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It’s my first post in the forum, so if it’s not the proper place for my thread, please excuse me.</b><br />
I have my store ready with 0 sales and no money to run ads because I blew my savings during the quarantine of COVID and I’m still stuck in the 9-5…<br />
How I got here?<br />
So a quick intro – around a year ago I decided I will start my first business ever. I still haven’t read TMF or UNScripted at that time, but I had an idea that I wanted to see unfold. Young and stupid I rushed into it thinking it would be easy. I’ve never been so wrong. However I started doing my first prototype of the product. After searching for the right materials for few months , combining them and tweeking little details, I was satisfied with the quality of the product.<br />
So I had my product good to go and now it was time to see if people would want to buy it. I started doing my research about where can I show my product and which people would be interested in it and then this happens…<br />
<b>And here I found that another guy was doing pretty much the same thing , and having huge success doing it.</b><br />
Okay, at least people want this type of product and are willing to pay for it. I was aware of the fact that no matter what you do, you will always have competitors. And I thought probably that’s the way things should be. For the next few months I was creating my website – using the Shopify platform, doing the logo for the product, photoshooting each style of the product, writing the descriptions, doing all sort of preparation stuff to get ready.<br />
After so much months of not receiving a single dollar, but only investing into good materials and machines so the product can be perfect, and what not I was ready to go live. My store is set up, my product is excellent and I start running facebook ads.<br />
<b>I launched my facebook ads, and went to sleep hoping, the next day I might wake up with a sale.<br />
Nope.</b><br />
Not a single add to cart or any sort of interest. I went to work thinking I must did something wrong or people still haven’t seen my ad enough times. And so few days past by and still no results. I stopped the ads and decided I would have to try new creatives. So I did it a few more tries and I still have nothing to show. I felt really shitty. Thoughts of doubt started crawling – What was I thinking? I’ve never sold anything online. I was not the guys who are making 6-figues selling stuff online. I’m not familiar with the market. People don’t want my product. It’s not that good. It’s not worth their money.<br />
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I felt stupid and I stopped doing anything for like a month, and that’s the time when COVID hits us. The city got under quarantine, and I have to stay at home for 2 months, without job or any sort of income.I had savings, because I’ve always lived under my means, but for the last 3 months they disappeared. And here I am asking for advice.<br />
<b><i>The main question I have is the following: How do you know if it’s time to give up the business, because it’s hopeless, and start the next project? <br />
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P.S. I thought my first post would be so much better, and as I’m reading this i realise my writing is awful, but I just wanted to get it out there! Thank you for reading this <img src="/community/imgs/emoticons/em-smile2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="(:" title="Smile (:" data-shortname="(:" /></i></b></div>
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