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    I had a Really Good Month doing "Raids." I Suggest If you can to Buy a Truck As Soon as You Can! Entrepreneur

    I had a Really Good Month doing "Raids." I Suggest If you can to Buy a Truck As Soon as You Can! Entrepreneur


    I had a Really Good Month doing "Raids." I Suggest If you can to Buy a Truck As Soon as You Can!

    Posted: 02 May 2020 05:46 AM PDT

    Short Story Long: I Make All of My Money off of Facebook Marketplace Selling other people's stuff I get for Free. I was working for the Census but have found out this is something I want to take to the Next Level!

    I just started tracking what I get and what I sell it for but mixed in with my Odd Jobs definitely cleared 5k Last Month with thousands of "Junk." Still listed/ waiting to be sold.

    Biggest Profits:

    *400+lbs of Weights @$2/lb & Accessories (1k)

    *One of my Snow Trucks $1000 (Which I accidentally bought for $900 off a Methhead who needed to bail his GF out of Jail... lol. I just wanted to buy something else from Dude. But I kept the Brand New Tires / Truck Box/ Tools / Toolbox / Radio)

    *Rocks. Literal, Effin Rocks from the ground @$50 a 32 Gal Garbage Can (I can't believe I made over 1k For sure just in the last week. Yes, people are still wanting landscaping done in my area and will not shop around landscaping companies vs a Reputable Guy off Facebook.

    *All of my stuff From Raids/ Purging the House $1k-ish (Will Explain in a Bit) with $3-5k from my Junk Removal Business

    *$1000 Privacy Fence for My Sister, the material was <$200 From Habitat Homestore and <$200 from Lowes.

    Raiding

    So, my original Business was Snow Removal based out of Sioux Falls, SD. I have Done it for 8 Seasons now, this last one is my 2nd year owning my own business.

    However it only Snowed THREE Times this Season! I've never seen anything like that in my Life!

    After Selling my Truck & Plow and My 10 Seasonal Contracts (@$500 each) It was essentially a wash. Normally, I make a Killing doing it, and I absolutely love it. I will most likely be taking next Season Off unless I subcontract to not lose the Love I have for it due to the difficulty of doing it with shitty equipment.

    So, I had 3 Trucks sitting around with zero intentions of doing any landscaping/mowing/summer work.

    Thanks to Covid, I have been busier now and fulfilling my own dreams running Crews for several odd jobs and am reinvesting everything back into the Business/equipment, to make my life easier.

    My Goal since I have been 20 Years Old was no physical labor after 30 (I'm 28 now) because I am getting tired and know I can't keep the insane pace up forever.

    But... it's same with the Snow, I'm telling you guys- the Truck does 90% of the work!

    Not to be Sexist (... which means its gonna be a Sexist Statement :/ ) For this to work you generally must be able to lift heavy shit often, and repeatedly which I myself am even trying to find better ways to do buying a hydraulic truck crane and truck bed unloader.

    I do have the Girls in my life taking pictures of the hauls and look up the values and list on Facebook for me for Profit tho.

    What the Hustle Is:

    Essentially, I've been Self-Employed for 2 Years and feel like a Damn Mercenary. I will do anything from Hanging Christmas Lights / Junk Removal/ Basic Remodel Jobs/ Construction / Demo/ Landscaping/ Property Management/ Referral Sales/ Moving / ETC.

    But I have had a Moving Company since I was 22, and have learned something absolutely invaluable after several hundred flights of Stairs and the agony of moving other peoples stuff:

    If the Client has NO Emotional attachment to an item, it is Worthless. That means that not only do you get Paid to move something, but you can also sell it for the ultimate form of Trash into Treasure!

    I had a client who's Wife wanted a Leather Couch gone. He said himself he should sell it but, also didn't want to deal with it. This thing was nice enough to be in a Lawyers Office. I got paid $80 to haul it and sold it for $400 before it even left the bed of the truck. I have an Estate Move Later Today and haven't even cleared 75% out my last raids ïnventory!

    Now, I am not the first Junker, or 2nd Hand Flipper, or Person to do this. But, it has been working exponentially ever since to the point now that on EVERY home I visit, I always offer to haul away anything else they might want gone.

