Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

[Private Witt]

Spoiler: Driving

I don't blame Canada!

The hilarious part of all of this is last night I ended up having a 40 minute call with a state congressman on the committee who have the bill to kill my bread and butter. I talked about the concerns and he told me I dont have much to worry about as hell has been raised on this and will take two weeks to get the answer when it exits towards the House after being modified or killed (already approved by the Senate). I called 8 congressmen offices and actually talked to three people total, the other two aides. Interesting experience, will see if I was feed BS from a politician, they never lie right?!

Best part is I got so much info on my industry, including my competition. Told me I can call him anytime. Surely having a state house congressman on speed dial is a good thing. Hopefully the congressman is not a FLF reader and sees my above insult as he is Red.

 

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[Prdgy]

I'm kind of semi-pissed off at the fact that I can't exactly provide value to this forum in a practical way, since I'm a teenager and have no anecdotes or experiences in the world of entrepreneurship besides just reading a bunch of entrepreneur books. I kind of feel like some of the stuff you learn in books need to be tested on your own skin before you fully understand them. This definitely doesn't warrant a post, just something I wanna throw out there.

 

[GPM]

I'm kind of semi-pissed off at the fact that I can't exactly provide value to this forum in a practical way, since I'm a teenager and have no anecdotes or experiences in the world of entrepreneurship besides just reading a bunch of entrepreneur books. I kind of feel like some of the stuff you learn in books need to be tested on your own skin before you fully understand them. This definitely doesn't warrant a post, just something I wanna throw out there.

We all go through feeling like this, even the well aged members of this forum. Just never stop. One day of no progress is very easy to bleed into two, and then three... Before you know it literal years have gone by that you can never get back.

 

[Guest-5ty5s4]

I'm kind of semi-pissed off at the fact that I can't exactly provide value to this forum in a practical way, since I'm a teenager and have no anecdotes or experiences in the world of entrepreneurship besides just reading a bunch of entrepreneur books. I kind of feel like some of the stuff you learn in books need to be tested on your own skin before you fully understand them. This definitely doesn't warrant a post, just something I wanna throw out there.

You can still take action, just not in things that legally require you to sign documents as an adult.

Selling, hustling, getting scrappy.. Just do it! Read the gold threads. You got this. Take some action now and report back 😀

 

[Prdgy]

You can still take action, just not in things that legally require you to sign documents as an adult.

Selling, hustling, getting scrappy.. Just do it! Read the gold threads. You got this. Take some action now and report back 😀

True that, any minute spent wallowing in self-pity is another where I don't take action. Thanks!

I'll spend some time in the real world looking for things I can fix and notice if I can learn anything that has an actual need and report sometime in a thread or here.

 

[Ing]

I'm kind of semi-pissed off at the fact that I can't exactly provide value to this forum in a practical way, since I'm a teenager and have no anecdotes or experiences in the world of entrepreneurship besides just reading a bunch of entrepreneur books. I kind of feel like some of the stuff you learn in books need to be tested on your own skin before you fully understand them. This definitely doesn't warrant a post, just something I wanna throw out there.

Yes, thats the dilemma many of us are in.
Hide it like we do and don’t let the important people know it.
We have a chance they don’t get it!

 

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[piano]

I'm kind of semi-pissed off at the fact that I can't exactly provide value to this forum in a practical way, since I'm a teenager and have no anecdotes or experiences in the world of entrepreneurship besides just reading a bunch of entrepreneur books. I kind of feel like some of the stuff you learn in books need to be tested on your own skin before you fully understand them. This definitely doesn't warrant a post, just something I wanna throw out there.

Heya!
I'm 16 and felt similarly to you. You can check out my progress thread where I struggled hard at the beginning but am doing REALLY good right now! It took me like 5 months... Don't worry too much!

HOT! - SIDE HUSTLE - I'm going to wash windows for money tomorrow for the first time in my life. Any tips?

