Hey, new to this forum. Beuatiful.
As of now Im 23(just had my birthday). I have an Associates Degree and am enrolled online college, taking the bare minimum(basically nothing).
I have my real estate agent license, mortgage license and am working on my appraisal. Eventually can take these and combine business with my parents brokerage, to help them out. This business is slowlane I believe.
So I had a LLC before and was going to flip land lots by buying low and selling on owner financing. It never got up because instead I got distracted and invested in ecommerce(ebay), selling clothes/purses. BIG MISTAKE. Seems my problem is trying to do too many things instead of focusing my energy in one area. Atleast my real estate licenses are somewhat congruant, took me forever just to decide to get into it. Being a 4th generation agent, I suppose I was destined. BTW I lost my a$$ on the ecommerce(long story). No more over-fractionalizing...
So now I got my licenses that I will use as my work(everyone wants me to work). GREAT! Self employment has some perks like having my own schedule. A career is ok, but it wont make me the money I desire. I want something MORE buildable, so Im looking to a project in my spare time.
Cut out the TV, friends and all. Looking to devote myself to business.
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I want something fastlane, Ive glanced over it all. I have my eye on producing a skin serum, in a interesting niche. SKIN LIGHTENING. This is something big over in asia, but I dont even think most of them carry Visa/MC or am I mistaken? So I have my girlfriend over there(keeping her there too for now, less distracting), she can distribute some to the Chinese market. I dont have much idea how things work there.
But anyways Ill have to focus on the US/CA(+try other 1st world markets). The product will be high end, the package unique(more than just serum actually) and not cheap. Im looking to charge $45-100 and put this on a 6 month rebill with the justification that it could take 6 months for them to see results. Selling "free trial samples" also sounds alluring.
I see the pieces:fullfillment center, lab, site, product, merchant account etc
I wanted to start this before, but even with suggested resources I found it hard. For example I had the money and wanted to do a supplement but the merchant account providers only accepted 2 kinds of supplement diet pills, nothing else. Damn merchant accounts! I found a provider now saying they can do my product, cool, now I gotta get my credit score back up(F*ck). Oh and keep chargebacks under 3%. Difficult?
Marketing: Affiliate site, direct mail and PPC PPC PPC
Is this fastlane? Anyways its my next project. Anyone with experience in this arena wish to chime in? The product, structure, marketing....Whats missing.
So Ill have a decent sum of money for this before long. I wish to outsource most of the components. The website is huge, Im thinking of having it be mainly just a salespage. Theres lots of options in putting this together, its been on my mind for a long while. Hopefully this product can be built up to something large.
Suggestions? Im definitely looking for nuggets from people with experience in this, where they at. ahha
As of now Im 23(just had my birthday). I have an Associates Degree and am enrolled online college, taking the bare minimum(basically nothing).
I have my real estate agent license, mortgage license and am working on my appraisal. Eventually can take these and combine business with my parents brokerage, to help them out. This business is slowlane I believe.
So I had a LLC before and was going to flip land lots by buying low and selling on owner financing. It never got up because instead I got distracted and invested in ecommerce(ebay), selling clothes/purses. BIG MISTAKE. Seems my problem is trying to do too many things instead of focusing my energy in one area. Atleast my real estate licenses are somewhat congruant, took me forever just to decide to get into it. Being a 4th generation agent, I suppose I was destined. BTW I lost my a$$ on the ecommerce(long story). No more over-fractionalizing...
So now I got my licenses that I will use as my work(everyone wants me to work). GREAT! Self employment has some perks like having my own schedule. A career is ok, but it wont make me the money I desire. I want something MORE buildable, so Im looking to a project in my spare time.
Cut out the TV, friends and all. Looking to devote myself to business.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I want something fastlane, Ive glanced over it all. I have my eye on producing a skin serum, in a interesting niche. SKIN LIGHTENING. This is something big over in asia, but I dont even think most of them carry Visa/MC or am I mistaken? So I have my girlfriend over there(keeping her there too for now, less distracting), she can distribute some to the Chinese market. I dont have much idea how things work there.
But anyways Ill have to focus on the US/CA(+try other 1st world markets). The product will be high end, the package unique(more than just serum actually) and not cheap. Im looking to charge $45-100 and put this on a 6 month rebill with the justification that it could take 6 months for them to see results. Selling "free trial samples" also sounds alluring.
I see the pieces:fullfillment center, lab, site, product, merchant account etc
I wanted to start this before, but even with suggested resources I found it hard. For example I had the money and wanted to do a supplement but the merchant account providers only accepted 2 kinds of supplement diet pills, nothing else. Damn merchant accounts! I found a provider now saying they can do my product, cool, now I gotta get my credit score back up(F*ck). Oh and keep chargebacks under 3%. Difficult?
Marketing: Affiliate site, direct mail and PPC PPC PPC
Is this fastlane? Anyways its my next project. Anyone with experience in this arena wish to chime in? The product, structure, marketing....Whats missing.
So Ill have a decent sum of money for this before long. I wish to outsource most of the components. The website is huge, Im thinking of having it be mainly just a salespage. Theres lots of options in putting this together, its been on my mind for a long while. Hopefully this product can be built up to something large.
Suggestions? Im definitely looking for nuggets from people with experience in this, where they at. ahha
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