Originally Posted by Shap (Post 20515662)

Thanks! That's kind. The guy who posted just before you said it well. I think the key with me is i'm an all in or all out type of guy. Until I'm all in again I'll be searching for that thing that could do it. I think the key for me is momentum and speed. I love free flowing ideas and making them happen. I hate the paperwork, procedures and planning required to really do it right.

Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 20515848)

My advice would be to not "look for that thing" but to rather spend your time really understanding what it is that you really enjoy doing, what makes you happy, what you could do 18 hrs a day and wish you had more time in the day.

Without really understanding and defining what what you truly love and what makes you truly happy, everything seems kinda interesting in the moment and you have no real framework to guide your decisions, your thoughts and to really help you effectively determine if that's the thing you could do 18 hrs a day, loving every second of it... or not.

Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 20515848)

My advice would be to not "look for that thing" but to rather spend your time really understanding what it is that you really enjoy doing, what makes you happy, what you could do 18 hrs a day and wish you had more time in the day.

Without really understanding and defining what what you truly love and what makes you truly happy, everything seems kinda interesting in the moment and you have no real framework to guide your decisions, your thoughts and to really help you effectively determine if that's the thing you could do 18 hrs a day, loving every second of it... or not.

Originally Posted by $5 submissions (Post 20515741)

Look into building your KINDLE EMPIRE

Seriously.

Work once. Earn money many times over.

No fulfillment issues. No payment processing drama.

Find a niche. Outsource it to ME and you're GOOD TO GO.

If anyone's interested in CHEAP but HIGH QUALITY Kindle books, shoot an email to info AT webmasterlabor DOT com I'll hook you up RIGHT!

Originally Posted by arock10 (Post 20515870)

Giving a fuck

Hate the repetitive grind of Internet work. Especially cause I know the game will change somewhere between six months and a few years

Originally Posted by Alice22 (Post 20515882)

Ehhh
Most writers of short stories lost 75-90% of there income from this month.
(after amazon decided to cut the borrows and pay per page read).
So, it's not going to be this way anymore.

Originally Posted by Alice22 (Post 20515883)

What do you mean by "game will change" ? what direction?

Originally Posted by L-Pink (Post 20515885)

See your own post above. :)

Everything changes. And changes quickly.

.

Originally Posted by Alice22 (Post 20515891)

hehe, well, maybe something specific that i don't know...

Originally Posted by lock (Post 20515884)

finding time seems i need much more of it.

Originally Posted by sojproductions (Post 20515955)

Traffic from affiliates, we used to have stacks of good affiliates, most are on auto pilot nowadays and new affiliates dont seem to be interested in our main niche even though it still sells well :/

Originally Posted by sonofsam (Post 20515679)

I'm the exact same way, and that stuff makes me feel overwhelmed and like there are always 300 things I don't want to do, but have to be done, which makes me lose drive

What works for that is bringing someone on you can delegate that stuff to, do you can focus on the stuff you're good at an actually enjoy. Makes the whole process more fun :2 cents:

Originally Posted by sonofsam (Post 20515850)

Start a business doing something you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life... or something along those lines.



Shap: Do you still have your lambo?

Originally Posted by Bladewire (Post 20515720)

Right now my biggest business struggle is trusting others in business.

Over the last 15 years I've given ideas to people I've personally worked with in the industry (not so much online) and things worked out great for them. A good few years of income, both of the really successful ones kind of puddled out slowly over time, as a lot of things do. I have a few close people I've known for years that I trust.

But what I've been focussed in on like a laser the last last month now, none of them can help with as it's a small programming glitch in a software solution for adult. I've put 2 things together that nobody has thought of, and a little bit of code is getting in the way of them working perfectly together, creating the final solution. Fully open source license, all clear. The bit of code I need made, or will create myself, will not be open source.

I'm afraid that if I get a freelancer they will put 2 & 2 together and run with it. My biggest struggle right now is trusting others.

The second struggle I'm seeing ahead, is implementing it in such a way that it gains traction before being copied by others that clearly don't have the best interest of our industry / community at heart. I'm not that guy that has those connections. While it will make a ton of money and turn things around for many people, and I have the enthusiastic support of my biller (NDA), I want it to go right and fly into what it's meant to be, not being stifled by my lack of connections.

