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Weird statement. You and I are so different! How are you desperate if all your financial needs (not wants, needs) are well covered?If you're not desperate, you're losing. Why would you not be desperate?
Most people don't understand what it means to be crazy about making money. It means to be desperate. That desperation is what will make you successful. Because you'll do anything, whatever it takes to be successful.
Ironically, my method seems to make people more money. We debated this too much already, to sum up:
My priorities are in this order: 1) Family, 2) Health, 3) Business - and 3 supports 1 and 2. Your priorities are "money". You and I will never see eye to eye on this and we don't need to. Readers should know, this distinction.
If you said this to me I'd laugh at you. I'd tell you I want $10M in 2 years, NOT F*cking having a specialized education and having to still start my business. Like WTF?! I wanna make money dude. I don't wanna jack off dreaming about building & selling small buildings for two years and only then start my company... If you want me to get started with those buildings show me how to get the cash for it - how to build connections with investors, how to convince them I'm a big chad who will make them boatloads of money, how to have supreme confidence, etc. etc.
You do that. It sometimes works in the tech sector, from what I understand. But in the "old school" business like mine, you would never even be remembered. You'd fail, lose money and become a but a distant memory.
Those who come off like you aren't respected because everyone knows the type. All hype, not substance. Spark but no lasting fire.
If you know you won't F*ck it up, you're not thinking big enough dude. It should be so big you're almost sure you'll F*ck it up, and then you let the desperation inside you power you through everything so that you make it all a great success for everyone involved.
Reading this I am glad you are running some marketing agency and not building housing. To imagine that I could live in a place that was built by a desperate no experience guy who wanted to "F*ck it up" just to know he's pushing boundaries...
Let me rephrase. In tech, you can fail fast, it's even called "fail fast". But in real estate, you can't build a high-rise, tear it down and say "based on consumer feedback, we'll now reprogram it this way". You can't do it even with small buildings!
But with experience, knowledge, team... you can build a massive empire of a company.
That will take months to start. I wanna make money NOW dude... Not invest in something that may or may not pay off months down the line.
Jeff Bezos - Amazon. No earnings for decades. Hmmm...
You need simple ideas. Import tea from china. Sell to local coffee shops. SIMPLE! You go out, and you test it in 1-2 weeks max. WTF is this complicated shit, make a stroller, bla bla bla. I'll go crazy by the time the stroller is finished... literarily!
This is why I love e-commerce and internet business. You can make money, and lots of it, instantly. I've had clients who started an agency, signed up to work with me, 1-year later they were bringing in $1M+ in business. That's virtually impossible to achieve with offline businesses, unless you already have connections, or are able to develop those connections QUICKLY. Like Dan Pena teaches.
No. For one, you'll struggle in your e-commerce just like any other business. Just read @fastlane_dad and @NeoDialectic stories. They didn't make bank "instantly". Took a long while for their exit.
That's why I created this thread. It is to show there is another way. A "long game" way. To accept that great things in life take time to build. It is a far more effective (better odds) way.
People who chase quick bucks and fail to hit their targets - typically get comfortably numb. Make just enough money to be OK, but not enough to get to another level. Focus on money only is a bad idea, I say focus on your customer needs/wants. What problem are you solving?
My advice will be less popular than yours. Because I say: invest in yourself. It is hard work. It is frustrating because it takes time. But by the time you are done, even if you needed a "job", it would be a 7 figure salary. And by the way, my "slow" way, gives you wealth in 10 years flat almost guaranteed. The odds are insanely good that you'll be killing it.