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Hi all,

I have the entrepreneurial itch and have had such for numerous years. I tired my hand at various businesses; physical products on Amazonfba, affiliate marketing, podcasting, newsletters and so on.

I always find my unmotivated to continue after some time. But I am unsure why, I start with excitement, which is short lived, the topics are no longer interesting causing me to slow down, stop and quit. Could this be the main reason? I find i am very much someone who likes to learn something as its exciting I enjoy creating but after that initial phase, I tend to get bored or unmotivated.

My question is, has this happened to you and if so did you ever figure out why?

Also, how did you reinforce good habits?

Did you come across a resource that changed your perspective? If so can you share?

This isnt easy for me so I thought id reach out.

Thanks!

Being successful is often led by failure. But failure can teach us things we can leverage to reach success in the future. I found failure is not spoken about or we shy away from it. But I strongly believe failure is part of the learning process we each must experience in order to propel forward. Here are some things I found helpful when I experienced failure.

1. Write the reasons you failed

2. Acknowledge Mistakes

3. Learn from your mistakes

4. Be Consistent

5. Don't lose confidence

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill

What ways have you failed, and what lessons did you learn from the experience?

Is there anything else you would add to the points above?

I wanted to share this post with the world to vent a little bit. I have tried my hand in various things, and all my startups have failed.

What do I consider failure, failed to gain any interest, failure to provide monetary compensation, failure to work on something I enjoy doing, failure in creating my own preferred lifestyle.

But why? Why do some gain massive followers and others hardly get anything? Is it truly the efforts put into the product. For this post lets define product as SaaS, e-commerce, productized product.

Does success hinge on research prior too committing to a product, niche, or service? Is that the way to success? Does it hinge on selling something that the end user truly needs and desires? Is that the secret formula?

My experiences: Amazon FBA - Failed after using tools 'jungle scout'. Investing into PPC and lost money. Lesson learned, you need to be unique in what you sell, have a better spin on it, and be sure to target high margins. Result -$$$

E-com / Drop shipping * 3 - Search google trends, keywords, confirmed good search results, setup the landing page ran ads inside various platforms. Result -$

SaaS apps - failed - Shipped w/o speaking to potential customers along the way. Result -$$

Newsletter failed - not much attraction = not many subs.

All this failure is suppose to teach me something. It's suppose to propel me into the next phase but it has not.

It did cement failure sucks, it's hard to make things that people actually want and i'm not even talking about paid products. As the example, newsletter a free thing was also a dried up pond.

My question is now what? I am tired of failing but I am not tired of trying. I will make this work one way or another. The question is HOW? How would you approach things if you were in my shoes?

I hope this honest submission of my thoughts can create meaningful discussion. Share your experiences, thoughts, emotions. How did you fail, Did you overcome it?

Hi all, since my love for drawing has been rekindled, I'm constantly posting my drawings but also looking for feedback. So much so, I've scratched my own itch and build a little website that can do just that. It's extremely barebones but id love for anyone to check it out and let me know what you think of it. If your interested you can visit: http://votemydrawing.bubbleapps.io/

Let me know what you think

Hi all, I have been offering people a Gumroad product breakdown where I analyze their copy and provide comments what I think is working well and what can be improved to help communicate clear messaging and improve leads.

Here is a links to some of the breakdowns:

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/john-harrison-10x-your-writing-page-breakdown-11d556e62c

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/andrew-kamphey-gumroad-page-2b1c107073

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/philip-kiely-gumroad-page-breakdown-cf60c60bb1

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/david-vassallos-gumroad-page-breakdown-26009b170e

If you would like a similar breakdown you can visit https://gum.co/cAQuH for more info.

Be well and stay safe.

Hey everyone,

My personality type i'm interested in 1,000 topics any given time. As such, I really enjoy reading shorter style newsletters or articles.

Short Sample

Dopamine Hits A short & sweet email newsletter focusing on interesting stuff on the internet

Business Why Does Walmart Want TikTok?

https://www.nytimes.com/by/raymond-zhong)

With the US specifically President Donald Trump potentially banning the hot social media app TikTok, Walmart has teamed up with Microsoft to try and purchase it. That would be an interesting acquisition which would help boost sales and promote specific items to the younger TikTok audience

That version of the app, Douyin, which works much like TikTok but is available only in China, has become not only a platform for goofy videos but also an e-commerce destination with the kind of reach among young buyers that Walmart would love to have.

Technology How is GPT-3 Being Used?

https://www.paolotrulli.com/articles/why-all-the-gpt-3-hype

GPT-3 is an AI software program, developed by the company OpenAi which is backed by Elon Musk. Essentially, the program scours the internet reading, learning, and interpreting human behavior. It continually seeks information improving itself over time. Popular use cases are, having GPT-3 write articles, or social media posts (without detecting it) even tweaking it to build websites via HTML & CSS. Another example of Pieter Levels using GPT-3 to post various startup ideas where users can upvote or downvote the idea.

Please upvote ideas that you feel are promising and downvote ideas that are bad, too vague, too obvious, or already exist. Ideas and their rating are fed back into GPT-3, so you (and others) constantly train the model what good and bad ideas are which improves the next ideas it comes up with! At least, that's the idea (aye!).

What do you think?

You can check it out here if interested https://www.paolotrulli.com/newsletter

For anyone in the human resource felid, what are metrics that are important to you when thinking of organizational culture change?

I am looking to gather any information that you think is important to include, for instance, employee mood, etc.

Over 10 years ago I signed up for the capital one aspire travel point card. Perks were the following: 10,000 points upon signing (equal $100) 10,000 on the anniversary date. 2 miles per dollar spent. No expiry, you can book with any airline and you can travel anytime.

This past week I received a letter, dear Mr x we are changing your capital one aspire travel policy. Now there is no longer a 10,000 point anniversary. And now it's 1.5 airmiles per dollar. Everything else stays the same. For the card itself it's a 150 yearly charge.

All this means is I'm looking at other air travel cards and companies comparing options. What air mile card do you use? And why?