6 Things About Business I Wish I Knew When I Was 18

Donkey In The Desert

So there’s this donkey in the desert.

To its right is a bowl of water and its left; a bucket of delicious food.

It starves to death. Why you might ask?

The donkey is too stupid to realise it can first drink the water and then eat the food. Instead it keeps turning from one to the other, moving backwards and forwards until it eventually dies of starvation.

This post is about not being a donkey. Realising you have all the time in the world to achieve what you want, if you just focus on one thing at a time and play the game intelligently.

So over the course of the next 3000-4000 words I’m going to share some of the key things I believe are important if you want to succeed as an Internet entrepreneur.

Some of these ideas I have discussed before, so I’m going to try to focus on the things I wish I knew earlier on.

If I had only followed these rules at an earlier age I would have become a multi-millionaire many years ago.

But shit, time passes and you get over your silly mistakes. Sometimes you just have to go out and make your own mistakes. You can read all the articles in the world, pay for all the advice you can afford; but nothing teaches like experience.

The trick is learning from your mistakes and staying in motion.

So if you follow any of this advice, I can’t promise you won’t fuck up anyway; but here it is. I hope you enjoy it.

Contents

#1: Pick One Big Thing And Plant Your Flags

When you’re getting started you tend to have this wild monkey brain that constantly jumps from one idea to the next. It’s a very immature way of thinking and it’s a natural process for everyone to go through.

It seems like a good idea at the time; but almost always is what’s holding you back. I mean shit, I discovered Internet Marketing when I was fucking twelve years old. I should have built a $100 million dollar company by age 23.

The problem was I could just not stay consistent with ANYTHING.

The list of businesses I have tried online is ridiculous. I have friends who joke with me that “Jamie knows everything” when it comes to online marketing. To name a few…

  • Running About 10 Different Personal Blogs Like This That I Quit On
  • Growing Social Media Accounts To Sell Them
  • Google Adsense SEO Websites
  • Building Authority Blogs With Many Writers
  • Multi-Level Marketing – DOZENS Of Them Pretending To Be My Dad To Recruit People On Skype
  • Affiliate Marketing Clickbank
  • JVZOO Product Launches
  • WordPress Plugins Software Development
  • Professional Copywriter
  • Lead Generation Websites For Local Businesses
  • List Building And Selling Solo Ads
  • Property Investment Blog And Brand
  • Writing Books
  • Owning A Pick Up Artist/Dating Brand
  • Ghost Writing
  • WebBrandMedia – Internet Marketing Agency Selling Services
  • SEO For Dentists Agency + Cold Calling
  • Paid Sales Calls For Others
  • Amazon Review Sites
  • Amazon FBA Selling Pet Products
  • Consulting
  • Sales Funnel Agency Building Funnels For Others

If I had just stayed consistent with one thing like posting to a blog. Even if I had posted once every blue moon I would have had a successful high-traffic blog by now.

Now believe it or not, this list goes on.

All of these things have one thing in common.

I quit on them after a few months or weeks.

It’s not even that they didn’t make any money. With many of them I made money.

Not a fortune, but it was showing signs of success. Instead of really focusing in and figuring out how to make these businesses work at a higher level I just quit and moved on to the next thing.

This was a vicious cycle that took years from my life. At one point I had this agency selling paid advertising services to marketers and I went from $0 to $10,000 in sales in a week.

I setup the system. Ran some ads to it and my friend closed the clients. I think we stopped because we got tired of dealing with the delivery and communication with clients.

We were like “yeah info products, let’s sell info products instead”. It was the only thing making cash and we simply threw in the towel. Most retarded thing ever.

Try not to do this.

I know it’s tempting when you have all these shit-heads online who mail a different offer to their list every week. The truth is these people are fucking shameless. All they care about is maximizing their “earnings per subscriber” by mailing more and more different products out.

One month you hear dropshipping is all the rage, the next you hear “its saturated” and Amazon is where all the money is being made. Or you need to start an agency.

All of these things work. You have time to do multiple things. But only when you focus on one at a time. Once one is up and running, you have time to focus on building something new. Building and growing are two very different stages of business.

Be deaf to the gurus who tell you to do something new. They do not shit gold and glow in the dark. They are regular folks in the business of taking as much money from you as possible.

Focus man, focus.

Find one thing you like the idea of. One thing that you know works and other people are already making substantial amounts of money with.

If you want to make a million dollars, you’ll need to sell something. You can make money doing things like blogging or posting Youtube videos and monetising via advertising.

