BowTied Goldfinch
@BowTiedAuFinch
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27. Current Engineer, Future W2 Escapee. Started my own Ecom business and documenting that journey (to failure or succes) here, with 100% honesty.
Midwest, USA
Joined October 2023
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I’ve been asked a handful of times
“What do you sell?”
So it’s about time I answer that question and explain how I got from A to B…
👇
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Quoted $8,000 to fix the suspension on my jeep.
Will never understand how I can put so much effort into life and continue to take massive L’s in every facet.
It never ends. When does Goldfinch get a W?
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“Why did you buy a jeep you idiot? Should have bought a Camry or Accord!”
Sorry I actually like to enjoy life and get a little dopamine while driving.
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GM Anons
Yesterday was the best day I’ve had in a long long time.
- Best day of Ecom so far
- Great first date with a girl that’s way out of my league
Vibes are UP.
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Anyone have advice for what to do when you literally have nothing to do at your W2?
Have already asked for more work several times.
Can’t work on own biz because boss sits right behind me….
HELP
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LinkedIn is such a corporate circle-jerk it’s pretty much rendered useless.
Everyone copy and pasting the same words, commenting “well said!” On each others posts.
Lame.
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Told my girl she should be using wrist straps on back day.
She says “You just saw that on tik tok”
Well no, I actually got it from a Cartoon Ox on Twitter.
@BowTiedOx
Trust.
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I need to get back on the workhorse. Been slacking lately.
Quickly realizing it is difficult to excel/improve at:
- Lifting
- Running
- Golfing
- Social Life
- Online Biz
All at the same time....
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Alright Anons -
Since I’m already months late on this, I better just get it done.
BowTiedGoldFinch’s Journey to the Jungle:
Thread ⬇️
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After wayyyy too long of zero luck
I just got Shopify Ding.
I almost forgot the feeling, but wow it feels good.
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Since it’s Friday and I actually have a screenshot this time:
Damn, what a feeling.
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Wrote a blog at the W2 today.
Don’t feel guilty one bit.
Will post tonight.
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Some of the sales numbers certain products are doing on Tik Tok are just mind-numbing.
I’ll use a fellow Jungle product as an example:
NOBs is CRUSHING it (you can do the math), and there’s a handful of other products that absolutely dwarf these numbers.
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Are any of the "newer" members of The Jungle working on Ecom interested in starting a group chat or X Community?
Think it would be helpful for all of us to learn together.
@BowTiedStealth
@BowTiedTed
@BowtiedEdge
@BowTiedGasMask
Thoughts?
And anyone else of course.
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Why do job apps have so many questions?
"Do you love this shit?"
"Are you high right now?"
"Do you ever get nervous?"
Seriously, isn't that what the interview is for... Just a resume should be enough.
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Morning y’all 🤝
Went on vacation for a week and completely unplugged from everything.
Felt very good and needed, but ready to get back after it.
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Crazy how I think of a million things I'm gonna do for my biz when I get home...
And once I get home my brain goes blank.
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Every day I see new X accounts of kids with:
“Multiple 7 figure Econ exits”
“Scaled my agency to 5mm MRR”
“Ecom multimillionaire by 20”
In their bios.
What percentage of these people are liars you think?
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Saw my first Gript Ad on my feed today.
Jokes on you,
@BowTiedStealth
- I already bought one!
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Why is it that the two people I know who were marketing majors in college
Fall for the absolute dumbest marketing schemes in real life?
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Kinda funny - if you’re on X long enough
You can literally watch grifters change their offer over time to match the trends.
Yet they somehow “quit everything 5 years ago and went all in” on each one.
🤔
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If anyone is looking for product images, reach out to
@kylereblinn
.
He does high quality work in a timely manner, and at a great price.
Here's a small fraction of his work:
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Dall-E is a complete effin waste of time now.
Takes 10-15 tries to get one image you just finally settle for even though it's still not what you wanted.
