I have a partner and he has the idea and the experience as well. I do too, but I am a theoretical kind of guy while he is practical. He knows what worked for him in the past and I know what options we have. I am learning from him and working hard so that the website looks professional. However, I know that eventually, I might be run down. Just like MJ had to be innovative after limos.com, I have to do more than sit with one business and milk it till I got nothing more.
My partner had the original idea but ever since he came up with that idea, I have been making strides in ideas of marketing and getting leads. So all that is good. I just want to know that if I fail in this one, I can still come up with ideas and get there. I was lucky since my partner picked me based on my honesty, truthfulness, and genuine interest. All I did was offer him more than what he was asking for when I worked with him and offered to write articles for his business for free. He saw that goodness in me and we teamed up. This is extremely rare as I am the proverbial nice guy who everyone misuses and walks over but that's only part assumption. I lucked out in that department. However, if tomorrow, our business tanks, I don't want to go back to working in a fast food joint, and move back home. I want to honestly one up myself.
Yeah, exactly. I was thinking about ideas and came up with data loss. You know how when your hard drive crashes or when the electricity goes out for some, you lose all your unsaved data. I was thinking that someone could develop a virtual system so that data is stored online all the time even though your hard drive will crash anytime. They have optical cable underneath the ocean which could be used to have laser fast high speed internet all over the world so I think someone could innovate a system so that your id is universal and not based on your home computer alone. If you go to work, friend's house, foreign country, you will still be able to access the same system or work that you have in your home computer. See, now that's a revolutionary idea. However, a 21 year old nobody with no software experience will be run over if I tried something like this. Most likely, some smarter corporations will do something to overtake me and put me at the dust.
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lleone, you are on the right path mate. I know since you have computer experience and are thinking about a business. Here's my secret to you. Focus on a service instead of a product. You are the tech guy. You can make more money with service. Think about that and seek your inspiration.
Robre, I am not a techie. I would assume that you can find a guy who does invent and work with sound technology. You have the right idea bro. Just attend some forums and find someone locally who works with headset repair. Get a scientist to calibrate the sound frequencies and come up with the standard. Combine together, make some prototypes, and sell the idea to logitech. Ask for a good deal such so that you get paid percentage of revenues. This way you make constant income. You have the idea, but you have to get someone and take the next step man. Thing big. Most headphone people are music guys and gals. Noise cancellations, as well as decibal tuning could make your headset more personalized. Imagine listening to rock music and having a certain decibal and then tuning into classical. It's not about volume anymore but more. You can do it man. Just start participating in music forums, and headset forums and see where that takes you. I bet you can do it.
GTC1187, kudos to you champ. You got the right idea. It's not about love, but knowledge also. MJ started from limos, but his knowledge about economy, stocks, finance, etc. make him that much more powerful. Interest is also a key. I have ADHD, so I get bored easily. The only reason I had even a remote interest in finance is because of Rich Dad, Poor Dad which sparked the fire within me to get rich and do more than menial jobs. However, I cannot be like Buffet or Soros as they are very anal about what they do. In the end, every business is slowlane as government regulations can change and influence you as you don't have 100% control. Plus, once customers look elsewhere, or the trend or fad changes, where's the control? So you can't label anything as slowlane of fastlane. You just do what you do to get the lifestyle you desire.
ronniebryan, the book "
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less" is a great book. Ideas can come from nowhere at times. Brilliant!
MediaMonty, exactly. However, affiliate marketing is not as simple in some ways. For instance, you can have a shitty product, but as long as it's decent enough, and you can sell and market it, you will do good. The problem is a lot of niche marketers oversell ideas by implying that they have a magic bullet only for it to be a mediocre product. You have to fight those sharks so be careful. Focus on building a fan page on facebook and a community of people. If you deliver what you promise, you can sell like MJ with his book.
Mike A.B., exactly bro. Pick and idea, brainstorm it, think about it. I don't sleep early at night. I go to bed, but I am awake several hours reading a book, and that's when ideas come. I jot down my ideas then. I don't allocate time to brain storm but go through my day doing my work, and at night I lie down and sometime inspiration comes. I am reading an off-topic book called "
Think Outside the Inbox: The B2B Marketing Automation Guide" and its about getting leads through email promotions and influence. I though it was about generating traffic and getting leads. I was partially correct. The book got 25 five star reviews and I bought it for my kindle on a whim. Even though it was unrelated, while reading the book, my mind jogged more and I came up with some excellent ideas like facebook fan page and testimonials in the fan page. Boom, it hit me man!
JackEdwards, I did just that, or rather it happened to me. An idea person who works hard as well teamed up with me. Not only that, his idea is to enjoy more time having a comfort lifestyle and my idea is to work hard, and around the clock. What I will do for him is increase client base, and then outsource customer service while I monitor them. I take away most of the work load eventually while we focus on other companies.
rorschach, true and cool name by the way. I like Adrian better though in the Watchmen. I was working at a fast food joint and planned on keeping going until the right idea came by. All my plans were wiped out as I kept quitting from my jobs. Now I can dedicate my whole time to this, and thankfully this forum is a great inspiration. No jargon or deviation like the Rich Dad forum. Personally, I have stopped thinking about politics as well as its irrelevant.
Thank you everybody. I make a great coach I guess. Anybody want to try being a life coach? I heard it's a good business model and you charge high prices too. It's a slowlane model but I see a lot of people who get into that.
