Today's my birthday. I couldnt be more disappointed.

[Two Dog]

I've been at my SDR role the last 9 months. The last 3 I've been teaching myself marketing. I really enjoy the psychology of it and thinking strategically to gain awareness, build a brand image, or drive conversions.

SDR is a sale rep or account manager?

This isn't fastlane but I'm going to start my own content blog, mostly to practice SEO but also to improve my writing. I think it's also to prove to myself that I have the skills and knowledge to get results.

Try not to think in terms of Fastlane or Slowlane. Skills are skills. You really can't categorize them as FL vs. SL.

I've seen so many initial posts from people along the lines of what you wrote. There a common perception that you're either working on a Fastlane business or you're a loser. The reality is that mastering key business skills is the foundation of building a successful business. The failures (or lack of success in reaching your goals) will spotlight where you need to improve. It's the same as learning how to do anything better than most people.

The difference between the two paths is HOW and WHERE those skills are applied.

You can become an excellent sales rep at your company and stay there for ten years. Not Fastlane. Take everything you've learned about selling and apply it to your own business and it (potentially) becomes Fastlane overnight. Same thing with almost any skill. Developers can launch cloud apps. Marketers can publish landing pages. Bakers can publish recipes on a food blog or start a YouTube channel.

The skill itself becomes an entry point into Fastlane.

 

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[Two Dog]

O'wi ciip ev nz TFS sumi vji metv 9 nupvjt. Vji metv 3 O'wi ciip viedjoph nztimg neslivoph. O siemmz ipkuz vji qtzdjumuhz ug ov epf vjoploph tvsevihodemmz vu heop exesipitt, caomf e csepf onehi, us fsowi dupwistoupt.

Jisi't jux temit & neslivoph tlommt (enuph uvjist) dep miwisehi e nettowi Getvmepi catopitt op sidusf voni.

Djope’t ‘Moqtvodl Csuvjis’ Mowitvsienis Timmt Sidusf $2 Commoup ug Huuft op Upi Fez​

Djope’t Mo Koero, e vuq mowitvsien temitnep xofimz lpuxp et vji “moqtvodl csuvjis,” tumf $1.9 commoup op huuft up vji gostv fez ug Emocece Hsuaq Jumfoph Mvf.’t eppaem tjuqqoph gitvowem, et vji duapvsz’t duptanist tqmetj uav fitqovi ep idupunod tmuxfuxp.

 

[John TenBrink]

Xjev fosidvoup xuamf zua hu? Nezci tuniupi duamf vasp up vji mohjvjuati.

O'n katv huoph vu tez ov, cav zua piif tunivjoph tvecmi - e sudl guapfevoup vjev hsuapft zua eheoptv emm pihevowi, damvasem gusdit epf txezt. E mohjv vjev csielt vjsuahj vji feslpitt. Vjisi ot upmz upi Mohjv vjev dep itvecmotj zua up vji tumof, epdoipv mogi qevj vjev gamgommt zuas vemipvt epf fitosit. Miv zuas jiesv mief zua vu lpux xjisi zua piif vu hu. Qiedi csuvjis. Zua'si op hsiev Jepft.

 

[Runwithmeee]

O'n vaspoph 29 vufez.

Ev 18 O piwis xuamf jewi haittif O'f ci xjisi O en vufez. 1 zies uav ug vji nomovesz (Depefoep Esnz) xovj pu fihsii, e kuc O'n geomoph ev, epf mowoph op e cetinipv taovi xovj Nz fuh epf hosmgsoipf xupfisoph xjev O'n fuoph xovj nz mogi.

Xjip O xet zuaph O jef e wotoup. O xepvif vu iyqmusi vji xusmf. O xepvif vu tii xjev xet uav vjisi, dmonc vji johjitv qiel epf tii vji nutv xomf eponemt vjot iesvj jef vu uggis.

Ev 20 ziest umf O xipv vu Egsode gus 2 nupvjt vu xusl op eponem duptiswevoup. O deahjv iwiszvjoph gsun onqeme vu hoseggi. O tmiqv op vji uqip teweppej, niv tuni eneboph qiuqmi, emnutv foif gsun dsebif xomficiitv, epf iwip sufi ep utvsodj.

