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  1. The-J

    Journey to $10k/mo and Beyond...

    EXECUTION 
    No, this is a good thing. It's just not useful for you because you're so much further ahead. I just hope someone new comes in, looks at this, sees what DOESN'T work and how people here react to it, and decides they'll do the opposite.
  2. The-J

    Critique my latest video ad

    MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA 
    It's awful, amateurish, low quality, but I bet it converts. I wanted the product. Run it! Also run a 15 and 30 second version of the ad. Make a bunch more versions of a similar appeal. Show the product earlier. Test actual stories of specific dogs. "Rover loved fishing (picture), hunting...
  3. The-J

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    CHAT - AI - 
    Is Zoca The Future of Local Marketing Agencies? https://zoca.com/ Zoca just raised $6M in a seed round led by Accel (Our Investment in Zoca: Transforming Local Businesses with Agentic AI) . Their promise: full stack local business marketing. Their top tier plan includes SEO, AI chat & SMS, GMB...
  4. The-J

    How do I stop being so sh** at this?

    MINDSET FEEDBACK RANT 
    Ok cool. Did you learn your lesson? Do you understand what you have to do differently? No more switching businesses. See it through until you get hard proof that it either (1) won't succeed or (2) will succeed. Don't just quit because you feel bad. No more half-assed effort. Working 2 days a...
  5. The-J

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    CHAT - AI - 
    Chatgpt is lying, almost certainly. But here's an interesting exercise Can you correlate it to Google searches? Check Keyword Tool for individual keywords within the prompts ChatGPT says If you can find some sort of correlation with actual Google searches, then there might be some truth to...
  6. The-J

    How do I stop being so sh** at this?

    MINDSET FEEDBACK RANT 
    https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/starting-and-fastlaning-a-lawn-care-service-business.82747/post-1162386
  7. The-J

    What if i Open-Source my business and have no secrets?

    IDEA 
    Your competitors will not care. I've helped skincare brands (that you've never heard of) scale to 8 figures, the competitors don't care about those brands. Who's to say that glass skin will still be popular by the time you figure this out? Shiny sleek skin has not always been the most popular...
  8. The-J

    How do I stop being so sh** at this?

    MINDSET FEEDBACK RANT 
    Cool! Uh-oh You found something hard after expecting it to be easy. That's a recipe for quitting I'm not gonna guess the user you talked to @Johnny boy, but I'm gonna guess that if he saw this thread he'd call you a pussy for not calling him out To be fair to your "mentor", you kind of...
  9. The-J

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    CHAT - AI - 
    I liked Claude when I tested it
  10. The-J

    How do I move faster? Ecom company sold 300 units over the past year - 10k revenue.

    SCALING 
    Test way more creative A winning product is kind of obvious, you'll know it because it makes a lot of money. If your return isn't high enough to justify scaling right away, then you need to focus on nailing creative & getting people to buy more and more of your stuff. I think you don't have...
  11. The-J

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    CHAT - AI - 
    https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/?utm_source=chatgpt.com This isn't too different from what happened with Internet & mobile app adoption early on. Hyped tech, companies spending loads of money to get it to work, realize that they f*cked up & then they scale...
  12. The-J

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    CHAT - AI - 
    I don't think this particular problem is truly fixable in these models. You're better off outputting it into a sheet or something & doing a search and replace for em dashes to replace with hard dashes. All of these models are probabilistic and will choose (semi-randomly) from different outputs...
  13. The-J

    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

    HOT! CHAT 
    I think you and all the other "weekend warriors" out there have a good situation. You don't have the luxury of spending another 50-60 hours doing business busy work, you HAVE to figure out what to prioritize, what to automate, what to delegate, and what to not waste your time with. The...
  14. The-J

    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

    HOT! CHAT 
    I like the idea of running ads for them. Most commission agreements say that you can't do PPC ads cuz they don't want you bidding over them. This one, oddly enough, doesn't. I'll research prices for Canada (since that's where they operate & focus). Those CPCs are seriously high but I suppose...
  15. The-J

    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

    HOT! CHAT 
    Dealing with a deliverability issue so I put the mailboxes back in warm up. Gonna wait to relaunch after they become 30 days old which is in a few days. Followed up with pipeline leads, trying to get 2 of them on a call but for some reason 1 of them is very difficult to nail down, he's...
  16. The-J

    Have a skillset? Opportunities in DIY, DWY, and DFY

    QUESTION 
    Fox's people are mostly the type of people who will do GAds for themselves and might be unlikely to hire you, but have demonstrated that they're willing to pay quite a lot for education, particularly in the field of generating online business for others. But that's "mostly", that's not everyone...
  17. The-J

    Hi from Oklahoma

    INTRO 
    You didn't charge enough when your skill set was more valuable. Now your skill set is easily replaceable. It's been replaceable for years now. But now we have AI and you can create a fully functioning website that looks good enough to convert in like 15 minutes. Now you know. The reason...
  18. The-J

    3 Spots Available for Free Email Copywriting Services!

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    A few questions: 1) Why should clients use you instead of ChatGPT? 2) Why are you doing email copywriting in the first place? 3) Have you already asked people you know, who might be sympathetic to your situation, before going to a forum full of strangers trying to pitch your stuff?
  19. The-J

    Question about my E Commerce site and Google Ads

    FEEDBACK 
    1. I see the first image first, then I see the products. I don't think about my eye movement much but I have watched thousands of videos of people browsing websites I run. So I'd rather use those tools than ask questions to people. But my eye did catch a few typos on your images. 2. Change the...
  20. The-J

    Reshape My Identity - I May Have a Victim Problem (UK Based)

    MINDSET 
    What would your grandfather say to you, right now, if he were alive? Sounds like he was a man who got things done and didn't let others step on him. I believe that mainstream culture breeds victims. If you listened to your grandfather instead of mainstream culture and people influenced by it...

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