Hey everyone,
So my name is Dave, I'm 24 and from Scotland.
I could easily write an autobiography of my life so I will try keep it short(er).
I grew up in a family which has had many struggles throughout my life. I have 2 siblings, my third sibling died not long after birth due to Spinobiphida. My younger brother, three and a half years younger, was born eleven weeks early with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and got brain damage due to a lack of oxygen. Later on he developed severe autism which has really been the biggest hardship for my family. When I was about eight years old my dad was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) which lasted for several years . This left it mostly up to myself and my mother to look after both my dad and my brother throughout my younger years. My older brother didn't really help as he didn't quite know how to deal with the problems at a younger age and resorted to alcohol and partying. It took until his mid 20s before he managed to sort himself out and now he just graduated as a solicitor and landed a job.
My passions and goals throughout my life were all over the place. I was in and out of college courses and unable to focus on where I wanted to go. I could never keep a job because of the monotony and it felt like I was wasting my time. I had believed I found my dream job in photography and wanted to become some famous photographer. I was good, but as soon as I started to turn my passion into a work venture I lost my desire to chase this dream. It really started to ruin photography for me and decided I would rather keep it as a hobby.
When I was 17 I met my girlfriend, we've been together ever since. She has stayed with me throughout my many mistakes but I had gotten close to losing her a couple of times. She started a small Etsy shop in 2013 designing the odd product, trying to save up money for us eventually moving out of my parents house. I tried helping her with my many skills in Photoshop to make her job a little easier. However, I never really got into it at this time.
During a time when I was job hopping she left for a year to go to a prestigious design school in Singapore. She acquired from this school a solid discipline in work ethic and started to grow her shop whenever she had spare time. Again, I would sometimes help out with technical problems she faced and sped up the processes.
Once she moved back in with me I had quit my job and we got the shop up to making $750-$900 per month, not exactly enough to go anywhere. After trying to leverage value in our products and compete in a now over saturated market we focused on a upcoming trend. In four months, working tirelessly on this new trend we increased our revenue to $2600+ per month. This was enough to move out of my parents and in Mar 2016 we started to rent a house off of my uncle. However, I do look back and wish instead of just slightly skewing the value towards our products, that we worked much harder to make them much better for the customers.
Ever since we moved house we have been growing our business and learning as much as we can. We're now earning a profit of over $3900+ per month. We have moved on from our old niche and are focusing on a much more scale-able one which is closely related. Everyday we read books on how to be more successful and everything about working in our market. Also, I have been learning computer science over the last few months in order to develop a unique shopping experience which I don't believe has ever been programmed on the internet before. I'm hoping that this will drive customers towards our website, it will help solve a major problem in our market which hasn't been addressed from any other stores.
I hope I didn't make you all fall asleep and if you have any questions then please feel free to ask. I'm open to talk about anything. I hope to post updates on how well my business is growing now that I believe I have the right tools and knowledge on how to grow it well. Unscripted and TMF has equipped me with some extra tools on helping me succeed. If you want to know about my 'F*ck This' moment I could always elaborate but I've excluded it here to save you from as much of the depressing life I've endured. I look forward to see how hard everyone works.
So my name is Dave, I'm 24 and from Scotland.
I could easily write an autobiography of my life so I will try keep it short(er).
I grew up in a family which has had many struggles throughout my life. I have 2 siblings, my third sibling died not long after birth due to Spinobiphida. My younger brother, three and a half years younger, was born eleven weeks early with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and got brain damage due to a lack of oxygen. Later on he developed severe autism which has really been the biggest hardship for my family. When I was about eight years old my dad was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) which lasted for several years . This left it mostly up to myself and my mother to look after both my dad and my brother throughout my younger years. My older brother didn't really help as he didn't quite know how to deal with the problems at a younger age and resorted to alcohol and partying. It took until his mid 20s before he managed to sort himself out and now he just graduated as a solicitor and landed a job.
My passions and goals throughout my life were all over the place. I was in and out of college courses and unable to focus on where I wanted to go. I could never keep a job because of the monotony and it felt like I was wasting my time. I had believed I found my dream job in photography and wanted to become some famous photographer. I was good, but as soon as I started to turn my passion into a work venture I lost my desire to chase this dream. It really started to ruin photography for me and decided I would rather keep it as a hobby.
When I was 17 I met my girlfriend, we've been together ever since. She has stayed with me throughout my many mistakes but I had gotten close to losing her a couple of times. She started a small Etsy shop in 2013 designing the odd product, trying to save up money for us eventually moving out of my parents house. I tried helping her with my many skills in Photoshop to make her job a little easier. However, I never really got into it at this time.
During a time when I was job hopping she left for a year to go to a prestigious design school in Singapore. She acquired from this school a solid discipline in work ethic and started to grow her shop whenever she had spare time. Again, I would sometimes help out with technical problems she faced and sped up the processes.
Once she moved back in with me I had quit my job and we got the shop up to making $750-$900 per month, not exactly enough to go anywhere. After trying to leverage value in our products and compete in a now over saturated market we focused on a upcoming trend. In four months, working tirelessly on this new trend we increased our revenue to $2600+ per month. This was enough to move out of my parents and in Mar 2016 we started to rent a house off of my uncle. However, I do look back and wish instead of just slightly skewing the value towards our products, that we worked much harder to make them much better for the customers.
Ever since we moved house we have been growing our business and learning as much as we can. We're now earning a profit of over $3900+ per month. We have moved on from our old niche and are focusing on a much more scale-able one which is closely related. Everyday we read books on how to be more successful and everything about working in our market. Also, I have been learning computer science over the last few months in order to develop a unique shopping experience which I don't believe has ever been programmed on the internet before. I'm hoping that this will drive customers towards our website, it will help solve a major problem in our market which hasn't been addressed from any other stores.
I hope I didn't make you all fall asleep and if you have any questions then please feel free to ask. I'm open to talk about anything. I hope to post updates on how well my business is growing now that I believe I have the right tools and knowledge on how to grow it well. Unscripted and TMF has equipped me with some extra tools on helping me succeed. If you want to know about my 'F*ck This' moment I could always elaborate but I've excluded it here to save you from as much of the depressing life I've endured. I look forward to see how hard everyone works.
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If you don't mind my asking, are you still selling there and if so, how did you scale up? Manufacturing? I've toyed with restarting my business there on a larger scale, but I think it's going to actually be my slow lane venture so I can eat while I do other things.
