libertad1312
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Hello everybody,
I am 24 years old guy from Germany. Right now I am staying in Bangkok, I have around 5000$ in my bank account and made the decision to start making a good and easy living here!
My goals:
By the end of August I want to be able to cover my living expenses. Right now they are around 1500$/month, but I can easily cut them down to 750$/month. No need to hang out on rooftop bars with hot chicks every day...
By the end of this year I want to make 3000$/month, outsource more and more of my work to be able to focus on getting bigger and working smarter. In half a year I want to be able to invite my family for a great vacation with me and in one year I never want to have to worry about my financial future anymore.
My history:
- started traveling with 16 and always wanted more and more
- after graduating from high school I turned into becoming an online poker pro under pretty similar circumstances than today: I had enough money for the next few months and a dream. The biggest difference was that I was still living with mum. I did love playing it for 3 years until i reached my goals (became a respected regular on certain level) and stopped grinding when it started feeling like a job.
-I worked half a year on opening a hostel in Germany. Everything was was already set up and ready to go, when I decided that I don't want to be stuck in this place for the next years. I have to admit that the idea of lending money from a bank and making long term contracts did scare me
- threw the plans in the bin, gave away/sold all my belongings and hit the road for an open end journey. Arrived in Vietnam overland, took a plane to Australia with my last dollars, lived in an airport for a month till I could find a job and recovered from there
- Moved to a better places, changed jobs for the better and now I have another job I have dreamed before: doing only physically work, I can come and work when I want and 2-3 month of work are enough to finance my lifestyle for the rest of the year. But dreams become boring once you have reached them plus this one was still far away from the perfect lifestyle, because these 2-3 month of work are a waste of time and health
Well I got to Thailand two weeks ago and the plan was to go to Australia in two weeks to work for another three month. This would give me enough money to invite my family to Thailand. I want to thank my parents for everything they did for me and I need to lead my sick sister out of the rat race in Germany which will destroy her health in the longrun. And I would have still had enough money to comfortably live in Thailand and start becoming in entrepreneur.
Well, yesterday I got a mail from my boss that she doesn't have a lot of work these days. This was a bit of a shock first, since it makes the plan about inviting my family in october/november impossible. But I believe that things happen for a reason and maybe this was the final kick in the a$$ I did need to get started.
I have always worked on myself and like to be self educated, rather than wasting my time in our official education system. I haven't watched TV for years and since a few weeks ago I even stopped wasting time on facebook. The last two weeks I already figured out everything for my daily life here. I found a nice area to live in, serving all my demands. There is a lot of healthy food around, a great Muay Thai Camp nearby, that I attend 5-6 evenings/week and helps me to relax, stay fit and train a lot of positive attitudes. Also I made a few friends and good sexbuddies. I already cut down my sleep to eight hours, learned a few thai words and worked on faster reading skills. This is a great change if you keep in mind that I would just waste my time smoking too much weed with friends at home otherwise...
Also it was on the plane to Thailand that I read the book 4HWW and my researches would lead me here and making me ordering the Fastlane book. I didn't know that there is a community like this before.
The business:
Earlier this year, together with my ex girlfriend, I started on online shop to sell women dresses overseas. From the homepage to the model pictures we had to learn a lot and made everything ourselves. I haven't hear about outsourcing by this time. Also I did many things in the wrong order, ie. launching a homepage that doesn't appear in search engines, before selling on ebay etc. Anyway, through Etsy and our Facebook-Fanpage we made few sells in the three weeks we put into this project. Also there were two shops, one from the US and one from Australia interested in buying large amounts and an American online fashion magazine wanted to mention us in their magazine. All good signs after such a short time, most of this came from free advertising on Facebook. Then I went to Australia and broke up with my girl, so the whole project died. The few customers were all happy and this is giving me good motivation to carry on, especially since everything is still faaaar away from being perfect.
I think by finding a cooperative wholesaler for a good quality niche product one big step is already done. One mayor issue in the past was that we could only offer free-size articles, but I already talked to the wholesaler and she is happy to produce in certain sizes in the future and do the shipping for me as well.
Now, since I want to make a living here, I will more focus on making fast money, than building a brand. Therefore I will wait before adjusting the homepage and start selling on eBay, Gumtree etc. Also I will shop around and try to find other items I can sell quickly.
Goals until tuesday:
- order and study the Fastlane
- read more about the export business from Asia (any advice anybody?)
- discuss more detailed with the wholesaler, make a good deal to get the new collection in the most important sizes
- shop around and find other products
- start selling!!!
- find a cheaper apartment for the next month
- decide what makes sense to outsource right now (thinking about taking/editing pictures or writing descriptions since I would have to invest in material anyway and others can do it much better)
Thanks for reading and feel free to leave any questions and feedback
I am 24 years old guy from Germany. Right now I am staying in Bangkok, I have around 5000$ in my bank account and made the decision to start making a good and easy living here!
