I recently took a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
On the way out of town my friends and I stopped for a bit of shopping.
After having lived in a hot climate for many years I had no long sleeved shirts to wear (there is no winter in the jungle).
But I didn't end up buying much of anything…
I was struck by this one Chinese woman working in a shoe store.
I watched the Chinese woman hustle for business and I watched the American store clerks lose my business.
The Chinese woman was hard at work trying to make a sale.
She kept saying “firty person off (30% off)” and working to close the deal.
In the other shops, the women and girls working the register don't even bother to look up at you, let alone try to hustle and make a sale, but the Chinese woman was working like a dog to close the deal.
I would bet ten thousand dollars on two things:
- The Chinese woman works (or would work) 16 hours per day, 7 days per week and doesn't complain
- The American women and girls take any day off they possibly can and they complain about low pay
(Don't be a fool and take the bet, I will win).
After having lived in China for one year I have no great respect for them, but it is undeniable that they work long and hard.
And I respect all people on God's green earth who work long and hard without complaint.
So for you killers and real-dealers, here are 18 Ways to Win Big in Business…
(like the Chinese workhorse and not like the American lazy girls.)
1) Days off are for losers
I said it and you read it - days off are for LOSERS.
You will never win big on your day off. You don't stand a chance of winning a race you don't show up to.
You will never hear a winner in business say “Sorry, can't. It's Saturday, my day off. Call my office on Monday“.
You don't get days off until you earn days off and you don't earn days off within the first 5 years in business.
Big business takes big hours, if you don't work them someone else will.
I will. The Chinese woman offering firty person off will.
The Chinese woman probably built a house for her parents in China with the money she made selling shoes in America.
The American girls no doubt get money from dad to supplement their lack of work ethic.
Here's the rule: If you're awake, you're working.
I told you I was “shopping” but I was actually writing this article on my cellular phone.
2) Work 16 hours per day, 7 days per week
If you're awake, you're working. No exceptions!
It's easy, easy, easy - all you have to do is show up.
If you're there every day you're ahead of the “competition”.
I put “competition” in quotes because if they aren't working 16 hours per day, 7 days per week they aren't real competition.
They'll blow themselves out of the water, you won't need to do anything.
Work, work, work and work some more. Work all the time.
3) Work one business/deal at a time
You cannot start two businesses at the same time and see both of them succeed. It doesn't happen.
FOCUS ON ONE THING.
When your one business is producing an income then you can move on to the next one.
Never start two at the same time because neither of them will work.
Work one deal at a time, and don't quit until the job is finished.
4) All of your energy should be on work
I keep saying it isn't hard, all it takes is everything.
Every ounce of energy you have needs to go to your developing business.
Find time for the gym, find time for your wife and kiddos, but business is and should be priority #1.
5) Obsession and work ethic beat talent
You can outwork a talented/lazy person if you are obsessed and dedicated to your work.
But talent + obsession + work ethic beats anything on earth.
Find something you are talented in for best results.
For the rest, it's will, not skill.
6) The customer is not always right
Sometimes your customers are wrong.
Sometimes they're having a bad day and want someone to emotionally abuse.
That's their problem, not yours.
You don't need to cater to emotionally fragile customers.
You need to cater to good customers and that's it.
Bad customers can go away.
7) Your employees are not always right
You cannot always take your employee's side over the customer's side.
Sometimes employees are wrong or bad people.
You have to take situations case by case.
8) Don't take the side of a bad customer over a good employee
A bad customer is not worth as much a good employee.
As far as I'm concerned, bad customers can get lost.
Life is too short to cater to people who want to give you problems.
If you provide a good service then you have no need to deal with bad people who give you problems.
There are plenty of good people who want and appreciate your service or product.
9) A bad employee is not worth losing good customers
Some companies (stupidly) take the side of their employees over their customers.
If you blindly take your employee's side they will have no problem causing problems (just for fun) knowing that they aren't going to be held accountable.
10) Bad customer service is bad for business
Always remember that customer service is a job, but it isn't your job. Let your employees do the work.
If you have a bad employee treating customers poorly you need to fire their fucking ass immediately.
I will personally not buy anything at a store that has poor customer service - even if I want to buy the item.
I will do my part to bankrupt all companies that provide shit customer service.
11) People are emotional, so you be sturdy
The emotionally fragile aren't basing anything on logic so it isn't necessary to be their therapist.
If you give these people everything they want they'll be trained to be an asshole and get what they want.
Big mistake giving bad customers everything they want.
12) Take the easy way
The easiest way is almost always the best way.
People continually try and make things hard. But making things harder is the same as making them impossible.
Every day someone says to me “that's all their is to it? That's all you do? Wow, shouldn't you be doing so much more?”
The answer is no!
Take the easy way, it usually is the best way and provides the most pay.