So tomorrow I'm going to try it. Knocking on peoples' doors and wash their outside windows. There is just something that kind of bothers me: -I'm going on foot (I'm just 16 so no car) and I wondered if I should just knock on peoples' doors with all my equip on my back/hands etc. Is this...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

 

[BizyDad]

I'm kind of semi-pissed off at the fact that I can't exactly provide value to this forum in a practical way, since I'm a teenager and have no anecdotes or experiences in the world of entrepreneurship besides just reading a bunch of entrepreneur books. I kind of feel like some of the stuff you learn in books need to be tested on your own skin before you fully understand them. This definitely doesn't warrant a post, just something I wanna throw out there.

True that, any minute spent wallowing in self-pity is another where I don't take action. Thanks!

I'll spend some time in the real world looking for things I can fix and notice if I can learn anything that has an actual need and report sometime in a thread or here.

Well, will you look at that.

A new guy that's coachable.

Already possessing an internal locus of control.

Could he possibly be...

**a prodigy**

Welcome to the forum new kid. Looking forward to that future progress thread.

 

[Prdgy]

Heya!
I'm 16 and felt similarly to you. You can check out my progress thread where I struggled hard at the beginning but am doing REALLY good right now! It took me like 5 months... Don't worry too much!

HOT! - SIDE HUSTLE - I'm going to wash windows for money tomorrow for the first time in my life. Any tips?

So tomorrow I'm going to try it. Knocking on peoples' doors and wash their outside windows. There is just something that kind of bothers me: -I'm going on foot (I'm just 16 so no car) and I wondered if I should just knock on peoples' doors with all my equip on my back/hands etc. Is this...

www.thefastlaneforum.com

Hey! Read the entire thread; I loved your willpower to push on through the winter as a window cleaner. If a man has a "why", he can bear any "how".

**a prodigy**

it's my old gamertag ok

 

[BizyDad]

Hey! Read the entire thread; I loved your willpower to push on through the winter as a window cleaner. If a man has a "why", he can bear any "how".

it's my old gamertag ok

It's a good name. Stick with it. Own it. I wasn't taking a shot at ya. I like it.

If I take a shot at you, you'll know.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

The guy in black is the frugal FIRE philosophy.
The guy in red is Fastlane.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1639627645452255234

View: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak/status/1639627645452255234?s=20

 

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[Lex DeVille]

Is there a CRM equivalent of WordPress? Something like ActiveCampaign or Drip, except the individual maintains control?

The Problem
ActiveCampaign, who I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars with over the past decade has increased their prices and decreased support response times from a few minutes to a few days. They've also capped subscribers and if I want to increase that cap, I have to pay an additional amount per month on top of the price increase.

ActiveCampaign is still a private company but is starting to show signs of heading in the wrong direction. The problem is, I've integrated them so deeply into my business ecosystem that it would be incredibly difficult to up and switch to a new CRM. To make matters worse, other CRMs present the same risk.

The Solution
Does anyone know of a CRM equivalent of WordPress with the features of a major CRM like automations, tagging, custom fields, etc? If not, can someone please build one? I want to have more control over my basic email system with the ability to plugin any missing components just like you plugin apps with Wordpress.

 

[Andy Black]

Is there a CRM equivalent of WordPress? Something like ActiveCampaign or Drip, except the individual maintains control?

The Problem
ActiveCampaign, who I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars with over the past decade has increased their prices and decreased support response times from a few minutes to a few days. They've also capped subscribers and if I want to increase that cap, I have to pay an additional amount per month on top of the price increase.

ActiveCampaign is still a private company but is starting to show signs of heading in the wrong direction. The problem is, I've integrated them so deeply into my business ecosystem that it would be incredibly difficult to up and switch to a new CRM. To make matters worse, other CRMs present the same risk.

The Solution
Does anyone know of a CRM equivalent of WordPress with the features of a major CRM like automations, tagging, custom fields, etc? If not, can someone please build one? I want to have more control over my basic email system with the ability to plugin any missing components just like you plugin apps with Wordpress.

Great question. I've started collecting email addresses and don't want them to go into an ESP to start with. I'd rather they got added to a Google sheet and then got zapped into, say, ConvertKit.