    You are not a Garbage Man

    I don't haul trash or items that I find not worth my time in the sense of providing a favor for someone. If I get paid to haul something, ill obviously take it. But when basements flood or things of that nature I leave that to the Professionals or recommend a roll-off dumpster.

    I guarantee in your Home/ Apartment that you have at least $500 worth of stuff you have that you haven't touched in a year, and wouldn't miss it if it's gone. I usually list things for a minimum of $20 and sell on average $80 per transaction.

    I also Price High to Weed out the Annoying People. I've learned to use it as a filter that gets immediate cash Offers well above my bottom price for letting something go.

    Gym Equipment, Tools, and Furniture will Always Sell. Electronics are 50/50.

    I would avoid Appliances and anything that cannot be stored outside/get Wet ( Do not Clutter your Home or Garage with Other Peoples Junk or you will be calling me!)

    And My Last Tip: Make Friends with Local Storage Unit Owners!!

    A long time Acquaintance of Mine got word I do dump runs. He wanted me to throw away a few Storage Units. Right off the jump, he said I can keep a misc item that I told him "Are You Sure?! That's worth $150!"

    "Yup"

    "Why not Sell it?!"

    "I don't want to deal with it. You're doing me a Huge Favor."

    So not only did I get paid $140 to haul his Stuff. I kept 80% of it. A matching Fridgeaire Dishwasher/Stove/Microwave set. a 7-gallon air compressor. Tons of Custom Motorcycle Equipment worth hundreds.

    And so much more, yet when it was done he paid me with the biggest smile on his Face!

    He said he hates doing it and has done it 100+ times so it's nothing special and all junk too him. I told him to not even bother asking me nicely the next time he needs me, just When & Where, and I'm there.

    We're all just trying to Survive... & I wish Yall the best- But get a Truck if you can and make that Sucka WERK!

    -I.B. Butter

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    How I Used Four Failures to Create a Success

    Posted: 02 May 2020 08:41 AM PDT

    Over some IPAs (you know how these stories go...), my friend and I started talking about how we were tired of our unfulfilling jobs, how we wanted to see more of the world, and how we wanted to work on things we were proud of. We came up with a plan -- we'd move in together, spend every evening after work building projects, create something that generates $100k of passive income within one year, and quit our jobs.

    So we moved in together -- so far, so good -- minus hearing him having sex with his girlfriend through our razor thin walls.

    We worked together every night -- so far, so good -- minus the times where we'd get so frustrated, we'd let out vampire screams.

    And we created something that is trending towards making $100k per year… except we had to fail four times to get there.

    In this post, I want to walk through how we learned from each failure and moved in the right direction.

    Original Plan: Since we wanted to hit $100k in a year, we decided to optimize for a short timeline. Since we had no idea what was going to work, we thought it'd be smart to take two approaches -- over the course of a month, we'd each build landing pages for different ideas, try to validate them, and then choose the most promising one.

    Nikita built a website to help people track their personal data and use it to improve their productivity. I built a website to connect college alumni for drinks. We were both able to get a bunch of sign ups -- enough to build out a MVP for each product. As we developed them and started getting feedback, it became clear that each would require a lot of software engineering time and iteration. They were also user-facing products, which meant we had to nail the UI and UX, which we had limited experience with. Furthermore, neither lent themselves to a business model that would generate the $100k we so desired. So after spending 1.5 months on each idea, we called it quits and hit the drawing board again.

    Lessons Learned: Think about the business model at the outset and build things that people are used to paying for. Avoid ideas that take huge amounts of iteration.

    Which led us to...

    Revised Plan #1: We decided to attempt selling non-software products. We took the same approach -- make a landing page, do some advertising, and then determine if it's worth building out. Nikita looked into creating a formula that would cover up scars on his skin, I looked into creating an eBook around meditation. After Nikita sampled many different products, he determined it'd be too difficult to create an effective formula and there was nothing on the market that he could whitelabel. I posted my eBook online and got a lukewarm response -- the product wasn't differentiated enough.

    Revised Plan #2: I'd make changes to the eBook selling points while Nikita thought about other ideas.

    And then I got a call with an excited, sweaty man on the other side of the phone.