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Blog is posted. Some really great hand models included.
Share as needed or wanted. Probably won't get much organic traffic, but at minimum it's another backlink for y'all.
@Thomas_Salamus_
@bowtiedvampdeer
@nick96smart
@BowtiedEdge
@bowtiedkobra
@isaac_saas
@BowTiedYukon
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I think it’s the exact opposite of this.
The happier you are, the less you need to post for validation.
You can tell when a millennial’s given up on life by looking at when they stopped posting on Instagram
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That was awful…
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Another killer review from someone who’s tried my product!
(Ignore the plural pronouns, she doesn’t know I’m a one-man show.)
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And last - I knew how to do almost none of this before I started.
So start now. Learn as you go.
And here's the link if you want to support:
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Watched Office Space last night with the girl.
The satire is so damn accurate it hurts😂
Also I might be Peter Gibbons…
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Writing a "Mother's Day gift's for busy Moms" blog, hope y'all don't mind me promoting your products:
@Thomas_Salamus_
@bowtiedvampdeer
@BowtiedEdge
@nick96smart
If I'm missing someone's product that fits this category, get at me in the next 30 minutes and I'll include!
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@Tilmon_Brown
Already replaced water pump, headlights, oil pan gasket, blend door actuator myself and will do this if I have to. So thanks, genius.
I’m as independent as they come.
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So last but not least, shout out to these Anons for all their help and sense of community thus far:
@BowtiedTCat
,
@bowtiedvampdeer
,
@BowtiedEdge
,
@BowTiedBar
,
@BowTiedRammer
,
@BowTiedStealth
,
@BowTiedGasMask
,
@BowTiedTed
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Of course my most pointless and redacted tweet ever goes mini-viral.
(proportionally to my followers)
But I suppose that’s how it works huh 😂
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This is true.
I’ve had several jabs at me the past 6 months like:
“Man you’re strictly 8-5 huh?”
“Yes.”
If you're going to follow
@BowTiedBull
's advice and 20/80 your job while you build your escape you need to be prepared for what that experience is like in the workplace.
You're not getting awards, shoutouts, and praise.
You're doing a "good" job while avoiding having more work
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER???
I finally used up my
@RampHealth
B4 V1 packets in preparation for V2 delivery.
On that note, I figured I should give my review of V1 so I can compare directly with V2.
I took my packets for various occasions, but all were social events:
- A first
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I can't overstate how much I love working with people who just tell you exactly what you'll recieve and how much it costs.
No discovery calls, no negotiating tiny details, etc.
Just Do-er's.
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@BowTiedOlive
Looks great Olive!!
Out of curiosity/ignorance, is the long neck of the bottle purely for design or does it serve a purpose?
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Observations from the W2:
A handful of us go outside during break.
One of us goes on walks, the rest (them) smoke a cigarette.
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Alright we are back on track and headed in a positive direction.
Hope everyone had a fantastic Monday.
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Talks at the W2 this morning of bringing a software engineer in-house.
Trying to pitch myself so they’ll let me learn it on the job, and I’d be learning something extremely useful at the same time.
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Also big shoutout to
@Thomas_Salamus_
and B4 for the successful date.
Genuinely think we had better conversations because of B4.
GM Anons
Yesterday was the best day I’ve had in a long long time.
- Best day of Ecom so far
- Great first date with a girl that’s way out of my league
Vibes are UP.
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“Master one traffic source before you market elsewhere”
But how do you know which traffic source is best for you?
Here’s how I’m attacking that question: 👇
I’ve said this multiple times before
But when I started selling my product
I thought I’d just turn on Meta Ads and the
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One major realization you'll have once you start:
You learn 10x more 10x faster when doing the work and failing...
Instead of watching Youtube videos and listening to podcasts about "overnight successes".
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One of the largest lessons I've learned early on in starting Ecom:
Having to go back and re-do stuff or fix it is a giant PITA and mildly depressing.