 

[BizyDad]

Is there a CRM equivalent of WordPress? Something like ActiveCampaign or Drip, except the individual maintains control?

The Problem
ActiveCampaign, who I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars with over the past decade has increased their prices and decreased support response times from a few minutes to a few days. They've also capped subscribers and if I want to increase that cap, I have to pay an additional amount per month on top of the price increase.

ActiveCampaign is still a private company but is starting to show signs of heading in the wrong direction. The problem is, I've integrated them so deeply into my business ecosystem that it would be incredibly difficult to up and switch to a new CRM. To make matters worse, other CRMs present the same risk.

The Solution
Does anyone know of a CRM equivalent of WordPress with the features of a major CRM like automations, tagging, custom fields, etc? If not, can someone please build one? I want to have more control over my basic email system with the ability to plugin any missing components just like you plugin apps with Wordpress.

Salesforce? Keap? Hubspot maybe? I don't do email marketing, but along my journey I recall each of these platforms making such a promise.

Honestly, I pity the fool who tries to build this one. The barriers to entry are real and I would lose my hair over it.



Okay, they wouldn't be a fool, I just wanted to sound tough like Mr T. Because Lex DeVille likes tough talk. And because sounding like Mr T is fun, sucka.

 

[mikecarlooch]

I don't know what it is - but I was just on the phone with a siteground representative and I'm 95% sure I was speaking to an AI that sounded exactly like a human. Super weird

 

[Fox]

 

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[Bekit]

I don't know what it is - but I was just on the phone with a siteground representative and I'm 95% sure I was speaking to an AI that sounded exactly like a human. Super weird

We were just talking about this at work today!

I have a coworker who gets asked by callers all the time if she is a robot. She's not - I know her in real life - but she does have the "quintessential American corporate female voice" and impeccable diction.

I told her she could have a lot of fun with that if she wanted to. She would honestly be scary good at pretending to be an AI.

Customer: "Are you a robot"

Her in her best Siri voice: "While AI technology has certainly gotten good enough to pass for a human like me, I assure you that I am a real human with a heartbeat. However, it is unlikely that I will be able to convince you definitively, so you may never know. But then again, how do you know that you're not just in a simulation?"

Customer: leaves with existential crisis

 

[Prdgy]

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Honestly, not all that important, and the title is kind of clickbait. They're on house arrest, and they've confiscated most of their stuff, so all that's going to happen is that maybe they'll make some of their podcasts on rumble or something before the trial proceedings begin. Also maybe a change of clothes, they've been wearing the same ones since December

 

[biophase]

Does anyone have any good offline iPhone video editing apps they use?

I use Splice, it’s by GoPro.

 

[Antifragile]

This morning my Manager of Finance told me that we were scammed yesterday.

Our new receptionist is in her 20s and just started. She received a series of text messages from "me" yesterday (I was out of office). Scammer used fake number, not mine. She didn't know being new, thought it was me.

The gist of the story is:
- we want to surprise some employees with gift cards, can you run out and buy some?
- sure
- how many did you get? Send me pics we’ll reimburse you asap
- pics sent …
- that's great, but not enough. Can you get more?
- this store is out of Apple gift cards. That’s all they had.
- we need at least double that
- I can try another location
- keep me posted
-...

This went on until she maxed out her credit card balance!

Of course, I immediately reimbursed her all the losses. Poor girl was crying from stress. She thought it was her fault for not recognizing a scam.

1. No, it's not her fault - don't blame the victim.
2. It's a lesson to all young and old, scammers are everywhere and they are creative. Watch out. Be skeptical.

Talking on @Kak's thread about ethics and business... today of all days! @Black_Dragon43 these people may do ok financially, but imagine they used the same ingenuity for good! I bet they'd do well. They are masters of sales techniques. There should be a fortune to be made ethically for them.

 

[loop101]

TIL in Sweden a drunk Moose got stuck in a tree while trying to eat fermented apples. After being cut free, the moose passed out until the next day.

 

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[Andy Black]

Haha. So funny and so impressive.

