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Background
Some of you know that when I came to the forum in 2016, I was just 18 but had been moderately successful with a dropshipping store with a peak of $30-35K per month in revenue and approximately 15% profit margins.Then, after a series of "shit happens" moments and 2 years of returning to SOME state of normal, I embarrassingly ended up indebted to my mother—financially, not just metaphorically.
So, to pay back my mother (who'd been practically drowning in debt herself), I took up web design and began cold calling. After a month, I had closed 3 clients and managed to pay her back + afford a little beach holiday with friends (my first at the time).
A year later, I accidentally became a copywriter, and as one thing led to another, I eventually "evolved" into an email marketer.
Since then, I've helped my clients generate over $40,000.000 in extra revenue, of which upwards of $5,000.000 can be attributed solely to my efforts and NOT tied to other sales funnels.
I learned how to tame my ego and work as a team while following everyone else's lead at first. Then, I started asking questions, giving suggestions, and not long after, I was managing multiple teams. I was offered great money to be the CEO of a digital marketing agency (which I politely declined as I felt I wasn't ready for such responsibility.)
Throughout all of this, I've always managed to negotiate pay that I was happy with AND maintained an abundance of free time.
In fact, I've been working for an average of 30 minutes to an hour per day for the past 2 years while earning the average U.S. salary in a second-world country in Eastern Europe. The lower costs of living combined with my being paid in dollars is akin to being rich here.
HOWEVER...
Despite the amazing results we've had, the constant praise I've been receiving, and having the green light to pretty much do whatever I want (I wish I could share some of the shit I've gotten away with in marketing for BIG names), I'm bored as hell.
Not only that, but I've also grown to see my clients' failures in managing their own businesses, and I'm beginning to tolerate that less and less.
And to top it all off, with the recent developments in the field of A.I., my income is at moderate risk.
Not an immediate one, mind you, but it's bound to happen in a few years when A.I. grows exponentially into something MUCH more sophisticated and capable than we have access to currently. Naturally, I don't want to be a sitting duck when that time comes.
Which brings us to today...
Ever since I was a kid, I've yearned to make a difference.
And despite my at times choleric attitude and recklessness in my late teens and early 20s, I've always been a goody two shoes with a desire to help everyone I can and make the world a better place.
So as my first philanthropic effort on a mass scale, I've been working on a browser extension that will significantly improve the lives of a certain underrepresented group of people.
The browser extension will address a huge pain point for them, which, until now, has never been done (apart from a single extension that was abandoned years ago, YET it still has hundreds of active users with zero marketing, branding, and development efforts.)
In other words, I have essentially zero competition, millions of people to help, and thousands to convert into paying customers.
As of current, I've laid out all of the steps that we need to follow, incl. market research, development, publishing, and marketing.
I already have a registered entity to my name for my email marketing work and have a great accounting team that I can use for this project, so that's one less thing to worry about.
And to outsource the coding (which I simply cannot do), I have partnered with a good programmer friend of mine (who is unsatisfied with his current job) to make sure my idea will not be stolen by a blackhat freelancer. NDAs do not give me enough peace of mind, especially knowing that I won't be bothered to follow up with the legal stuff.
Now, since our main competitor is inactive, their extension is free, and they're not a registered trader, we've taken their source code, repurposed it (it has some things going for it), and are currently fixing its major flaws and drawbacks.
Until the end of THIS month, our goal is to:
- Have the FREE version of our browser extension (which does everything our main competitor does, but better + with some added functionality) finished
- Publish our website
- Set up the FREE version for launch in the Chrome Web Store
- Utilize the power of social media to gain thousands and even tens of thousands of FREE customers
- Maintain excellent reviews (4.5* and above) through timely updates and great customer support
- Solve our biggest developmental challenge that will add a CRAZY amount of value to our USP and become the paid/premium version of our extension, which our FREE users will absolutely want or even NEED to have
- Integrate or create a payment system
- Reinvest everything into the development of standalone software / mobile apps for iOS and Android
Some quick facts taken from @Tau Ceti's thread:
Apple App Store: 1 billion iPhone users 2 million iOS apps = 500 users: 1 iOS app
Google Play Store: 2 billion Android users 3 million apps = 667 users: 1 app
Chrome Store: 2 billion users 200,000 extensions = 10,000 users: 1 extension
It's been a long time since I've been involved in such an undertaking, but I'm determined to see it through and improve hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even millions of people's quality of life while also adding to my and my friend's income.
I'm creating an execution thread to not just document my actions but also as a way of keeping myself accountable and on track to accomplishing my goal.
Finally, although I fully expect it to be a success financially, I won't be disappointed if it isn't. My primary goal is to add value to as many people as possible with my solution for FREE (and the base version will remain free forever) and then add a paid, groundbreaking update that will entice people to pay because it's going to improve our USP by a practically infinite amount.
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