13) Be smart enough to keep things simple
The best in business take the easiest route from A to B - a straight line.
Go-nowhere businesses make things complicated and they end up going from A to A in a circle.
Only a moron tries to make easy work hard.
You want results - so it doesn't matter if you take the easy way to get results.
In fact, taking the hard road to get the same results is DUMB.
14) Don't listen to dumb people
You will get unsolicited, continual, non-stop advice from dumb people. Ignore them.
If those morons had any idea what to do they'd be in business for themselves, not working for someone else.
The only people worth listening to are people more successful than you.
People who aren't successful are jealous, resentful, bitter and envious. Their “advice” is aimed to bring you down to their level.
ONLY A SUCCESSFUL PERSON CAN BE HAPPY FOR ANOTHER'S SUCCESS.
The lower classes will always begrudge.
So only listen to the successful (and even then take their advice with a grain of salt).
For example: a bunch of morons believe you can't make money from a blog.
How did newspapers and magazines survive for so long I wonder…
If I'd listened to those dumb people I'd be as broke as those dumb people.
But I didn't listen to them and I use the money I don't make from a blog and use it to buy things like houses, cars, food, clothing, gym memberships, supplements, bicycles, computers - just all the things money can buy.
15) Trust your instincts
Your business is your business for a reason - you thought it up, you identified the market need, you put the plan in motion.
You don't need to listen to anyone else but yourself.
No one knows what's going on in your brain except for you!
16) Don't listen to what your customers want
If your customers knew what they wanted then they would be producers (like You, Inc) and not consumers.
They don't have a clue what they want until they're told or sold.
17) Trust your business plan, don't trust clueless customers
You are the visionary, they aren't.
You're ahead of the curve, they're behind the curve trying to play catch-up.
(But as consumers they will never catch up to the leaders).
18) Trust people to do their jobs, don't trust people
Trust is what lower conscious people look for.
You don't need to trust people, you only need to trust people to be themselves.
You need to trust people to do the job they were hired for.
You don't need to trust them with your ATM code if that isn't in their job description.
Don't worry about trust! Trust is for children.
Worry about people doing their jobs.
If you trust them with your life it's a bonus, it isn't a necessity.
I don't trust a lot of the people I do business with.
You pay me my money and we're straight, you don't pay and we have a problem.
Trust? Don't make me laugh.
———-
Th-th-th-that's it folks.
If you're intelligent you may have noticed a simple theme…
Work all the time and trust yourself.
In fact, skip all of these complicated steps and do just two things:
- Work all the time
- Trust yourself
After you work all the time and trust in yourself you can start to cash your checks.
Until then, have a nice day and get to work.
Your man,
-Victor Pride
PS - Everyone on earth should have a blog. If you don't have one, you need to get one because you're behind the times.
Start your blog at BADNET because we'll do all the hard work for you.
I did tell you to take the easy route, only a moron would start a blog and not use BADNET (because it costs you absolutely nothing extra).
This is all sound advice. I noticed that people buy on impulse when they are most emotional. Those same emotional buyers often regret the next day saying “oh geez why did I buy this!”. The seller makes money.
The last one, number 18 is perhaps important and I often notice many people (including myself) sometimes neglect it.
All great points here.
Trust is just a non-issue, it doesn’t need to be in the equation.
TRUE! People buy based on emotion and use logic and reason to justify their purchase.
Thanks TS.
“Work all the time and trust yourself”.
23 second story:
I went to BADNET and registered my real name so I wouldn’t turn out like a fucking retard like Jeb Bush (he doesn’t own his own name).
Very easily I cut off all communication with negative people (incl. family).
I locked myself in my house and started doing what I’ve always known I was born to do (live my life & share my story).
I started my blog Dec 1.
It is Jan 25.
I do nothing else but eat, hit the gym, and work (& fuck girls).
I’ve already made $150…
Wait a minute…
…what’s your excuse?
No seriously, what are you waiting for?
Permission?
Here’s your permission;
Don’t be fucking retarded like Jeb Bush and go sign up at BADNET right now.
It will literally cost you less than taking a girl out to dinner (which you would spend money on right now in a heartbeat since you don’t have a life mission…), so why not protect your name?
“I don’t have any life experience though!”
Then do this:
1) Order your name at BADNET
2) Order some kratom
3) Leave your blog alone, use the kratom to kill your anxiety and go out and party every night (or whatever you want to do) for 3 months
4) Come back after that and write about every single detail of your experience
5) Write about how great kratom was for killing your anxiety and start a YouTube channel
6) Become an affiliate for kratom
7) Make that fucking money dude
BTW I don’t care if you use BADNET or not, I’m not an affiliate.
But I would not of stayed 100% focused on my business (blog) if it wasn’t for BADNET setting it up in less than a day and providing 100% banging customer support.
“I’m gonna wait though cause I have ______ going on in my life and I just want to relax right now.”
