Hi! I'm Liel, 20 years old from Israel.
Before I start, I wanted to say that I feel like this community is amazing and I'm grateful to be a part of it. Although not being an active user for long, I already got tons of value here. This is my attempt to give back a little, hopefully inspire someone and share my journey to freedom here
I am probably going to rant a lot here and although most of you won't be interested in most of what I write, I'd like to come back to this in a few years and remember where I've been.
How did I end up here, and where I am right now
I thank god to this day for my ex breaking my heart at 16. I wrote 'How to pickup girls' on Google and although not taking a lot of action, I ended up reading about self improvement, being the best version of me and came across the idea of being an 'Entrepreneur.
From 16 to about 18 I took no meaningful action, but I read A LOT and it shaped the person I am today and how I view the world.
-Then November 2018 came. In my country, you are obligated to go to the army for 3 years. I wanted to go to the combat army to do something meaningful. But because I'm my mother's only child, she had to sign a paper that she agrees that I join the combat army. I couldn't convince her.
So I told her it's either I go to the combat army, or lawyer up and "escape" going to the army. (I'm a pretty radical person. I figured if I won't go to combat, I will waste 3 years of my life just to do something I'm "obligated" to do. So I decided to skip army and use those 3 years to figure shit out and break through in life, while all the people my age will only start thinking what to do in life.
Probably got a bit too boring here. Long story short - Soon as I finished the process of "escaping" the army, I needed to start by going out of my comfort zone. So I did what probably no one in my country did. I figured I'd be a young 18 year old real estate agent. So I started 'selling' myself to a real estate office near my city. Obviously they had their doubts, but after some good convincing they decided to take me on with them, since they saw a potential in me to be some kind of 'fairytail' story of the 18 year old real estate agent who made it against all odds.
1 month later, I quit.
I hated that crap. I had to wear classy suits everywhere I went, always be presentative (if that's how you say it), A real estate agent's income entirely depends on the time he puts in (at-least until he builds a team, ofcourse), but you ALWAYS Have to put yourself out there (Go to your zone, talk to people, like a politician basically)
The office owner said I'm doing a mistake (He had to go through a lot to get his partners to agree to take me on) but I couldn't take it anymore, and if it doesn't do good to my 'emotional state', I'm done. He told me to stay just for 2 more months, I said I can't. He told me to stay for 1 week, I said I can't. He told me just stay here for 30 minutes and make 1 phone call, I said I can't. So I went out, didn't come back, and felt 'free' again.
Alright enough ranting, I'll make it short.
START HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THAT HUGE TEXT
PRESENT MOMENT
The first store I created after getting a mentor was a winner, by my own terms. First month I did 5.6k, not gonna lie it was around 10% profit only cause I was still getting the hang of it. But I know for a fact it has potential. and if not, I know what to do. (move on, create another brand)
I stopped advertising around 5 days ago. PayPal was holding 100% of my income and I was tired of paying for supplies and ads with my savings. (also my business manager got disabled and I forgot to backup my pixel. Oh well. Share your pixel to other business managers fellas.)
How am I going to make sure this store does AMAZING the next time I turn on ads?:
MY GOALS
I'm still not sure how to update here - so to the 1% who got here (If someone actually read all of it, tell me, I'd be very surprised! 😀 )I wanted to ask a question -
How frequently should I update my progress?
1) Update every day with what I've been doing, how much profit/loss for my store, even though it won't always be sexy
2) Update like every week, only when you can see notable progress / "sassy" stuff to update about
Would love to hear some opinions.
THANK YOU. LETS GET TO WORK.
HOLY CRAP THIS IS LONG
Before I start, I wanted to say that I feel like this community is amazing and I'm grateful to be a part of it. Although not being an active user for long, I already got tons of value here. This is my attempt to give back a little, hopefully inspire someone and share my journey to freedom here
I am probably going to rant a lot here and although most of you won't be interested in most of what I write, I'd like to come back to this in a few years and remember where I've been.
How did I end up here, and where I am right now
I thank god to this day for my ex breaking my heart at 16. I wrote 'How to pickup girls' on Google and although not taking a lot of action, I ended up reading about self improvement, being the best version of me and came across the idea of being an 'Entrepreneur.
From 16 to about 18 I took no meaningful action, but I read A LOT and it shaped the person I am today and how I view the world.
-Then November 2018 came. In my country, you are obligated to go to the army for 3 years. I wanted to go to the combat army to do something meaningful. But because I'm my mother's only child, she had to sign a paper that she agrees that I join the combat army. I couldn't convince her.