Aside from that life is great and Happy 4th of July everybody !! :-D

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl (Post 20515986)

Have in mind, offline is online's biggest enemy.

Don't let Your biz, which is an online reality, grow with huge offline ballast on the sides.

Spend time and money on Your online reality, get rid of offline heavy ballasts.

Cut off as much as You can from offline which surrounded Your online.

You'll be surprised how much offline shit is around Your biz and sucks on it like vampire.

Then You will be healthy again. ;-)

http://3wasonnet.com/tour/photos/gfy...andstripes.jpg

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl (Post 20515986)

Have in mind, offline is online's biggest enemy.

Don't let Your biz, which is an online reality, grow with huge offline ballast on the sides.

Spend time and money on Your online reality, get rid of offline heavy ballasts.

Cut off as much as You can from offline which surrounded Your online.

You'll be surprised how much offline shit is around Your biz and sucks on it like vampire.

Then You will be healthy again. ;-)

http://3wasonnet.com/tour/photos/gfy...andstripes.jpg

Originally Posted by Feng-PD (Post 20515993)

Getting bought traffic to convert. Tried loads of shit without any success.

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl (Post 20515986)

Have in mind, offline is online's biggest enemy.

Don't let Your biz, which is an online reality, grow with huge offline ballast on the sides.

Spend time and money on Your online reality, get rid of offline heavy ballasts.

Cut off as much as You can from offline which surrounded Your online.

You'll be surprised how much offline shit is around Your biz and sucks on it like vampire.

Then You will be healthy again. ;-)

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl (Post 20516006)

Originally Posted by Freedom6995 (Post 20516020)

Writing a killer cold call email for a mainstream venture.

Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 20516001)

Getting people to answer their mails.

Originally Posted by TwinCities (Post 20516023)

This is a big problem. It shows the unwillingness people have in this industry to truly want to get anything done. In my mind, managing e-mail is a life skill, and many here just don't have it. I respond to every email that needs or should have a response even if its just a "not a good fit right now."

Originally Posted by Shap (Post 20516022)

To get clients or investors? Is cold call approach a smart approach?

Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 20516001)

Getting people to answer their mails.

Originally Posted by sojproductions (Post 20515955)

Traffic from affiliates, we used to have stacks of good affiliates, most are on auto pilot nowadays and new affiliates dont seem to be interested in our main niche even though it still sells well :/

Originally Posted by femdomdestiny (Post 20516032)

Change the format of affiliate newsletter. Put pics in it, we don't have a time to copy paste every link to see is it good for next update. Also, add descriptions of every gallery (few sentences) so we can copy-paste (with some text changes).

Simply, see how cashkaboom is doing.

Originally Posted by mineistaken (Post 20516029)

:2 cents:
This is amazing. So many businesses do not reply to emails. Losing deals left and right.
If you are my employee and you do not reply to emails - you are fired.
Leaving money on the table like that...

Originally Posted by Shap (Post 20515962)

At the same time I was relieved to not have to carry the stress of an office full of people that rely on me in so many ways. It was a stress that I wasn't comfortable with at that time.

Originally Posted by Barefootsies (Post 20516043)

That right there is a HUGE responsibility, and I also am glad to be out from under it. A few years back I had 5 part timers, 2 full times, a handful of programmers and designers working on all of my projects. Between servers + programming + payroll I was carrying a lot of responsibility and monthly expense. It was very very stressful having these people livelihood in your hands.

In the past 18+ months, I have had a lot of change and people close to me or that I have known through the years pass away. It has given me a lot of perspective considering I will be 43 this year on how I would like to spend the last 1/3rd of my life.

I have cut almost all staff, server expenses by 90%, and scaled back and back and back to the point that through automation I can still attempt to live a decent lifestyle without that huge monthly recurring nut you have to carry on your shoulders. I am honestly very relived.

What I had thought I wanted a couple of years ago, is not really what I want now. I would much rather invest in life experience (weekend trips, vacations, traveling) and free time with a comfortable life and my friends versus working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, trying to be the next (fill in the blank). I am much happier now.

:pimp