Time to put up the gloves...For now.

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Hey guys. I wish a good midnight morning to all of you again! This place/forum is just great.

Anyways, long story short, it was a bittersweet moment for me the last 2 days. I had a trump card where I was supposed to implement a strategy to help drive much-needed traffic to my business and offer, but after a website completely changed it's format recently, it crashed my efforts and my whole strategy.

I was left distraught as this was about my 6th strategy (haven't kept track) attempting to get traffic to my business as the others failed. My savings from the last job I worked with has finally dried up and I can no longer sustain an effort to keep up my business up. I had asked my father to borrow money for some strategies I want to implement, but those also crash and burned too, and even his contribution to my efforts were barely enough.

It was when I made the realization that I don't want to borrow any more money from my father that paid off the subscriptions to keep my business running and only have enough barely left over to implement small traffic strategies. I don't want to do that to him.

I made the realization that I knew and felt I was figuratively bankrupt and I concluded I had to put the gloves up and get a job with my friend. The reality hit me hard, making me realize that any help from anyone I know would only sustain subscriptions to maintain my business and not help invest in any real traffic strategies because of the money left over after paying subscriptions. In the last two days, I just literally said to myself "Damn, so this is what it feels like to foreclosed/be bankrupt/be in the hole."

But it's not over.
I am quitting now and I am working my ass off for months for a healthy budget, with the knowledge and wisdom obtained from my mistakes working this entrepreneurship endeavor for the very first time. I'm going to learn from my first mistakes and once I accumulate a healthy budget, I'll come back at this even stronger than ever. Like a hiatus which will be taken to study more strategies, sure-fire methods, and develop more of an understanding of this game. Kinda like WWE wrestlers coming back from injury and appearing in their first match back with devastating results. Like Undertaker when he returns and clears the whole freaking ring
(Here's a link to help you understand how I'll dominate once I return https://youtu.be/oricUgTqV_s?t=3m50s )

Guys, thank you so much for your support, thank you for the guys that took the time to answer my first questions on this forum. Really can't appreciate it enough

But I will need suggestions! For the guys that have made it and are thriving in their business, gimme aspect(s) like internet marketing, traffic, conversions, etc that I should focus on during my hiatus so I can come back ready to swing on day one.

Thank you guys, have a great damn day!
Who dares wins!
#glovesfor #put #time
  • Profile picture of the author solosolutions
    Hold on.

    Maybe you're quitting too soon?

    How much effort did you put in?

    How were you measuring success?

    Maybe you should have measured your success based on the development stage of your project?
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  • Profile picture of the author nwik
    Don't quit too soon. You can still do something instead of quitting.

    Strive a little harder.

    Think of better ideas. Quitting has never been a solution to anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheUprising
    If you're still receiving notifications, good. Got an update now.

    These past few months, I've been working on myself much more and the image of what I want to do online has grown. I have new ideas that I'm planning to make into pdfs and files. New guides. New approaches to the website design and exploring unconventional means.

    My question to you, is..

    If you were to start off with 800 bucks, where would you start? I am working a part time job so I can get the start up money I need in order to kick ass when I start my business up again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Reimaru
    It happens, though I don't think you should quit it completely. Maybe while you have a job, you do it on your spare time, like on weekends and when you come home from work. I don't know what kind of business you have, but you can at least try to make it work.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheUprising
    The whole thing wasn't a permanent quitting action. Only to stop and reaccess what I can do better and then do a second reopening of my business.

    My main trouble was getting a list.

    The highest list # I got was about 21 people. All unresponsive. And if I remember correctly, 1/5 of them were invalid emails they gave me.
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  • Profile picture of the author StSignal
    Think about what you re doing man maybe you are quitting too soon,try to be as persistand as you can.
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  • Profile picture of the author 3wCorner
    Read news. Stay updated all the time on marketing, softwares, and social media promotions. I suggest join for an online class on these area but check if the training is on the current year. The more recent, the better.
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