Making money is relaxing you fucking idiot.
- Mike Chagares
P.S. - The smart ones out there will see the value ($) in this comment and profit off it.
My man.
I agree, the customer support from BADNET was top notch… In detail, they explained how I had to point my already purchased domain from namecheap.com. They also reminded me that I still have that free domain name from webhub available for future use. I’ll probably use it to purchase my name as well.
- Tony | Outwork Co.
Thanks Tony.
MC Did you use to have a blog under Mr veins??
Yes sir.
boldanddetermined = The Millionaire FastLane+Think and Grow Rich+How Stop Worrying and Start Living+The Education of a Bodybuilder.
Congratulations, you have found out that all successful people abide by the same principles.
“boldanddetermined = The Millionaire FastLane+Think and Grow Rich+How Stop Worrying and Start Living+The Education of a Bodybuilder”
+ Business EXPERIENCE + Artistic (Blog) EXPERIENCE + Lifting/Training EXPERIENCE + The EXPERIENCE of being from the most influential nation on earth + The EXPERIENCE of living and traveling in nations which are very different from one’s own + Other EXPERIENCES that readers (including me) don’t know about = boldanddetermined
Key word: EXPERIENCE
Inspiration (motivation), Action, Adaptation.
Inspiration can come from a million places: ideas, music, hunger, something you want to prove, or this blog post (which was based on the writer’s EXPERIENCE (inspiration, action, adaptation)).
Action comes from doing it, from living it out, EXPERIENCING it.
Adaptation comes from learning, both conceptional and, more important, experiential. Adaptation is real growth. In the mental, this means improved intuition. In the physical, this
Inspiration, Action, Adaptation. Experience. Creation.
Inspiration, Action, Adaptation.
Experience.
Creation.
Number 3 and 13 resonated with me the most.
I can attest to the truth of sticking to one business at a time. I wasted 7 months of trying to launch multiple businesses at the same time. From writing for my site, working on my book, to launching another venture I can say that I burned myself out.
I finally decided to put everything on hold except for the project that I am working on now. As soon as it is complete then I will work on the next project.
Keeping things simple is another thing that I have finally grasped. Now instead of over thinking things such as writing my book I am instead focused on taking the next step. In life if you are going to achieve anything worthwhile you absolutely must keep it simple and keep moving.
Great write up Victor.
Regards,
Dylan Madden
Thanks Dylan.
I agree with you comment about starting more than one business at the same time. I started my blog a few months after my online tshirt company and they both take time and energy (I still work a 9-5 as well). I am setting it up that the blog will be part of the “holding” company for my other businesses. It will also serve as the information hub for everything I do. Again, balancing all of these things means that it will take longer for each to become successful. I know this and thus, continue to put in the work… Thanks again for your thoughts and ideas. - Tony | Outwork Co.
Victor, how do you view the notion of treating your business (I.E your employers and your customers) as family, and not as many making opportunities? I’ve seen some people say it’s better to treat your customers and employees as dollar signs, and some that say treat them as you would your immediate family.
Dumb as fuck. Business is business. You want to make dear old mom work 16 hours a day, 7 days a week?
“Hey Aunt Janet and Uncle Jack I’m gonna fire your fucking asses if you make this mistake again”.
Hahaha I love your reference of using random names like that.
Haha, I figured you would say something like that. That was always my thought but for some reason the “family as business” people swear they have the right idea… until their “family” implodes.
Mix Business and Family and you get a recipe for disaster. Mix Politics and Work and you also get recipe for disaster. Always separate them. Your employees are just employees, no hard feeling; all business as usual. Shitty job and fired. Involve and treat them as family and you always get a lot of emotions involved.
Well i only worked for my brother and i worked extra hard for him. But i would propably never work for anyone else in the family just him and my father.
Under number 12:
“People contiually try ”
Continually
THX
Nothing like keeping it so simple, even a child could understand it. It’s easy to always be working, one of the keys is to keep notes - something interesting comes up - or you have an idea (because you’re always thinking about your business) … take a note, then get back to having that conversation (or in your example - writing the blog article). You probably could have boiled it down even more - thank!
Thanks Arnie.
Curious Uncle Vic… you said after living in China you have “no great respect” for them, other than the hard work. What are some of the things about China that didn’t garner your respect?
Well, to boil it down they’re a bunch of money hungry animals. Their environment is filthy (and they don’t care). They will sell anything for a dollar, including their air, water, land, soul etc. They also spit non-stop.
yes lack of respect for environment is big issue as it should be.
I think the constant spitting comes from bad air (bad air quality they created) and makes them hock loogies, phelgm all over sidewalk. I seen that common.
Also Infrastructure has weak quality. Sometimes they neglect safety issue over profit so you hear stories like building collapsing, hotel elevator malfunctioning with people losing head, body from freak accidents and escalator swallowing up people.