    "You know how I used Twilio for SimpleLifeData [his previous failure] and only got 10% of my users to respond?" he started.

    "Yup -- all too clearly," I joked.

    "Well, I got so frustrated that I stopped using Twilio and started manually iMessaging my customers. And even though the messages were exactly the same, everyone was way more responsive because they felt like there was a real human on the other side of the phone."

    "Interesting..."

    "But it's a pain to message people manually, so I just wrote a script that enables anyone to send iMessages from an actual phone number. Let's build out this API together!"

    And that was the beginning of a two week coffee-infused hackathon where we developed the API and built additional features into it. Once we were happy with it, we created a landing page and began acquiring customers. We called up our friends that had their own startups and that worked at innovative companies as well as our friends that were promoters and real estate agents. And they loved it. In fact, they started telling enough of their friends about it that we had to create a waitlist to make sure that each person would have a perfect customer experience and we wouldn't run into any unforeseen bugs.

    We aren't at $100k yet, but we're heading there. And it was because we:

    • Worked with friends. This can be challenging, but it turns work into play time. It's a blast building stuff with your boys (or girls) over beers. It's also insane how much more two or three people can get done together as compared to what you can do yourself. On top of all this, it allows each person to focus on their strengths and for daily knowledge transfers.
    • Used landing pages to test multiple projects and then focused on one that was taking off. Focusing is important, but it's good to cast a wide net and try out a bunch of different ideas since you don't know what's going to work. Once you see something taking off, put all your effort behind it!
    • Built out effective MVPs quickly. Rather than building something with a million different features, we focused on creating something new that did one thing really well -- in this case messaging.
    • Thought about the business model first. If you're looking to make passive income with a deadline, you don't want to build a FB-type product. You want to build something that people are used to paying for and that doesn't take an insane amount of iteration to get right.
    • Stuck to our strengths. We're both way better at backend than we are with frontend. Therefore, building an API made sense for us.

    If you have questions on any part of this journey, feel free to post them below and we'll get back to you. Or you can message us at our Send Blue number: +1.332.217.5641.

    Cheers!

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    Just Got My First Client At Age 15

    Posted: 02 May 2020 11:30 AM PDT

    I'm 15 And Recently Started A Business Called MakeMyProduct (www.makemyproduct.net).

    My business helps make product sourcing and manufacturing easy for business owners.

    Customers come to my site and fill out a quote form describing the product that they need manufactured. I then contact manufacturers that I find on Alibaba or ThomasNet and get a quote from them (I have experience doing this). I then mark up the price slightly and send the quote to my customer. I handle communication, design, shipping, payment and all of the other timely tasks.

    I recently got my first client who ordered two sample sets of computer keys. Once this coronavirus mess is over and his business reopens, he will place an order for 2k-6k units leaving me with $20,000 - $60,000 in profit.

    Please let me know if you have any advice for me or if you're interested in my services. Thank you!

    Update: I've received multiple comments from people who are skeptical about the legitimatecy of my first order. I will be happy to post an update with payment proof once my client is able to reopen his store and place his order. Sorry for the confusion/lack of proof.

    Also, thank you to everyone who has encouraged me to move forward with this business model.

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    Here are the emails and strategy I used to close a $12,000 USD freelance website deal

    Posted: 02 May 2020 07:32 AM PDT

    Hey all, here's a look into the strategy and emails that won me my first five-figure website development contract.

    I received an email from a previous client of mine introducing me to a colleague of theirs (both in the Real Estate industry).

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW090q0VcAUWRfM?format=jpg&name=large

    Then, we set up a phone call.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW0-EXnU4AEhzyd?format=jpg&name=large

    On the phone call, I steered the conversation toward addressing the main 2-3 gripes they have with their current website and how they hope a new website could solve their problems.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW0-I0uUEAEQyEH?format=jpg&name=large

    I put a simple quote together and sent it their way. No proposal (yet).

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW0-pDyVAAAPXfv?format=jpg&name=large

    Quote screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW0_TyKUwAAFxKE?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

    After seeing the quote, they had a question or two about integrating the website with their CRM so they could funnel leads to their team. They were a little skeptical about how this would work since their CRM doesn't have a great API, so I prepared a proposal.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW0_hTtVAAEsBxo?format=jpg&name=large

    Here's the proposal I attached in that email (all two pages of it..)