My goals:
By the end of August I want to be able to cover my living expenses. Right now they are around 1500$/month, but I can easily cut them down to 750$/month. No need to hang out on rooftop bars with hot chicks every day...
By the end of this year I want to make 3000$/month, outsource more and more of my work to be able to focus on getting bigger and working smarter. In half a year I want to be able to invite my family for a great vacation with me and in one year I never want to have to worry about my financial future anymore.
My history:
- started traveling with 16 and always wanted more and more
- after graduating from high school I turned into becoming an online poker pro under pretty similar circumstances than today: I had enough money for the next few months and a dream. The biggest difference was that I was still living with mum. I did love playing it for 3 years until i reached my goals (became a respected regular on certain level) and stopped grinding when it started feeling like a job.
-I worked half a year on opening a hostel in Germany. Everything was was already set up and ready to go, when I decided that I don't want to be stuck in this place for the next years. I have to admit that the idea of lending money from a bank and making long term contracts did scare me
- threw the plans in the bin, gave away/sold all my belongings and hit the road for an open end journey. Arrived in Vietnam overland, took a plane to Australia with my last dollars, lived in an airport for a month till I could find a job and recovered from there
- Moved to a better places, changed jobs for the better and now I have another job I have dreamed before: doing only physically work, I can come and work when I want and 2-3 month of work are enough to finance my lifestyle for the rest of the year. But dreams become boring once you have reached them plus this one was still far away from the perfect lifestyle, because these 2-3 month of work are a waste of time and health
Well I got to Thailand two weeks ago and the plan was to go to Australia in two weeks to work for another three month. This would give me enough money to invite my family to Thailand. I want to thank my parents for everything they did for me and I need to lead my sick sister out of the rat race in Germany which will destroy her health in the longrun. And I would have still had enough money to comfortably live in Thailand and start becoming in entrepreneur.
Well, yesterday I got a mail from my boss that she doesn't have a lot of work these days. This was a bit of a shock first, since it makes the plan about inviting my family in october/november impossible. But I believe that things happen for a reason and maybe this was the final kick in the a$$ I did need to get started.
I have always worked on myself and like to be self educated, rather than wasting my time in our official education system. I haven't watched TV for years and since a few weeks ago I even stopped wasting time on facebook. The last two weeks I already figured out everything for my daily life here. I found a nice area to live in, serving all my demands. There is a lot of healthy food around, a great Muay Thai Camp nearby, that I attend 5-6 evenings/week and helps me to relax, stay fit and train a lot of positive attitudes. Also I made a few friends and good sexbuddies. I already cut down my sleep to eight hours, learned a few thai words and worked on faster reading skills. This is a great change if you keep in mind that I would just waste my time smoking too much weed with friends at home otherwise...
Also it was on the plane to Thailand that I read the book 4HWW and my researches would lead me here and making me ordering the Fastlane book. I didn't know that there is a community like this before.
The business:
Earlier this year, together with my ex girlfriend, I started on online shop to sell women dresses overseas. From the homepage to the model pictures we had to learn a lot and made everything ourselves. I haven't hear about outsourcing by this time. Also I did many things in the wrong order, ie. launching a homepage that doesn't appear in search engines, before selling on ebay etc. Anyway, through Etsy and our Facebook-Fanpage we made few sells in the three weeks we put into this project. Also there were two shops, one from the US and one from Australia interested in buying large amounts and an American online fashion magazine wanted to mention us in their magazine. All good signs after such a short time, most of this came from free advertising on Facebook. Then I went to Australia and broke up with my girl, so the whole project died. The few customers were all happy and this is giving me good motivation to carry on, especially since everything is still faaaar away from being perfect.
I think by finding a cooperative wholesaler for a good quality niche product one big step is already done. One mayor issue in the past was that we could only offer free-size articles, but I already talked to the wholesaler and she is happy to produce in certain sizes in the future and do the shipping for me as well.
Now, since I want to make a living here, I will more focus on making fast money, than building a brand. Therefore I will wait before adjusting the homepage and start selling on eBay, Gumtree etc. Also I will shop around and try to find other items I can sell quickly.
Goals until tuesday:
- order and study the Fastlane
- read more about the export business from Asia (any advice anybody?)
- discuss more detailed with the wholesaler, make a good deal to get the new collection in the most important sizes
- shop around and find other products
- start selling!!!
- find a cheaper apartment for the next month
- decide what makes sense to outsource right now (thinking about taking/editing pictures or writing descriptions since I would have to invest in material anyway and others can do it much better)
Thanks for reading and feel free to leave any questions and feedback
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