“…filthy and they don’t care” - So true. I’ve personally witnessed the inside of several mainland Chinese GIRL apartments here in the US (international students coming here and rented apartments). Fucking pathetic and a true health hazard. Weird shit growing in corners and in trash cans, full trash bags they just set off to the side and let lay there instead of taking outside to the bin.
Literally, fucking buckets of unfinished KFC chicken that had sat there in the living room for months. Stacks and piles of random shit everywhere.
I might have a little sympathy if these were people who grew up in destitute poverty, but these are the kids who have families WITH MONEY to send them to private universities here.
I can’t even imagine what condition they keep their pussy in.
Never renting apartments to mainlanders ever again
Family failed to raise their kids right. All the money but failed parenting. Even good raised kids can easily get influenced from outside social circle influences.
IME Chinese keep their personal homes very clean, everything else is a garbage can to them. Rich girl never cleaned a day in her life, would have had slaves doing it, she doesn’t know how to clean. Not the norm.
That’s surprising. I know that Japanese are very clean and very few would live like that. China is a huge country with many sub-groups and cultures. I’m sure not all of them are like that.
MKT you win clueless comment of the day award. You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
“Chinese are surely clean because their mortal enemies the Japanese are!”
As a Chinese, i can confirm that. And I will say I am extremely proud of being a money hungry animal cuz it is that hunger that makes the big buck. If it were not for my parents being hungry for money and working their ass off to achieve a higher standard of living. There is no way I could be studying in north america and living as a “westerner” who enjoys all the conveniences western society has to offer.
As for the environmental issue, I think that’s part of the process. I remember learning in history that UK went through the same problem many years ago with the “death fog” in UK. Luckily for me, i am living in thousands miles away from my home:)
“As a Chinese, i can confirm that. And I will say I am extremely proud of being a money hungry animal cuz it is that hunger that makes the big buck.”
haha!
Vicotr every word that comes out of your mouth is fucking true. Respect.
I now have a blog and I can easily forsee my success. Kudos to you.
Victor* I am sorry type error.
I couldn’t agree more with #3. Focusing on one thing at a time has done wonders for my success. It’s something I talk about all the time. Good article, Victor.
Thanks Alex.
Thanks Shobhit.
But talent + obsession + work ethic beats anything on earth. This right here is so simple, King Solomon wisdom right here. Time to step out of the shade, we only live once, dying more than once is just not worth it, You and Mr Chernovich are just on another level.
Thanks Daniel.
Kick Ass Way. Thanks For Sharing.
Thanks Antonio.
Good post! Great advice….
Thanks John.
Another fantastic, motivating article. Following your advice over the past year has completely changed me as a man.
Thanks, Vic.
Thanks Nick.
I agree with Victor on this post! For the reason that very few people have that hustle to make themselves better. I have seen it many times when I worked in retail during my college years. Guys as well as Girls just hanging out making 5 bucks an hour and content while they also had an opportunity to make a commission on the all the electronics equipment sold.
I remember no one wanting to sell Walkmans and CD players because it according to them did not pay the high commission rates they wanted. So while they hovered around the pricey equipment like a bunch of Sharks I went ahead and began to concentrate on pushing those Walkmans CD players and the like. I was the only one in that counter so I was closing sales 3 to 4 at a time! While pushing those Service Warranties on those $10.00 dollar Walkmans the service warranties were an extra $20!
Every day I sold so much equipment I was hovering either at number 1 or 2. The other guy that was my competition was a Coke Head and would do lines in the Bathroom so I could not keep up with him. But at times I overtook him in sales and yes it felt good! I worked hard!
Excellent Customer Service is extremely important! I cannot stress that enough! When you listen to their problem and find a solution for them you got a customer for life! I even had a business card made up that i would give out to potential clients when I was not at work as well as at work. The business cards did bring me a ton of potential clients over the phone as well as in person. I would hook up the cashiers with Pizza just so that when a customer came to pay for a product I would get the sale!
Also always Know your product and at times break it down for them in a way that they understand.
By the end of the month I shattered that myth that you cannot make money selling Walk Mans and CD players while during a meeting the Store Manager told everyone what I did and everyone was flabbergasted!
You see putting in hard work like that Chinese lady did does work! I would even told them that if they need help to call me and let me know! it did not matter what I was doing. I was getting monthly commission checks from 1,200 to up to 2,000 during the Christmas Holidays! I was running circles around these dudes and they still hung out at the high priced products that no one wanted to buy.
Hard work is ALWAYS IMPORTANT!
As always Victor great post!
Thanks Jose.
Jose,
I don’t know how old you are.
You combine that work ethic with your entrepreneurial spirit; you will be very successful indeed.
Well done Victor. Another Masterpiece.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Hoz.
Awesome Article Vic! Informative and straight to the point.