    Proposal screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW1CLqsU0AAC1Q2?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

    With the proposal submitted, now we wait... If I don't hear back, I typically hold off 3-4 days before checking in.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW1CTpyUEAIhJX6?format=jpg&name=large

    It was a busy summer.. and well... that 3-4 days turned into 3-4 weeks.. But finally, I checked in.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW1CoLPU0AEJIcw?format=jpg&name=large

    I pushed for a call since things move slowly when your only communication is through email. During the call, they were still pretty hung up on the CRM integration piece. I offered to bite off a small 'discovery' phase to work through this roadblock.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW1DHP-UwAAaoRb?format=jpg&name=large

    I'm a HUGE fan of a paid discovery phase. Not only does it steer a project in the right direction from the start, but the client is now financially invested in you. Even though this one was only a few hundred dollars, it was very unlikely they'd walk away.

    The 'Discovery' phase got approved! I got to work and I put my findings together in a short document, along with an invoice for my time. *Bonus Tip– Offer to credit the discovery balance toward the full project price should they move forward with your services.

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW1EQG9U4AA1U8o?format=jpg&name=large

    And there it is- 3 months and a whole bunch of emails later, the news I'd been hoping for!

    Email screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW1EsB3UEAAperf?format=jpg&name=large

    TL;DR

    If your quote is backed up by a good break down of the work and you present it with professionalism– you can charge a lot more than you think.

    Also, I helped investigate an immediate problem in exchange for an hourly fee and credited it towards the quote of the project.

    Thanks for reading! Happy to answer any questions in the comments or in the original tweet.

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    What to do when there is already a successful site or blog for the niche chosen by you? How to ensure success in the same niche?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 01:58 AM PDT

    Hello guys. The question is What to do when there is already a successful site or blog for the niche chosen by you, How to ensure success in the same niche, How to make sure you can come up with a successful website, without damaging the original website, and most important, don't get any lawsuit for "copying reasons".

    I don't want in any case to copy or damage the original website, but since this is the niche I am passionate about, I would like to do it in my own way.

    Does anyone have a previous experience like this?
    What's your advice?

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    16 year old looking to start a buisness

    Posted: 02 May 2020 12:46 PM PDT

    My family owns a power washer and a lawn mower.

    However, it is difficult to mow people's lawns because a lot of people either own a lawn mower or hire a large company. What can I do to start a buisness where I would power wash and/or mow a lawn?

    How would I find my rates?

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    May someone help me read this website?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 02:09 PM PDT

    https://www.seed-db.com/accelerators

    What do the columns mean? I understand that exit means how much money did they exit to but that's about it.

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    CPA vs non certified Accountant

    Posted: 02 May 2020 01:52 PM PDT

    I am a CPA Candidate, but I'm not pursuing it to Audit FS or file people's taxes. How does having an active CPA license help in starting your own business? My observation has been that people who've studied accounting know the subject, just that people who get a CPA are trusted more when starting off rather than someone who doesn't have the certification.. what are yalls thoughts and experience regarding this?

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    Just launched my first website and am so excited to start growing my brand: me! What are the key essentials to growing my blog?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 01:34 PM PDT

    Hey everyone!

    I just launched my first self-made blog, a website where I review movies, TV shows, video games, and anime. I'm new to managing a website and a blog and am not sure where to start getting more views and subscribers to help grow my brand, so any tips or tricks or just advice would really go a long way. My website is www.blatantandbiased.com if anyone also has tips on how to improve my website.

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    Entrepreneur Problem Database

    Posted: 02 May 2020 01:16 PM PDT

    If we start with the assumption that the classical definition of an entrepreneur is to profit as a byproduct of solving real problems where the solution improves everyones wellbeing in the same vein as Henry Ford or Thomas Edison, then there are two big problems today for talented entrepreneurs:

    Problem 1: Entrepreneurs pursue ideas instead of problems.

