowsbest

    [Progress] Graphic Designer Going Freelance & Fastlane

    EXECUTION 
    If you are like me, you came to the forum a while ago. Reading this and that, writing up comments here and there. It all seemed like a big buffet in the beginning. You came whenever you pleased and ate whatever you felt like. Something didn't taste? You left it on your plate and went to...
  11. Nicoknowsbest

    What Value Will I Be Able To Add To This Forum?

    INTRO 
    Hello to @MJ DeMarco and to all my fellow fastlaners out there! My name is Nico and I am 24 years old. After some country hopping, I just settled down again, in my hometown, Vienna, Austria. Here a quick overview of what has been going on recently: In the last 3 years, I founded 3 different...
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