Thanks Alexander.
Great post.
How did you stay singularly focused while building the BAD universe? You have built several successful businesses simultaneously - is it that they grew from one single initial focus?
Just curious how you find a balance there- vetting new ideas while staying focused.
I didn’t build anything simultaneously Everything I built was an offshoot of B&D which I built first, the rest are built around it. B&D is the core, without it nothing else exists.
The One Thing - Gary Keller
These 18 points are a great outline.
Like a mine where you are drawing out what you want, you come across a gold nugget.
The gold nugget here is right at the end of the article.
Read it again.
Here, I’ll cut/paste it for you…
“If you’re intelligent you may have noticed a simple theme…
Work all the time and trust yourself.
In fact, skip all of these complicated steps and do just two things:
1.Work all the time
2.Trust yourself
After you work all the time and trust in yourself you can start to cash your checks.”
Pay attention.
It really is all about YOU.
Life is simple.
Work is simple.
Relationships are simple.
They are not easy, but they are simple.
Life gets hard when you complicate it.
Keep it simple.
Demand simplicity.
More about this in my coming blog.
Victor;
Home run!
You really knocked this one out of the park!!
Great comment GreyWolf. Thanks.
It’s baffling how much the PERSON selling the product actually makes a difference. I learned this working in sales, selling plans for phones. I remember the day, my friend and junior manager of the company beat the sales-record. 35 in a day, in comparison one of the guys I was training made… one Sale.
Same product, same location, same time frame - So why the difference?
One guy WANTED it and had made up his mind that he would beat that record no matter what - He cared. The other guy, well - it was just another job for him.
This is why I work in sales. Cause the people who wants it, are the ones who gets it!
An employee like the Chinese woman is invaluable to the that company.
Thanks for another great article Victor!
“The Chinese woman works (or would work) 16 hours per day, 7 days per week and doesn’t complain
The American women and girls take any day off they possibly can and they complain about low pay
(Don’t be a fool and take the bet, I will win).
After having lived in China for one year I have no great respect for them, but it is undeniable that they work long and hard.”
Excellent observation.
I found your blog sometime around Chinese New Year, 2015.
Part of why it resonated with me at that was because I was still deep into figuring out Asia, after living in some other parts of the world.
Although most of your writing doesn’t focus on China/Asia, I got the impression (through your writing and other content output) that you were going through a learning process that was influenced by some of the same things I was was seeing and learning here.
Having lived here, you are simply able to see things that other Americans haven’t.
That perspective puts you are in a position to give them points of view that may be helpful to them.
What you say about that Chinese woman cuts to the core of it:
The idea isn’t to copy or model everything about everybody else. For example, you and I and your readers aren’t inspired by her accent, and we should overlook it. The probably also applies for some of her political beliefs, and her choice of television shows.
The idea is to catch inspiration from the things which already vibe well with our own vision and, learn from those things. For example, her work-ethic.
The same thing applies to learning from people in other industries, people from other cities, and people from other cultures:
Take what works, and throw away what doesn’t.
Great post Victor. You inspired me.
Thanks RJ.
Victor do you meet fellow spartans? If yes can we meet next time u go thailand. If no what about starting this
Another great article! Thanks Vic!
Thanks Aleks.
Absolute gold.
Cannot wait for New World Ronin.
- Thomas Quinn
Thanks Thomas.
good post as usual.
I have to admit, you’re a master of linking new material to your own stuff, as you suggest in your book on blogging. Seriously, you made it an a form of art. I am impressed, you keep old content alive.
Thanks EA.
Great article Victor!
I have started my blog (and my real name website) with BADNET on 15 Sept. 2015 with a great value for money deal. Actually Vic has cut association with his previous affiliate (I am sure it’s for good), but that is cool, smart people change and grow wise.
Thanks for the advice for winners!
-Mike
Thanks Mike.
4) All of your energy should be on work
I keep saying it isn’t hard, all it takes is everything.
Every ounce of energy you have needs to go to your developing business.
Find time for the gym, find time for your wife and kiddos, but business is and should be priority #1.
———-
Not everyone who reads this site is 25, unmarried, and childless.
Many of you are in your 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, or even 60’s.
I’m in my 50’s, second marriage with 7 children. (One died at 17. I think about him so much I still count him).
Then 2 years ago I came across this website.
I’ve been changing my attitude, changing my behavior.
I used to take days off. I used to work my ass off so I could afford to pay other people to do the things I didn’t have time to do myself. And they always seem to get more $$ per hour than I make $$ per hour.
Now I work less at work, spend more time at home getting shit done, and saving money.
My children and my wife earn my time. They have to.
My time goes to work, personal maintenance, auto maintenance, home maintenance.
After these pillars are built and maintained on the family foundation of ME, they get what’s left.
Sound arrogant? Try not doing what you are supposed to do and see how fast it all falls apart.