So I told her it's either I go to the combat army, or lawyer up and "escape" going to the army. (I'm a pretty radical person. I figured if I won't go to combat, I will waste 3 years of my life just to do something I'm "obligated" to do. So I decided to skip army and use those 3 years to figure shit out and break through in life, while all the people my age will only start thinking what to do in life.
Probably got a bit too boring here. Long story short - Soon as I finished the process of "escaping" the army, I needed to start by going out of my comfort zone. So I did what probably no one in my country did. I figured I'd be a young 18 year old real estate agent. So I started 'selling' myself to a real estate office near my city. Obviously they had their doubts, but after some good convincing they decided to take me on with them, since they saw a potential in me to be some kind of 'fairytail' story of the 18 year old real estate agent who made it against all odds.
1 month later, I quit.
I hated that crap. I had to wear classy suits everywhere I went, always be presentative (if that's how you say it), A real estate agent's income entirely depends on the time he puts in (at-least until he builds a team, ofcourse), but you ALWAYS Have to put yourself out there (Go to your zone, talk to people, like a politician basically)
The office owner said I'm doing a mistake (He had to go through a lot to get his partners to agree to take me on) but I couldn't take it anymore, and if it doesn't do good to my 'emotional state', I'm done. He told me to stay just for 2 more months, I said I can't. He told me to stay for 1 week, I said I can't. He told me just stay here for 30 minutes and make 1 phone call, I said I can't. So I went out, didn't come back, and felt 'free' again.
Alright enough ranting, I'll make it short.
START HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ THAT HUGE TEXT
- After I quit real estate - I sold my car, started working night shifts at a gas station to fund my dropshipping dreams and started taking action.
- 4 stores - total failure. Every paycheck I got, I lost to my stores. I lost around 6-7k$.
- I quit the gas station and found a better paying job. Great. Now I'll have more money to invest. (Even though I wanted to quit every single day, I was persistent and knew I can make this work.)
- I've had enough with failing. Got a Mentor. (Something I should have done a long time ago). So I paid $3k for a course + mentorship from someone I really liked on YouTube. He was able to change my mindset and made me look at things differently when it comes to marketing.
PRESENT MOMENT
The first store I created after getting a mentor was a winner, by my own terms. First month I did 5.6k, not gonna lie it was around 10% profit only cause I was still getting the hang of it. But I know for a fact it has potential. and if not, I know what to do. (move on, create another brand)
I stopped advertising around 5 days ago. PayPal was holding 100% of my income and I was tired of paying for supplies and ads with my savings. (also my business manager got disabled and I forgot to backup my pixel. Oh well. Share your pixel to other business managers fellas.)
How am I going to make sure this store does AMAZING the next time I turn on ads?:
- I paid 3 models on Fiverr $20-50 to shoot some custom content with my product for me. I sent it through Amazon Prime, it arrives within a day and I get my custom content within 3 days.
- I spy my competitors and see what they're doing that's already working and take inspiration from that.
- I create the best ads that I can create with the content that I have. (I use Adobe Premiere, really easy to learn and use)
- Because my pixel is stuck, I'm gonna have to start with a new one. BUT not all hope is lost. I will export all of my orders' data to a CSV file and upload that to facebook as a custom audience. Then I'll make purchase lookalikes and hope for the best, while launching a separate interests campaign with the interests that worked best for me.
MY GOALS
- Replace my current job's income with Ecommerce. I work 6 times a week and although 80% of the people in my country will BEG for this job (I work from home and make more than 40 y.o people with degrees and stuff) I hate it. I hate feeling trapped, but I'm trying to stay strong cause its temporary and I already made some stupid moves in my life.
- Thrive and make good money with eCommerce. My goal isn't to have a successful "Dropshipping" store, It's to create a real brand that gives real value to people, and actually helps them.
- Build a team and systemize (Is that how you pronounce it?) so I make more money while working less.
- eCommerce isn't the end goal. I want to create something big that will change people's lives, I'll probably know what it is in a couple of years. Until then, I want to be free to do whatever I want while making GOOD money. (Travel the world, explore, learn martial arts, surf, you name it)
- Make my vision a reality. I started building the vision since I was 16 years old. Now it's time to execute.
I'm still not sure how to update here - so to the 1% who got here (If someone actually read all of it, tell me, I'd be very surprised! 😀 )I wanted to ask a question -
How frequently should I update my progress?
1) Update every day with what I've been doing, how much profit/loss for my store, even though it won't always be sexy
2) Update like every week, only when you can see notable progress / "sassy" stuff to update about
Would love to hear some opinions.
THANK YOU. LETS GET TO WORK.
HOLY CRAP THIS IS LONG
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