But the best way, the fastest way is through selling. A service or physical or digital product. I have discussed this many times before.

A million dollars can be broken down by:

  • Make 1000 sales at $1000 per sale.
  • Make 10,000 sales at $100 per sale.
  • Make 20,000 sales at $50 per sale.
  • Make 100,000 sales at $10 per sale.

If you’re selling a service or monthly subscription this could be as simple as 5000 people who pay you $20 per month. $100,000.00 is just 500 people who pay you $200 per year or less than $20 a month.

When you break it down the numbers of achieving what you want appear as they are; doable.

I have one business right now where my average customer spends $100 USD. So to make $5 million dollars which is the goal I need 5000 sales which comes down to like 160 sales per day. We’re already at 50+ so this is not too far off from where we need to be.

Was just the right product with the right branding and marketing behind it combined with good social media marketing. FB ads and Google Adwords.

Once you figure out your metrics and know what to focus on it’s time to plant some flags.

Planting your flags is choosing specifically what will enable you to achieve your goal and committing.

For example I am all in on ecommerce and building brands that I can sell for $100 million dollars.

The opportunity is there. I’m still not exactly sure how it will happen. But I know if I crack 1-3 huge ecommerce brands in mass appeal markets I can do it. If I fall short and only hit $20 million so be it.

I planted my flags by deciding on two industries: health and fashion.

I picked a cool name for a health brand for example and said; fuck it whatever happens we are gonna make cool products with this and create a known brand. I will try one idea for a while and know when to change it if I can’t make it work; but the brand will remain the same.

This is what I mean by “planting your flag”. No matter what, I am sticking to my idea until I figure out a way to make it happen.

Pick what you want to do, then plant your flags.

Maybe its registering your first dropshipping store and deciding; no matter what you will figure out how to make $10,000 per month with it.

Or perhaps its registering a brand name or agency domain. Maybe you already have your flag planted.

Decide no matter what you will make it happen and your focus will not sway.

#2. Trust Nobody And Be Careful Who You Invest Time With

If you asked me two years ago what I thought about people; I would have told you that I loved everyone and am always open with people.

Now, my opinion is ‘fuck em’.

My generosity with people only ended with me being fucked over and treated like shit by people I considered close friends. As well as wasting tons of energy with projects that were stolen from me or fell apart.

Choose your friends very wisely.

Do not share everything you are doing with them when it comes to money or business.

Be very careful with sharing your ideas. I am an ideas guy. I can look at any business in the world, any challenge and instantly come up with five different ways to solve it.

So I’ve learned to protect my ideas because I discovered people would steal them behind my back.

Another note on friends is that money can change them. When I cracked ecommerce I developed this magical ability to bless anyone with financial results.

If I had one product campaign making money, I could duplicate it ten times. I could simply tell someone to setup a Shopify account and “run this product with these settings” and they would start making thousands of dollars per day.

If they asked me what products I was selling or how I was doing something I simply told them.

Later I realised this was a very stupid idea. When people immediately start making lots of money they don’t realise that it’s not normal at all.

Many of them grew huge egos thinking they were the geniuses behind their success. Even after literally having people in my house copying and pasting my stuff. They later turned into douchebags.

Little did they know at the time their time would soon be over and they’d be struggling to make a buck while I use my 10 years of experience and genius to keep crushing.

So the lesson is… be open with people; but do not give them everything. Do not give away your best campaigns. Do not share your unique ideas or work with them. Never share websites or brands.

If you do, be okay with the idea that they may swipe them.

You cannot trust anyone. Keep your ideas to yourself and focus on them. People will do shady shit and look out for themselves. If you leave someone in a room full of money, it’s a matter of time before they take some.

Just talking about an idea multiple times with someone, I’ve had them miraculously decide to start the same business idea many times.

Now… I do not surround myself with unoriginal people. Some people are capable of original creative thought, others can only copy or imitate things they see. This is like a sociopath or psychopath.

If you notice someone seems unoriginal or fake, or is constantly trying to act a certain way or “imitate” behaviours or feelings – avoid them like the plague.

Choose your friends wisely. Do not start helping everyone around you make money when you figure out how. Nor should you try to change your friends or family into your way of thinking. It’s all pointless.

Be even more careful with partnerships. I have had multiple partners fuck me right in the face and jizz on my back when I was not looking because I was in a position where they could. Shouldn’t they have been loyal and grateful for what I did for them?

