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    MJ Books paralyzed me... and I don't know why!

    INTRO 
    You don’t have to reinvent the wheel, you just need to execute better than existing businesses and skew more value. For example, let’s say there’s a couple of local businesses that sell a lot of high-ticket landscaping. A: The massive company everyone knows: Does good work but very pricey due...
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    You have 10k to invest ; what are you doing?

    “The rules are you can’t invest in stocks, crypto, or create your own business because I’m looking for something I haven’t tried yet” He can’t do real estate because that’s a business and options trading has a learning curve so that is probably out too.
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    Sales = Magic Pill to Entrepreneurship?

    Selling is definitely the cornerstone. It gets the ball rolling. But you still have to build systems and keep refining the value you offer. Self control is also key because there are tons of sales guys pulling in 150k a year that live paycheck to paycheck. They live on the sidewalk since they...
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    What's your Lambo? (What are you working for?)

    NOTABLE! CHAT 
    I work to decrease the leverage the decisions of fools have over my life. Arbitrary and bossy people have always pissed me off. No one asked for their dictates but they feel compelled to make them for some reason. I don’t give a shit about fancy stuff. I have a nice but very affordable car and...
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    I said: "The website is $3000". They said: "Too expensive! I was thinking $500!"

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Do you have existing clients you’ve built sites for that you can point to their results? Going high ticket is great and all... but don’t be cocky. it is easier when you have a ROI or even finished result/testimonial you can show. (Especially for the same industry) Example: sold an insurance...
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    Holy shit is this real life?!

    HOT! 
    Welcome to the awakened. Keep chiseling day by day. It is 100% worth it.
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    Guys I need help to make $2K/mo

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Get a side job in entry level sales. Making 2k in that should be fairly easy. Then you get a valuable skill set and see real world ideas. The hardest part is most people try to create instead of improve especially when they are new. it is exactly what I did, then it bridged into related...
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    My first blog bombed. Should I start a second one?

    Blogging is a means to an end, not the end itself. I can’t stress enough leaving the passion projects and market creation for later. Go where there’s money changing hands but people are complaining.
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    My first blog bombed. Should I start a second one?

    Reminds me of the glory days. (No sarcasm, it was a period of massive learning while stumbling around in the dark) Some of my first attempts were blogs. My 19 year old dreams of making $10,000,000 a year through amazon/click bank/offer vaults didn’t amount to much money. Then I tried creating...
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    The right time to quit a JOB

    MINDSET 
    Exactly, plus they may always be helpful connections later on. I’ve done the exact thing with far less savings.
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    Had to call it quits today.

    EXECUTION NOTABLE! 
    Dont sweat it I’ve failed lots of ventures. Each taught me a lot and I know how to get things going on a shoestring. get a sales or marketing job to gain more of these skills on someone else’s dime in the meantime. You’ll learn to do things faster and be more direct. Look back to Unscripted...
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    Can someone explain Google Local Services better?

    MARKETING 
    Try green is paying and Verified, Ramos is not based on the screenshot. google puts others in there to give more options. Maybe they use it to sell them on how they got leads and what not.
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    Can someone explain Google Local Services better?

    MARKETING 
    Think of it as a better home advisor with GMB and PPC built in, but with more screening on both you and the leads. a few clients use it, it can be great but, some have a multi thousand budget and get fewer leads compared to their PPC and SEO campaigns. It is supposed to be a service where you...
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    How Do Advertising Deductions Work?

    @biophase and @Johnny boy Ok cool thank you guys, that is what I was curious about!
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    How Do Advertising Deductions Work?

    @Rabby so can someone use ad budgets as a tax write off? As in they owed let’s say 50k in taxes on profit of 150k, if they spend 40k or something does that deduct from? I’ve heard from some they deduct that 40k and pay the 10k in tax. I’m curious if that is legit or not. @Johnny boy I’ve read...
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    How Do Advertising Deductions Work?

    No tax experts here who can chime in? (I don’t trust internet blogs and gurus)
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    How Do Advertising Deductions Work?

    I’ve run into a few people who write off their ads. One client off mine says he writes ads off 100%. This was surprising, I thought most deductions are only 20-30%.. Many people don’t Know this at all it seems. some sources say Ads are a 100% write off. What Business Expenses Are Tax...
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    How The Fastlane Forum Helped Me Reach The Next Step

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Thank you @MJ DeMarco ! What you say works. Hope anyone reading this puts in the work. A few years ago I bounced job to job and had 8 broken business ventures and a negative net worth. Then I found this place and learned to focus on the process.
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    How The Fastlane Forum Helped Me Reach The Next Step

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Update/Deep Detail since I understand more six months later: Backstory: (in 2018/2019) I was hired to sell software to local businesses. At that point they only had 2 active customers for this new software. Both of these were subsidiaries of theirs. The software worked great, but there was no...
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    What do You Think If Your Bounce Rate and Sales Both Increase?

    @SEOguy What is your favorite metric for tracking if your site is user friendly? Customer feedback, sales, etc? @FastNAwesome Yes it is a small sidebar with a click to call button and a form fill that is sticky. it makes it so they don’t have to look for it.
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