Some of you are living that way right now.
And guess what, when they want more time, especially the wife, they offer to help me get done sooner.
You wanna see a movie? Help me with the yard work.
You wanna play a game? Help me mend the fence.
You wanna swim this afternoon? Help me clean the pool.
It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Success? All it takes is all you got.
You DO have the time and the money.
Quit drinking.
Quit smoking.
Quit watching TV.
BAM!!
I just saved you 3 hours and $15 a day.
Now go to the gym, get shit done, play a game with the kids, and fuck your wife.
It really is just that simple.
Thats my man
Congrats on your new found path, and sorry to hear of the loss of your son no matter how long ago. Love that you still count him as one.
Go make massive things happen!
Thanks Russell.
It’s only been nine months since I lost my son.
At once if feels like yesterday, and like a lifetime ago….
Massive things are happening, but slowly.
I see the direction they are going..and there is no end.
Consistency.
Patience.
No end game.
Just keep pushing forward.
Thank you for your kind words.
Great article, Victor, thanks. I like these “18 point” posts!
When you created Bold and Determined, did you just decided how it would be, once, and then worked on it? Or did you have some sort of feedback built in to constantly reassess whether you were on the right track?
Feedback? Trust in yourself. You don’t need to constantly reassess if you’re on the right track. TRUST IN YOURSELF.
If there’s one thing you DON’T NEED when you’re starting out it is constant feedback.
Thanks!
“3) Work one business/deal at a time” and “Focus on one thing”
Man this is right on. When you focus on one thing, and one thing only you’re always on. Not just that though, when you only have 1 mission / 1 focus, there’s no stress. Your stress washes away and working on your focus actually distresses your mind and fills you with a sense of purpose.
Right on ML.
‘THANK SO MUCH NOW I KNOW HOW TO WRITE AN ARTICLE. i wont go out without a piece of pen and paper for taking notes. i was doing the wrong thing sitting in front of my computer waiting for inspiration. The inspiration is inside. But can only be accessed by going outside. The greatest blog in existence can now rise.
ps: LAST week i got 5 new subscribers and i only have one article. Should i keep posting articles and capture email during the first year? how do i even activate google adsense?( i ll also make yt videos ) .
I am sorry if i sound stupid vic i don t care but i am new to this.
Visit my website desroisetdeshommes.com it s a french site so use google to translate the page.
thanks much man.
-TIGER BATE
ps: just 20 yo :)
Victor, thanks for the article - even when we think we know these principles it always helps to go back to basics and revise them.
By the way, not related to this article but I saw that you use a laptop stand. I’m looking to buy one to relieve cramps in my upper back, that is light enough to travel with.
I was wondering if you would mind sharing the brand/model of the stand I see in this pic? https://boldanddeterminedarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/badworldwarroom.jpg
I personally use and recommend the roost. http://www.therooststand.com/
>The Chinese woman offering firty person off will.
should be “The Chinese woman offering 30 percent off will.”
Excellent article! some killer steps
i did miss these kinds of posts
B&D has the principals and blueprints of success and developing that me inc.
its up to people like us to pull the trigger
edit: i didn’t realise thats actually what she said!
hahaha
Hey Vic,
what does your training routine look like these days? You mentioned that business is #1 but I sincerely hope that it’s not #1 to the detriment of your training.How many times a week do you hit the weights these days?
On another note,have you ever met Jamie Lewis from chaosandpain? Have you guys trained together?
I train probably 5 days a week, standard bodybuilding training. Never met Jamie.
Hey Vic, great post as usual.
Some questions:
1. Do you have any tips for blogging to build an audience for someone that wants to be a fiction writer?
2. Would you say it takes more time to break into blogging and selling fiction novels?
3. Should a fiction writer still show his face or does this become a lot less important since your not necessarily blogging from experience (like yourself)?
Thank you very much. I hope all is well for you in America and 2016.
-Jeff
1) Write, publish, repeat, build audience, sell your books to that audience.
2) Who cares. Are you going to quit if it takes too long?
3) Not a big deal if you don’t want to show face, but it always helps.
Hey Vic. I’m a 17 year old kenyan boy who completed high school last year. Ok; should i start a business right away or first gain experience? Please advice me accordingly bro since I am a bit confused. Thanks.
Well, I am not Uncle Vic. But i would be happy to provide some input
Depends on what you want? If you really want to get rich, starting a business and owning income-asset( businesses,real estate, owning books and blogs that “sell”( If you can’t sell them, they are shit or nothing) )is the only way to go. Go read the book ” how to get rich” by Dennis if u want to know more about getting rich.
I agree with the work ethic advice
You can eliminate points 7,8,9,10, and 18 by NOT HAVING EMPLOYEES.
Employees suck.
They are weak and lazy.
Huge generalization, and hugely true.
I have been an employee for nearly 40 years.