Yes. But doesn’t change the fact that people or friends will screw you over if they think they can. Not everyone is like this. In fact I’d say most people are good people. But; you don’t know you’re going to be fucked until after it happens.

So don’t put yourself in those situations. Keep CONTROL of your business projects and only partner with family.

#3. Pay Attention To Detail Before Shit Blows Up In Your Face

Being a stupid kid one thing I would never do is pay attention to any kind of detail.

I wasn’t interested.

If something didn’t directly make money or do something that is interesting to me I would ignore it.

Bills to pay? Do it tomorrow.

Flight to book? Do it at the airport.

Little details are what keep a business running.

When I was started earning real money for the first time I was extremely bad at paying attention to these details.

Things like customer service, ad costs, expenses, fulfilment and finances.

You need to stay on top of these things. If you don’t stay on top of your customer service, your suppliers, order fulfilment and your staff; shit will blow up in your face.

I had merchant accounts freeze huge sums of money because I did not respond to some chargebacks or even notice I was getting any.

These challenges could have easily been avoided by paying attention to detail or having someone who does.

Now I have someone who checks these things for me. I have someone who checks over everything. From what we are paying per order to double checking suppliers have inventory.

Check your details. In ecommerce this is very simple.

Check your merchant accounts, respond to disputes or chargebacks and get to the bottom of them. Refund high risk orders as they are usually fraud that result in chargebacks.

Have great customer service and you will save tons of money in disputes and refunds. Finally, learn to deal with money. Have a good banking system, double check your profits.

For the longest time I thought I was making way more money than I actually was. I simply checked my dashboard and had a rough estimate of what I was making.

When I finally checked my accounts I thought what the fuck is going on and someone must be stealing. Those business class flights and expensive shoes were not such a good idea after all.

The devil is in the detail, as they say.

If you’re using Shopify and doing ecommerce; install Order Metrics and monitor it multiple times a day. It’s on the app store and you’ll find it.

Order Metrics App

This shows you how much you are spending on ads, your fulfilment costs and net profits. It also allows you to integrate other expenses as well as transaction fees. If you’re paying 4% in fees that’s $40,000.00 on $1 million revenue that you were not even thinking about. Money I used to think was in my bank account but was not.

Remember it’s not about how much money you are making. It’s about what you keep. This all comes down to detail.

Do not go and blow the money as soon as you start making it. Another thing I noticed about people who grew huge ego’s when making money for the first time was they spent it all.

They thought it would keep coming in and when the money slowed they didn’t have enough to support their lifestyle. Do not buy a nice car. Do not blow money on fancy trips and depreciable assets.

Save money. Check your profits. Buy things that keep value or make you happy. I like to spend money on nice apartments as it’s where I spend 90% of my time and on eating out. That’s it. Save as much as possible.

There are summers and winters.

You can have a summer of abundance or be in one right now; but it will not last. Winter is always coming. So you better be prepared and have savings to get through it.

#4. Short Term V.S. Long Term Thinking

This goes into what we were talking about before with focus.

But let me expand on this idea a little.

When I was younger everything I did had a theme of being fast and easy.

I was looking for the secret. The one thing that would make me lots of money quick.

Even if it was $100 per day, it had to happen virtually overnight or I moved on. If instead I had just focused on that one blog or that one business model for a longer period of time I would have made a heck of a lot more money than I was even trying to.

So stop thinking so short term and instead focus on what you can do in six to twelve months. You should be doing something that makes cash in the next thirty to ninety days.

But your grand goal is probably going to require at least six to twelve months in one direction if not more.

HUGE IDEA: ask yourself what is 1 thing or 1 activity you can do every day that will create results 1-2 years from now?

It could be writing an article on your ecommerce store or making a video for your Youtube channel. It could be replying to potential clients or customer questions on social media.

Baby steps compound into big results. What is that activity for you?

When you’re constantly focused on what is fast and easy; you’re also competing with all the other fools.

Everything that is fast and easy usually only works for a short amount of time as too many people start doing it. On the other end of the spectrum you have what is really hard and takes a long period of time.

99% of people are not thinking like this so the competition is much lower. Companies like Amazon and Apple are thinking like this. They spend five years working on a project before they see the pay-off.

That’s because they know the longer and harder something is; the more lucrative it will be. James Cameron I believe was working on Avatar over a decade before the technology to make it happen was even available.

So when the timing was right, he could make it happen before anyone else generating hundreds of millions of dollars.

Publishing blog posts right now seems like a complete waste of my time and energy.