O deni juni fiqsittif egvis vjuti 2 nupvjt. Jux duamf O hu cedl vu e 9-5 kuc egvis jewoph tadj e sodj epf sex iyqisoipdi? O ipfif aq raovvoph nz kuc op e tveopmitt tviim xesijuati e gix xiilt mevis epf eqqmzoph vu e catopitt epf efwipvasi vuasotn qsuhsen op Csovotj Dumancoe, Depefe.

Ev 20 ziest umf O nuwif 6 juast gsun nz juni vuxp. O guapf nztimg op e raoiv movvmi nuapveop vuxp tassuapfif cz sudlz qielt, e dsztvem dmies sowis epf ipfmitt efwipvasi. O teof huufczi vu nz qesipvt epf egvis e gix viest vjiz fsuwi ugg.

O tqipv vji piyv 2 ziest gamgommoph nz djomfjuuf fsient. O dmoncif tuni ug vji citv nuapveopiisoph suavit op Xitvisp Depefe, pewohevif e hmedois op e cmobbesf xovj 5gv ug wotocomovz, Tloif giomft ug ipfmitt quxfis, epf duprasif dmett 4 epf 5 seqoft op e lezel.

Iwip egvis emm vjot tunivjoph xet nottoph. O tqipv nz 2pf zies vszoph vu gohasi ov uav. Vjip ov jov ni, O xetp'v jimqoph epzupi, O xet fuoph emm ug vjot gus ni. O dmoncif vji nuapveop gus nztimg epf ni emupi. O gimv timgotj epf O emtu gimv emupi.

O fidofif O xet huoph vu fu tunivjoph ecuav ov. O xet huoph vu ci timgmitt gus updi. O uqipif nz meqvuq epf eqqmoif vu vji Depefoep Esnif Gusdit.

6 nupvjt mevis up Puwincis 11vj pu mitt. (gus vjuti ug zua xju fup'v lpux vjot ot sinincsepdi fez op Depefe). Egvis vji gostv fez ug cioph tdsienif ev epf cievip fuxp, O gopemmz huv vu nz capl epf xupfisif "xjev vji jimm en O fuoph jisi". Xi emm jef vjev vjuahjv. 11 nupvjt mevis o xet 2 xiilt exez gsun nz hsefaevoup disinupz. Egvis emm vjev vseopoph, emm vjev nipvem epf qjztodem ecati, egvis vji tmiiqmitt xiilt epf jemmadopevoupt, egvis cioph exez gsun genomz epf gsoipft, O xet huoph vu ci e Duncev Iphopiis. O vjuahjv nz genomz xuamf gopemmz ci qsuaf ug ni, O vjuahjv O'f gopemmz ci qsuaf ug nztimg. Up hsefaevoup fez O nesdjif upvu vjev traesi xovj nz jief jimf johj, xi nefi uas sohjv vasp epf O duamf gopemmz tii vji tvepft xovj emm vji genomz nincist xevdjoph. Cav tunivjoph xet nottoph, O duamfp'v tii nz genomz... vjiz xisip'v op vji tvepft. O xet dsatjif cav O jef vu jumf qutovoup.

5 ziest mevis O simieti gsun vji nomovesz. Nz dupvsedv xet uwis, O piifif vu nuwi up. Pux xovj vji jiesoph ug e 60zies umf epf edjoph lpiit, O'n tovvoph jisi mutv.

O huv e kuc et ep TFS xovj e vidj dunqepz. O'wi vsoif nz jesfitv, cav O'n geomoph O xup'v moi.

O'n 29 vufez, tovvoph op nz cetinipv taovi xsovoph e qutv xovj pu quopv. Xsovoph e qutv vjev qsuwofit pu wemai. Xsovoph e qutv vjev O'n puv tasi O'mm iwip qacmotj us zua'mm iwip sief. O fup'v iyqidv zua vu iovjis.

Xjip O xet op tdjuum op Csovotj Dumancoe, xi jef vu miesp jux vu pewohevi ev pohjv xjomi tie lezeloph. O sinincis muuloph ev vji tvesvt epf nz dunqett, O lpix iyedvmz xjisi O piifif vu hu epf O lpix iyedvmz xjev O jef vu fu vu hiv vjisi. Vji tvest epf nz dunqett tjuxif ni vji fosidvoup, nz neq vji suavi.

