Chrish94
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Hi there! I've actually been lurking these forums every so often for almost a year to be honest and I figure it's time to get off my butt and join.
I might as well talk a little about myself right now. My name's Christian, right now I'm a 22 year old loser with a net worth of 5 dollars and resides in his mom's basement. At the end of this year, I'm going to be driving my own lamborghini and be making my own animated series! I originally started off my career by being an animator, and I really enjoyed what I was doing and was getting some really cool gigs, but one particular job I was doing ended up not just completely failing but it also turned out that the guy in charge of it was a complete sociopath who was also a pedophile who was using the whole concept of him making a cartoon for him to get with kids. Even though this particular project was really small in the long run (pretty much an indie project), it threw me into a massive depression and it wasn't until almost two years later that I can say I'm over it.
In the midst of that depression, I slowly realized that I'm less of a typical worker and more of someone who wants to start a business and really focus on creating things rather than work on someone elses idea. So I kind of began working on my own business, but it failed (kind of a mix of untreated depression and not really believing I could) and I kept on failing. Even though I was failing, I'd read an insane amount of things and I would watch every seminar I could get my hands on about business management, salesmanship, production, etc. I also read the millionaire fastlane , which is one of the reasons I've been lurking here every so often!
That said, I'm pretty much done with this depression nonsense since I've been getting treatment and I think it's time for me to finally really get this thing going. One of my biggest issues has been how incredibly insecure I am of my situation and this has been holding me back because I've been scared to reach out to others and really interact with anyone. It's kind of corny, but I've learned that you really have to believe in yourself before you can succeed, and the way I was living really showed the lack of respect and hope I had for myself.
Anyway, outside of posting this, my first big course of action is I'm working on a seminar/ebook about sales that I'm going to sell in order to kickstart funding for more art related projects. Once I get more stuff going, I'd totally love to share some of it with you! I'm really looking forward to interacting with the community here and I'll end this post with that!
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There were a number of things I forgot to share in my post so I figure I'll just type it up now: I actually did have some pretty big success in sales, it's just to be honest I forgot to share it. In the two years where I was in this weird slump, I accrued a decent amount of debt and needed to pay it off. The way I did it was doing a lot with Internet marketing which is really where most of my failed businesses came from, except instead of just making a sales page or making a squeeze page to get people's email address, I'd actually cold call potential prospects. I made more money than any of my at the time peers were making in months in just a few days and it blew me away. I always knew that there needs to be trust built up before someone buys something, but doing the calls really hammered it in my brain. When I got the money to pay all this crap back, I actually stopped for a bit because I was blown away. I asked myself how can I make more, and that's why I'm making a seminar/ebook thing with how exactly it was done and more importantly, why it worked.
And as for my why: it's to inspire people. I got into animation really to create shows that would inspire kids to be strong, and when I found out that the one project turned out to be just a ruse for someone to hurt people, it really threw me into a whirlwind of emotions. I actually had to be hospitalized for suicide attempts several times following that. During my whole depressive episode, I did read a lot, when I wouldn't be working I'd be reading. The biggest thing I personally learned, however, is that there are millions of people who are the next potential Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Walt Disney, or really any big name person but they're not starting for one reason or another, mainly due to the idea that they can't. I don't want to have a fancy sports car just to show it off and to be honest, I don't even like cars: I want it as a symbol that yeah, things can change for the better. I don't want to have money just to be able to buy every expensive thing I see, no I want to use the money as a tool to do great things. The whole sales thing I want to do I'd say is kind of an extension of that, honestly. Sure I'm selling it, but I'm making sure it's a fantastic product that will actually make my customer's lives be better.
Anyway, probably should have put that in the introduction thread instead of sounding like the egotistical millennial who's all talk no action that I'm sure you guys have seen before. I will take your advice and read through some of the gold sections, and I will spend today rereading The Fastlane.
Anyway, once again I'm very much looking forward to meeting you guys!
I might as well talk a little about myself right now. My name's Christian, right now I'm a 22 year old loser with a net worth of 5 dollars and resides in his mom's basement. At the end of this year, I'm going to be driving my own lamborghini and be making my own animated series! I originally started off my career by being an animator, and I really enjoyed what I was doing and was getting some really cool gigs, but one particular job I was doing ended up not just completely failing but it also turned out that the guy in charge of it was a complete sociopath who was also a pedophile who was using the whole concept of him making a cartoon for him to get with kids. Even though this particular project was really small in the long run (pretty much an indie project), it threw me into a massive depression and it wasn't until almost two years later that I can say I'm over it.
In the midst of that depression, I slowly realized that I'm less of a typical worker and more of someone who wants to start a business and really focus on creating things rather than work on someone elses idea. So I kind of began working on my own business, but it failed (kind of a mix of untreated depression and not really believing I could) and I kept on failing. Even though I was failing, I'd read an insane amount of things and I would watch every seminar I could get my hands on about business management, salesmanship, production, etc. I also read the millionaire fastlane , which is one of the reasons I've been lurking here every so often!
That said, I'm pretty much done with this depression nonsense since I've been getting treatment and I think it's time for me to finally really get this thing going. One of my biggest issues has been how incredibly insecure I am of my situation and this has been holding me back because I've been scared to reach out to others and really interact with anyone. It's kind of corny, but I've learned that you really have to believe in yourself before you can succeed, and the way I was living really showed the lack of respect and hope I had for myself.
Anyway, outside of posting this, my first big course of action is I'm working on a seminar/ebook about sales that I'm going to sell in order to kickstart funding for more art related projects. Once I get more stuff going, I'd totally love to share some of it with you! I'm really looking forward to interacting with the community here and I'll end this post with that!
-edit-
There were a number of things I forgot to share in my post so I figure I'll just type it up now: I actually did have some pretty big success in sales, it's just to be honest I forgot to share it. In the two years where I was in this weird slump, I accrued a decent amount of debt and needed to pay it off. The way I did it was doing a lot with Internet marketing which is really where most of my failed businesses came from, except instead of just making a sales page or making a squeeze page to get people's email address, I'd actually cold call potential prospects. I made more money than any of my at the time peers were making in months in just a few days and it blew me away. I always knew that there needs to be trust built up before someone buys something, but doing the calls really hammered it in my brain. When I got the money to pay all this crap back, I actually stopped for a bit because I was blown away. I asked myself how can I make more, and that's why I'm making a seminar/ebook thing with how exactly it was done and more importantly, why it worked.
And as for my why: it's to inspire people. I got into animation really to create shows that would inspire kids to be strong, and when I found out that the one project turned out to be just a ruse for someone to hurt people, it really threw me into a whirlwind of emotions. I actually had to be hospitalized for suicide attempts several times following that. During my whole depressive episode, I did read a lot, when I wouldn't be working I'd be reading. The biggest thing I personally learned, however, is that there are millions of people who are the next potential Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Walt Disney, or really any big name person but they're not starting for one reason or another, mainly due to the idea that they can't. I don't want to have a fancy sports car just to show it off and to be honest, I don't even like cars: I want it as a symbol that yeah, things can change for the better. I don't want to have money just to be able to buy every expensive thing I see, no I want to use the money as a tool to do great things. The whole sales thing I want to do I'd say is kind of an extension of that, honestly. Sure I'm selling it, but I'm making sure it's a fantastic product that will actually make my customer's lives be better.
Anyway, probably should have put that in the introduction thread instead of sounding like the egotistical millennial who's all talk no action that I'm sure you guys have seen before. I will take your advice and read through some of the gold sections, and I will spend today rereading The Fastlane.
Anyway, once again I'm very much looking forward to meeting you guys!
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