Thing is blogging compounds over time. As I put out more content, I will generate more backlinks, search engine rankings, traffic and sales. There is an exponential curve in many things that take a long time to work.

The first ten thousand subscribers of an Instagram or Youtube Channel are the hardest. Then it becomes easier as more people start liking and commenting each new post; sending it higher in the rankings.

The first year of publishing blog content is awful, and then Google starts slowly rewarding your domain with authority and rankings.

Dropshipping is fucking easy.

Setting up a Shopify store, and cloning a product campaign from a competitor is sure as shit simple.

But everyone knows that now so everyone is doing it. So it’s slowly becoming less profitable. Still a great starting point though.

You know what’s not easy? Building a proper brand. Developing a custom product. I am in the middle of this on a new project right now. Not only do I need special merchant accounts and a new company setup that involves me flying to another country; I have to work with content creators and expensive designers to make it happen.

Good things take time and money. So the competition is lower and the potential profits usually higher.

Focus on the hard stuff that is hard to replicate. The harder your business is to swipe the longer it will be around. This is why patents exist. The longer you focus on one thing, the more momentum you will gain.

Momentum is a funny thing.

In the beginning of a new project you have pure enthusiasm as you envision all the big bucks you will be making. As you build the store and get the logo made.

Then… you realize you have nothing but a tiny island in a gigantic ocean with no way for people to even get there.

Maybe you spend $50 on Facebook or Google ads; get 100 visitors and no sales. Crap.

It’s going to be harder than you thought.

Throw in the towel? Naa that would be too pathetic.

Jump to a new idea? Much better.

This insidious cycle will leave you frustrated and poor.

Instead, focus on the small wins and commit to your flag. Research and study how others are finding success and try your own creative ideas. Eventually something will hit.

It’s a VERY different thought process thinking “how do I make $10,000 in the next 30 days” to “how can I realistically make $100,000 in the next 12 months”.

It’s also very different when you think “so I have this health business or this service, and I’ll commit to working at it for three years”. You never know when the big break will happen.

Maybe one of your ads will go viral, a celebrity retweets you or a Kardashian shares your product on Instagram. Of course these things can only happen when you have a product that is good, that works; that you believe in.

Focus on the small wins, but have a long term plan of action. I will write more about this later but there is a very simple action plan for anyone who plans to build a brand.

Whether it be a personal brand, an ecommerce brand or a service.

Here it is:

  • Implement an organic content strategy: put out blog posts/videos/social media posts and use free/paid strategies to promote your content. This could be a blog post and video per day with a few forum posts or Q&A replies. Or it could be heavily engaging with other people on Instagram and posting on your profile three times per day.
  • Implement a paid traffic strategy: focus on Facebook or Google ads; one traffic source that you know works well in your industry or two if available. Test spending money on ads to drive new business. Test ads to your website or product page directly and if that doesn’t work; build sales funnels. Map out a few sales funnels that might work and execute one at a time. Measure results, analyse and tweak again before taking action.

That sums up exactly how to grow an online business of any kind.

Have that “daily thing” you do as an organic strategy that compounds over time. Also have your paid strategy that will probably take a while to crack. Each time losing $50-$200 bucks until one day; you strike the gold.

It’s that simple. As you start getting small wins like making your first few sales (even at a loss) you will gain momentum. This momentum creates energy within you. Use the energy to create more momentum and eventually this snowballs into an obsession which will lead you to the finish line.

#5. Healthy Habits Make A Happy Successful Person

I’ve been testing different morning rituals and personal development systems since I was a young kid.

I would write out my daily habits and morning rituals then never stick to any of them.

This would usually be like; wake up before 8am, meditate, read a book, gratitude, vision, exercise, coffee, shower, listen to an audio, start working.

To be honest that is just way too much shit for one person to stick to. I had a hard enough time sticking to one habit; there was no way in hell I was going to do all that shit for longer than a few days.

With that said, your habits really are everything.

Limiting Beliefs Are Bullshit

Mindset that all these books discuss I think is mostly controlled by your habits. A fat person might attend a seminar thinking they have “limiting beliefs” keeping them fat. But if you simply remove all the junk food from their house they will lose the pounds.

People get so caught up in this personal development shit when the truth is they are just lazy, unfocused and undisciplined.

Now I love Tony Robbins and all those guys, in fact I was obsessed with personal development books, tapes, you name it… for years.

But for some reason none of that stuff ever really changed my life. The only thing that changed my life was taking action on the right tasks every day for a long enough period of time to see results.

