northern_mantis wrote:Thanks, that’s really interesting. When you actually do the maths on selling products you do need to be incredibly successful to make a living. One of my current colleagues runs a crafts business on the side and makes incredibly beautiful things but her prices just get driven down to the point she’s losing hope.
Congrats on making it yourself, that’s awesome. Definitely with you in terms of not giving up, as long as I’m not borrowing money I can keep trying stuff without really failing as such.
everything wrote:(Bao, do you have any data issues with the marketing?)
yeniseri wrote:Very hard but only certain special people can navigate the highs and lows of a business cycle. Add one's significant other and children and a whole nutha' dimension will present itself.
When I was younger and unmarried, I was making money during the summer months playing in a band and that 4-5 months was enough to last the rest of the year then I had a part time job to supplement the income. Then when you have a girlfriend/wife and stuff happens then you need to get a permanent fixed abode then the crap begins One has just added at least 20K to the mix and that does not comes out of one's arse
CMA in reality was never meant to be an income generator but I can see how some people market their art to attempt to grab onto a modern audience that will generate a living above an beyond their wildest dreams. I can see it with TKD/Karate because there are levels of grading that implied a certain skill set to reach that epitome of skill, expertise and knowledge. CMA, as presently presented to a greater audience, does not have that graded base of knowledge to compete especially with terms lacking in present day understanding of skill. Just me!
Being of a wild nature unencombered by societal bullcrap is a great tool in surpassing norms that are really made to tame the multitude.
Patrick wrote:Yes, corporate work is one of the most evil things concived coated with sugar, because it makes buying Ipads and fancy things possible.
I tried to get out of it multiple times now with modest success. Reason even demanded that my wife and me had to leave our dream location in the country side to get some "good paying" jobs in a profession we really do not want in the city. But we made a deal to make some money for a few years and try moving there again. So I wish you good luck in your endeavours!
yeniseri wrote:Very hard but only certain special people can navigate the highs and lows of a business cycle. Add one's significant other and children and a whole nutha' dimension will present itself.
Bao wrote:everything wrote:(Bao, do you have any data issues with the marketing?)
What do you mean? Why? No problems here.
...Though I have been thinking about looking for someone good on making analysis software... A future project though...
everything wrote:Bao wrote:everything wrote:(Bao, do you have any data issues with the marketing?)
What do you mean? Why? No problems here.
...Though I have been thinking about looking for someone good on making analysis software... A future project though...
well basically when you do the marketing, how effective is the measurement of the efforts/conversions/results? you might use google analytics, crm, etc., but are all the data challenges well addressed? why do you want to make analysis software? presumably to solve some unmet challenges?
5. YOU HAVE EVERY ADVANTAGE TO SUCCEED
It’s easy to talk about how hard our lives are. It’s easy to talk about how unfair life is. And that we got the short-end of the stick.
But does this kind of talking really help anyone?
When we judge our situation as worse than someone else’s, we are ignorantly and incorrectly saying, “You’ve got it easy. You’re not like me. Success should come easy to you because you haven’t had to deal with what I’ve gone through.”
This paradigm has formally become known as the victim mentality, and it generally leads to feelings of entitlement.
The world owes you nothing. Life isn’t meant to be fair. However, the world has also given you everything you need. The truth is, you have every advantage in the world to succeed. And by believing this in your bones, you’ll feel an enormous weight of responsibility to yourself and the world.
You’ve been put in a perfect position to succeed. Everything in the universe has brought you to this point so you can now shine and change the world. The world is your oyster. Your natural state is to thrive. All you have to do is show up.
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