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Recent content by Black_Dragon43

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    Investing Your Psychic Energy in Yourself

    MINDSET 
    In terms of practicalities, sure. But what I see as most important is the philosophy behind the practicalities. For example, you could take something like what Christian monks and what Zen masters do and conclude based on the practicalities (sitting in silence, etc.) that they are doing...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    I scored the same as you. @Antifragile must be an alien.
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    Investing Your Psychic Energy in Yourself

    MINDSET 
    These are some ideas that I’ve had due to a recent discussion with @rpeck90 that I feel may be lifechanging to some people here. Our discussion was mainly about business and how to invest in your business vs externals. But I realized that it applies equally, if not more so, psychologically...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    It’s a long shot brother, I’m going to be honest with you, but I admire you for taking it on and hope you succeed! Personally I always prefer opportunities where you don’t ask for cash from someone else (ie without investors). If someone gives you money, they own you. To a certain extent, it’s...
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    Successful people, how do you "work hard"?

    MINDSET 
    Flow by Mihaly Csickzenmihaly is a good book about happiness and goals and how they’re related.
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    Successful people, how do you "work hard"?

    MINDSET 
    I do whatever aligns with the goals I have for my business that I think will move the business closer to those goals. I think a key point that I’ve often ignored in my entrepreneur career is enjoying the process of getting closer to your goals. Part of that is understanding that so long as you...
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    Opinions on Dan Koe?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I know good/respectable entrepreneurs who like Dan Koe. Personally I don’t much like Dan Koe, but I haven’t looked into him that much. It seems he mostly sells to beginners/newbies. Not that this is a problem, but I see this as “low effort”. I don’t put much focus at all selling to newbies...
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    FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements

    TAXES | REGS 
    As a sidenote, this seems to apply only to employees and independent contractors, existing non-competes with senior executives remain in place. And you are also legally required to notify workers (including those who no longer work for you) where it applies that non-compete clauses are no longer...
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    FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements

    TAXES | REGS 
    I’m not suggesting anything, I simply stated a cause and effect rule (“if X, then Y”), it’s up to each person’s moral compass to decide where they stand on that and consider any legal ramifications before acting. That goes without saying. However, my position is generally in favor of LESS...
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    FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements

    TAXES | REGS 
    I know many people who think the way you do on this issue. All I was saying is that I don’t personally agree. Think about it this way. If your “trade secrets” were so valuable, what stops your competitors from paying your employee an enormous amount of money (compared to his salary) to get...
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    FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements

    TAXES | REGS 
    In a certain sense if your business can be replicated by someone just by access to knowledge it’s not a real business. You can’t replicate Microsoft just by accessing their knowledge for example. Of course legal teams will always advise you to set as many roadblocks as possible — that’s the...
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    FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements

    TAXES | REGS 
    This is huge — many people have the golden ticket to break out of wage slavery right here, but somehow I doubt most will take advantage of it. They love their chains too much! My legal team always advises to have noncompetes, but personally I’ve never worried about someone competing with me. I...
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    Critique this Idea Please

    IDEA 
    It's not a bad idea. Now go out and try it, that's the only way to figure out if the economics work. Basically you're doing some arbitrage work – you're assuming it's cheaper for you to generate the leads seeking a quote than it is for them to do the same thing, and you'll pocket the difference...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Unfortunately not yet. It was never my priority. I did think of some ideas, but haven’t really implemented. That’s one of my biggest problems. What I did do was add extra services and leveraged past case studies to sell higher ticket items and get back to previous revenue levels with fewer...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Same thing happened to me last year when I got banned from LinkedIn. Was honest with the clients, told them the truth, and told them not to run for the door since this was a mistake, but many didn’t listen. Lost 40% of our revenue in 1-month, until I recovered my account. This is the weakness...
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