It was more through elimination and discipline.

In fact… it was my old mentor and boss who taught me this. I worked as his Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) when I was 19 years old.

When I started, he taught me the meaning of hard work and hustle. He said most of the books and stuff are a waste of time; and you can be a consumer or a producer.

A consumer is someone who buys stuff, and a producer is someone who sells stuff or creates things. He worked all of the time. From the moment he woke up to he moment he went to bed. He loves his books and seminars too; but he taught me what really makes success is massive action.

“Wake up, you’re getting left behind”

“Speed and urgency Jamie”

“How do we make $1 million dollars per month next month?:

I would wake up each day to these comments over and over again living with him for 10 months.

So while reading and meditating are nice daily habits; I developed much more useful ones that actually turned into results. In fact, ever since then I pretty much stopped consuming all books, audios and I stopped going through courses.

I already knew all the shit I needed to know to make money and I had to implement. It was my time to shine and I sure as shit shined producing many millions of dollars worth of sales in a short period of time. For that guy’s business then my own.

The habits?

  • Waking Early. I know that if I am waking up past 12pm I will simply get less shit done that day compared to if I wake up before 12pm. When you wake up late you have less day light hours and so you feel “the day is over” much earlier. You get tired earlier and start being a lazy shit earlier. You also get to bed much later and have worse quality sleep. This is a shit-fuck and you need to stop it. For the first time in my life only in the last one-two years have I woken early. Usually around 8-9:30am. If I am tired I’ll sleep more but try to never wake later than 10.

 

  • Healthy Diet. In the past I have had a bad habit of drinking way too much alcohol and ordering bad food. As a young kid I was obsessed with health. But as soon as I started making money and discovered home delivery I ordered lots of pizza, pasta, wine and other garbage that looked delicious on an iPhone screen. Now I eat a pretty paleo/keto diet. Very low carbohydrate, lots of organic chicken, beef, game and fish. I drink coffee in the morning first thing with MCT oil to add some calories and sharpen my mind.

 

  • Planning And Work Cycles – I plan everything I do. I like to think about what I want for each year at the start of the year. I plan out the projects I think can accomplish those goals and then I review them periodically. Every quarter I also do a small review. But for the most part; I simply use a spreadsheet to plot out my daily tasks into thirty minute work cycles with ten minute breaks in between.

 

  • Chill Time But Constant Focus On Business – One thing you’ll notice about high performers is they are constantly thinking about business. Constantly thinking about their projects and their goals. It’s all they really talk about. I like to have my chill time. When I am done for the day after I finish tasks or simply don’t want to work I stop. I lounge around my house, play video games, watch movies, or go hang out with my friends. Perhaps have a girl over. But most of the time I am still thinking about business. It is what it is and I’ve noticed it is a trait of every successful person.

To conclude the habits I don’t think you have to read daily, meditate daily and stare at your fucking vision board daily to make shit happen. Simply wake up at a decent time, eat well for good energy levels, plan your day and execute without distraction. A little sunlight and exercise can do wonders as well.

Have some speed and urgency as if you don’t strike while the iron is hot the summer will pass and you’ll get left behind.

If I had only gone to bed earlier, quit drinking and worked with a lot more focus earlier I could have gotten 10 times more done by now. It’s very simple. If you’re waking up earlier and not getting tipsy on red wine by 7pm you will spend more hours behind your laptop getting shit done.

Simple. Do not need to read a 100 page book called the Miracle Morning to figure this out.

I believe in elimination. I think it’s better to simply remove stuff than add. It’s easier. Instead of making the fattie go to the gym, remove the foods from their diet that is making them fat.

It’s okay if you don’t stick to new habits right away. Try to choose one at a time. Personally it took me reaching rock-bottom with many things before I made a decision to stop drinking daily and to go to bed earlier. These two have been total game changers for my business.

Oh… and sure still try to fill your mind with good stuff like books, audios, podcasts etc. In the beginning it is important to condition your mind and develop your mindset. Once you have the mindset of a killer, it’s more about being deaf to others and having laser focus.

#6. Figure out What You Really Want And Just Go For It

For the longest time I didn’t really have any concrete reason or vision behind what I was doing. I just wanted to “make money”.

Now it’s very simple.

  • Free myself < done.
  • Free my family < working on it.
  • Free others < working on it.

Part of freeing myself is also a work in progress. Not so much freeing but moving towards my ultimate life. For example it took me years of travelling around and working on many projects to realise how I actually want to spend my life.

