Vadim Bur

business building from a to z • documenting every step for you • built an ads agency in the past ($200k) • mindset matters

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

Don’t quit your job before you read this!

I know how it feels to be stuck in the 9-5.

You have a side hustle and can’t wait to dominate your niche.

No… the WORLD.

And you hustle.

And the more you hustle for yourself, the stronger you believe that your 9-5 is:

• meaningless
• holding you back
• the biggest pain in your life

Simply put: You hate your job.

What if I told you that you’re likely to fail with your own business

If. You. Can’t. Stand. Your. 9. To. 5.

Here are 3 lessons from my experience:

1. Building your own business requires perseverance.

”I’m meant for something geater!”

Then prove it.

Your 9-5 is not your comfort zone.
The actual comfort zone is complaining about your 9-5.

It takes much more WILLPOWER to make a MINDSET SHIFT:

• Accept your current situation
• Abstract yourself from negative thoughts

Ask yourself (1/3):
"Am I ready to stop complaining once and for all?"

2. Solution-orientated thinking is key.

The ability to get the most out of ANY situation will later be crucial to identify and seize opportunities. This improves solution-orientated thinking.

Ask yourself (2/3):
"Have I already proved that at my job?"

3. Don’t celebrate too early.

The biggest mistake I made in my company.

More than two years ago, we had a good time with our agency.
We provided our customers with soaring sales and celebrated as if we had discovered the world formula.

We made the decision.

And quit our jobs.

We would regret it.

A couple of months later sales declined due to season. A customer cut the budget. We made less revenue.

A setback that taught us:

• Build sufficient reserves
• Take fluctuations into account
• Secure your future revenues

Ask yourself (3/3):
"Can I afford a setback?"

To sum up the questions:

1. "Am I ready to stop complaining once and for all?"
2. "Have I already proved solution-orientated thinking at my job?"
3. "Can I afford a setback?"

If your answer is no to any of these, you should sleep on it an extra night before making your decision whether or not to quit your 9-5.

Your future self will thank you.

Enough for today.

Now it’s your turn to tell me what you think.👇

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[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@DanielChessW Knight takes knight.

White then shouldn’t take the Knight:
- if dxe4 white loses Queen after Bxh2
- if Rook takes, it’s a bad trade (QxR, dxQ, Bxh2…)

Rf1 looks reasonable.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@thevalerierojas Appreciate your feedback, Valerie!
I’m on the road all the time (on vacation now), but I’ll do my best to lay the foundation stone of the community as soon as possible.
And I look forward to your joining :)

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

Imagine you have $100 to build a fashion empire.

Where would you start?

P A R T 2

My 5-Step Strategy

This series is not about fashion in the first place.

It’s about a creative way to build a business from scratch.

With just a hundred bucks.

If you google how to start a fashion line you’ll find something like:

• Get ideas
• Start designing
• Find a manufacturer
• Get a fulfilment provider
• •••

Too costly.

My solution is the path of least resistance and make an MVP run first:

STEP 1: CRAFT THE IDEA

You want to make your future customers buy repeatedly.

How to achieve that?

High product quality?
Customer service?
A good funnel?

Yes.

And above all the story that your brand is associated with.

A story that

... they want to hear.
... they can identify with.
... reflects their personal preferences.

So this is what I deal with in step 1:

• What is the brand's message?
• What makes the target group?
• Why should they buy from me of all brands?
• How to align it with the products?

↓ ↓ ↓

STEP 2: GIVE THE BRAND A FACE

What’s a brand without a logo?

Step 2 will be about:

• logo creation with the help of AI
• dealing with design / style
• finding a slogan

↓ ↓ ↓

STEP 3: START WITH POD ON ETSY

$100 won't get you very far.

So I decided to build up some start capital with Print On Demand first.

Why POD?

► Fast implementation. Set up everything online without much concern for manufacturing or fulfilment.

► High learning curve. Get familiar with selling cloths and collect first data.

► Mistakes are forgiveable. Use it as a playground before making mistakes that would otherwise cost a lot of energy (and $) to fix.

► No high upfront costs.

Downsides:

— Not representative for the future design and quality.

— Little room for marketing activities.

— Shipping usually takes longer.

But we can live with that, since it is just the starting point.

