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    Not Fulfilled? Depressed? Maybe You Need An Alignment

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    Wow, I really appreciate the feedback. This is definitely going to be my homework for the next few weeks. Thanks for taking the time to respond. You spelled everything out clearly and I don't have any questions for now. I'll follow back up later to keep the thread alive for everyone :).
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    Not Fulfilled? Depressed? Maybe You Need An Alignment

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    Thanks for posting this thread and this exercise, eliquid. I've spent the past week working through this and have found the personality tests to be both assuring and concerning. Every step of the way I felt like I was thinking "yep, that's me" or "ohhh, this explains so much". The only problem...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    I won’t lie, getting a viable product from these manufacturers has been harder than expected. Even with a detailed blueprint they are finding every method under the sun the mess up some detail. For instance, when a piece of fabric is specified they manage to find something that “technically”...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    I'm narrowed down to four manufacturers with three of them sending in samples as we speak. Once those come in I can pick the final and start getting them listed on Amazon. I recently read a thread here with Biophase and Vigilante about this not being quite as easy nowadays. It had some great...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    It's saturday and another week is in the bag. Short update this week, but we did make some good progress. We had enough feedback and samples from suppliers that we have been able to create a detailed blueprint of exactly what we need. We are needing taking this blueprint back to other suppliers...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    Sorry for the late update. I was out of town this weekend and didn't get around to updating via phone. No excuses. Last week was a little slow. There was a fair amount of waiting on DHL to approve my express account, waiting on suppliers to respond to my messages, and waiting on Incfile to get...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    I'm running into an interesting trend. Several of the suppliers I am talking with want to charge several hidden fees. One company wants to charge a $120 module fee, a $40 shipping fee, and a $30 sample fee just to get three samples of a product that likely costs less than $2 once purchased as...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    Time for this weeks update! This week was a ton of back and forth communication with possible suppliers. A few of them have asked me to send them samples that they can reverse engineer. That's an aspect I hadn't thought of (but probably should have). Given that the original concept for this was...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    My main goal with this project is to get out there and prove to myself I can run something on the side. I was intending to either find a product as is or find one that required minor modifications (per the recommendations of this forum and the books I’ve read), but before I head down that path I...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    Weekly update: I'm still in early learning mode, but I'm trying to learn by doing instead of getting stuck in research zone. That being said, there's a certain level of research that does need to occur :). I started out with a product idea that I came up with several years ago. I spent some...
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    Learning to hustle on the side

    EXECUTION 
    I read MFL several years ago and made a decent attempt at trying to start up a consulting business on the side. One thing I learned in that business is that it wasn't very smart to start a customer-heavy consulting business while also working 60 hours a week during the business day. I then made...
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