I am not weak, but I am lazy.
I have wanted someone else to hire me, train me, benefit me, and take care of me.
I have been too lazy to do it for myself.
At my shop I am not a popular employee.
My attitude is not how much can I get away with, but how close to perfection can I get.
I really enjoy my work, but how much money would I be making now if I have worked as long for myself as I have for someone else the last 25+ years at the same job?
Back to the shop, I have been doing my job longer than some of the new-hires have been breathing.
The other day I referred to a 2-year veteran as a newbie.
He responded with righteous indignation that he wasn’t a newbie, he’d been here for two years!
I told him that not only had I been doing this longer than he’s been alive, but I have spent more time on vacation than he has on the clock.
Most employees suck.
They are lazy.
They are needy.
They have a sick sense of entitlement.
Hire contractors.
Hire people who work for a share of the profit.
Hire people by the job.
DO NOT pay anyone by the hour.
They know the longer they take the more money they make.
Find people that want to hustle, who are incentivized by generating more productivity to generate more $$.
Someday I may need help at my business I’m starting.
No employees.
No wages.
Pay for performance.
At some point you simply have to have employees. I’m not sitting around sending out all the orders for RED. One man cannot do everything.
Agreed.
But for the love of profit, pay them by the shipment, NOT by the hour!!
I’ll be buying some coffee soon.
Hey victor thanks for the kick ass advice. I recently bought a new domain using your service from web hosting hub. I got some free e-books with blogging advice when my blog was set up and I was wondering if its the same info as your ‘Spartan entrepreneur’ e-book.
Thanks
Tom, the books are not the same as SE.
I am blogger too (in spanish), and it would be great if you could enter into more details on how you took Iron & Tweed and Johny Doe into your publishing empire. What conditions do you offer? How to get them into your empire? How to make sure you get a profit from their sales? Any info would be appreciated as i am looking forward to establishing a similar strategy.
Thankyou
We started with John Doe from day one (he was a B&D commenter). I&T was also a commenter and we went from there.
Hey Vic, What’s your opinion on outsourcing specific parts of your business?
Yeah. You shouldn’t be doing everything yourself.
Real shit, Thanks Vic.
Work All The Time…Trust Yourself, Pretty Much Gospel.
Hey VIC,”Connecting more with your AUDIENCE”: What would you like/wanna see more on B&D? what could we do to improve our services?(if any),Do Q&A’s? Ideas for a podcast? just throwing this out there ;)
Ive built up two multi-million dollar businesses in the last 8 years and can only agree with everything in this article. Nice work Vic. The hardest part for guys is usually getting past their girl not wanting them to work. I know my wife in the beginning needed to learn that business does and always will come first. She knows what I’m capable of and that I completely dominate my competition, but to be the “heavyweight champ” I need to stay focused and still put the effort in. If you have a woman that doesn’t get this (though she likely would love the money you would be making), find another woman or just have some fun here and there with no major commitment. A great woman can help you soar. A bad one can ruin your life, and the great ones are difficult to find.
Great comment Russell.
“A great woman can help you soar. A bad one can ruin your life, and the great ones are difficult to find.”
I married a bad woman.
I divorced the bad woman.
I lost about $300,000.
I married a good woman.
I have doubled my standard of living and quit my second job.
As I make changes in my life I thought about what would happen if my current wife started to disagree with those changes.
I’ve stopped thinking about it.
I will continue to improve, grow, expand, and better myself in every way.
Preferably married…
Alone if necessary.
There is only one thing i want to know,
how can i deal with the people who are jealous of me, i love your blog, i follow you fully,
and there some haters who dont have any courage to say anything on face but keep talking nonsense about me.
i am having body, i have power, good friends and now trying to make money but whenever i start my work, thought of those motherfucker haters comes to my mind and i feel very angry and frustrated.
they live near my flat and just hate me cause they are loooosers, no money, no balls, no respect.
please solve my problem how can i throw those motherfuckers out of mind and focus fully on my business.
it will be a very very big help for me to live a life like you and inspire others,
i am close to my goal but these motherfuckers have stick in my mind.
suggest something to clear my mind so that i dont think about them in any way.
Hey Vic! Been reading your blog for a while this is my first time leaving a comment. You are among the few out here to tell it real like it is minus the bullshit. I always appreciate your words of wisdom it’s nice to hear some straight talk from a real hustler who put it the work to reap the reward.
I moved from a one horse town in Florida no job oppurtunity just a shit town, about 7 months ago to Williston, North Dakota, an oil boomtown. Just packed my shit and left.
Everyone and thier brother had nothing good to say told me I wouldn’t make it, it was too expensive, too cold, etc.
