Progress...
Not a whole lot of it has been made since I began in August mostly due to the fact I am recovering from severe PTSD that at times prevents me from being able to read more than a few sentences at a time. It took me weeks to finish The Millionaire fast lane but I never gave up and I'm glad I didn't.
So now I am slowly working my way through Unscripted.
A bit about myself (Because ...yay backstory)
I was home schooled in my youth, started college at 15, graduated with an AA at 18 and then Dropped out after 2 weeks when i started after a degree because I hated school and my family already owned a business in the industry.
I spent a decade working for my family making millions of dollars annually for their company and only being paid $12 an hour.
They traveled, bought sports cars, properties, toys, you name it. They burned through it all like children.
I over the years started a few small businesses, but anytime my family sniffed out success they would suddenly need me more and back to work I would go.
In addition to all that fun I also had to contend with the emotional abuse that dysfunctional families are known for.
All of this led to crazy health problems and severe PTSD. Bad enough that I resorted to applying for disability because I'm still healing and have debilitating panic attacks. It also lead to my treating my PTSD, which in turn lead to my treatment needing a solution, thus creating my product. So yay, silver lining?
Reading the book assured me that I do have all the tools to move forward with my own business, in fact most of what I read was already apart of my foundation of thinking.
My PTSD was hindering my ability to be a workhorse like I used to.
So for now I am attempting to merge onto the fast with a handicap tag, but damn if I'm not going to keep pushing through! I am currently home bound a majority of my time and the only way for my to escape my prison of PTSD physically is to dig myself out financially and I KNOW I can do that.
So where do I stand now?
I'm sure I haven't listed everything I have done, but I'm burning out the "I" key and my brain is getting fatigued.
Whats my next step? Still working on that.
I'm trying to choose whether to commit myself to selling on my own site directly to customers or to keep pushing for a big break with a distributor and retailers.
I would like to execute both simultaneously.
My brain just keeps turning to mush when I try plotting my next move. So for now I am committing myself to education so I can execute wise choices when the time is right.
My current goal for the week for myself is to write a new sales email and line sheet to begin emailing again.
And thanks for taking the time to read my words.
I left all social networking years ago because of my PTSD.
My product forced me back into it and I am just now getting my feet wet again so I feel super weird and narcissistic writing about myself and product.
But I know that this is something I have to work past, would you believe while writing this I just heard the ching sound from and shopify sale.
I'm gonna take it as a hokey sign that sharing all this is putting me on the right track.
Not a whole lot of it has been made since I began in August mostly due to the fact I am recovering from severe PTSD that at times prevents me from being able to read more than a few sentences at a time. It took me weeks to finish The Millionaire fast lane but I never gave up and I'm glad I didn't.
So now I am slowly working my way through Unscripted.
A bit about myself (Because ...yay backstory)
I was home schooled in my youth, started college at 15, graduated with an AA at 18 and then Dropped out after 2 weeks when i started after a degree because I hated school and my family already owned a business in the industry.
I spent a decade working for my family making millions of dollars annually for their company and only being paid $12 an hour.
They traveled, bought sports cars, properties, toys, you name it. They burned through it all like children.
I over the years started a few small businesses, but anytime my family sniffed out success they would suddenly need me more and back to work I would go.
In addition to all that fun I also had to contend with the emotional abuse that dysfunctional families are known for.
All of this led to crazy health problems and severe PTSD. Bad enough that I resorted to applying for disability because I'm still healing and have debilitating panic attacks. It also lead to my treating my PTSD, which in turn lead to my treatment needing a solution, thus creating my product. So yay, silver lining?
Reading the book assured me that I do have all the tools to move forward with my own business, in fact most of what I read was already apart of my foundation of thinking.
My PTSD was hindering my ability to be a workhorse like I used to.
So for now I am attempting to merge onto the fast with a handicap tag, but damn if I'm not going to keep pushing through! I am currently home bound a majority of my time and the only way for my to escape my prison of PTSD physically is to dig myself out financially and I KNOW I can do that.
So where do I stand now?
- I invented a product that solved a problem in the smoking industry
- I applied for a provisional patent
- Created a website and IG account
- I created a flyer and emailed it to about 400 smoke shops and a few distributors
I had one retailer ask to buy I informed them it was 4-6 weeks delivery and I would contact him for payment then (I wasn't quite sure what I was doing, I was following vague instructions from my buddy who lead me here). Obviously this sale did NOT pan out gee... I wonder why? Derp derp. I then later had a distributor ask me for pricing on 200-300 units. I based the pricing on my current costs and attempted to scale it appropriately but had NO idea what kind of rate to charge and how to break it down per quantity in a way that would not make me sound like a noob. So I replied doing my best, low an behold! They never responded... Again NOT surprised.
- I currently make my product myself out of my garage
- I have sales weekly on my shopify store and nothing but positive reviews on my etsy account
- I have done research and found pricing for manufacturing at a larger scale
- I have a logo and brand now which I feel I was lacking when I emailed retailers the first time.
I'm sure I haven't listed everything I have done, but I'm burning out the "I" key and my brain is getting fatigued.
Whats my next step? Still working on that.
I'm trying to choose whether to commit myself to selling on my own site directly to customers or to keep pushing for a big break with a distributor and retailers.
I would like to execute both simultaneously.
My brain just keeps turning to mush when I try plotting my next move. So for now I am committing myself to education so I can execute wise choices when the time is right.
My current goal for the week for myself is to write a new sales email and line sheet to begin emailing again.
And thanks for taking the time to read my words.
I left all social networking years ago because of my PTSD.
My product forced me back into it and I am just now getting my feet wet again so I feel super weird and narcissistic writing about myself and product.
But I know that this is something I have to work past, would you believe while writing this I just heard the ching sound from and shopify sale.
I'm gonna take it as a hokey sign that sharing all this is putting me on the right track.
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