Do it right the first time. No shortcuts.
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Anyone in the Jungle have experience with getting a WordPress blog up and running?
Will attempt by myself first, but would like some resources to lean on if I get stuck...
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Gm anons.
I think my mom really enjoyed her Mother’s Day gift. I hope yours did as well.
@BowtiedEdge
@Sunday__Showers
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@BowtiedTCat
@bowtiedvampdeer
@BowtiedEdge
@BowTiedBar
@BowTiedRammer
@BowTiedStealth
@BowTiedGasMask
@BowTiedTed
And last, if anyone has questions about getting started, hit my DM's.
It's extremely hard, but anyone can do it. Even if that sounds like an oxymoron.
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@BowTiedStealth
@BowTiedDinosaur
Unfortunately I flicked it off my screen like a booger.
Do have this though.
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The amount of times you end up just saying "Fine, I'll do it myself then" when trying to start a business...
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Do you guys scroll the “For You” page or “Following”?
Which and why?
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When everyone says "Just Start"...
This. Is. Why.
When I first created my my amazon product. I tested the market before i fully committed.
I used 3x5 index cards to print labels on my home b&w laser printed.
I used 4 millimeter thick poly bags.
I made 25 units and sent them in.
It looked bad.....but they sold.
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These never get old 😂
You watched 100 hours of interviews of a guy who barely speaks English, just so you could write a thread on X?
Right.
The KING of MMA
Khabib Nurmagomedov
He went from Unknown to retiring with an Unbeaten 29-0 record and Millions of Dollars
So I binge watched 100 hours of his interviews to study his mindset
And here's how he developed an Unbeatable Mindset (that you can use as well)
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Production manager today when asking me to come in this weekend to help get one more (albeit large) order on the books before the end of the year:
"Aren't you a team player?"
I laughed out loud.
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Anyone have experience with podcast advertising?
Reached out to one I thought would be a good fit for my product, and their prices seem really high to me...
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Alright new plan of action: I’m going to commit to posting 2x per day on Tik Tok for the next 30 days.
Putting it out here to hold myself accountable.
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“So how do you formulate a supplement made solely for calming, anti-anxiety, and mood-boost?”
Well, here’s how I formulated mine, which is called Mend - For Hangxiety
First off, I would like to stress that I formulated Mend not only as an all-purpose calming and relaxation
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Need to get better at seeing product trends when they’re unfolding, and work on capitalizing on them.
For example:
- I bought the very first iterations of “yeti” tumblers and coolers probably 9 years ago at Walmart. Didn’t realize how much it would scale over a decade.
-
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After spinning up a product and a store, the next natural step was marketing.
(Should have started that ahead of time...)
This has been my biggest challenge thus far, and here are the main struggles with marketing my hangxiety relief product:
🧵👇
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500 affiliate invites sent out tonight on Tik Tok Shop.
My clicking finger is tired.
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I'm in several Tik Tok Discords to try and find affiliates for my product, and one really cool thing is seeing so many young guys making money and putting effort into worthwhile things.
Not every Gen Z'er is a couch potato gamer.
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Found some competitors at the grocery store today.
Of course I already knew this (previous competitor research), but checked again and yes their formula is inferior.
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Me tired today but me will still work on biz tonight anyway
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Dumbest things I did before ordering inventory:
- Not building up an audience/demand first
- Not testing demand (didn't know how)
Smartest thing I did before ordering inventory:
- Requesting blank bottles and applying labels myself, allowing me to test diff angles/packaging.
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So many absurd health claims on X lately.
Plenty of others thinking they need to disprove them.
All you “Well ackshully…” people would have an absolute aneurysm if you logged onto TikTok.
It’s 100 orders of magnitude worse.
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The sheer mass of a digital footprint you make by starting an online biz is insane 😂
Tons of emails, logins, websites, this, that, and the other.