I moved here with $2500, in the last 7 months I saved up 20k. I made $1,400 net my first week up here at a temp agency with a construction company. I landed a job as a truck driver making $25 an hour and I work security making $18 an hour on the weekends. Got hired and quit several jobs since when I first got here. Right now I’m making $5,400 a month after taxes I’m working 12-16 hours a day 7 days a week. This year I will save over 50k.
People ask me what about days off what about sleep?
I tell em: DAYS OFF ARE FOR PUSSIES AND I CAN SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD. LOL!!!
In this day and age and in this economy, only the hustlers will make it, everyone else will eat shit and live paycheck to paycheck.
Oil prices plummeted soon as I got here and there has been a slow down here. But even with the slowdown there’s still alot of opportunity and jobs. When the oil picks back up it will be crazy again. A couple years ago people were making $22 an hour to work at Wal-Mart and were getting unlimited overtime, Mc-donalds was paying $18 an hour.
Spoke to a decision maker at Halliburton, and was told they have 1,000 wells they’re just waiting on the ok to frac, soon as oil prices rise again. When they do, I’ll be making over 100k a year. This is just the beginning, after I bank my money I’ll be out of here and off to my business ventures.
Victor, I read your article when I was in Florida, 33 ways to be the greatest right before I moved up here. I was broke as shit, working a shit delivery job at pizza hut.
I followed your advice about moving from a small town where nothing happens, and it helped me in my decision to move. Even though I had already made the decision before I read it, it definitely strengthened my confidence confirmed further of what my instincts were already telling me.
Vic, I know you already know this, but just wanted to say you are giving good advice that people need to hear. Appreciate it my friend and I look forward to joining you in the higher ranks of greatness in the years to come.
My man. Great comment Jay.
I’m re-reading #18 again.
I don’t trust anyone because human nature shows that humans are self serving and if they believe they can find ways to screw you then they will and will try to rationalize it later. Not to mention holding trust someone can easily lead to disappointment. The disappointment that you feel because you held that person in high value and they didn’t live up to your expectation.
I told myself strongly that I don’t trust someone and still fall in falter from time to time because I always get that euphoric feeling of “just maybe, just maybe” this person can change and I used to know him for long long time.
Every time I trusted someone, I always ended up in disappointment like I did with previous buddy of mine (who I thought was going to be have entrepreneur mindset) or with another workout close buddy of mine who failed to show up on time and failed to keep promise not once but TWICE.
“You don’t need to trust people, you only need to trust people to be themselves.”
Damn, that line is powerful
Last week I said I got rid of nearly everyone. Recently I got rid of the remaining two. Now all I have is my family
Frequently wear business suits. Used to be uncomfortable for me and hated wearing it but after few weeks, it’s comfortable now.
get shirts and pants tailored
Get rid of everything I don’t need; sell on craigslist if not trash
Read, prepare, get knowledge base and implement it right away
Focus on creating a value
Doing things that I’m not comfortable with until it becomes comfortable (i.e. Door knocking)
Hey Vic! Excellent post as usual…one thing that I wanted to know…when you use the word ‘God’, do you use it as a figure of speech or do you believe in God’s existence? Or are you an atheist?
-Shyam M
Love this! Great post, thanks for sharing. The idea that stands out for me is consumer don’t know what they want, else they would be producers. Love that, but how would we survive if we never have the consumers that don’t have clue has to what they want. That I think makes us who are producers better at what we do. Even make inventors and creates out of us. This I think also challenge us to win their loyalty. Blessings, great post. Have great day and even more success in your business of blogging. Also I agree with you customers are not always right.
Sarte and absurdity come to my mind when I read posts like this and the 33 Ways to be Great.
You are a tube made of meat that consumes other meat tubes. You are whirling around on a giant rock orbiting a large, smoldering nuclear reaction somewhere on the outskirts of a small, unremarkable galaxy that is floating somewhere in the ether of a universe of unfathomable size. You are proposing basing your entire existence around a concept of value derived from pieces of ground tree pulp fashioned into green “tenders” that are painted with the faces of other meat tubes.
For what? So you can buy trinkets and contraptions? So you can rule other meat tubes? So you can assuage some inner inferiority complex of epic proportions? Seems like a waste of time for a meat tube with an expiration date of 70ish years.
May you find peace, happiness, and freedom in this absurd world, brother.
Amazing tips you have here.
I felt inspired when you say that day off are for losers and work 16 hours per day, 7 days per week.
I felt ashamed because I’m not that committed to building my own online business.
Now you really fired me up and I will be working harder and putting in more effort.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Great article as always.
I did notice one, and possibly two editing errors.
I know you’re a perfectionist with posts so…
1) On tip #12 is should say “that’s all there is to it?” instead of “that’s all their is to it?”
2) I’m not sure if you were making a Porky Pig reference near the end or not, but he usually says “Th-th-th-that’s ALL folks.” and not “Th-th-th-that’s it folks.”
Cheers to your continued success and empire building.
All the best,
D