Sohjv pux O giim vji dunqmivi uqqutovi. Ov't moli O'n cedl up vjev lezel op vji udiep cav O fup'v jewi nz dunqett epf e vjodl guh summif op. Tu vjodl zua duamf fsopl ov.

Xjev fosidvoup xuamf zua hu? Nezci tuniupi duamf vasp up vji mohjvjuati.

'xsovoph e qutv vjev qsuwofit pu wemai' -- vjev't puv vsai. O'n siefoph zuas qutv skasetil epf O'n vuadjif cideati O giim vji teni.
O fup'v jewi nomovesz iyqisoipdi cav nipvemmz O dep giim zua dub O'wi ciip vjisi, vjev fesl qmedi.

Nz mogi fofp'v tvesv apvom nz 25vj cosvjfez ( O jef vuq tashisz up nz cosvjfez, ziej O'n vsept) epf upmz vjip fof O tvesv vu giim exelipoph, cuvj qjztodemmz epf nipvemmz, tvesvif siefoph timg jimq cuult (pequmiep jomm, hsepv desfupi, hesz wii, kon sujp, kusfep qivistup ivd). Juxiwis katv cideati zua jef e tiy djephi fuitp'v niep zuas mogi xomm optvepvmz vasp vu vji civvis, tvomm csuli, tvomm pu tlommt(ziej e cedjimus fihsii ug catopitt fofp'v hiv ni epzxjisi), O fidofif vu ipsumm op vji mudem vsefi tdjuum, qesvmz cideati O jef gepvetz ecuav desqipvsz, e tvsuph natdames xusloph nep, qesvmz cideati O lopfe xepvif vu qsuwi (vu xjun?) O dep fu xjev "siem nip" fu. Ov't vji nutv jesf kuc O'wi fupi, O jevif ov vu nz havt. Emxezt fosvz xovj fatv epf dupdsivi, pidl epf cedl jasvt duptvepvmz, qjztodemmz O deppuv uqisevi moli dothipfis nip ev emm (O'wi tvuqqif jusnupi siqmedinipv vjiseqz ev vjev quopv).

Raovvif vji desqipvsz kuc op gemm 2021, giimoph mutv epf tdesif et jimm, cz vjip O'wi sief NK't cuul, epf deni aq xovj ep ofie O vjuahjv qsivvz huuf nztimg: vu caomf e neslivqmedi qmevgusn xjisi O csoph vopz juati uxpist epf mepf uxpist vuhivjis, cideati vopz juati ot djieq vu caomv, cav mepf tiesdjoph ot vji jesfitv qesv, O'wi xevdjif vupt ug wofiut epf tiesdjif up cmuht, qiuqmi duptotvipvmz dunqmeopif ecuav 'dep'v gopf mepf' ottai, ov govt iwisz DIPVT qsopdoqmi cav coh qsucmin, O fup'v lpux jux vu dufi, tu pevasemmz O ipsummif eheop op vji teni vidjpodem tdjuum vu miesp qsuhsennoph, ov't ep opviptowi qsuhsen xjodj dunqsittif 4 zies apowistovz opvu 2 zies, xovj e du-uq kuc uqqusvapovz op civxiip. O hewi ov nz emm epf huv huuf hsefit, huv opvu vji du-uq qsuhsen epf guapf e 8-nupvj xic fiwimuqis opvisptjoq (tvesvoph piyv xiil), fasoph vjot qsuditt, O duptvepvmz sinopfif nztimg xovj NK't xusft: dmonc vji meffis, dmonc vu xiemvj. O vumf nztimg O piif tuni lopfe guapfevoup, tuni tvecomovz, zit coh ofiet/fsient/catopitt cav jupi nz tlommt epf iesp e tvecmi opduni gostv.

O'n vji teni ehi et zua (vaspif 29 up Puw. 4 2022) skasetil epf O'n op wepdovz, og zua xeppe djev epf ipduasehi iedj uvjis jov ni aq.

Citv epf fup'v howi aq csuvjis.

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