I invite you to really think about this now.

When I really thought about it. I learned that I did not want to travel. I wanted a place to call home. Somewhere I can have a big social group, a girlfriend and well-balanced life.

It literally took me until this year to really see this clearly and then further explore what that means to me.

I thought about how I want to spend my time and that looked something like this:

  • Wake up every day in a beautiful home with the sun shining. I want to be able to control the room temperature and automatically open my blinds to really create an amazing deep sleep so I can feel rested. Sleep is key.
  • Good Coffee/Diet: I love coffee so I want to be able to make a great cup of coffee or have a maid who is already there making it for me and cooking me breakfast first thing. Definitely have the cook/cleaner.
  • Outside Space: I want to chill place to meditate, read and plan my ideas with a cool view in the sun.
  • Optimal Work Environments: I need a dope home office or co-working space where I can be super productive.
  • Good Friends: lots of good friends around me so I can always go work with a buddy or do something fun in the evening. Friends who are also into the same things I am into.
  • Health/Fitness – I want to be in good shape so going to the gym several times per week is important to me.
  • Nature – I would like to spend a good amount of time each week in nature to ground myself and relax.
  • Fun Things To Do – I’d like to be able to take day trips and weekend trips to other locations. Either by short flight or car.
  • De-Stress – Somewhere to really relax and chill to de-stress from work.

What I really realised I was describing was a great city and a super dope well-optimised apartment.

I’m a simple guy. I like to have nice shit. Nice apartments. Health supplements and routines. I like to spend most of my day working and when I’m not working I want to be goofing off with friends or at dinners or chilling at home watching movies with a girl or alone.

So location…I figured I need to be in a warm country, somewhere where there is lots of entrepreneurs and like-minded people. Somewhere where it won’t cost me millions of dollars to buy the home I want.

This narrowed it down a lot.

  • Spain Or Colombia
  • Baller Apartment 3+ Bedrooms
  • All My Favorite Shit (from a $3000 espresso machine to $500 desk chair to a dope home office and cinema room. I like movies, I want a next level movie room)
  • Good Location (somewhere with like minded people close by, work spots and fun things to do/restaurants/etc)

After really exploring all of this stuff I came up with a figure of how much money I need to purchase my baller headquarters and fill it with all my things.

That will be my base where I build and operate my ultimate dream lifestyle from.

I’m still working on this.

But it’s something that does motivate me and push me forward along with helping my family.

Personal goals are important. You can’t be thinking about others all of the time. The point of this story is I encourage you to really explore what you truly want.

What does your ideal day look like?

How would you wake up? Where would you be?

What kind of place would you live in?

What would the weather be like?

Who would you spend time and share things with?

What activities would you do when you’re not working?

Do you need a great home office or do you enjoy working outside?

Really think about what you want. Maybe it’s living in New York City and spending most of your time working in an apartment or it could be living in a remote village in the mountains spending your days hunting.

Whatever it is figure it out. Figure out how much that shit will cost and think about how you can get it within 1-3 years.

Which brings me to my final point.

It’s not that difficult. Making money online is very simple actually.

What’s is difficult is sticking to your flags and staying consistent for a long enough time at the right things to make your goals a reality.

Also being constantly vigilant. Always be scanning your market, looking for new opportunities to grow and adapt to coming changes before they happen.

Have some balls. Believe in yourself. I am just a random ass kid from England who made a decision to figure this online stuff out. I am not the smartest guy in the world.

In fact I am slow when it comes to many things and bad at others. Make a good plan. Model it after something that has already worked. Something proven.

Do not let your attention sway from the finish line. Keep your head up and your eyes focused every day. Do the little things that will make a big difference over time.

Have patience.

If you’ve been throwing shit at the wall for a while and nothing is working; keep tossing those turds.

You may be disenchanted with life right now, but if you keep going something will eventually hit for you.

Until next time.

P.S. Leave me your thoughts, comments and questions below if you’d like to reply to them.

4 comments

  • Great article Jamie, sticking to 1 thing has been my problem sometimes. Even though I had gotten a decent amount of sales last year, I quit dropshipping because I thought it was “dead”. It wasn’t dead, it just changed. I started again 3 months ago and hitting 1k days now. I think about where I would be and how much money i would be making if I hadn’t stopped last year. But it doesn’t matter now, what’s done is done.

    – Marko Stojanovic

    • Yep. Dropshipping is cool. Keep it going to make some cash and focus on a long term brand project starting today. Plant the flags.

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