Kind of crazy.
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Since then, I’ve realized it’s 10000x more work than just sourcing product and running ads.
And I’m still building every day. I haven’t found much success yet (About $1,000 in revenue), but I also haven’t quit.
Even if I’ve wanted to.
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Been watching this one for a long time now, and
@bowtiedvampdeer
earned this!!
Check it out. And getcha some PreSleep (When it's in stock again)
Jungle native
@bowtiedvampdeer
created a successful ecom biz while in college!!!
Equal opportunity, unequal results!
Check out his story here!
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Can't list on Google...
Can't list on Facebook...
Can't list on Tik Tok...
Yet all I see on all of these platforms is supplements.
At what point can a guy get a fucking win.
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Alright I’m still pissed tf off but I’m done being sorry for myself.
Today is a new day.
Back into the trenches I go.
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@zachpogrob
Have never had a big enough room for my desk to face anywhere other than the wall and I hate it.
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@isaac_saas
Find a reputable 1RM calculator and have everything run through that same code and then display as the original weight and reps?
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Edge out here making Money Moves!
SOLD OUT
Wow after a chaotic and amazing last few weeks, I just had to clear out my personal stash to fulfill todays orders 😞
Unfortunately we are at least a month out from getting it back in stock.
We have about 10 units remaining on Amazon👇so restock now if you need it.
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Just ordered my Mother's Day gift!
Gotta see what the
@Sunday__Showers
hype is all about.
I hope she doesn't mind me taking one of the bombs for myself 😂
@BowtiedEdge
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@bowtiedvampdeer
When I started I thought you legit just pick a product and turn on Facebook Ads and chill 😂
Not the case at all. Not even remotely the case.
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I can't sleep without a fan in the background, so I just leave the fan on 24/7.
I also work in my bedroom.
Just realized the fan has been a giant distraction while working. Much more efficient when it's off.
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Good morning to
@WiFiMoneyGuy
and
@bowtiedvampdeer
I take your QVC bologna machine and raise you with this technological masterpiece of engineering. 🤯
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@BowTiedStealth
I would highly recommend Dall-E over MidJourney. Have used both.
I can also happily give you a rundown on either one. Not an expert but have used them a good amount.
Let me know!
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@Thomas_Salamus_
Agreed.
Don’t think I would have even attempted to start without
@BowTiedOpossum
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Spent 3-4 hours on a Mother’s Day Tik Tok
(Due to technical difficulties)
Just for it to be found to violate community guidelines 😁😁😁😁😁😁
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2 down, 58 to go.
Going to get a week or more worth of content stored up over the next 24 hours. Build the runway!
1 down, 59 to go.
Will be trying a bunch of different content styles, hooks, etc.
Going for more content catered to views and followers rather than just than just trying to sell every video like I was doing.
Something’s gotta work.
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Gm anons,
I wanna see something….
Are you Team
@BowTiedStealth
or Team
@isaac_saas
?
Team Stealth
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Team Isaac
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What r u talking about
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I know most of The Jungle speaks negatively on drinking, which is fine.
BUT...
If any of y'all do enjoy drinking, hit my DM's.
I might have something for you.
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@bowtiedlemming
I don’t know much about either of them beyond twitter, and both are much more successful than myself, but I will say this:
It seems like Petey lacks wisdom on choosing his enemies.
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Finally ordered
@BowTiedBroseidn
’s B4 today.
Excited to try it B4 my W-2 Christmas party, in hopes that I don’t have to get drunk and make a fool out of myself in order to have a good time.
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Anyone know of a discord channel with people looking for affiliate opportunities for TikTok?
Would like to be fishing in a hungry pond rather than spamming invites on Shop Affiliate Center.
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If any fellow anons struggle with hangover anxiety the day after drinking, DM me.
I've got something for you.
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If you’re tired of using a physical logbook for your workouts, check out what
@isaac_saas
is building!
Great customer service too.
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