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Jun 14
If the only way people say yes to your offer is when the price is at rock bottom, you're playing the wrong game.
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I'd rather be a failure than a coward.
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May 19
You built a shop with no door.
People are standing outside looking through the window admiring what’s inside and they literally cannot get in.
And you’re inside wondering why nobody is buying.
May 19
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Telling someone to buy or patronise or is not native to the platform.
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May 19
Always have CTA
Use native CTAs like:
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Telling someone to buy or patronise or is not native to the platform.
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May 10
Twelve hours. Calendar full. Tasks done. Messages answered. And the business is in the exact same place it was yesterday morning.
Nothing grew. Nothing changed. Nothing permanently improved.
You didn't work. You survived another day and called it progress.
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May 10
What a $5K client actually costs you:
Sales call: 1 hour.
Proposal: 2 hours.
Follow-up: 30 minutes.
Onboarding: 3 hours.
Delivery: 40 hours.
Revisions: 8 hours.
Scope creep: 6 hours.
Project management: 5 hours.
Total: 65.5 hours.
$5,000 ÷ 65.5 = $76/hour.
Still feel premium?
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May 10
Your business has a vision statement, a mission statement, a values page, and a brand book. Your customer still can't explain what you do in one sentence. Maybe spend less time on the manifesto and more time on the message.
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May 10
You keep telling yourself "once I get past this busy period things will calm down." You said that last quarter. And the quarter before. It never calms down because the business is designed to be chaotic.
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May 10
Stop buying solutions for problems you haven't defined. Define the problem on paper first. Then decide if you even need software. You probably don't.
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May 9
Your team doesn't respect your deadlines because you don't respect your own. You move timelines weekly. Change direction based on mood. Then expect them to take the plan seriously. They're following your lead. And your lead is chaos.
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May 9
Scaling is not doing more. Scaling is doing the same thing with less of you involved each time. If growth requires more of your time, you're not scaling. You're just working harder with better numbers.
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May 9
You wouldn't let a surgeon operate without a checklist. You wouldn't let a pilot fly without protocols. But the conversation that literally determines whether your business makes money this month? The sales call? You walk in with vibes and hope. And then you're surprised when the outcomes are random.
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May 9
Every founder has one task they've been avoiding for weeks. It sits at the bottom of every to-do list. Gets moved to "tomorrow" every morning.
That task is almost always the most important thing on the list. Not because it's urgent. Because the resistance around it is telling you something. The things we avoid hardest are usually the things that would change the most.
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May 9
Everyone who works for you gets paid on time. The team. The tools. The subscriptions. The contractors. Then you open the account, look at whatever's left, and say "I guess this is mine." That's not a salary. That's scraps. And nobody builds a stable life on scraps while pretending it's entrepreneurship.
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May 8
"I don't have time" means "I haven't decided this matters enough to make time for it." Everything in your calendar right now is something you chose over this. That's fine. But call it a choice, not a constraint. Constraints are real. Priorities are decisions.
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May 8
"I want to build a team so I can focus on strategy." You don't need a team for that. You need two hours of uninterrupted thinking time per week. Most founders don't need more people. They need more silence.
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May 8
You post every day. Some posts do well, some don't. But you have no idea which ones actually bring in money. So you keep repeating what gets likes instead of what gets buyers. And the gap between those two things gets wider every month while you keep optimizing for the wrong metric.
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