    An idea is something that hasn't proven to be a problem yet. And since it hasn't proven to be a problem yet there's no need to find a business solution. When you try to market a solution for a non-existent problem, the result is novelty. Novelty may be profitable in the short term but usually is unsustainable. This leads to entrepreneurs misplacing their time and money. Examples of novelty can be seen in Tyler Cowen's video on the Great Stagnation. The internet promotes more ideas than problems. And genuine problems are difficult to locate, understand or verify.

    Solutions to problem 1:

    - Create a submission process for filtering real problems from ideas.

    - As part of the submission process, peer review submissions through industry experts.

    - Submissions that fail peer review, will be tagged as "ideas" instead of "problems".

    - Index submissions into long form centralized discussions that are searchable by tags/keywords.

    - Promote objective discussions of submissions through citations of transparent data.

    Problem 2: Entrepreneurs profit as a byproduct of rent seeking, financialization, offshoring, consolidation. These business models generate profit from innovation that is not based on the classical definition of solving problems by improving everyones wellbeing.

    Solutions to problem 2:

    - Tag submissions by type of innovation.

    - Incentivize submissions for classical innovation over rent seeking, financialization, offshoring, consolidation.

    - Incentivize discussion for brainstorming publicly available business plans for verified problems.

    - Incentivize entrepreneurship through publicly available business plans being available.

    - Incentivize entrepreneurship through enabling participants in submission discussion to network.

    I don't know of any websites that does this in a structured formal way. This sub-reddit and others obviously have an informal semblance of this. But reddit isn't built for this type of discussion. Does anyone know of a place that offers something like what is proposed above?

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    Anyone interested in joining a weekly accountability group?

    Posted: 01 May 2020 10:00 PM PDT

    I'm thinking about putting together weekly accountability group video calls for people who work for themselves.

    Being your own boss can be lonely and isolating, now more so than ever. I think spending some time with a team of people that support you professionally, even if you don't work with them, would really help. In the short terms, because of the lockdown, but also in the long run.

    The idea is one focused weekly call with 4-6 other professionals who work in a similar field and have similar goals. You each get 10-15 minutes to explain what you do, what your current goals are, and what your current obstacles are. I'll do my best to only match people with others who have similar levels of experience.

    The idea is that it will help you stay on track by setting your professional goals and then stay accountable to them through the coming weeks and months. It is also a chance to give and /or receive professional guidance, feedback and support.

    I can figure out a form so that people are paired with people in the same field, similar goals and similar levels of experience.

    Anyone interested?

    Please leave a comment below or DM me so that I can gauge whether or not it is worth putting something like this together.

    Any other feedback, or ways the idea could be improved, are most welcome.

    UPDATE : I've asked in a few subreddits and on some different platforms and loads of people are interested :) We are on. Here is a form, if you would like to join, please fill it out and then I can match you with the right people https://forms.gle/chZ83wWusDmcSS6n6

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    What are you doing for morale boosts or team events during COVID?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 09:28 AM PDT

    With everyone stuck at home, and a significant part of most people's socializing happening at work - I'm looking for things to do to boost team morale.

    We're fortunate to be a sector that's up during the pandemic - packaged food with an significant ecom component. We were remote 2 days a week before so the transition to 5 days remote was relatively painless. We're busy and my team is working hard. This thing has gone from terrifying to boring and I don't want my team to burn out.

    Things we've done so far:

    • 15 minute daily video standup call at 10am. We do 4 questions: What did you do yesterday, what are you doing today, where are you blocked, and a bonus question that changes each day. Bonus questions have included "What are you looking forward to," "What food are you craving," "What is your favorite non-human living thing in your appartment." The 4th question has lead to some good banter and joviality. The banter adds 5-15 minutes to the call, and is a nice bonding
    • Standup call costume contest: Show up to the standup in a costume and get entered into the monthly costume contest, winner as voted on slack gets a $50 gift card. This one has been fun.
    • $500 budget to build out home office. The writing was on the wall pretty early that this wasn't going to be a 2 week shutdown but 2-6 months of significantly more time working from home. $500 per employee was easy to justify on increased productivity of screens and comfortable chairs etc. Not a "fun" thing, but definitely has helped morale.
    • Quarantine Secret Santa. This added a few layers of fun as it also played into Amazon Amnesia as people tried to remember what they ordered from amazon when this time they actually didn't order anything.
    • Slack random channel - we've made concerted efforts to share funny, silly, interesting things in the random channel. Not everyone creates, but everyone seems to enjoy the banter. Reddit.com/r/dadjokes is good fodder if you're trying to kick this off for your team.
    • Celebrating a birthday remotely. We secretly coordinated to make hand-drawn happy birthday signs to hold up during our turn on the standup, and had "What do you like most about the birthday person" as the question of the day. Covert planning to make someone's day was fun for a few days before and definitely lifted spirits during.

