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Hey guys, I’m sorry if this is going to be a bit long, but I would be really grateful if anyone could help.
Background: I’m 21 years old, In last November I got discharged from the army. Iv’e been working a day job ever since, which at the beginning was interesting; I was learning marketing and seeing how things work from the side, but now most of the things I do are boring and not fulfilling to me.
Anyways, for the last 2 years, while serving in the army and after, I’ve been reading tons of books (read about 50 books for the last 2 year), mainly about business, entrepreneurship, and self help. Obviously I also read unscripted and TMF , but for the last 2 years I’ve failed to execute or do anything with the knowledge I acquired.
I would be really glad if you could point me in the right direction, since I’m feeling pretty lost:
1. My parents always pushed me to go to college. And since I always wanted to be an entrepreneur I was against that.
So my father talked to me, he pretty much said that he would understand not going to college if I had this crazy business idea or any skills that I could use right now in my entrepreneurial journey, but since I got neither I should go to college. My family can also afford to help me with paying for college so I wont have any debt.
So, I got accepted to this college, I’m starting in October. they have this really cool marketing degree, which covers all kinds of things like branding, PR, digital marketing, consumer behavior, marketing strategy, etc. So this degree should actually be pretty helpful in my entrepreneurial journey, but still I feel like wasting 3 years of time. What do you think?
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2. I dont have any major skills that I can offer as a freelancer, other than building pretty basic websites on wix and wordpress - which is very saturated where I live so starting a web design agency I think would be pretty hard.
Another thing I recently started working on is amazon FBA - a family member of mine offered me to get into it together, he as the investor and me as the working brain. The final goal is to actually build a brand on amazon and then scale and sell it. The only worries I’m having is that FBA is pretty much dead right now and finding a product or a niche is extremely hard. What do you guys think about amazon FBA? Is it worth the time?
3. So basically this is a general list of the ideas I have
- A marketing + website building agency (maybe I should focus only on one area instead of both?)
- Building a brand on amazon (FBA)
- A course website in my country, like Udemy, there is only one competitor and he’s doing a pretty bad job. The only problem is that there are not a lot of residents in my country (under 10 million) so you cant sell the courses for that cheap, because I wont have the sales volume I could have in the US for example, and that people that I would contact wont really know how to make quality digital courses, so I would have to also take part in creating the courses.
- A website in the gift niche, where basically you enter details of your loved one and the it uses an algorithm that recommends you unique gifts and experiences they would love.
- I have tons of book summaries in a mind map format, thought about creating a special website with those summaries in a mind map format which is really special & helpful for a lot of people.
- A platform that allows anyone to contact a psychologist online
without paying tons of money. The only problem is this idea is complex and I’m not sure how to do it.
What would you advise me to do? How can I Start tomorrow?
How can I take advantage of the college degree I’m going to take?
Thanks so much for your time! (And sorry for my English
Background: I’m 21 years old, In last November I got discharged from the army. Iv’e been working a day job ever since, which at the beginning was interesting; I was learning marketing and seeing how things work from the side, but now most of the things I do are boring and not fulfilling to me.
Anyways, for the last 2 years, while serving in the army and after, I’ve been reading tons of books (read about 50 books for the last 2 year), mainly about business, entrepreneurship, and self help. Obviously I also read unscripted and TMF , but for the last 2 years I’ve failed to execute or do anything with the knowledge I acquired.
I would be really glad if you could point me in the right direction, since I’m feeling pretty lost:
1. My parents always pushed me to go to college. And since I always wanted to be an entrepreneur I was against that.
So my father talked to me, he pretty much said that he would understand not going to college if I had this crazy business idea or any skills that I could use right now in my entrepreneurial journey, but since I got neither I should go to college. My family can also afford to help me with paying for college so I wont have any debt.
So, I got accepted to this college, I’m starting in October. they have this really cool marketing degree, which covers all kinds of things like branding, PR, digital marketing, consumer behavior, marketing strategy, etc. So this degree should actually be pretty helpful in my entrepreneurial journey, but still I feel like wasting 3 years of time. What do you think?
_______________________________________
2. I dont have any major skills that I can offer as a freelancer, other than building pretty basic websites on wix and wordpress - which is very saturated where I live so starting a web design agency I think would be pretty hard.
Another thing I recently started working on is amazon FBA - a family member of mine offered me to get into it together, he as the investor and me as the working brain. The final goal is to actually build a brand on amazon and then scale and sell it. The only worries I’m having is that FBA is pretty much dead right now and finding a product or a niche is extremely hard. What do you guys think about amazon FBA? Is it worth the time?
3. So basically this is a general list of the ideas I have
- A marketing + website building agency (maybe I should focus only on one area instead of both?)
- Building a brand on amazon (FBA)
- A course website in my country, like Udemy, there is only one competitor and he’s doing a pretty bad job. The only problem is that there are not a lot of residents in my country (under 10 million) so you cant sell the courses for that cheap, because I wont have the sales volume I could have in the US for example, and that people that I would contact wont really know how to make quality digital courses, so I would have to also take part in creating the courses.
- A website in the gift niche, where basically you enter details of your loved one and the it uses an algorithm that recommends you unique gifts and experiences they would love.
- I have tons of book summaries in a mind map format, thought about creating a special website with those summaries in a mind map format which is really special & helpful for a lot of people.
- A platform that allows anyone to contact a psychologist online
without paying tons of money. The only problem is this idea is complex and I’m not sure how to do it.
What would you advise me to do? How can I Start tomorrow?
How can I take advantage of the college degree I’m going to take?
Thanks so much for your time! (And sorry for my English
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