View: https://youtu.be/_SsObrrSA_M

 

[Kevin88660]

This morning my Manager of Finance told me that we were scammed yesterday.

Our new receptionist is in her 20s and just started. She received a series of text messages from "me" yesterday (I was out of office). Scammer used fake number, not mine. She didn't know being new, thought it was me.

The gist of the story is:
- we want to surprise some employees with gift cards, can you run out and buy some?
- sure
- how many did you get? Send me pics we’ll reimburse you asap
- pics sent …
- that's great, but not enough. Can you get more?
- this store is out of Apple gift cards. That’s all they had.
- we need at least double that
- I can try another location
- keep me posted
-...

This went on until she maxed out her credit card balance!

Of course, I immediately reimbursed her all the losses. Poor girl was crying from stress. She thought it was her fault for not recognizing a scam.

1. No, it's not her fault - don't blame the victim.
2. It's a lesson to all young and old, scammers are everywhere and they are creative. Watch out. Be skeptical.

Talking on @Kak's thread about ethics and business... today of all days! @Black_Dragon43 these people may do ok financially, but imagine they used the same ingenuity for good! I bet they'd do well. They are masters of sales techniques. There should be a fortune to be made ethically for them.

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New staff received sms, not WhatsApp messages, did not verify with anyone, and used her credit card for business transactions.....

How did the scammer know her number if she did not put it on linkedIn?

Did other staffs receive the same "pitch"?

I will do a check to see if there is any mole in the organization.

 

[MitchC]

Oh man @MJ DeMarco I found a treat for you. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction, even you couldn’t think of something as ridiculous as this in your article about FiRE

“Jo Nemeth, from northern NSW, quit her job in 2014 because she felt every time she spent her money it was harming someone.

Over the years she’s lived with two families with free board and food, in exchange for her looking after their kids, doing chores and gardening.

The mum uses leftover napkins friends supplied her for toilet paper, and these same friends also gave her the end bits of their toothpaste to get by.

At one point she was living in a shack and cooking her meals out of a stove she built by hand using bricks.

She also had to break up with her partner at the time because they were not on board with the idea”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/budgeting/how-nsw-woman-hasnt-spent-any-money-in-eight-years/news-story/42d01f1b554c278403e12a25059bbfa2?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=news.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers

 

[Prdgy]

Oh man @MJ DeMarco I found a treat for you. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction, even you couldn’t think of something as ridiculous as this in your article about FiRE

“Jo Nemeth, from northern NSW, quit her job in 2014 because she felt every time she spent her money it was harming someone.

Over the years she’s lived with two families with free board and food, in exchange for her looking after their kids, doing chores and gardening.

The mum uses leftover napkins friends supplied her for toilet paper, and these same friends also gave her the end bits of their toothpaste to get by.

At one point she was living in a shack and cooking her meals out of a stove she built by hand using bricks.

She also had to break up with her partner at the time because they were not on board with the idea”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/budgeting/how-nsw-woman-hasnt-spent-any-money-in-eight-years/news-story/42d01f1b554c278403e12a25059bbfa2?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=news.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers

Holy s#$%. She's managed to force herself into odd jobs without the promise of any money. The Sidewalk has officially peaked.

 

[loop101]

This couple bought a house in Detroit for $6.5K, fixed it up, and sold it for $410k.

 

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[Antifragile]

Just bought this book. Great title, isn’t it? Will see how it reads.

@MJ DeMarco

 

[Creative_Name]

What’s your guys’ take on saving up beer cans and whatnot to return to the beer store to get some dollars back on whatever amount you binged? Only to use that money for buying more shitty beer so you can escape from yourself every night and save up those cans and make your house look like a drinking den with cans and bottles laying in boxes for months so you can get more value from a single trip to the recycling depot.
Totally not a coloured question here.

 

[Kak]

This couple bought a house in Detroit for $6.5K, fixed it up, and sold it for $410k.

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Looks like it needed $400k worth of work.

 

[Antifragile]

Looks like it needed $400k worth of work.

Maybe a lot more than that… profit!? 🙄