    What else are people doing to keep team morale up during this special part of history we all get to live through?

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    8 Of The Most Profitable Principles Of Human Nature:

    Posted: 02 May 2020 02:54 PM PDT

    Saw this thread on Twitter and thought people here might find it valuable

    1. Playing to insecurities

    Poking and prodding at your market's insecurities to inspire pain and negative emotions, then positioning your product as the solution to relieving this pain

    1. Challenging identity

    Works very well in hyper passionate markets where inclusion in the in-group is highly desired (sports fans, politics, religion, etc). Challenge your market by implying NOT owning your product means they aren't a "true fan."

    1. Playing to status

    Position your product as the "ultimate," as a status symbol (i.e. Louis V, Ferrari, etc). Then sell the lifestyle associated with that status, not the product itself. Imply it will increase their status, and NOT having it will decrease their status.

    1. Selling the relief of pain

    Works well in markets with severe problems (any type of physical pain, health problems, etc). Focus almost entirely on their pain itself (not solution), agitate it, make them FEEL it, then plug your product as a solution to relieving it.

    1. Playing to ego

    Similar to status. Focus on what your market desires to appear as. Not what they actually are, what they think they are and want to be. Align your product with the idea of the their "ideal self."

    1. Playing to the desire to stand out

    Works well for accessories and stuff like that. Position your product as something that only the coolest, edgiest, and most unique people have. Align it with this identity, then sell it as the way to achieve said identity.

    1. Playing to fear

    Presidential campaigns are great example of this. Viscerally demonstrate the negative things that happen without your product. Create a vision of them. Make your market FEEL them. Then sell your product as the way to avoid whatever it is they fear most.

    1. Playing to social biases

    Similar to insecurities. Emphasize the "what other people think about you" angle. Associate not having your product with getting judged by other people negatively and vice versa. Position your product as something that will get compliments, etc.

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    My favorite Risk strategy is the no country start

    Posted: 02 May 2020 02:48 PM PDT

    I promise you this post is to the right sub, if you stick with me you will see why too. I play Risk at a Master/Grandmaster level. I have been playing the game since I was a little kid so I have more experience with this game than any other game I have ever played. I have a strategy that I try not to overuse so that it doesn't get solved but it works to devastating effect every single time I use it. Grandmasters get dumbfounded by it and play it wrong.

    If you're not familiar with Risk on a high level, there's always a beginning, middle, and end to the game. Beginning is everyone choosing what continent is going to become "theirs" for the game, middle is jockeying for control and eliminating the weakest players, end game is when someone builds up an army twice the size of everyone else combined. Right when the mid game happens, you'll have these crushing battles. Oftentimes the world will go from like 1k+ armies on the board to less than 100 in a single turn because everyone just goes HAM on each other to maintain the balance of the game.

    The strategy that I have perfected over the years is to skip all of that entirely. Don't fight for a single continent, let everyone else duke it out. Sit back and slowly accumulate your armies. Use your cards defensively. If anyone tries to challenge you for any reason, go HAM on them so that everyone in the game knows to never do that again. Just slowly build up an army that cannot be challenged in a completely unthreatening part of the map. Make sure that you keep the roads of attack clear in case any of the continent holders want to go to war with each other. Eventually, you become too big to take out. You just sit there and play the game like this until everyone starts going HAM on each other. Then I look at South America and Africa and determine which one got nuked harder and make that my new home. At this point, the world is in shambles except for my armies so I dictate the game and choke everyone out until I win. Only way to lose from that point forward is for me to make a mistake.

