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First you sell the stuff you mine from the ground, then you sell shovels to the miners, then you hire the miners and make them dig stuff out of the ground for you that you sell. The final stage is selling miners to other mining companies.
The final stage is selling stuff that helps people sell miners to other mining companies.
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What type of products do you create?
3D printing accessories like liquid print heads, laser cutters, and continuous production thing that I call a "broom". Android based robotic rovers (we were the first to do one at google i/o 2010, I should do a writeup on how that went). Industrial control systems.
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I think comments like this are OT and misplaced. It adds nothing to our discussion here and assumes that the author will read all of the comments here (though I did note that in this case the author has submitted the post himself). This is direct correspondence to the author, so send him a message.
I think everyone else agreed with you, just found it a bit distracting when reading the article and I rarely comment on grammar or spelling, the post was fresh when I made the comment and the post was made by the blog author. I made an assumption he'd be monitoring the thread and made a friendly note here, or so I thought.
I'm not sure I'd regard making 100's of thousands of dollars complete failure. Now, it's obvious that he made money in ways that aren't overly useful to society, and promoted products that were less than stellar in spammy ways, but just having the goal of "Making Money Online" I'd consider that money to be pretty dang successful. The fact that he blew it all after the fact just makes him bad with money. It doesn't me…
Yes, I'd call that successful too. The expectations were too high, tough. I'm not sure why people are focusing so much on the fact that the money was obtained, but nothing useful was created. How different is it from, say, high frequency trading?
This is why I don't think in terms of money buying happiness... it clearly doesn't... but it can rent it for a while.
It buys me happiness. I don't want to work for anyone besides myself and I now make enough money to do just this.
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3D printing accessories like liquid print heads, laser cutters, and continuous production thing that I call a "broom". Android based robotic rovers (we were the first to do one at google i/o 2010, I should do a writeup on how that went). Industrial control systems.
Thats really cool. How are people (the few that do) currently buying your products? How do they find out about them?
I read this earlier in the day, and I've been thinking about it a lot since. In many ways, my story mirrors the one in the blog post. However, I've been fortunate enough to make my living at it. I too started by encountering a lot of "internet marketing" gurus. I was lucky enough to find one idea that let me make a fair amount of money, relatively easily. Back in the day, Google SEO was shockingly easy. Looking back,…
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What's funny? You can't talk about your business?
Why would I want to give anyone even a hint of my profitable niche? Many believe that ideas are worthless, but I don't. Especially on a business/startup forum. I really don't want the competition.
I have this idea to use technology and excellent customer service to be a sort of agent in the skilled labor market (painting, landscaping, masonry, etc). My wife is fluent in Spanish and English and I am good with web technologies. I though we could build relationships with some of the lower cost skilled labor providers in our area. They are on craigslist or we know them in other ways. Unfortunately, their English a…
In the latter you will be competing with the labour guys for clients using local SEO and ads. In the former you won't rely as much on search engines as the pool of customers is limited to the business owners - more relationship building and outreach.
I've never found useful stuff on a public marketing forum - the good ones are probably unknown and selective entry only. Try reading some of the blogs linked here by other commenters. Hopefully their discerning tastes will filter out the bs :P