My approach for that is:

• Create many designs as it's a best practice
• Focus on traffic for better ranking on Etsy
• Test Etsy Ads with low budget

↓ ↓ ↓

STEP 4: CREATE AN ONLINE SHOP

The online shop is pivot for later marketing activities, it makes it possible to:

• optimise the conversion rate
• promote a newsletter
• build landing pages
• collect more data
• get creative

Shopify is the shop system to go.

↓ ↓ ↓

STEP 5: SYSTEMIZE MARKETING & SALES

Marketing & Sales is where I’m at home.

At step 5 I’m going to work out a bulletproof system with the objective to continuously generate sales.

→ Organic
→ Paid
→ Onsite

I calculate the profitability of my marketing activities and optimize them accordingly.

I’ll go more in-depth later.

It would go beyond the scope here.

Oh, and I haven't mentioned customer service yet. I guess I'll create an AI bot for that.

Stay tuned to learn how.

• • •

I’ll do as much as I can myself.

Not everything, of course.

My idea is to make an MVP run first and gain insights.

Once we reach this point, it’s time to make it more “professional”:

→ Photoshootings
→ Find manufacturer
→ Think about fulfilment
→ Hire experts (freelancers)
→ etc.

You’re invited to follow my journey and build your own brand along the way.

As I promised, I'll show you exactly what I do.

By the way:

Would you be interested in joining a community where people help each other reaching their goals?

If so, let me know in the comments!

And remember to share your thoughts on my overall strategy.

Any feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Follow @vadimburx to stay tuned.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@clebless Agree, you should never stop learning.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@TheNobilisAnima True.

Regret means not accepting the past, and failure is part of life.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

Big shoutout to @jamielauder_ for this spot-on post.

Escaping is a concept of the Matrix that only binds you more to it.

Duality in your mind (”me vs. the matrix”) keeps you down the rabbit hole.

You are a part of the Matrix.

Accordingly, the path to experiencing life beyond begins with accepting its reflection within yourself.

[Jamie Lauder @jamielauder_]

So… you’re a creator escaping the Matrix?

Think again.

The Matrix is NOT what you‘ve been told…

And chances are, you’re actually embedding yourself even deeper into it.

Here’s how you actually escape:

——

You’ve seen the movie, right?

Neo receives the invitation to follow the white rabbit, leading him closer to the truth.

And then, he’s presented with a choice.

One that only he can make.

Either:

1. Wake up from the delusional state of the world, with the power to create consciously.

Or

2. Remain asleep and be controlled by the unconscious programs running your show.

While the movie dramatizes this core idea- with a cinematic display of exaggerated symbols, mostly for entertainment value;

The underlying theme is true, but…

Its meaning has been wildly misunderstood.

We are NOT escaping the clutches of dark overlords, who are controlling our lives.

Ok… so there may be some truth to this.

But it’s still nothing compared to the reality of what the Matrix actually represents.

The truth is much more subtle.

And far stranger than this famous film.

So, what really is the Matrix?

And, how do you break free from it?

—-

ESCAPING THE MATRIX

Let’s start with what it DOESN’T mean.

It’s not simply escaping the rat-race and corporate slavery of the 9-5 modern world.

It’s not just building a digital identity in the creator economy to amass millions of $$.

It’s certainly not indulging in conspiracies, fooling yourself into a false awakening.

It’s not overthrowing the government or undermining the elite ‘powers that be’.

And, as much as I hate to admit it…

It’s not even the idea that an advanced Alien race is coming to annihilate or save us.

Although, they are coming…

They’re just waiting for us to wake up first.

But I digress…

So, if that’s what it means to NOT escape from the Matrix, then what DOES it mean?

Well the Matrix is really just the holographic reality that each of us projects outward as a world- constructed entirely from our beliefs.

You’re not seeing ‘a world’, and other people.

You’re seeing manifested symbols of your own subconscious mind’s programming.

Everything you experience is a materialized expression of the Self-Concepts you hold.

That’s why in the movie, they train within the simulation only to then realize that all of it IS the mind- which we can consciously control.

Remember the Matrix scene with the boy?

“Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible.

Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no spoon.

Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.”

- The boy says this to Neo, as he warps the spoon with his mind.

This hits right at the heart of this message.

Most people are living their lives by trying to bend the spoon.

IOW:

Attempting to rearrange things within the holographic world- which is backwards.

But you need only change yourself, and all of reality will mirror your change in identity.

Let’s breakdown the main ideas here into a comprehensive overview.