    Now, tying this directly into why I post this here. It baffles me to this day how devastatingly effective this strategy is. I've talked to grandmaster and master level players to try and get a sense of what goes through their heads once they see me pull it off. The best theory that I have come up with is that this way of thinking goes completely counter to what our instincts are. Have you ever fishtailed a car before? The way to get out of it is to slam on the gas. Everything screams at you to slam the brake. If you slam the brake in those moments, you spin out.

    I've personally seen more companies fail than I can count simply because they couldn't or wouldn't pivot in time. The key to business success isn't coming up with some cool, innovative product that no one has ever thought of before. The key to business success is to build an advantage over your competitors, maintain that advantage, then grow that advantage until your armies are double the size of theirs combined, then eliminate your competition from the game through acquisition.

    In order to do that, at a certain point you will need to pivot. It's not a question of maybe, you will. Is Disney anything that resembles the same company it was 60 years ago? Is Apple anything resembling the same company it was 20 years ago? (They kind of need to pivot soon, that's why they suck now). I've gotten into a lot of debates with people this past month lol. Lots of people try to pigeon hole my thoughts on these subjects. If I were to pigeon hole my thoughts in any way, I think the ultimate key to success is your ability to recognize opportunities and to be able to pivot when those opportunities present themselves. I do not give a rip what the specific opportunity is (no tech lol), it is possible to pivot from it or to it.

    Lots of people ask me how I plan on scaling flipping things from Goodwill into an actual venture, I don't plan on flipping things from Goodwill into an actual scalable venture. I plan on utilizing all of the knowledge I have gained from doing that with regards to product categories and scaling that up specifically. The very first thing I did once I proved to myself that this model is actually viable was to pivot away from Goodwill in every way that I could. I am always looking for ways to pivot. That's why I am having so much fun doing this specifically lol.

    No video, no self promotion of any kind. These were just thoughts on my mind, figured I might as well put them out there if they make even one person think.

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    In the IT technology development process, when do you charge a client, and how often?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 02:26 PM PDT

    For example, if your business is in IT technology development.

    When do you charge your client and how often?

    Each sprint if you work with Agile methodology?

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    Is it theoretically possible for everyone to get out of poverty in the U.S?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 01:43 PM PDT

    Sorry if this is offensive but I'm curious if everyone in the U.S. could theoretically get out of poverty. I'm 17 and middle class but also a crackhead and love money. I worked 35+ hour work weeks at 16 while going to school and got ~3-4 hours of sleep a night for 5 days a week, and would make $1.2k a month. I also sold candy as a freshman and weed and LSD as a junior and wait for it.. currently sell feet pics to make some cash during quarantine (~$100 a day).

    There are so many weird ways to make money out there (reselling dumpster dive finds, selling online, pool cleaning, etc.). Anybody can essentially get free Wi-Fi at McDonald's or something. If a family had kids that worked full-time and they all did extra side hustles would it be possible for everyone to get out of poverty in the U.S?

    Tl;dr: I sell feet pics and make good money out of it. Can't everybody do this and get out of poverty?

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    What businesses can be done to cater USA and Europe customers from some another country?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 12:27 PM PDT

    Apart from online services, exports, dropshipping.

    Is there any other thing that can be done?

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    Where could I find free companies case studies?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 12:17 PM PDT

    Hi all,

    I am looking for companies case studies that I can use for my strategic management cours . I looked up hbr, but there weren't any free case studies there. Any website recommendations?

    Thanks in Advance

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    I challenged myself to turn an ordinary product into a new functional product in 5 minutes to work with ingenuity

    Posted: 02 May 2020 11:50 AM PDT

    So here was the video, all the footage took about 5 minutes. It was a great exercise and will be doing it again.

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    Marketing is so hard for a new product

    Posted: 02 May 2020 11:36 AM PDT

    I have been working on a side project (https://www.talktroop.com) in terms of marketing and I noticed that it is very difficult to get sales in the B2B sector. Although it's still early I'm not sure what marketing technique shall I use (during this pandemic)?

    I've been trying adverts but there seem to be harder than I thought...

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    What are some challenges/obstacles that stand in the way of a company delivering a high quality customer experience?

    Posted: 02 May 2020 11:31 AM PDT

    What challenges does a company face when they are attempting to give high quality CX?

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