Just When I Thought I Had it all Figured Out....

[ZF Lee]

You see the smoke, don't just pretend there ain't fire when you know what fire looks like.

I will discuss this personally with her. Break it down firmly but carefully.

It's the only 'peaceful way' besides marching in her uni and terrorizing her friends lol. I did it before and it was embarassing for her friends lol. But that is another story.

 

[ZF Lee]

@ZF Lee

We're rooting for you man. My only advice is to not dwell on situations and not think too hard. Especially significant other situations.

Smart people learn from other people's mistakes, so trust me, your time is more valuable than that. Keep yourself super busy and don't look back.

Thank you for your support. Agreed!
Marketing is already hard enough to think of.

I'm already super busy. Charted some appointments, more visits to shops, maybe a few emails to some leads and I'm not sure what else.

Found a few books to read that dig deep into specific problems, namely brand building and supply chain, and they aren't the usual rehash or intro books that one usually finds on business. I need second readings to fully comprehend the stuff.

 

[ZF Lee]

Ugh, so sorry you had to go through this! Strong work on the escape!

Thanks @MJ DeMarco. Grateful for the support.

I definitely will. Thankfully, I was not robbed or murdered or anything like that in that dubious meetup lol. That's one thing to be happy about.

I didn't get to launch the test site as planned, after finding a shit ton of material on Stratygyzer on perfecting marketing testing. A few pages into reading, turns out the way I am querying the market is too general.

A big bummer, but at least I saved myself some dough and time on some stuff that could go wrong.

I'm kind of worried on TIMING of the tests. Like, how long should each test last? A week? Two days?

The Reddit posts seem to just take 2 days for much of the input to flow in, then the later comments trickle in by the dripful. For e-commerce landing pages, I'll have to see.

Disturbingly, I only put the queries in r/Malaysia, not in Reddit as an international or niched audience. I'm wondering if the locals are less expressive on market feedback, compared to the more vocal Westerners.

For my product, I don't think I can sell on Lazada, the equivalent of Amazon here. Shitty customer service, bad reviews arrangement, bad sellers management. Also a F*cking hoard of thieves. I spotted ripoffs of Mary Kay stuff on there. Although Mary Kay is a network marketing company, its products are good, and it makes me a bit angry to see great products being sold without dues paid to the biz.

I do remember some businesses that didn't rely on Amazon to sell stuff, such as Dollar Shave Club. Amazon would have killed off their efforts anyway lol.

I'll see what else I need to do tomorrow to patch up the ship.

I've arranged hopefully some better meetups. A money planning group and an e-commerce one. They had at least 5 people joining up, and they seem to be regulars too, judging from past records on the meetup.com app. I should have taken that as a more solid assurance of quality.