—

THE PARADIGM SHIFT

1. You are at the Source of every experience.

2. You Create your Reality- at every level.

3. Most don’t recognize this because they’re asleep to the programs of their mind.

4. You’re controlled by your unconscious programs: beliefs, habits, and traumas.

5. Reality is a reflection of your beliefs.

6. Everything you experience is merely a symbolized Self-Concept held in the mind.

7. You don’t ever experience ‘others’, not as they truly are at least- you only interact with your version of them, based on assumptions

8. Our familiar sense of self keeps us locked into fear-based limited loops of safety.

9. To break free, become Conscious:
- Know yourself
- Accept yourself
- Be Self-Sourced

10. The best way to do this, is to consciously work with catalyst: other-selves, projects and life experience- to identify unconscious self-concepts and bring awareness to them.

You don’t transform by thought alone.

You first become aware.

Accepting what you are, and have created.

Then, by thinking your way into new beliefs- reinforced with aligned habits and actions- you feel yourself in new experiences.

This creates a new personality, which is the realization of your change in identity.

Transformation is a death and rebirth.

There’s no getting around this.

To change, you must become the vision.

And therefore, your old self must die.

You attract what you are, not what you want

——-

THE GREAT AWAKENING

𝕏 is becoming an echo chamber of gurus…

All preaching plethoras of platitudes to unconsciously bulldozing through life and grind out goals.

Because... ‘consistency’ right?

Ya, if you want to suckle ever more on the tit of mother Matrix, as an unconscious drone.

It wants you to believe that it’s real.

It wants to convince you that there are rules, gatekeepers, and strategies to swear by.

It even wants you to believe there's separation between you and your desires, others, and especially between you and God.

So, escaping the Matrix has NOTHING to do with WHAT you create or do in life.

It has NOTHING to do with WHO you become in life.

Escaping the Matrix is awakening to become the conscious creator of life.

To become aware every aspect of yourself.

To embrace the shadows, the pains, the hurt, the trauma, the unacceptable parts, the shame, the guilt, and the unworthiness.

The light and the dark.

The creator is Infinite power.

Not because it shuts out the darkness…

But because it illuminates it with awareness.

The creator is aware of everything- as itself.

The is nothing separate from this One Infinite Creator- and that’s what makes it so powerful…

It’s a Unity.

You cannot free yourself FROM the Matrix.

Because it never existed to begin with.

To rewrite that iconic line from the movie:

“Realize the truth… there is no world.

Then you'll see that it is not the world that changes, it is only yourself.”

The point of this game is not to create MORE and BETTER stuff…

None of it is real anyway!

Go ahead, create all that you want.

Have it all.

But for the love of God, don’t lose yourself in the pursuit, and sell your soul for ‘stuff’.

The point is to REMEMBER who you are.

To know your mind , to accept yourself and to align with God- as a conscious creator.

The more each of us awakens,
the more conscious we all become.

And that’s the real game.

To see each other- as one Self.

Playing together on the field of life, honestly and lovingly walking each other home.

This is how we all unplug from the Matrix.

In Unity.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@thejorgemedina Yeah looks good!

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@Wordsbyboris Bavaria, Germany

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@OrionStirling Yeah this applies to any kind of work.
The key is to increase productivity,
and breaks boost creativity.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@Grind_Blueprint There are good courses out there.

But the fact that you bought a course or joined a community won't change anything.

You must take action.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@thejorgemedina Doesn't work, nothing happens.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@gledjan1 That's a lot of good questions, Gled.

Let me pick no. 40:

If there were less distractions, exploring the inner world would probably be the most natural thing to do.

What I'm asking myself now:

Are we the only species in the entire universe that asks questions?

[RISHABH ⚡️ @byrishy]

Dan Koe is right --- for himself

Justin Welsh is right --- for himself

Alex Hormozi is right --- for himself

Quit being a xerox,

You're a fool if you want to build a personal brand by copying others.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@TheNobilisAnima While eating.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@dominicabenar Love this.

If you don't want to waste ingredients, choose wisely what you need beforehand.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@TheNobilisAnima First, the process, then the results.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@thejorgemedina Great vision, Jorge!

AI itself is neither good nor bad.

It's up to us if we build bridges or instead drown in the fear of the unknown.

Keep going!

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@thejorgemedina Yeah I can understand that it takes time.
You're still gonna rock it😎

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@gledjan1 Me too :)

I'll document everything.

[Vadim Bur @vadimburx]

@TheNobilisAnima Thanks for your feedback, means a lot to me 🙏🏻

Let's build an awesome community.